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Well, I guess that all depends on your upbringing.

I'm from Southern Europe and I'd say it's quite normal for waiters to greet customers like that (except on fancy, expensive places of course).
You don't have to "create bonds" with them, it's just a matter of being friendly.

Also, don't forget that waiters in the U.S. live off their tips, so I guess that can be a reason as to why they try to be as friendly as possible.
Unfortunately, this result might just mean that there's a correlation between noise tolerance and performance. It would have been better if they had studied objectively measurable noise levels instead of subjective acceptability of noise levels.
This would be a very penetratingly insightful criticism if you had never heard of Airbnb, Dropbox, Twilio, etc etc. Some people at the current classes of YC and 500 Startups may well find themselves working for AmaGooBookSoft in 4 years, and may that be a happy outcome for all concerned, but you've got to torture the math to come to the conclusion that hiring acquisitions are where most of the money is changing hands.

That said, it totally makes sense for AmaGooBookSoft to pay at least some engineers amounts of money which historically were not awarded to technical employees. This should be priced into everyone's expectations, startup-affiliated or no.
I like it. It scares me a bit that the tool layout seems buggy on my Opera, does that mean that the output will be buggy there too?

That said, what can you expect from a weekend project on a browser with >1% market share. Nice job! I'll probably use this.
At the Vancouver to US border, when I was was on vacation, I had a bit of trouble not to laugh: all these guys were very big dudes in uniforms with glasses and mustaches. They all looked exactly alike. Anyway; it was an interesting experience.
Nice! I think it would be smart if text can be edit without thinking HTML, like wysiwyg editor. Can edit layout includes h* and p.
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Maybe our relatively high resource-to-population ratio and economic inertia allow us to maintain a large enough economy that people have no choice but to come, regardless of how badly they are treated.
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didn't know that. thanks!
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> it uses floating point numbers instead of rational numbers.

import decimal

import fractions
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It is easy to for a non-American resident to start an American business.

I started a Delaware corporation a few years back, and it took a couple of hundred dollars to a company to have them set it up for us. It would've been cheaper except for some complexities in the way we wanted thing set up.

The only thing that's slightly more hassle is getting a US business banking account set up, but that's easy enough too (my first attempt at getting a US bank account many years ago required me to go in person to the US consulate to have them certify my signature and a copy of my passport, and that's the most hassle it's ever been).

If you want to work for your new US corporation _in_ the US, that's another matter.
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This is why i never go through the US anymore, nor do i plan to ever go there for vacation (or work).
US immigration law is outright retarded for a developed country, i don't understand why the US doesn't follow the European model, we are all developed countries, let the citizens travel and work where they want to.
I just started working in the UK, i'm French, it took me exactly 3 days from getting confirmation to starting in the company. No visa, no questions asked at the border, no trouble anywhere. This is how it should be.
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then it's rather a gesture recognition :)

it would be interesting to see it on a wearable computer, taking input from some gesture input devices: accelerometers or video input with markers
I have had some "good coverage" in my niche from some big name magazines related to my products field (non-tech).

I did not use a PR company.

There isnt a secret. Just meet lots of people, ask them to suggest other people to meet and dont expect a story from everyone. I find that for every 10-15 journalists I have met, I have got coverage.

In my experience, after meeting a journalist they will often email to clarify points. Dont overload them with data here. Dont send them a pdf file. Give them well worded answers and maybe a few extra points that you wish to reinforce.

Luck also helps!
This strikes me as no worse that the traditional approach of hiring recruiters and HR people to processes thousands of CVs and sit through hours of interviews.

The engineers have a route to distinguish themselves, they get well rewarded in the process, the big companies get the talent they want and society runs lots of experiments in the marketplace as a result.

Only only downside I can see is that a particular valuable service may get shut down, but at least the model has been proven and someone else in search of an idea could emulate it (think etherpad).
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Boston.

It was actually cheaper if I went that way around the planet via Finnair.
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I think that different people are affected by noise more than others and I put it down to the learning style that person gravitates towards. My wife is an auditory learner, where I am more visual. I have real trouble paying attention to conversation when a TV is playing in the background (with the sound off), where she can't concentrate if there is too much noise.
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The term "talent acquisition" has been applied to a number of startup successes over the past few years.

I question whether that is in part due to anti competitive agreements between Intel, Google etc.

If they can't poach each other's engineers, they must go somewhere else for talent. What better place than the most ambitious, intelligent group?
> Most languages have most of the listed features.

Most of the features are not hard to find, but you have to switch languages a lot if you want to use them all.
Here's the announcement about how The Wrap is the "main entertainment news provider" for Reuters:

http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/thewrap-replaces-th...
Very nice first project. There was some recent discussion (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3523316) about WYSIWYG editors for HTML. This is the first step toward exactly the type of tool that will make WYSIWYG useful to serious designers and frontend coders.
I spent about 3 hours in Canada Immigration on my first trip to Canada, I now live here. IMO Toronto Pearson's border control are the worst I've ever experienced.

I made the honest mistake of being honest. I was working as an electrician for my fathers company, which meant I had a plenty of money and as much holiday time as I wanted (I declared I was taking 2 weeks, and the officer acted like this was a lot).

My second mistake was being nervous. I came from the UK where our police, even at the border, are professional, courteous and aren't carrying handguns. The Canadian border officer was extremely rude (In dealing with 5 female officers and 4 male officers I found the male ones are the only professional and courteous officers employed by CBP).

After being questioned for an hour I was taken to get my bags searched. The male officer doing the searching was extremely polite and professional. He opened my suitcase (for a very messy person, my luggage is always meticulously packed to maximize space) and automatically adopted "We're not going to find anything here" mode, like you visibly saw the guy relax and he started chatting about the books I'd brought with me (one was a manga that he bought his kid).

I then got questioned further, and taken back to the immigration desk and asked to wait. This is when I overheard another male officer say "He's got nothing, you should have known that in the first five minutes. Just let him go." So she asked for the contact information, accused me of them being false when they didn't immediately answer (noisy terminal and 2 hours waiting). I asked if I could text them, and got grilled for her accusing me of keeping my phone on. I basically threw my phone over the desk at her and said "No it's been turned off for the past ten hours!" Then her attitude changed.

Since then I've rehearsed everything I've said. Act pissed off and say as little as possible. When I get to the person who checks my claims I say, sounding extremely pissed off "Hey, how are you?" I take the same policy whenever I get sent to the actual officers (it happens way to frequently, I have no clue why, apparently being completely white bread I look like a major terrorist threat - actually with my knowledge of chemistry and physics I'm probably a bigger risk than any of the guys who hijacked the planes on 9/11 as I actually know how to make a nuclear bomb - probably a very, very dirty bomb - and explosives).
Great job. Maybe you can add the possibility to edit IDs/classes?
To us and other technologically-informed people, he failed. But to the general public who already associates the term "hacker" with a destructive force, the author probably further reinforced the negative connotations. People hear (read) what they want to hear, especially if it already agrees with their current understandings.

And it's a shame really. I wonder if some day, with the help of hackers, technology, and the resultant spread of information, the general public won't be so ignorant.
I use this plugin everyday.

It's got some serious bugs that make my heart stop.

The biggest one is Undo. Looks like the plugin keeps it's own list of modifications that were performed. So when sometimes I press "u" to undo the latest change - Visual Studio gets suspended for a minute or two, and all my changes that I did since I opened Visual Studio (could be a day or a week) are pretty much gone. The work around is to close the file without saving.
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So, it comes down to playing a role.

That's why they call it "security theatre".
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Since you focused on the layout only, I'll take the opportunity to show off my weekend project which will help picking a colorscheme:
http://plainas.github.com/cubecolors/

As for pabeblox, looks handy, but you _must_ implement dragable border instead of buttons.
by that logic (and thank god it isn't true) who in their right mind would ever risk entering through that border?

you're absolutely wrong on that i'm afraid
I think that the full numeric tower of scheme is what the author had in mind for Math types: big nums, true rationals, strong sense of exactness, etc...

Also, CLOS (Common Lisp) has after, before and around methods for "aspect oriented".
Yes, I forgot, I pay U$ 5/hour to the maid, and I'm paid U$ 10/hour (for now! :) )

And Uruguayans are used to earning very little compared to the U.S., plus brand clothes are MUCH more expensive here.
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Very neat to see this! For the past year, I've been working on a very similar collaborative-design tool in an entirely different field (an aspect of transport planning). Probably won't have anything to show until the summer, but it's reassuring to see others pursuing similar business plans, interaction models, etc. Helps to validate my feeling that the cloud and the browser are fundamentally the future of design.

My own application provides relatively high-level collaborative design functionality, and does not attempt to replicate the functionality of existing tools that are capable of very low-level simulation, analysis, and engineering. I imagine that it's a similar situation for hardware design, although probably with fewer tiers of software -- presumably Upverter users are working at a level that's much closer to the end result of the hardware-production process. Still, there must be existing (offline) design platforms with low-level functionality that you don't want to replicate in its entirety; these are presumably embedded in the workflows of existing hardware design houses in a way that will be difficult to supplant. Have you considered eventually producing plugins for these 3rd-party platforms, which would keep their designs in sync with the cloud-hosted model? This way, high-level design could be done in the browser, and low-level simulation etc. can be done in existing applications, while still taking advantage of Upverter's collaboration functionality.

This, of course, is my own long-range plan, although the web application is very much the initial focus. Just wondering if you've had similar thoughts, and if so, whether you've found such a strategy to have any particular merits or flaws that you'd care to discuss?
Is dubstep noise? Because I seem to work just fine with that turned way up.

No but seriously, aren't headphones the great equalizer (pun!) when it comes to noise? Our office has a good bit of road noise these days, but a quality set of over the ear headphones makes it all disappear. And when it's not been road noise, it has been coworkers distracting me.

I've done it so long that my headphones are both a signal to those around me that I'm getting work done and not to interrupt, and a weird signal to myself to get down to business. I find that I reach for them as a reflex when I know I need to really think through something and concentrate.
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I agree with you, but I'm suggesting that on the other end of the axis, away from empirical observation, is our ability to use information to affect destiny and cosmology in a grand (or not so grand) scale. I doubt that reality exists independent of intelligence, which makes reality a difficult beast to understand, like a naturally intractable problem. And if you insist on observing empirically, you're just collapsing cosmological scale invariant alternatives, but you can never figure it out completely. In fact it probably just keeps getting more complex as you keep trying, even considering the occasional unifying theories.

Anyways, I agree with everything that you've said, I just don't believe we can fully know how the phenomena actually works -- there are infinitely many ways in which it could work, all the time. To observe phenomena empirically in order to figure out how things further work, is to further isolate your existence into a remote section of the possible universes (and sometimes open your known universe up to new opportunities). I prefer to spend my time making reality rather than being chosen by it, which feels more like an active enterprise. In the end it doesn't matter. Have faith in science, or your ability to shape your world, or whatever that engages your computer noggin. :)

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This recalls the Biefeld-Brown Effect - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biefeld%E2%80%93Brown_effect - and https://courses.ece.ubc.ca/474/Handouts/Good_Examples/NASA_t...

The effect creates an ion wind that transfers momentum to the surrounding air. Effectively, it's like a bladeless fan, but modern researchers have not been able to replicate the reported thrust - lifting 90lb - non-one's been able to lift more than a kilo as far as I'm aware.
I've never felt like I've had to jump through hoops to get things working on Windows, though I have been using it almost exclusively for 10+ years and hosting on it for 3 so maybe I've either tuned in so much that I just get it, or I just don't notice any problems I have because I'm so used to them. I'm aiming to give OSX a go soon.
I'm not sure who do you address with this application. That's how real math looks like:
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The problem with the "scratching your own itch" approach to product development is that this gives me exactly 2 possible products: a web browser and online banking. Maybe an ebook reader. Other than that there is no itch. What I am trying to say is, I am a computer kid, I will never have to use the software my dentist or my banker uses. I have no "real" job, I have no "life". I cannot become a lets say a professional circus artist just to build intuition on what might help a professional circus artist softwarewise.
> homoiconicity

Python is not homoiconic but the ast module allows for wicked stuff.

> Error (managing numeric Imprecision)

Python decimal module does not handle precision error but handles significance, so that(from the doc) "for instance, 1.3 * 1.2 gives 1.56 while 1.30 * 1.20 gives 1.5600". This underrated module also does much more.

Anyway I feel this precision stuff might be a job for numpy/scipy.
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It will also be the first version to target a 750 MB ISO image, meaning that it will no longer fit onto a standard CD

Why are they targetting 750MB? Once you've decided to go above the capacity of a CD why restrict yourself to just a little more, rather than say 1GB (for small USB drives) or 4GB (for single layer DVDs).
"US border guards are primarily ex-military."

Ex-military, like everyone else in the world, are individuals. Being in the military doesn't turn you into an asshole, although it could amplify that tendency if you went in with it. Military and ex-military are not exotic aliens, they're us, nothing more and nothing less.

I think it's more likely that poor treatment at the border is institutional.
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Emoji code points (including the pile of poo) have actually been in Unicode since 6.0, but now they've added colored "emoji style" variants for the characters. Previously the standard only defined black and white "text style" glyphs.
I have not read this article in depth but in general, when are the lawmaker going to see that this patentwar stuff profits only bureaucracy and lawers? Its time to threw out this system or at least fundamentally rework it.
It's called suppression, and to fully understand who, why, what and how, I suggest to read the following lengthy article series: http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1023-financia...

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The author is an optimist, he says the tyranny and suppression will soon end.
That is incredibly interesting. Thank you.
I think the quickest way of learning it is to make something dependent on it. With newbie Linux installs, something is going to break on you, and you have to fix it. Whether that's flash player, a dependency hell, or messing up a critical config, something is going to go awry before you can do your normal work. Yes it takes longer, but you're learning.

In the year prior to really learning Linux I had tried to install Linux in a VM, dual boot, etc. It just didn't work out because I didn't have anything to "do" in it. It could be different that you're a software engineer, but while my friends were scripting the automatic download of their torrents or piping their TV tuner through a windows VM to feed it back into mplayer, I didn't have a use case. So find your use case and force yourself to context switch OS's. I did it when my job switched me from primary Windows admin to secondary *NIX admin
Very good work! I love the simplicity and the provided templates.

I would enhance the UI and maybe add inline code editing for blocks in the next version.

Good luck.
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> Is it just me or did anyone else feel he was talking about Go?

That's really just you:

* Go does not ship with a set collection, no literal or convenient syntax

* Go only ships with with doubly linked lists and no literal or convenient syntax

* Go's literal syntax for the Array and Map builtins is significantly less convenient than that of most other languages (including but not limited to statically typed ones)

* Go is not homoiconic

* Go does not have an extensible syntax

* Go does not have math-oriented numeric types (quite the opposite), neither does it have precision errors (I am not even sure it can meaningfully interact with IEEE-754 error flags)

* Go does not have units (as far as I can tell)

* Go does not have pattern-matching, let alone unification (could have made error reporting good, can't have that)

* Go does not have aspects

* Go does not (as far as I can tell) have any special support for writing parsers

* Go has very little support for immutability

* Go does not have an explicit model of time

* I don't think I've seen any built-in structure serializer and deserializer (equivalent to Lisp readers and writers) in Go

> (No seriously, he described Go)

Only if you're completely delusional, skipped about 60% of his list and gave Go huge leeway on the rest.

Clojure, for instance, is a far better match on this.
Can you imagine a post like this on HN two or three years ago?
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I don't really care about your downvotes. I expect reasonable comments, which you obviously don't have.
Is there a particular reason they refer to themselves in 3rd person? Is it a journalistic habit or something to do with syndication etc.?

> Apple’s emailed response to paidContent also indicates that it will be appealing the decision
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The full reference manual shall be very concise, complete and readable.
Even with a language as simple as javascript, the specification is a nightmare.
While it would be nice to have a toggle that enables output of HTML5's new semantic tags, I don't believe that it should be the default. Internet Explorer 6-8 require a JavaScript polyfill to support these tags, which means that for IE users with JS disabled, the layout completely breaks. Here's a blog post from Trevor Davis at Viget that summarizes the argument pretty well: http://www.viget.com/inspire/html5-elements-irresponsible-ch...
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I think they mean as in literal cash on your person vs. access to cash or lines of credit to sustain your living condition.