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Ask HN: I have 4 months and i need to earn $2000?
I know this is not the right way to figure out stuff but i guess HN can give a little advice over here. I know basic html/css, i can covert a pdf into html if given 7-8 hours..apart from that i have no skill. I am learning javascript right now. I have a big day coming in the start of May 2012, and i need to have around $2000 before that...what's the most appropriate path i should follow to achieve this target?
I tend to read "Think and Grow Rich" at least once a year!
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Although I agree with the article that juries should have more powerful, I don't see how a believer in nullification can get on a jury without lying.

Yeah, I had more or less the same thought. In my own case, I do believe in Jury Nullification; it just happened that the case was a property crime case (breaking and entering, larceny) which is one of the areas where the law seems reasonably just. So I didn't speak up or anything, and ultimately did serve on the jury.
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I like this a lot because it respects software engineering as a craft, best taught by craftsmen in a real world environment.

I hope non-engineers that you accept will eventually gain a solid foundation of algorithms, maths, notations, etc. But I've always believed that a setting like the one you seem to have created here is the right alchemy for building successful engineers.
I would say go on craiglist and find a freelance client. I did this few years ago and usually made a couple thousand/month.
That is a really good idea, plug in something down by the furnace (or use the C-wire hookup there), make it handle communication over a couple of wires, power over another, and then the box converts it back to 'legacy' wiring on the other end.
I don't think the lawyers are implying that they are contemptuous of jury nullification with this strategy. I think they are trying to downplay the impact of the leaflets, playing their client off as a goofy old man with silly ideas that everyone would ignore like a beggar.
Hi,

First of all thank you so much for your kind thoughtful response. I appreciate you taking the time to read about problem and offering helpful advice.

> Have you brought this concern up to him?

Yes, I have. I did tell him that if he doesn't add something measurable to our business by 8th Feb 2012 (this is four months from when I talked to him about this) I will have to go solo or find other people to work with. He didn't get upset, rather after this I did see him trying harder. Unfortunately, there have been no measurable results so far. Sometimes, I think it is because he lacks confidence to pull the trigger (like he is currently working on the API for our site, but will he ever complete it, announce it to our list or recruit companies to make this profitable? I don't think so at least until I step in and do it for him - judging from past). And I just don't know anymore if any amount of carrot or stick can fix this.

>Based on that, you may realize that him getting 50% (at
>least in the past) has been perfectly justified; if it
> weren't for him, what would you have done?

Yes, the fact is he's probably getting 50% of the cut not because he is earning it, but rather because I need someone to work with. Currently his presence in our business is more of moral support than actual business development. But you are right, it is probable, that had he not been working with me I may just have quit out of frustration and boredom (specifically during the first two years of our business when we didn't make any money). So I don’t regret giving him the 50% partnership. My struggle lies in the fact that we could have done so much more had he actually had a little interest or passion for furthering our business. And my dilemma lies in the fact that at the end of the day what if I wreck an invaluable friendship trying to make a few extra dollars.

>Be honest about this with him, explain your struggles, desires, and
>motivations, and I'm confident you'll both be in a better place at the end.

Yes, thankfully we're able to communicate freely with each other. I just hope if the time comes and I have to do what I have to do, he understands it's just a business decision and nothing personal against him.
I stood for a juror in county court a few years back. This was pretty much the process followed.

It was very focused on being impartial and following the law.

I think different courts and jury stylings have different rules, but I am unsure where and how.
Are things really that bad? My company doesn't suffer from any of those things but you cite them as if they're the norm. Maybe those things are more common in a startup setting?

Also, you can't seriously claim that productivity is routinely measure by number of lines of code. What kind of hell hole have you been working in...?
It definitely sounds like a lot of emails in my article. But let's say you never engage with the service. You might receive 2 in 2 months and then never hear again. Smart, not abusive.

While I mentioned reminders often as it's easiest to describe, "Teach me something new." is exactly right. Engaging mailers should offer help, tips and such.
In the UK, especially in London the situation suggests I shouldn't give to beggars, I should give to the homeless charities.

There are reportedly more hostel places than homeless people and those hostel places are 'free at the point of delivery' to the homeless that use them.

There has been research done, supported I think by the homeless charities, that suggests that the money given direct to some homeless is used to fuel drink and drug addictions and may help cause a higher rate of death or serious disease.

The recommendation (According to Radio 4 at least) is to give to the homeless charities not to the homeless.
I'd like to differentiate two thoughts that this post points to: the "effectiveness of randomized search" and "ignorance is bliss", as they are pointing to different types of creativity, I think.

The second case is one where the common wisdom is wrong or the conditions that made it right are no longer true. This is where courage is more important than creativity, other people have also come up with similar ideas but either thought it was impossible or didn't push it far enough. Entrepreneurial examples abound but this happens in science, too, e.g. see Poisson's Dot (Poisson predicted it but thought it was impossible, so was discovered by someone else), the discovery of Neptune, etc. This sort of ignorance/naivete/gonzo attitude generally fuels startups.
Of course, when the common wisdom is correct, then the startup fails, so there's some evidence bias here, too.

Now, the second one is more interesting. Let me tell you a story I read some time ago:

The hunters for a certain village were much better than their neighbors in bunting bison. This was due to the fact that their shaman each year gave them a map drawn on a piece of hide that predicted where the bison would be, and it would generally be right. One year, a hunter sneaked into the shaman's tent to see how he created these accurate maps. He say that that the shaman just treated the hide and did nothing else. When he asked him about it, the shaman said: "When I treat the hide, lines appear on the hide, guided by the Gods, that predict where the bison will be". These random lines were the secret of the hunters' success.

That sort of random search of the idea space is hard to do but can work wonders when it works.
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It seems with a 1% conversion rate you need to make something the other 99% would be interested in paying for. There must be something for the same market you can make that can convert some % of that 99%. It is like the low hanging fruit asking for you to pluck it off of the tree.
Are you talking about the onebox, or something else?
The onebox can't really be replaced by an external website.
It's very easy to make those arguments just by saying "From my experience doing X, you're wrong because..." without speculating about what the other person hasn't done.
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Or, you know, ask the same thing to a bunch of traditionally-educated children and you'll get the same answer: a black dot.

Montessori kids have been rewarded over the years for giving out-of-the-box answers and that's probably what their mind jumps to first. Their ignorance isn't what gives them the creative answers - the years of being taught to look for something different is.

If you want to start getting better answers out of your employees/coworkers/own mind figure out how to reward them for random ideas instead of pounding them down.
I would suggest to anyone interested in the topic to read The Trial of John Peter Zenger. It represents an extreme case of judicial process manipulation that would have been very difficult to defeat without the help of a sympathetic jury.

As the Joe Fridays of the world are very eager to point out, nullification DOES subvert the rule of law. So I don't support its' use for every situation. But bad laws and rigged justice also undermine the rule of law -- we still have bad laws (drug offenses, generally) and rigged justice (the Duke lacrosse team case, more of an attempt at rigged justice) even today.

That said, nullification is not that powerful of a threat to the system, because the system has ways of dealing with partiality such as voir dire, change of venue, rules of evidence.

The lengths NY state is going to silence free speech and enforce the "blinders of fact" principle seem a little extreme.

Just remember -- the law is meant to serve the people, not the other way around.
Great concept, great creativity! Bravo. If you can effectively manage the IP battle I think you have a smash success on your hands here.
The cost difference should only be less than the productivity gain, right? Developers get paid well, so the $1/day that IntelliJ costs, for example, can easily be justified.

Where the cut-off is, we could debate. However, I like to lavish myself with the best tools. Sometimes, they're free (e.g. emacs), sometimes they cost money.

You're most precious asset is time, not money.
Just a theory, but could part of the urgency be to make it pass in time to shut down unauthorized streaming sites for the Superbowl?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/20/tech/web/super-bowl-online/ind...
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Good lawyers will excuse jurors based on how they will likely relate to the case being presented. For instance, here in Brazil, most defense lawyers will excuse jurors of Japanese origin based on the idea they would impose tougher moral standards than other groups.

Lawyers are obliged to always offer the best possible defense to the extent of their abilities, and that includes selecting a biased jury if that's possible.
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I wish we could get rid of the TSA and spend that resources somewhere else, CIA, FBI, NSA, hell send it to DoE, NSF, maybe fund (more) research in practical(?) renewable energy.

But killing the TSA is never going to happen. No career politician is going to commit political harikiri to shut it down.

- I do not mind the free hand rubs at the airports though.
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I'd say you're wrong.

I don't think we should assume the students have the knowledge 1) because they obviously don't have the knowledge and 2) it doesn't match the methodology of every other applied science. I don't assume that students are competent to work in a biology lab before college. Why should Computer Science get a free pass from teaching the lab work techniques that all other applied sciences are expected to teach?
For a budget that low, I'd just post to Craigslist.

But do it on the Los Angeles site for CL, might find some motion graphics person or animator between jobs.
Hi there, I might be able to help you out, however I can't forward your project without an email address :(
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Advice, prototype, and occasionally implement systems and processes to help them sell more stuff. Code is a deliverable if the customer wants it to be a deliverable. I don't usually suggest that, since my clients typically have many very talented programmers on staff.
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Happy birthday James! You're the reason I blogged about this. Your email asking me to blog about the email template stuff got me thinking about this too haha.
This is called voire dire:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_selection#Voir_dire

The plaintiff / defense teams are allowed to remove an limited number of jurors unless the removal is among a list of valid exempt causes (in which case the removal is exempt from the limit). See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremptory_challenge

The process can become very very thought out in high profile cases - there are psychologists hired to advise litigators on how favorable a potential jury member might be, and the list of potential jurors for a given day can be retrieved ahead of time and background checks run each one (all within the rules).

Here is an intresting article from one of these "Jury experts" discussing the process: http://www.americanbar.org/publications/youraba/201103articl...
I pointed them to this etherpad [...] where I was researching the question. I wasn't even sure at the time what the right answer was.

Was this after you were selected to serve on the jury? They usually make it pretty clear that you are not permitted to do outside research on the case or the laws in question.

Also if jury nullification is important to the defendant's case then it would be the job of their attorney to make sure the jury is aware of that choice.
What would you say to someone that refuses to email users at all and even rejects the idea of collecting email addresses at signup? They think asking for email addresses and using them for anything is only for spammers. Sadly they also have a retention problem.
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The article didn't argue that he wasn't guilty of that, it argued that constitutional free speech rights take precedence over it.
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We (Custora, YC W11) are hard at work on exactly what you're asking for:

https://www.custora.com/home/tour_lifecycle
Try to find freelance clients. If you're either not confident enough or feel like you're not ready, you could get a regular job. It doesn't matter if it's as a junior dev somewhere or flipping burgers. You can make over $2k in 4 months.
Sugarless is apparently a toolkit for creating execution contexts bearing a strong resemblance to a run through a Chain of Command pattern.
Moving to Hong Kong? How long are you there for Leo? Planning on going back to Silicon Valley?

If it is all so virtual, come enjoy some Cape Town lifestyle.
It's worth remembering that jury nullification is a two-way street.

Nullification is most famous for its history in racially-charged trials in the American South. Southern jurors would refuse to enforce criminal laws if the accused was white and the victim black. Nullified jury cases were one of the tensions that led to the American Civil War.

That's one of the justifications for the power to dismiss jurors - for the sake of justice, law must also have the power to protect minorities who are very unpopular, even, and indeed especially, if the unpopularity is so severe that very few randomly selected people would agree to enforce a law on the minority's behalf.

The problem, of course, is that just because there is no guarantee that nullifiers are right, it does not follow that they are wrong either. However, because jury nullification has its greatest historical significance in the United States when it was used to persecute blacks, legal doctrines which support jury nullification are, by association, not very popular, while legal tactics which allow prosecutors to make their case in the face of potential jury nullification are considered acceptable.
I can't say I've ever looked at a job that didn't provide hardware and software, or reimburse travel. That's just standard business behaviors. I don't think my company is /that/ different from most, and I've never seen any of the follow up issues you gripe about(although the salary doesn't sound too far off in the midwest cheap cost of living areas.)
I don't think that's quite accurate based on the experiences of my friends from school.

Most people I know from school are making ~$90k with 0-2 years of experience. The highest salary I've heard is my friend who is getting $105k (plus benefits) when he graduates this spring, and the lowest I've heard is about $75k (plus benefits). Granted, all these people went to UC Berkeley, but quite a few of them dropped out/were just auditing (ie not an enrolled student) and most of us didn't have good GPAs (2.0-3.5, with an est. median of probably 2.75 and a stddev of maybe 0.35).

None of my friends have had to provide their own hardware or software, though many have chosen to use their personal laptops as terminals instead of using provided equipment. Everyone at least has their own cubicle (no time sharing), and i believe about half of us got a significant (ie two weeks pay or more) bonus sometime in the last year. None of my friends really travel much for work, but I do know that my company reimburses all travel costs for engineers (for the few that actually need to travel between offices).

And I don't know anyone whose productivity is measured by LoC.
you can only descend further into your command stack, not transition upwards. you could make a state machine by modelling out transitions forwards, sure, but it'd be of limited length.
Well, all frames actually do have length in the header. It's just not the first byte... it's the lowest 7 bits of the second byte, and possibly more (check the spec).

So, if I can read 2 bytes from my buffer, I can get a good idea of the message size. If I only have 1 byte, I rewind and wait until I receive another.
MoBeers was also mentioned in this Globe and Mail article about RIM:

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nay, execution context DSL.
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Hi Simon, thanks a lot for stopping by! Yep, HongKong it is! We are planning to stay a couple of months and will be back in June to SF for sure though! :)
I could make a second product for teachers, but Achievement Unlocked already with regards to most of the things in that area. It is approximately as much work to create AR, where I have publicly available plans that cost $2.5k a year that real people actually buy, as it is to make another teaching tool. I'm allocating resources efficiently.

Plus, buying myself another five years of "Optimize this software until you stop getting 'MY GOOGLES GOT A VIRUS' from email addresses ending in aol.com" is not on the agenda.
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FYI, there are free online services that can convert PDFs to HTML. I agree with the Craigslist approach, but you might spend some time on http://www.codecademy.com learning how to write JavaScript. Also, use http://stackoverflow.com/ when you get stuck on how to do something.
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I'm sure there are other technologies which can be used for geolocalization and can achieve similar "performances" (I'm
thinking about WIFI networks or IP, in some cases).

Still, I wouldn't expect a digital camera to put those informations in the EXIF (assuming it does have a WIFI and/or an IP address)

Also, to me Facebook doesn't seem to be using any magical machine learning algorithm capable to recognize the location of a PIC from a face, it never did on my PICs, not even when there were landscapes in it.

The guy could instead have uploaded the photo using a smartphone which added the GPS coordinates.

But what do YOU think instead? How does that work? Is it working also for your uploads?
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> And the questions the prosecution asks are often framed like "Is there any reason you would fundamentally be unable to return a 'guilty' verdict in this case?" or "is X a reason you would not be able to return a 'guilty' verdict?" etc.

In my case it was a civil trial and he (the plaintiff's attorney) asked everyone to raise their hands if they thought they could follow the instructions of the court.

I kept my hand down.

He told me to raise my hand.

I told him I had some opinions on jury nullification.

He looked at the judge.

The judge didn't say anything.

He then asked me what my opinions were.

I said what I thought the definition was for "jury nullification", and that ultimately I have no problems disregarding the instructions of the court.

I was then, most immediately, dismissed from jury duty. The first person out of that room.

It was very nerve wrecking having to do that (being in the court room for the first time, and all that). But worth it.

*The case was something about the "fair value" of someone's property that was taken by the state (and DOT) due to road construction ("eminent domain" maybe).
Completely agree with you, except for one point...
Ron Paul (a republican candidate for president) wants to abolish the TSA: http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/tsa/188271-ro...

This is not a place for political discussion (so please don't make it one, people!), but he certainly qualifies as a career politician, having been in congress 35 years.

EDIT: lots of downvotes... I'm just stating a fact in response to the DrJ's statement... what is the cause for your downvoting?
I don't think it'll be a problem in practicality. Most implementations primary APIs will be message based and not intended for this streaming case. I'm planning on refactoring my implementation to have a low level streaming API that's used internally and is exposed if you really need it, but on top of that build the message based API that 99.5% of people will use.
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Hi arb99,

If you click "learn more" you get a lot of information about both the company and the team, including our address, phone number, photos and bios of the three of us, and links to our Twitter accounts.

What contact information were you looking for?

We see ourselves as (in part) being in the business of earning trust. That's obviously a difficult job, so whatever suggestions you can offer we'd definitely appreciate.

Cheers,
Dave
> But nullification is like any other democratic power; some people may try to misuse it, but that does not mean it should be taken away from everyone else.

It has been my impression that we increasingly live in a world where rights can be taken away from the many to deter abuse by the few.
That's not at all what he was doing. He wasn't trying to influence a jury, he was trying to educate them to let them know about a third option they have. It's still up to them whether or not to use it. He also wasn't influencing any particular jury, or an active jury. He was giving leaflets to potential jurors.
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Guy should dismiss his counsel and go pro se. 99% of the time I'd say that's a crazy idea, but in this situation I'm not so sure...
I'm betting that 3% was compounded monthly too, so the net effect would be higher than 36% - probably north of 40, but I can't be bothered to do the math.
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