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North Dakota may have problems housing the itinerant Nevadans once they arrive, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/us/21ndakota.html

It seems likely that people will move / have moved interstate to take advantage of the job availabilities in ND, but it's not clear from the article why we'd expect unskilled youth to take on this mild inconvenience, as opposed to any other demographic group.

Census data does indicate that interstate migration rates are falling generally (albeit gradually), but isn't that to be expected? I hear this new fangled "Internet" means that the telecommuting cybernautic generation can work from their oxygen-controlled humidicribs, thus saving the burden of investment in loathsome, expensive transport infrastructure.
I enjoy the Georgify theme by Tuhin Kumar. It's a highly legible theme and is available as a userstyle or Chrome extension. http://tuhinkumar.com/portfolio/georgify-for-hacker-news/
I have encountered a few (too few) companies who recognize the equivalence of languages, and recognize that moving from, say, Python to Java isn't very difficult and isn't nearly the same gulf as trying to move from C to Java.

That said, the proliferation of language/framework-of-the-week projects is a serious drag on the industry. Its too easy right now to roll your own framework/JVM language/interpreter. The temptation is too great to manufacture a framework/JVM language/interpreter to solve your sort-of unique problem instead of adapting an existing one to your needs through modifications or extensions. In addition to clouding the buzzword pool, it hurts the position of existing languages because the energy that could have gone into improving language/framework X now goes into developing Y based on X instead.
The thing that bothers me about web development is that in order to get all that glitz and glam, you end up writing an application that practically mirrors a native application. At that stage, what have you really gained? A relatively slow and limited VM, often lesser development tools, but a really great distribution model.

I am constantly impressed by the boundaries people are pushing with the browser. Just the other day I read about someone releasing a cell phone tethering application that runs in the browser. That is amazing, but also ridiculous, in my mind, that it is useful beyond anything more than an academic exercise.

The web browser should be another network application, not the platform for network applications. I feel we could do so much better.
Evidentially there is time to be had if you quit reading your email. I really enjoyed the talk. Thanks for coming out
No. Shell scripts have the same problem where you're not separating options from filenames and you're often not preventing a single user-supplied argument from expanding into multiple final arguments.

The list-form shell commands referenced earlier are closer, but still don't separate filenames (input) from arguments unless you remember to add "--".

But they do prevent things like pipes, which is a big deal.
I remember Scott McNealy saying he (and presumably his team) underestimated the impact and importance of 32 bit computing and concentrated on 64 bit. That'd be a strategic technical oversight. Maybe they wanted people to go to thin-clients. I suppose the key when you're that big is to work out when you do or can shape trends, and when you can and must follow them. Not sure Jonathan Schwartz corrected course, or by then too late.
Schools - Do nothing. It doesn't have anything to do with them. They need no more participation in it than they need participation in what happens after school between two kids on a playground. The school's role is education, not policing the activities of children off school grounds. At most, they should educate children (reasonably) about the dangers of stuff online. No, I don't mean scaring them about predators, but informing them that (unfortunately) people, jobs and police can and will use what you say online against you. As you say, this isn't their diary.

Parents - They should parent. In the modern times that means educating children about the internet and expected behavior online. Teach your kids about privacy settings. If needed, regulate access to digital devices. I'm sure (most) 13 year olds aren't buying their own cell phones, computers and internet access.

Kids are rough on each other, but they've always been rough on each other. The only difference now is that its a larger audience and more to interact with.

Kids need to know that they can simply 'opt out' if they want to and stuff gets too socially complex. They don't need to have a Facebook profile that's 100% public to every other kid in school. They could have a very locked and and private profile, or no profile at all.
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I can. Have you ever worked in a startup with 30 other guys in a balmy office space in the summer?

Will this hire go in front of clients or investors?

Believe me, it matters. However, I said that with a twinkle in my eye. I regret there is no <joke> or <sarcasm> tag
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Mark Zuckerberg's version of MySpace. :)
I think this assumes that there is no concerted effort by a group of people to be arrested. If a group of people had this mission in mind and committed a crime to become incarcerated in an already overwhelmed part of the US, wouldn't that be enough to start?

I think the issue is that the word defendant carries a connotation of guilty. Even reading some of the comments on the article, people are saying that people should feel lucky to get a plea deal. Its baffling to me how it can be seen as acceptable to threaten life in prison to get someone to take a guilty plea with probation. As an innocent person I don't think I could risk it with my family hanging on the balance.
In Loco Parentis has never really made sense to me. Not when I was younger, and not now. As everyone knows, different people will act differently as parents. Were I a parent, I don't want someone else making decisions that I should be making or acting in my place unless I specifically know and trust their system of values.
I really like it, and I also reported this issue:

https://github.com/Primigenus/Cleaner-Hacker-News/issues/1

That's the only problem for me, good job!
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Please cite some references on it being a memory hog, and in relation to what?

Using C++ makes the assumption that the developer can manage memory a lot better than the JVM. Especially when said developer(s) are developing high level business or web applications for example. And do you really expect developers to spend time writing code that manages memory as opposed to shipping functionality.

I don't know if you have used Java, although I get the impression that you've written C++ programs. You shouldn't be so hasty in pinning your colours to the mast so aggressively over a language. As many people on HN have pointed out it's not the language, but what you do with it that counts.
This is an interesting idea. It's hard to say how probable it is, because that requires certain tipping point actions to occur like we saw in the Arab Spring to get a mass movement going.

The reality is though that our current system is based on the compliance of the people within the system. When you find a pressure point in the system like this, it's very possible that something will come along and really start to push on it.

Maybe the most realistic way to increase capacity if they did this would be to more efficiently process things going to trial and those who deal. From an efficiency point of view there are many things that could be done to make this process happen much faster, the question is whether or not the Justice System would go for it.

Little's Law shows the overall behavior of a System:
I = RT

Where inventory is equal to the arrival rate x time in the system. If the Arrival Rate suddenly doubles, inventory or time in the system must go up, often in non-linear ways. The question is always probability, but if the arrival rate went up, it would certainly shock the system. Whether or not it would crash it is a different question that is much harder to predict, it all depends on the scale and suddenness of the system shock.
Impressive, many thanks - I was reading up on how to use visitResponseHeaders but you saved me a bunch of time.

Is that you in the top three Google Code-in 2011 Grand Prize Winners? I guess we can look forward to great things from you over the years.
Your quoting of "$0" does not protect it from the shell. An attacker need only provide an input such as: /tmp"; rm -rf /; "

Not true.

$ sh -c 'ls "$0"' '/tmp"; rm -rf /; "'
ls: cannot access /tmp"; rm -rf /; ": No such file or directory

If you were right, there would be no reasonable way to write shell scripts.
MY understanding of the issue confirms that you would basically need a js implementation of ntp in order for any of this to work.

That's why I laughed when Time.is tried to tell me that my clock was off by 1.8 seconds. Barring the sentence above, it just has no way of determining that.
I have not had much luck with this kind of strategy in the past, although I did successfully quit reddit by editing my hosts file.
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In small startups it's white, Indian and Asian. There are occasional women but less frequently as programmers. Women are more common as designers and sometimes sysadmins, though.

Bigger companies don't look like this. They look more like big companies all over.
Good old Forbes, providing a forum for their preferred business configurations. The author bases the entire article on a strawman of "CEOs," but monolithic stereotypes help no one.
In my latest contract, I negotiated in a kinda-piecemeal way. I was going to be hired by this big company, and got a fairly shitty contract: they never worked with contractors and got a contract from their parent company. It had unpassable clauses geared towards fucking me over, such as a clause that disabled you from handing over debts to collection agencies. The whole thing had in total about 20 problems I needed to address. I first negotiated the rate. Next, I wrote the CEO with the 16 least important problems. Once he parsed that and agreed to everything (because they weren't things important for him anyways) I wrote him with the outstanding big problems. He admitted to that all, after some argumentation. Finally, one issue was outstanding. I pressed on and he wrote the following to the middle manager: He beat me to a pulp, just agree to everything he wants. Finally, after the contract was signed, I made sure to remind the guys of some things that are implied by the local law that they would have to honor in the end. Doing things this way saved me a lot of trouble and won me a big fat wallet.
Time is a surprisingly difficult subject to get right.
Many people are trying hard to do this now. It's a tough problem.
Ask HN: Review my idea - Hosting SEO
Background: This idea was borne out of an internal tool I created to figure out and validate SEO strategies for websites I own. I figure since it works for me, I could try and sell this to a different industry/niche - in this case 'hosting'. This tool currently does not have an UI - I run sql queries directly on the mysql server to get my information. I have created a mockup UI to show how I expect it to work.

UI for explaining the app functionality - http://axemantech.com/HostingSEO/

Pain point it solves: Currently there are many seo apps that show serp rankings, on page and off page seo stats but seting up the system is generally painful. I dislike having to add keywords for my website, add data for my competitors, etc. This generally happens because these SEO apps are generic.

How to solve this: Since this app focuses on a specific niche, it will already be setup with all the potential keywords for the niche (and will continously add new ones). All the data that the customers (people performing seo for hosting companies) want would already be in the system. A customer would only sign up with his domain(s) and the app would show him his serp rankings, onpage and offpage details about the SEO for his web pages and his competitors.

The reason I chose the 'hosting' industry is because its one of the industries with the costliest adwords cpc - which means that a small change in ranking could be potentially very large savings for the companies. I am however open to other niches (especially ones that are not saturated)

I have been a technical guy for 10 years and find it quite hard to change my mindset to that of a business guy. All my questions are related to the business side.

My questions:

1. Does this sound like a good idea?

2. How else can I add value by specializing for a niche industry?

3. How would one figure out the best industry for this?

4. How would one figure out the market size for a specific industry?

5. What's the best way to get the initial users to help build this? I was thinking of contacting people who work at hosting companies via LinkedIn and try to sell to them directly.

Thank you so much for your time HN. You rock.

Akash
Clickable - UI - http://axemantech.com/HostingSEO/
I'd like to ask you guys what's the biggest value in Pycon,Djangocon,Rubycon and other tech conferences in your opinion and how to make the most out of it?

Obviously,it's not that much the talks,as you can watch them online and regardless that it feels better live,the value is quite similar.
The answer to your question is GPS devices. They're supposed to take into account (most of) what you mentioned, and even though consumer GPS devices are fairly cheap and not up to industrial or even military GPS, time is one thing they do right. In fact, for several projects that needed a reliable time source instead of using the (as you noticed) poorly implemented atomic clock radio frequencies, we would just buy GPS chips to just extract the time signal.

<removed NTP stuff>

I simply don't have any clocks that aren't part of electronic devices, my wristwatch being the exception (but it's analog (Roman numerals, even :P) and only has second accuracy anyway, so I don't fuss about it).

Simply put, all my devices take care of all this for me. My MacBook and Windows 7 work desktop are both configured to sync to the Apple NTP servers (lowest ping for me, AND they're always up. Microsoft's are down a good 10% of the time in my experience). My cell phone gets its signal from God knows where (iPhone 4S - it could technically be using one of 4 different sources) but is always more or less in sync with the rest (I just checked with time.is for what little that is worth, however, and while my MacBook says that my time is within the margin of error "The difference from Time.is was -0.007 seconds (±0.018 seconds).", my iPhone returns "Your clock is 0.5 seconds slow" - but I would trust my iPhone's NTP implementation over time.is' response as its the same OS X NTP that got it "right" on my MacBook) as it can theoretically use a) GPS b) GSM/CDMA towers c) NTP d) time from PC sync.

All my other electronic devices fall in the same category. Garmin nüvi (GPS), Kindle (NTP, auto configured), Cisco IP Phone (NTP, manually configured), Brother printer (NTP, manually configured). I purposely do not set my microwave clock because a) I'll never get it right, and b) any time the power cuts, it resets and in 2012 they're still too stupid to add a 5 cent battery to keep the time in case of power outage.
According to the description, the app directs the bluray player to go to the scenes you are looking at and it has to be over wifi. I'm quite curious about this (not sure if I'm curious enough to buy the BD when I already own the DVD, though).
Didn't know about “hero shot”—now I see where "hero-unit" class in Twitter bootstrap CSS comes from. =)

Overall, although some points may look obvious, the advice is very well-written and structured, and I think is worth a lot. Looking forward to future posts.
Looks slick. I wish I knew enough HTML/CSS to hack this.
Here's a glimpse at a root of the problem:

> Such chaos would force mass incarceration to the top of the agenda for politicians and policy makers, leaving them only two viable options: sharply scale back the number of criminal cases filed (for drug possession, for example) or amend the Constitution (or eviscerate it by judicial “emergency” fiat).

"eviscerate" it? That surely couldn't happen - courts are bound to reasonable jurisprudence. So clearly we'll either end up directly fixing the problem, or we'll have to modify the constitution, which is serious business, and would clearly have to be done right.

Except we already know what will happen:

> The Supreme Court ruled that threatening someone with life imprisonment for a minor crime in an effort to induce him to forfeit a jury trial did not violate his Sixth Amendment right to trial. Thirteen years later, in Harmelin v. Michigan, the court ruled that life imprisonment for a first-time drug offense did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Two unquestionably wrong decisions for the purpose of expedience - what's a third? Of course courts grant themselves ever-more power! But NYT spins it as if this system were actually accountable to the poor soles [sic] caught up in it, perpetuating the false hope that it's possible to swing for the fences and change the government from within its rules.
The conversion is optimized out by gcc-4.6 at all positive optimization levels, the addition is optimized at -O2 and above. But the slowness is caused by the algorithms being different, with one producing denormals while the other stays reasonable.
The problem is that the instincts that humans possess today, (ie, maximizing short-term comfort, possibly at the expense of long-term survival) is what got us this far. That cannot suddenly be decoupled and discarded as useless simply because we now live in a remarkably stable environment that enables us to focus on things other than immediate survival.

I suspect that if there were some horrible catastrophe and the human race were suddenly thrown back into an archaic society without any of the technological advancements that we have at our disposal today, it would be those MOST focused on short-term gain who would be most likely to perpetuate their own, and consequently, human existence.
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That's great to know, I guess it is a matter of get over there and deal with the visas afterwards once you get more traction on what direction you are going.

Do you know of any cases where people were accepted into say YC summer, but were able to postpone until winter?
Maybe if you use the dye to write a message...
Kind of disagree, CEO - Should be from more from Sales than Tech/Finance.

As CEO's main job is to get more money, get new partnerships in place, etc.

founders/products architects can be Tech/Finance.
BBC developing iTunes clone to sell television programming
PSA - Do not waste your time by clicking on the link.

There is zero emperical data that suggests Wi-Fi causes illness. The whole article is nothing more than FUD. The site also published an aritcle suggesting that vaccines are useless.
This might have been a good article if there were any data at all to back up any assertion. There are just a couple mildly amusing anecdotes (Bill Gates was technical!) where real data might actually be possible.
Consider this:

x += 0.0;

If x = -0.0 (yes, zero has a sign) then adding 0.0 gives 0.0, so it can have an effect and optimizing it away is wrong and generally only allowed with -ffast-math.
When talking about the Apple killer pg states two things.

1. The next product visionary will have a great example in Jobs and Apple.
2. The next Apple probably won't start with a consumer product, but they might be able to make some consumer thingy like Jawbone does.

Nest creates a great consumer thingy that's relatively cheap and it's run by an ex Apple employee. Tony Fadell might say he's not pursuing Apple's business, but is it unreasonable to think he might when the Apple pirate ship starts sinking?
"Logic rarely prevails" --> That comment reminded me of a piece on incarceration:

http://www.pluggd.in/incarceration-the-extreme-end-of-social...

Isn't it surprising that there are so many ideas floating around to disrupt Hollywood, transform other forms of Governance, disrupt traditional business models but no-one talks about forcing change in law/judiciary itself.

At best, a startup would talk about saving a few hundred dollars in legal fees through some free advice/content on Google. Why is this so?
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I think I will order myself Italy's version of Chow Mein for dinner.
Any screenshots? I'd like to preview before going to the trouble of installing some special browser extension..
NameCheap DNS servers are down
Someone can't handle all those Transfers from Godaddy.

ping DNS1.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM - down

ping DNS2.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM - down

ping DNS3... - down

etc...

Update: their support rep has confirmed the issue and promises a fix within an hour
I like this analysis better! For bonus points, why would this generation be any more risk averse than previous generations?

Managing risk is a learned behaviour, and we've kinda got our recession on... may be they were paying attention. Heck, I couldn't be prouder of these cottonwool wrapped kids. Let's give em a low carb imitation lollypop.
not really that interesting, this is a prisoner's dilema which is well studied. because the globally optimal strategy is unstable, the equilibrium state is to defect. She's given no indication of a clever way to shift this equilibrium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium#Prisoner.27s_d...
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The funny thing is that Turkey (Or at least, Istanbul) has quite a few Starbucks. (And Gloria Jeans, for whatever reason, really took hold there.) But the point is that if you have a Starbucks, you have people who can afford Starbucks.
Sounded like he's about take take a feace
Looks like it worked to the extent of self-destruction.
There is one included in the repo.

https://github.com/Primigenus/Cleaner-Hacker-News/raw/master...
As a student, I can say you're spot on with the first one. A huge challenge, to be sure because applications are scattered across the internet as PDF's, docs and outdated online forms. Still - if you could get even 50% of the legitimate scholarships out there and categorize them in useful ways (undergrad, grad, high school, by interest, etc) - I know I would pay for access to a curated list for me.
I agree with your last line. We have numerous parties that are "caste based". Bigger parties typically have alliance with the smaller "caste based" parties because they can win the votes of people who are of particular caste.

One such example of a party(there are many) is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattali_Makkal_Katchi
[From wikipedia]
>Ramdoss had earlier worked with the Vanniyar Sangham (Vanniyar Union) founded by him in 1980. PMK is based amongst the Most Backward Class Vanniyakula Kshatriyas community.

Vanniyar is a caste in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu
Great article. Does it say anything about the crowd that hangs out here, that this article did not get upvoted enough to make to the front page?
Along these lines, a thought has occurred to me during the whole SOPA/PIPA debate: what if everyone that opposed the bill and has ever shared and/or linked to any copyrighted material went on and confessed the crime, refused to pay any fines and asked to go to jail?