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7-8, every night. I find I can't think clearly enough to code if I don't get enough sleep consistently.
Talking from personal experience of having managed off-shore projects from an on-shore base the most significant challenges are:

- misaligned interests

- availability of information

- control

- security and compliance

- communication

As far as "does it EVER work" concerned: it does. It doesn't work well though. Most people can run, doesn't mean that most people can run as fast as Usain Bolt.

My whole opinion at:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/46934/12348
For about 6 months during high school I would take a 1.5 hour nap after dinner from about 7:30pm until 9:00pm then sleep again from either 2:00am or 3:30am until 6:30am when I had to wake up (multiples of 90 minutes).

With 4.5 or 6 hours of sleep per night, I had more energy during the day than I ever have since sleeping 7-10 hours. I stopped because I was waking my parents at night and since then I haven't been able to work it back into my schedule.

Some caveats:
(1) I needed somebody to call me to wake me up at 9:00 (I used my long-distance girlfriend for this – it was a good excuse to talk anyway). If I didn't have somebody to wake me up, I would often sleep through my alarm and wake up at 6:00am. Sometimes I found my alarm clock and/or bedside lamp on the floor.
(2) My state of mind after the early evening nap was very much unlike normal waking experience. There was a sense of unbreakable tranquility and bodily calmness, as if a thin membrane had been stretched over experience and time had stopped. I read somewhere that certain writers are known to have induced this state for the purpose of doing their work.

I blogged my experience at the time, but it appears that the blog is now gone and I don't have an archive to my knowledge: <http://alternatesleep.blogspot.com/>.

You may be interested to read this person's log: http://polyphasic.blogspot.com/ – my experience was similar to his.
I agree that it's not enough for the majority of people (myself included), but I have a great aunt that has, for her entire life, slept four hours a night (midnight to 4am). She's a retired school teacher, no commitments that are keeping her awake, and that's still the schedule she keeps. She apparently just doesn't need as much sleep as most people do.
Be careful with load testing.

When your business/community/etc is 10x the size it is today, it's unlikely that usage patterns and use cases will be the same. Rather, they are likely to shift as you grow.

Simply firing 10x today's load at the system is one way to find out today's bottlenecks, but may be ineffective at finding tomorrow's bottlenecks. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing, but it needs to be done with care.
I see this idea as fundamentally flawed in that it's trying to do 2-person cars. After I read that, none of the ensuing calculations mattered at all. We need to work around the train schedules, not try to work them around our schedules. Look at downtown SF. Mass transit there is AMAZING. Muni stations are every few /blocks/.

Also, why choose below-the-rail? Requires stronger towers, can't turn as fast as existing rail, etc. This was a silly decision IMO. I think these guys need to work with roller coaster engineers if they can only do /10kmph/ around curves.

Yet another still-born mass transit idea. Can we please just get the Cali high-speed rail done already to prove to the rest of USA something that other countries know already? High speed rail works great and can indeed "work" economically.
Interestingly, she assumes and reinforces the stereotypes herself:

Just go and lob a few complaints about her behavior that
would never apply to a guy. The easiest one of these is to
say "you're being too emotional".

This is plain false. Guys also catch flack for being too emotionally invested in something all the time. Someone proposes a solution, you criticise it and they get overly defensive? Someone reports on an issue and is really harsh about the person that caused it? Someone's performance goes subpar, but when confronted, they are afraid to tell you what's wrong? That's all emotion and they will all be called out for it by a decent manager.

Here's what you do. After the meeting, you get her on chat
and you say "wow, you were really hard on S".

Here she again assumes guys never get this line from their manager, which is again plain false. Good managers will call guys out on internal rivalries, lack of empathy or whatever other emotional reason there was for 'being really hard on X'.

These kinds of statements reinforce the stereotypes, because they reiterate the perceived status quo, where guys are non-emotional and thus never criticised for it. That whole line of reasoning is just wrong for anyone that wants to push for more equality. More equality does not mean showing women are more like the stereotypical men: it just as often means showing that men are more like stereotypical women.
If you want to outsource to India, you need to find a company that hires super stars. Super stars in India demand a salary of Rs50,000 to Rs 100,000 a month. Which is still quite less from international point of view: its about $1000 to $2000 a month. A company hiring them will bill you a minimum of $20-30 per hour. Usually more like $40-45 per hour.

If you go with a company that is billing you less than that from India, you should know that your work will suffer because that company does not hire the best skilled coders.
Engineerist.
You know, I disagree. I have several possible contracts for training governments around the world on open source software, governments I think we'd all like to see remain stable.

I do think we have to consider the ethical implications of product development generally, and I think we need to be willing to refuse to sell products and services to government and law enforcement agencies when this raises concerns and problems.

But I don't think that extends to all technologies. The people who wrote SE-Linux for example have done us all a favor.
ATS has similar constructs. Once you have allocated memory you can't do pointer arithmetic outside the bounds of the size of the memory allocated, checked at compile time.
There are both Firefox and Chromium extensions to do this. What does this service do that they do not?
I sleep ~4 hours a night during the week. I find that if I sleep more (~6-8), I am not tired again by the time the remaining hours have passed and it is time for me to sleep again. For instance, when I sleep 6 hours, I am not ready to sleep again 18 hours later. This becomes a real problem after two nights or so, at which point I have a lot of trouble falling asleep.

I do tend to sleep more on the weekends, but I often end up essentially forcing myself to sleep come Sunday night.
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Hi, foxhop.

So there is another service that does this called http://pagepeeker.com -- in what ways are you better and/or different?

Why should I use linkpeek instead?

(And are you worried about using a similar name to them?)
It's not very complicated.

Software rendering means that it's handled detail by detail by software on a general-purpose computation device.

Hardware rendering means that the software instead initiates complex actions on swaths of the screen at a time by triggering highly-specialized hardware.

One method is orders of magnitude faster than the other, but limited in scope. It's a fool's errand to try to conflate them.
Well explained, but 2^4 * 2^4 doesn't take into account the "different powers" part.
The posters didn't say (as you did) nothing in the story seems to indicate sexism to me. They said a whole load of other stuff for which there was no evidence.

As part of your hit-parade, you specifically quoted me, where I said:

Whether or not this incident was motivated by sexism, there's absolutely no indication, based on the facts presented, that it was.

...which was the premise on which I based my comment (quoted) that she was overreacting, and my other comment (also quoted) that perhaps she was, in fact, overly sensitive, if she chose to interpret such a neutral act as overtly sexist.

If you disagree, and think that the author did, in fact, make a semi-plausible case that she experienced sexism at her job, then please say so and try to defend that case, but realize that the rest of us that you quoted have (quite reasonably, IMO) taken it as an obviously verifiable given that she hasn't, and our comments have been made based on that assumption.

That doesn't make us sexists, it just makes us literate.
I disagree. See "one lane road" problem. Throughput will be very low and average speeds for urban areas will be close to that of bikes, at best, unless you're doing on/off ramps.

Also, re: many smaller cars... who will purchase/maintain all those? We don't have the infrastructure to support that on many levels.

Personally, I think a system like that in /I, Robot/ is much more likely.
I try to average somewhere between 7-8 hours of sleep per night. I've pushed myself through phases of about 5 hours/night but it was always a strain, and I got a lot more colds then.

Sleep is fun if you do it right. Cozy blankets, a cuddle partner or a cat or two make sleeping a good investment :)
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where are you located? I think in most metros, folks are starving for programmer talent right now. Move to a new city, go to meet ups and hack nights, and you'll land a job in no time.
It makes no difference. You will need to spend a lot of time, money and effort 'training' your employees when they are at a level where they see a C compiler tell them 'Semicolon missing - Line 19' and have absolutely no clue as to what to do with that. Or they've to call up a friend to figure out the 'difference' between * and & in C.

Source: A lot of my friends go through said 'training'. And I was that 'friend' who was called.
Is it really most? Can you justify that?
I should stop being an anal-retentive entrepreneur and just hire a graphic designer. Am considering commissioning custom art from an MTG artist (rk post maybe?)
For some, Siri is a game-changer. For otheres (seemingly including JK) it's a "Meh". This is typical of reactions to Apple's many extremely successful products: see Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad. And as Siri gets better, it will perhaps be as successful as those products.
Sorry guys, seem to taking a bit of toll here. We'll see if we can sort things out on our end to keep the servers up.
What I do is revise the list every week and see what things on the list I still want to learn, so I practice the ones that have prevailed more than 2 weeks and the other ones I kinda question them. What has worked for me this year is always ask "WHY ?" , Why do I want to learn A, or B, and if the reason is strong enough then the item goes in ink.
2-4 hrs per night, spreading several related textbooks out with other topics in between.
Welcome to the PR game. Embargoes are part of it. If you don't like this, find someone else to run PR for your company or at the very least, find someone with a lot of experience to advise you on how things work.

As hackers we're idealistic about how things work, expecting the world to follow logical patterns. But trust me, the press does not work remotely close to how one would hope. If you cannot stomach that, outsource it.

For TechCrunch, don't let them set the embargo time. Set one yourself, offer it to them as an exclusive. If they pass it up, move on. If they don't run it at the time you set, have a back up plan in place. TC will not make or break you. Do not allow yourself to be at their mercy. They have way more experience than you do. Act like you belong and control your own destiny.
Or we could stop wanting to live out in the boonies and actually build things that people can walk to, then stop being so lazy.
It might be default in some distros but there is no reason not to put it in an alias. The point is that it's already there and you don't have to modify your rm binary.

And how can you detect /* if the shell expands it?
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Much better than my lazy default which involves leaving relevant tabs open on my browser ...

So I just did this exercise now, and at the risk of overtooling I'm going to keep a detailed list of the precise things I did to learn each thing. Because otherwise, I have that same tendency to convince myself I've spent 2 hours learning more about graphical models by browsing some blog posts, or about cooking by looking through some cooking blogs but not actually taking the 2 hours to flail at bread-making. I'm not talking about every day recounting what I did, I think that's overly verbose, but just as a list under each of my goals that details each specific accomplishment.
Build and install a scaled out application. Multiple AWS instances in a load balanced configuration. Use small instances to purposely bottleneck the available resource pool.

But where do you learn how to install a load balancer? I know I can google that particular example. But as with learning anything new, the big problem is when you don't know what you don't know.
I invest at a cross-stage VC fund with a several $B under management. I want to back someone who knows everything about his/her market. Those are the people who deliver brilliant product+market fit and continue to innovate. If you already have product+market fit, then highlight the traction (lord only knows how hard you worked to get it, show it off) and discuss scalability.

Talk in specifics. “we’ll grow by scaling campaigns that we ran which gave us a CAC of $X and which cohorts monetized at $Y per month” is obviously better than “we plan to get new users by advertising on [FB, Google, Flurry, Admob, retargeting…]”.

More important than VC funding is to be hell-bent on your company’s success. Do whatever you can (ethically of course) to make your company succeed. The entrepreneurs that can raise capital easily have already created wonderful things on few resources then find investors flocking to them to help them scale. Travis at Uber and Omar at Admob come to mind as some of the best.

Lastly, investors are walking rolodexes. Ask for names and connections to people who can help. If your business is not a fit for my firm, ask about which investors might be a good fit.
I am with you here. You will be hard pressed to find really good programmers in Wipro, Infosys of the world, but there are some small boutique shops who charge significantly more, but are pretty good at what they do.

I myself work from my home in Bangalore, while my company is in UK, and I get paid well. I have had offers from US before, but I am staying - because I am trying to bootstrap a product as well on the sides, which won't be possible/easy when I am in US.
I really don't know why this comment was downvoted. Specifically from the point of view of functionality, Android supports a lot more functionality natively (again using Intents as an example, but also including the contacts integration system, event listening, tethering, and a few other details). Of course it's just one aspect of what constitutes a functional point of view, but it's not wrong either.
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Mind sharing your list? I really enjoy seeing what other people are excited about.
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tl;dr version: The PR world is full of people trying to get an edge. TechCrunch is very aggresive and not loved by other PR people, and even by some startups or personalities. This makes the author sad.

I remember complaining to my parents about the 'cliques' in high school that were simultaneously desirable (since being 'in' was a positive) and despicable because they would go to great unscrupulous lengths to besmirch you if you crossed them (even if they only thought you crossed them). My mom, the psyche major in college, said "Chuck, you can only control the way you are, not other people. Be a good example and be a good friend."

So true and so unrewarding at the same time. The injustice of it all rankled that piece of me that rebelled against the "fairness" of it all. But there is no "fair" in politics. Wasting time worrying about that gets you no where.
Here is the list of plugins for fluentd. There are CouchDB plugin, Cassandra, Redis, Amazon S3, Splunk, and even Growl plugin.

* http://fluentd.org/plugin/
*32-bit only
Why do you assume Siri will get better? Get better in what respect?
Why do you assume guys are never criticised in this way? HN is full of responses claiming some guy is wrong, overreacting, looking too hard for a certain type of explanation, defending against something that should be ignored, having a chip on ones shoulder re <something>, claiming blanket immunity against X, that there must be 'more history to it', etc. In all cases, these are instances of the guy being perceived as being overly emotionally involved in the subject.
I failed to give you a starting point on monitoring, try these:

http://graphite.wikidot.com/ (I prefer this)

http://munin-monitoring.org/ (widely used and fairly easy to find resources for)

Don't just monitor general things like CPU, I/O... monitor what your application does as well. The point of monitoring is to give you the ability to spot the interconnectedness of symptoms to their cause.

Knowing that CPU spiked shortly after networking became saturated isn't as helpful as knowing that your calls were doing requests of a large number of records and returning more data than needed. So if you fail to monitor your actual application too, you only have half of the picture.
This is SUPER helpful! Just the other day I was wondering how someone like me could get involved in the hard scalability problems I read so much about here on the hackers news. But how to make my boring old highly cachable read-only web traffic into a major scalability problem? Then I read this blog entry, and wow, now each log entry on my site turns into a random btree update in MongoDB made while holding a global write lock. Thanks again hackers news, and thanks again BIG DATA!
I did this about three months ago and have been laser focused on learning ever since instead of spreading myself too thin as it's too easy in this industry. I hope this doesn't sound like I'm tooting my own horn, but I genuinely hope everyone takes 10 minutes out of their week to do this for themselves. I can attest to this simple exercise being very much worth it.
>and fix the last mile issue with automated taxi cabs

Why not bikes and walking? Consequently, this solution also fixes the following which automated taxis can't:

-pollution(bikes have much less total in mfg than cars)
-maintenance(many bike shops exist and fixing bikes is comparatively easy)
-parking(take it with you on the train, store in house/apartment)
-cost(nice reliable used bike is under $1000)
-familiarity/public acceptance(people are used to bikes)
-security (take your bike with you and bikes have no software to break/get hacked)
-human fitness (heart disease really sucks)
-infrastructure (no batteries, gas, chargers, parking really required)
I'm really confused about this. So Techcrunch is telling companies that if they want coverage, they have to not talk to anyone else? Couldn't they instead just talk to everyone but Techcrunch?
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There is some truth to this. A long while back when I was doing projects, I got a project from a US company.

When after a week of understanding the scope, I quoted my price at around $150/hour they were shell shocked. The work was for redesigning systems that simply were not scaling (designed originally by a US company by the way). At the last minute they backtracked and demanded that since I was from India and the cost of living was much lower, I should charge them around the standard $25/hour.

I can never compete in the project game - and I dont want to anymore - because of this attitude by every single US company that I have ever interacted with!

I passed them on eventually to a $20/hour company in Delhi, even while I explained to them that none of the coders there had any experience with designing systems that scale.

There is also a tendency to feature creep the project since it is only $20/hour which amuses me and is a sure fire recipe for failure. When we ask them if they want a project manager or an architect who can work with them on architecture/ feature set selection they refuse because they cost way more than the coders.

I am not saying your experience is not true, I am just saying that given the attitude towards India, it is bound to the experience more often than not.

The non-completion of the project above could have been for many reasons... feature creeping, inability to communicate what the client wants, language differences and yes, downright bad coding. Since you were not able to clinch the project - which I believe is simply bad salesmanship, like in my case earlier - your "I told you so" rant is based on a massive leap of faith that you or any "US based" programmers could have finished the project on time, which I am simply have no reason to buy.
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I think HN is trying to tell you not to apologize publicly for a downvote. It's not that big of a deal and the extra comment distracts from the flow of the conversation.
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According to as-e.com (the manufacturer), the backscatter vans are safe to use with occupants in the vehicle; transmissive search are not. Transmissive gets used for cargo search, since it's better at penetrating. The transmissive scanners have a big boom which arches over the suspect vehicle, emitting, with the receiver mounted in the body of the vehicle.

Some of AS-E's trucks do both, apparently.

I agree, these vans could probably be used in occupants-still-in-vehicle mode, but there are a lot of reasons why taking the occupants out will probably still be done. In a bomb situation, you want them under your control and not able to trigger it as readily. You also get a cleaner scan with less human obstruction in the vehicle; humans are going to show up as solid objects in the scan, so hiding other stuff in the middle would be a threat.
i use to sleep for 5 hrs on weekdays, 8-10 hrs on weekends. It was good initially but after 6 years now this habit has started to hit back.

My memory has been almost killed, i cant sleep well at night due to irregular sleeping patterns that i had as well productivity has gone downwards since i started feeling sleepy the next entire day. Less sleep might get u a spike in productivity but it wont hold much in long term.

I strongly advice people to sleep for a minimum of 7 hrs, not more than 9 hrs with a same time pattern.
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