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Actually, I'm not advocating auditions. I'm also really not a fan of the StackOverflow/GitHub/you-shouldn't-have-a-life-outside-of-coding approach either. But just because that approach is overkill doesn't mean that interviews should be be treated lightly (and I think treating interviews lightly is unavoidable if an employer considers firing to be a routine tool).
I am curious to know what that huge spike in Dec was.
Thanks for the data! Playing with OCR engines lately has gotten me into the habit of wanting to turn static bitmaps into searchable and transformable data. I haven't taken a crack at graphs yet but it looks like things like http://plotdigitizer.sourceforge.net/ might be up for it.
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Energy is certainly not being generated. The energy of the light output will be equal to the heat absorbed plus the electric energy input.

If you want to think of it in terms of temperatures, I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I think in a sense empty space has a temperature associated with it based on the radiation that is present (similarly to how black body radiation is a function of temperature).
These graphs look like matplotlib charts. I'm assuming pg just dumped the numbers and wrote a 5 line python script to make the chart.
Thanks for clarifying. Defensive instincts engage when one's pet project fades from the spotlight on its own stage. You're right about Pandoc fulfilling my quoted aspect of Unix philosophy; I realized it later but was too proud to admit it. :)
My original response was to the effect that the output should be high quality so that data is preserved if sampled.

Digital is the future. Hence it behooves us to have the maximal input & output possible at this time. Unfortunately, this is not common now and the price paid is that content created during this period will be stuck at the same quality level.
Would be cool to see this graph with a column chart.
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This just strikes me as a wee bit racist.
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The popularity of mobile devices for browsing (or tethering) means that for the first time in the Web's history the amount of available CPU and bandwidth has been going down, not up, for a huge chunk of users.
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I'd rather say it's far less than that. Remember that single reader can access hn via multiple devices and access points, so unique IP count doesn't really feel representative.
I posit that some of it is just people lying. I had someone send in a huge perl script he claimed to be his own work yet failed that variable swapping test. Basically our setup was HR gets a bunch of resumes and scans for minimum requirements (degree, prior experience) then we get them. You get really good looking resumes that you need to prove somehow. That's where that basic litmus test comes in.

Things like Github improve this a bit although I'm not even a huge user of public github repos (something I'm working on fixing since I realize my online profile is a bit sparse at the moment). I don't it's perfect either as a lot of very good candidates don't have time or are shy to show they work in public. Heck I love working on my professional project in my spare time and can't show that code publicly most of the time.
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Regardless of what they were trying to do, the founding fathers created a democratic system -- who is "we the people", if not literally the "demos" ?

Are laws not written in an assembly by majority vote?

Are you not electing representatives by majority vote?

And this has always been the case in the US system.

See my other post here about the different types of majority and how they can represent different things and/or failing at representing the will of the demos. The fact that the founding fathers were trying to avoid the worst elements of democracy doesn't mean they didn't want a democracy at all; if that was the case, they'd have just nominated a new King and be done with it. No, they were establishing a government by "we the people", which is the exact definition of a democracy. Whether or not they misused the term to indicate the "tyranny of majority", which is a separate concept, does not mean that we should keep misusing it in modern scientific and political debate.
Looking at the graphs, HN really isn't a weekend platform.
You do realise it's 1.5 million on the Y axis!?
I would love to start using this now on a new project. Is there any idea yet of pricing / paid features? I'm hesitant to spend time on a new API only to find out in a couple of months it's outside of our budget.
And HN just published their stats showing that your "fact" is complete BS.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3669947
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Depends on which cloud you're talking about -- there is no "the" cloud.

But since you're talking primarily about web app hosting options, I've found AWS to be just fine, others seem to like rackspace or linode or whatever. Heroku has struck me as pricey, and if you're a web developer I feel like you should be capable of setting up a web server on linux on your own. EC2 and S3 are both just really convenient, I'm not sure of an option that's more convenient, and that's really what I'm looking for--convenience and one less thing to worry about.

So, the cloud (or several clouds, really) is right for my startup, but it may not be right for everyone. Still, EC2, S3, and AWS generally really are great products, if you're a startup, something like it probably is for you, at the very least until you've figured out what you're doing and are making something people are paying for.
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> In the end, I guess maybe the problem for me is that the whole "How to Hire a Programmer" idea itself strikes me as somewhat misguided. A guide to "hiring a <fill_in_the_blank>" is only ever going to filter for cookie-cutter representations of <fill_in_the_blank>, whatever that profession may be.

If your team needs a programmer, and you're looking to hire a programmer, then it doesn't matter how knowledgeable, well-rounded, or otherwise interesting someone is, if they're not actually capable of programming.

I don't think anyone would consider it a failing of the interview process if they were looking for an accountant and their hiring process weeded out the people who couldn't actually do accounting.
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Still sounds like a promising technology, considering the fact that a lot of electronics operate in warm environments such as the inside of a computer. If we could harness a portion of that excess heat and do something useful with it, that would be pretty cool (no pun intended). Think of a mobile device whose screen is partially powered by excess heat from the processor, or a datacenter where some interior lighting is powered by excess heat from the server racks.
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Thinking everything in life can be self-regulated by market forces is madness. What next, should we buy and sell the right to vote? The right to pray? Why not the right of property itself? Or the right to live?
That's page views, not users. ;-)
I'm surprised spez has time for this. Isn't he busy with Hipmunk?
Why the interest in illegal cell-phone jammers?
But ten what is then what us the benefit over just using Postgres there? And tossing a transaction ID sequence number onto your rows?
Good article.

On a tangential note about shoplocket, I feel it is focused entirely on the seller. You can allay some of my fears as a buyer about the guarantees and security I have buying through this. It says risk free, but again for the seller. How can customers trust the seller?
That was my understanding as well. @chives, can you elaborate?
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> $170? That's a damned expensive 1TB HDD.

Google's price includes the electricity to run the disk, any enclosures, network connectivity, whatever CPU is needed to front end it, dealing with any warranty & maintenance issues, backups and backup media and who knows how many other items in addition to the bare metal.

If you want to do an apples to apples price comparison then some of those factors should also be factored in to the NewEgg price!
I'd much rather have Debian than Fedora anyway.
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I keep wondering why Amazon doesn't fix this. The problem isn't so much the baseline performance which isn't stellar but can be designed to, but rather the massive variance in performance that arbitrarily changes moment to moment.
I sincerely hope you realized that my suggestion was entirely facetious.
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Here's a thread with code that reproduces bug: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel/144...
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In order to reliably reproduce the bug, he wrote his own operating system. A small one, but still, an operating system. That's pretty badass..
Lockheed's Skunk Works comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works

Google has its so-called X Lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_X_Lab

Xerox PARC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC

If you want to read a great page-turner history of PARC, check out Michael Hiltzik's book: Dealers of Lightning. One of his conclusions is that the laser printer alone paid for PARC several times over.
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I think this only applies to headphones. People also 'hear' sound with there body (skin). Maybe you could call it experiencing sound.
And then there are resonating sounds that cannot be heard but help to create other sounds. But maybe this won't apply to a recording because your will record the result and not the tones that make the result.

This is a great article but I'm still not convinced people cannot have a sensation of sound out of there hearing range.
Would someone explain should I use 44.1 or 48Khz?
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http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html

So everyone's seen AIDE: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aide.ui

I'd like to found a startup centered on this idea, but in a much more enterprise-oriented fashion. My solution will work nicely, but not ideally on an iPhone or equivalent Android device.
Yeah, if we could cool some place without heating another by more than the amount of heat we cooled this place - it would breake 2nd law of thermodynamics - we could then use difference of temperatures to extract energy and we'll be in the same place, but with more energy. We could then repeat such cycle as many times as we want == infinite free energy.
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The way I read that, 2 out of 20 succeeded rather than failed. This doesn't greatly surprise me. Rockstar salaries have attracted so many idiots and frauds that we have to sift a massive number of candidates to find any that aren't useless. And the only evidence I could accept is someone I know and trust saying they personally saw you get through non-trivial work. Anyone else needs to show me they can solve a toy problem they didn't come in prepared for.
It appears to be working now. I got a notification that the cert had changed since my last visit, so they probably fixed it.
What I want to do is develop an enterprise-oriented IDE that doesn't suck on handhelds. I already took the first step and developed on an iPhone for a month. It sucked and I know how to fix it.

UPDATE: So, I've already got at least one prospective team member. That was fast.
Certainly well designed site, value prop is easily understood although not sure how valuable it actually is (not in industry so...). How big is the screen printing industry?

I imagine the average screen print shop is between 1 and 5 heads. Are their needs significantly different than other creative businesses--an agency, say--of similar size? While there is a lot to be said for narrow scope, I think it's best to keep scope narrow on the product side and wide on the market side (especially at your stage).
I was thinking that might be a possibility as well.

If I made a point to get up from work every hour, could that prevent them? And ultimately, would this be better than a standing desk in any way?

If not, looks like I will be building a standing desk.
One drawback is that it doesn't follow the standard $MANPATH directory structure (man/manX/Y.X where X is the section number and Y is the manual page) but instead uses a single flattened directory (man/Y.X).

I filed an issue about this here:
https://github.com/defunkt/gem-man/issues/8
Most dedicated hosting solutions offer some bandwidth in their pricing and not a trivial amount either. 3TB a month is not uncommon which would cost an extra $350 a month on Amazon. If they want to compete vs dedicated hosts and it seems they are with all these price drops and reserved instances, they should take that into account, because right now they are just way too expensive.
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Probably not for the Asia Pacific Singapore region.

Few months ago, the on demand hourly price for a small instance is 0.085, now it's 0.09.

There's definitely a significant decrease for reserved small instances.

Edit:
Reserved micro instances also went up.
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Searching for it is an impossible task. Someone was showing off a service where foo.something.to/random would display a random image of foo.
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"The alternative would be to make Rails secure by default, but that would mean pretty much nothing would work until you explicitly granted access where necessary."

Given the amount of logging that occurs if you do set whitelist_attributes, it's not like this is a huge problem to fix. And, that logging (and the fact that your app mysteriously doesn't work) serve as a loud signal as to what action to take. On the other hand, the "insecure by default" solution is a silent and potentially catastrophic failure.

Compare to how brake pads squeal: even the least mechanically savvy driver brings their car to a mechanic when their pads are running thin.

Finally, the suggested fix (which, frankly, wouldn't have helped github) was simply to update the default generator to set whitelist_attributes, rather than merely including a comment to the effect. The "everything is broken" list would be introductory guides, full stop. So, novice developers would be held up until the guides could be updated with good security practice. Experienced devs, who supposedly all know about this, wouldn't have any problem on new apps.

And the core team have basically said "meh, too much trouble." Apparently, they haven't been chasing html_safe! calls through their views, which is frankly way more of a pain than attr_accessble'ing data fields.
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No, it was public from the start - the ID's are sequential, so you can go back and see what the first submissions were.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={a rather smallish number}
It takes several seconds? How fast is your computer? I primarily use Twitter's web interface and it never felt slow compared to anything else, but then I run Chrome on a 2010 MBP, so I can imagine it would be slower on older hardware and browsers.
Whoops! Guess I'll read more carefully, then.
We shouldn't submit new entries on week-end or at end december. But this would amplify the oscillations.
Somewhat tangentially related: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18839832580/reddi...

My own numbers from just a few months of sampling

What the heck: here it is on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670178
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I hate these articles. You write an article which claims to tell me why my the cloud isn't right for MY startup, and then conclude " If no one in your team has the experience, or time, to learn devops, then a PaaS solution like Heroku would be a more logical choice."

So really, you're not saying the cloud isn't right for anybody's startup at all. You're stating the obvious, which is "if you have someone with sysadmin skills, use those skills". Well, duh.

As a technical co-founder, I can either spend my time learning all there is to know about being a sysadmin, or I can outsource it for DIRT CHEAP. Even at $1500 a month for something like Heroku, it's still cheaper than spending as little as 10-15 hours of my own time managing a server.

Besides, for the first 6mths of your startup, the actual costs for Heroku are likely to be less than $100 a month for a couple of dynos. It's not even worth the time to read the manual at those rates. A couple of git commands, and you're done...even for a complete novice. By the time you're needing those 24 dynos, you likely have the revenue to support the cost.

You can always make more money, but you can't make more time. As a technical founder of a business, your job isn't to be doing something that you can pay someone else to do. You should be making magic happen in your product.
This phenomenon reminds me very much of the method used to create a Bose–Einstein condensate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensat...)
An exciting posibility would be if a solid state device could be developed to generate BEC, which could lead to super high density optical storage since BEC can trap light.
Only top apps can afford to d that, and then losing much revenue. Anyo ther app is prone to become irrelevant in am atter of months without updates or promotion. And again, what you said applies to any other platform such as PCs, where app prces are fair and the market is not so manipulated.

Why do you fail to see that apple and google control pricing by controlling distribution and discovery of apps?
Slightly off topic, but...

I launched a little web app about a year ago to play around with AWS and to take advantage of a free trial. It has grown organically with absolutely no marketing and even got covered by Lifehacker. It's a filesharing app for groups and is used heavily by the education sector.

My free trial period expired a few months ago and I don't know if I can justify supporting the app. I've put it maybe 10 minutes of work since I launched it a year ago, and have not yet attempted to monetize. Anybody interested in taking this off my hands? Cash or something else? I'm open to ideas.
> How many startups are actually profitable - that is, genuinely creating more cash than they are burning? I think I can count them on one hand.

Surprisingly less true than you might think. I am friends with many founders that are cash flow positive!

Also, I haven't yet seen many of these crazy valuations. I mean, I see a few in TechCrunch every now and then, but the consistency of the valuations I'm seeing seems to be rare compared to others' experiences.
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I'd like to compete with the intent to found a startup. I know how to make this even better, I think.
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Strange, I coincidentally dreamt about pg having posted stats today. I didn't bother to look assuming he would never do that.
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Post has less to do with business and more to do with the lack of business :)
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Wow: 69 whole picowatts of light if the ambient temperature is about 200F. And fundamentals of the physics mean that neither of those figures is likely to change.

If the claim were more spectacular, we'd call this snake oil.
Also, there is the Paul Samuelson parable about the best lawyer in town who is also the best typist, and whether she should do her own typing.
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I'm very interested in this topic too. Aside from functional programming, I think examining how existing systems were designed is another good way to improve. I'm taking a class[1] where we read a bunch of classic papers on systems design, and I think it's been helpful. I just did a bit of googling, and it appears that MIT has a similar course[2] with a free online textbook -- I'm going to check it out later.

(I haven't architected a really large codebase before, so take all this with a grain of salt...)

[1]: http://plasma.cs.umass.edu/emery/grad-systems
[2]: http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-004-principles-of-compute...