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I didn't see any recording equipment last night, sorry. It's a shame too - Rick's presentation style and the Q&A added a lot. You can try to pin him down in #cassandra on FreeNode if you like.
Nice idea :) I have been working on a blog post and example app for how to do this with Gremlin and Neo4j -- should be up soon.
Somehow he made his site unzoomable on the iPad. Now I won't read it, however interesting his story might be. Shame!
If the systems are hard to use that's our fault. We, the technically oriented geeks, failed to build something for normal humans.

But I don't think that's the case. Grandma has to be taught to use Facebook as well, it's not like it's an intuitive interface, quite the contrary IMO.

It's a problem of not realizing the danger of loosing this wonderful and fragile thing we built.

A lot of you geeks have Facebook accounts, so it's not like it's a service for the technically impaired.
Yes, there is a typo though.. here is the correct link: http://demo.webengage.com

Try on this page -

http://demo.webengage.com/awesome-demo/view?url=http%3A%2F%2...
That sounds like RSI. But don't just listen to random people on the internet, go talk to a doctor or a physio.

What territory are you in? Are you an employee? If EU, there is EU law saying that all employers must do an ergonomic assessment of a workplace.
Ask HN: Is there a market for photoblog software still?
With Flickr, Facebook photos, Google photos, Tumblr, Posterous, is there still market for photoblog software? Why would anyone choose a photoblog software instead of the above options?
Oh , that is very cool.
I think you should try and setup some sort of repo for common problematic software though since I don't have a space machine to build on.

Does seem like quite a drastic solution to this problem though.

So you are using ptrace to intercept system calls and then copying files that are used. I suppose the problem with this is that when you are running CDE to generate the dependency list it is down to what is actually used, so if you don't hit every piece of code in the program when doing the "generation" part you may not get a completely working package.

I suppose you can do some evaluation on the binary to figure out which calls it might make during execution but this wouldn't work to well if the software in question is built using something dynamic like python where library calls may not necessarily be the same so cannot be predicted in advance?
already did. daily hacker news saved it. www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
Nope, the professor was requesting that you use the standard typesetting software. Some of your classmates might have to write many papers, and hence it's good that they start learning.
I don't understand the Safari bit. I develop webapps, and I use Safari. The developer tool is top-notch. I don't see where the "miserable" bit comes from.
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>So I still don't see why ESC is needed.

The main reason is that you probably got into full-screen by pressing a button, not the F11 key, and now you just want a "get me out of this" key which escape is better for.
Is it a pile of garbage because it is hard to install , or because it isn't very useful?

Is it worse than say eclipse?
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Are we the teachable species?
I agree, thanks for your input!
It's got some attention for what I wrote, so I think that it is worth trying.
I will do this and post the result back on monday.
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Haha, I meant the Turing part is relatively short. But yeah it's really well put together.
There has to be an explanation for this besides utter incompetence.
Update: Click the 'text only' link to avoid page loading forever.

This should be google cache's default mode.
You have no idea how much I wish I had a mentor. And I think there's probably a bunch of other people out there who feel the same, even if they're not willing to admit it. It's very lonely and terrifying entering this demanding world with no guidance whatsoever.
As far as I know, the standard treatment for depression is medication to provide a short term fix (thereby convincing the patient that the therapist can help) and cognitive behavioral therapy as a long term fix.

As I understand it, CBT is basically teaching the depressed person how to "fun" (or stress manage/expectation manage) their way out of depression.

In any case, I believe the distinction between "illness" and "not an illness" is usually not very important - it's usually an attempt to appeal to medical authorities rather than address fundamentally social and ethical issues.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...
Good use of twitter bootstrap!
Why would it be a bad experience to develop on Safari? It has extension support, a debug menu (which lets you change user agent) and the same web inspector as Chrome.
Yep, I couldn't read the first column on my ipad, it's half cut off on first view, scroll over and the other half is cut off.

Wonder if privoxy could do that in for me.
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So ... finance definitely has a rent-seeking component, having reviewed some of the literature.

But it also has the effect of starving other fields of talent and technical expertise, of bidding up their costs, and related effects which are more similar to Dutch Disease / Resource Curse. The number of physics, maths, and engineering grads working at banks / financial institutions rather than at science / product R&D firms, for example, is pretty staggering.

Still mulling, but thanks for the food for thought.
Thanks. I gave it a try. Nice tool. Here are the reasons why I think Wishbox is different:

- Wishbox has a drawing tool. You can draw arrows, circles, rectangles etc., add notes and even crop parts of the screenshot.

- JotForm's form builder provides much more customization options for Wishbox.

- It might be a slowness on my end but Wishbox seems to be much faster. [CORRECTION: WebEngage is now very snappy. It must be a temporary slowness on my end] We have spent a lot of time thinking about speed. We are taking screenshots on elastic load balanced EC2 instances so that we can grow/shrink the instances with the demand.

- Wishbox does not require sign-up and free upto 100 submissions/month. WebEngage seems to be limited to 30 submissions "total". http://webengage.com/pricing [CORRECTION: WebEngage is unlimited for screenshots. The limit is only for Surveys]
Search takes ~30 seconds and returns no results or "503 Service Unavailable"

Does not look viable.
The concept of a demarcation point is a focal point across all telcom contracts, akin to the concept of a property lines. Unless MA Bell is going to own all the equipment in your house, their responsibilities need to end at a clear point. To see the physical manifestation, open up the first layer (yours) of the phone box on the outside of a residence (and note that the second layer requires a different kind of screwdriver!)

Wholesale is cheaper because the overhead per unit is reduced. Business class connections give you a static IP and hopefully service commitments. These things have differences in what is actually being provided, not just a contract which says 'for business'. People work from home on consumer connections all the time, and there's probably a vestigal clause in those service contracts about 'not for business use'. And people declare business vehicles because they're cheaper as tax writeoffs (and then do use them personally as a perk of the business).

Telling the providers that I have one device hooked to their network (even though I have more devices hooked to that one) is separation of concerns, not fraud. Should they be able to bill me more based on my yearly income? That surely is every businesses dream - the ultimate in price descrimination. The only thing the carrier should be concerned about is the quantity and size of packets I send through them. If anything is fraud, it's the carriers advertising 'unlimited internet', then hassling you for using it too much, and mangling your packets in direct contradiction of the seminal End-to-End paper.
As far as I can tell, this equates 'best programmers' with people who run repositories for popular projects.

I suppose if you think Justin Bieber and various top of the charts pop stars are the best musicians it makes sense.

I think that good programmers can be involved in popular projects but being involved in a popular project on github shouldn't be the defining characteristic of a 'good programmer'.
You should do a better research. If there weren't Israeli startups, the country wouldn't show the highest domestic expenditure in R&D as percentage of the GDP[1], nor would it have ranked second only to the United States in invested private-equity capital as a share of GDP[2]. Israel is also the home of the most foreign companies on the NASDAQ index, surpassing Canada[3]. There are over 6,500 companies between high-tech companies, venture capital and private equity funds, investment companies, technological incubators and Service Providers[4].

[1] http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/fulltext/301...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital_in_Israel

[3] http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_3_jewish-capitalism.html

[4] http://www.ivc-online.com/
Aside from the constructive criticism, it might help usability is you made your algorithm more transparent so users could see why they are essentially irrelevant (if they expected otherwise) and why some others are getting what appears to be arbitrarily high rankings. But, I do like this idea, and it would certainly benefit me if you found a way to make it universally indicative of a coder's skill. But that's hard. 1. It's still hard to tell without sitting a hacker down and testing them, 2. popularity does affect page rank. Some highly useful repositories are lost in a sea of absolutely useless, but popular programming playthings.
There was a news item in the past year or two about brokerage fees in the US for IPOs. The spread on fees was ... distinctly narrow. Especially as compared with other markets (EU?). Strongly suggesting collusive / oligopolistic behavior.

June of this year. Here we go:
http://www.businessweek.com/1998/45/b3603184.htm
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/06/07/the-us-ipo-...
Maybe there is a way to go on the offensive and make net neutrality and net connectivity a basic unalienable human right. Congress could not care less about music artists, economic fairness and copyright in general. They have seen an opportunity to grab power to regulate throttle and authorize all data in the tubes and are doing what they can to grab it.

Its kind of funny to wonder why a Congress that just got done bankrupting this country is concerned about music and the sharing thereof.
I think what's happening is that all the positive spin about why you should make a startup are just drowning out the negatives, and this makes sense. I work for a company that makes over 100 million a year and one of the founders told me that if he knew how much work starting the company would be, he wouldn't have done it. There is a part of being an entrepreneur that is about ignoring the negatives. It's a very Han Solo, "Never tell me the odds" kind of thing.

I spent the first 3 years post college using all my free time in a new city trying to bootstrap my startup by myself at home in front of a computer almost every night and weekend after my day job. Luckily I met my now wife along the way which helped keep me motivated and gave me someone to talk to. I didn't really feel I had time to make any other friends. My business succeeded and survived, but depression was probably the biggest obstacle. It will absolutely crush your motivation, and when you get unmotivated, you see the project stagnate which pushes you even deeper into a lack of motivation, burnout, and depression. I felt I was really all alone in it. My now wife even stopped being supportive after a couple years of no profits. She's not really someone who has the same passion for entrepreneurship, so she just saw me spending all my time on something that had gone nowhere, getting depressed, having no social life. She was right to be concerned. This probably has something to do with why co-founders are recommended. If someone would have been on the journey along with me it would have made it so much easier, but I went it alone because at the start I didn't feel I had enough skills to offer anyone legitimate as a co-founder, and at the same time, I didn't want to partner up with a friend who wasn't really interested in sticking it out through years of after-work bootstrapping and no profits while we learned.

Right now I'm embarking on a new startup, but I'm doing many things differently. It's important to understand yourself. The last 2 years I've worked hard at making close friends in the area where I live. I need to keep those friendships healthy even if it means less time working on the startup. Secondly, I work out at least twice a week. Again, both of these take away from my startup since I still have a day job too, but they are absolutely crucial and I've come to realize that 4 hours of healthy motivated time is better than 16 of depressed unmotivated time.
Ah, happy memories of making a big mistake: providing an online airline reservation system with an email address containing a “+”.

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/09/you-suck.html
this is actually where the idea came from.
Yep; feeling this pain.

I was casting around for a simple way to implement a responsive UI in our latest application and Knockout appeared to be a good option (I'd not come across Backbone at that point).

Now it just feels like more work... I have written so many custom bindings it is unreal!

(I realise this is, as the author notes, mostly my failing in writing JS :))
So lets pretend project popularity is a good measure for programmers. But what if somebody is contributing to other popular projects or is part of an organization that has popular projects?
FWIW, the default location behavior is coherent with the default trigger: "when I leave".

I don't think I'd have more use for those defaults if they were "home" and "when I arrive".
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@thechut - i confess that's the first time i'd seen either of those concepts. they seem like intriguing concepts that are well suited to school environments.

however, tilt is about getting experts and creatives from different fields to work together in a novel way, with no one person in charge. personally, i'd err away from anything that promotes the student/teacher relationship in this particular context.

i think an afternoon is sufficient for a themed competition - anything longer may be less accessible to a number of our participants. this could change in future events, but we'll have to see.
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1) Searched for "San Francisco, CA" and it was returning people from India.... ?

2) Its 2011, githire.com should work the same as www.githire.com. This is my biggest pet peeve with any site.

3) The "add info" button on a user page goes to http://www.githire.com/user/edit which simply loads the user info for a username of edit on github.

Overall an interesting idea, but maybe unveiled a bit prematurely.
So that's where core.logic came from? I just went and bought TRS so that I can figure out where you're coming from with that.
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I'm always surprised when someone's raw slide decks, for an interesting presentation make it to the front page of HN. I get so little from just an 85 slide deck, especially decks with a slide like

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Thanks for saying this, Thomas...

The worst part of depression is a sortof profound loneliness. This is the feeling that ends up leading a lot of people towards suicide. There's nobody that "gets" them, and nobody that they can talk to about what they're feeling. They feel isolated from their friends and family, and this feeling is exaggerated by people who don't understand that they are suffering from a neurochecmial/neurophysiological deficiency; not from something that they can just "push through".

Imagine telling somebody with cancer that they just have to wake up one day and decide they don't have cancer anymore.

What makes all of this worse is the feeling that what you're going through is somehow invalid. Not only are you suffering from the worst kind of emotional pain and loneliness imaginable, but you're being told that you're a fool for it, and that you're a failure or a weakling for not being able to snap out of it.

That's dangerous.

You know...a lot of my family members are pilots. Part of the training that they go through, something that seems to be constantly drilled into them, is to watch out for hypoxia. This is what happens when you're flying too high without supplemental oxygen, and your body starts malfunctioning. You sound like you're drunk. (This is what hypoxia sounds like, it's terrifying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IqWal_EmBg).

This is recognized as a dangerous part of the job, something to monitor yourself for.

I think that hackers need to keep in mind that depression is kindof our hypoxia. It can sneak up on us, and it can kill us if we don't address it.

And there is nothing wrong or weak about being depressed, just like there is nothing wrong or weak about being hypoxic.

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc

is a very very good lecture by Professor Robert Sapolsky on depression, major depression, and why it isn't really something that you can just tough out. Highly recommended.
Sometimes open source on locked down and jailbroken hardware is better. Sometimes it bricks the hardware. I wonder what it's like to have a brick in the eye?

Also this is a thing that goes in your body, and the FDA might have something to say about open source in that context. Is there any open source software running on pacemakers at the moment?

I think there are many more issues involved than simply "it's my hardware and I'll do what I want with it." If we get better eyeware through open source then great, but I'm skeptical at the moment that it can, much less will happen.
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This is ignoring two things:

1) The $125,000 is a starting salary, which will go up substantially if the hire proves successful. There are lots of future earnings to consider when working in this type of position.

2) The psychological perception of the work and income. Does the person realize or care that he is working 50 hours a week @ $25/hour, or does the person care that he is making $125,000 annually? I am not a behavioral economist (IANABE?), but I'd have to imagine that this is a huge factor -- the salary vs. hourly mindset.
Calendar I'd give you, Apple has never been very good at those (hell, iCal became worse from Snow Leopard to Lion), but messages? What are your issues with it?
Yes core.logic is an implementation of miniKanren. Soon as Dan Friedman and William Byrd confirm my approach to fair conjunction is solid, I plan on integrating fairKanren to be followed by cKanren which will bring powerful constraint solving facilities into Clojure.
Huh. I didn't know about the punctuation marks. That IS smart. Thanks!
I have the same problem with my own page on this site.
I'm wondering why such market exists in the US. Assuming there is enough VC capital, why would you need an intermediary?
A lifestyle business is a female orgasm.
A venture backed startup is a male orgasm.

The female orgasm takes longer to reach climax, with varying degrees of pleasure peaks, but it lasts longer and perhaps even more rewarding.

The male orgasm is a rollercoaster ride to a rather rapid climax (exit). Given there are no major distractions and plenty of lube (capital).
Yup. Slides are best used as an illustrative tool.
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They also can enable you to type faster.

Do you happen to have any reputable references for this? I'm truly curious. For years people have continually spread the idea that typing on an ergonomic keyboard could allow you to type faster but it seems like everyone spreading the message are people who heard it from others and/or just relaying the message without any real evidence that suggests so (or maybe I just never personally came across any).

I have friends who type in the 130-150 wpm range using a standard keyboard, and I myself border around 100, so its hard for me to believe that switching to an ergonomic keyboard naturally means it'll allow me (or anyone else) to type faster. As a matter of fact, I've tried years ago to get use to them purely for speed reasons and no matter what I did, my type speed decreased drastically. It was awkward and even after giving it a chance for a few weeks, I just gave up.

While I can agree with the wrist ailments it aims to solve, I often wonder if the type speed thing is a perception.

For the record, I briefly tried to Google something on the subject before writing a response here, and came up with nothing (admittedly didn't try too hard however). This thread sort of peaked my old interest in this speed typing debate if you will.
One last note - if you decide to explore these books or if you already have and you're using your new golden rules - BEWARE "Nondualism" as described here -

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j34/stacey-intro.asp

Rationalizing everything down to "this is all an illusion" is harmful. There's way more to it than that, so keep questioning and observing your thoughts.
I'd like to add another one to that list:

* get SUN. or if you can't, try tanning. get the vitamin D production going.

it's done wonders for me
Yes agree. Liked your drawing tool. Indeed, the features are different of both the products. Just wanted to bring their auto screen shot implementation. It appears different than g+ and others. Regarding pricing, I think 30 submissions is for their survey feature, feedback seems unlimited.
Use it to your advantage. Seriously.

I have been there, several times now. Each time I learn a little more and each time I come away more effective. I've found that when it gets really tight and overwhelming by simply not giving up you begin to notice the things that are critically important and that need to get done and the things that are just nice to have.

In the end when you start noticing these things and get the important tasks done and let the non-important ones slide it feels pretty good.

I still struggle with #2 though. It often feels like no one else I know ever feels that same guilt. The only solution I've come up with so far is if I'm doing something that isn't work then it needs to feel like I'm not wasting time. For some reason I don't really understand yet playing golf doesn't feel like I'm wasting time. Maybe because it's a solo sport and for me it's competitive? I don't know. It helps though.

Edit: To acknowledge the spirit of this thread I am not suggesting a depressed person push through and use the stress to their advantage. This is advice for someone who is not depressed. I do know what depression is like, and if you're depressed and experiencing the above then I don't think it's possible to make it through. Acknowledge your mental state (Very hard to do, talk with other people, seek help) and come back later.
Hmm, if you're binding every view in your app to a single view model, you're doing it wrong. You're "supposed" to have a model for each view/type/whatever and bind only the necessary markup — not bind the whole page to one big view.
Same! I am currently flipping through the tutorials over at Knockout's website, there is a lot going on behind the scenes it seems.