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You definitely can but its going to be harder to be honest...

72k is going to essentially be 50k after taxes.

Housing will likely be between 1-2k per month. 1k Id say really is pretty close to the minimum currently (unfortunately) and would probably involve sharing an apartment. So if housing is 15-20k per year you've got 30-35k left for everything else which is 2-3k/mo for everything from insurance to 401k to food to electricity and all those things are somewhat more expensive as well and it goes pretty fast. You definitely are far from struggling but most likely wont be a able to be a power saver.

In my experience the costs were not worth it but many people stay for the job opportunities. For me making a good salary but not being able to save a lot seemed like being on an endless treadmill. The hope is that you get some stock options that materialize but it can be a tough place to optimize savings on salary alone. There are always lots of exciting work opportunities to pick from though.
Clever title. I will write a note to myself that if I am ever offered ~$6 billion for a startup I create, that I will happily take the offer.
That "in practice" makes it sound like macros are so hard to understand that they're not worth using in real applications, which is definitely not true. Between the facts that (a) one uses them in deliberately restricted ways, (b) one gets increasingly familiar with them, and (c) they are are, token for token, way more powerful than ordinary code, macros end up being used a lot.
This is something that every non-technical manager needs to read.
That is precisely how the Common Law system works.
That's a shame for you, I just patented the method for patenting patents and it seems you're in violation.
From The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Adams and Lloyd:

Scraptoft, noun: The absurd flap of hair a vain and balding man grows long
above one ear to comb it to the other ear.

Just so you can comment on this patent with the right vocabulary.
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"[14 yr old Rubin] was recently hired to develop a new website for the American Journal of Psychiatry (in part because it’s edited by his uncle)."

That doesn’t sound like a good idea...
Mannnn, back when I was a law student I had similarly deep and profound notions about how Lawyers Just Didn't Get It.

Turns out, good lawyers are kinda smart. Like doctors, obnoxiously so.

In Common Law jurisdictions, the law is an evolved complex system.

It is complicated because the problem domain -- everything humans do -- is sorta kinda complex, guys.

Don't think of law as a fixed entity, which "is an ass".

Think of law as a discovery process.
is this still a big deal today?
unlike a few years ago, computers are easily accessible today, information and lessons on the internet are waiting to be discovered... I simply don't think age matters at all in this field..
I know your comment was facetious, but having completed law school and being a lawyer are not the same thing.

If the barista at Starbucks tried to give you legal advice they would likely be breaking the law themselves.
I disagree with the first paragraph; isn't it more difficult now than it was a couple of years ago to get a successful iOS app store hit? with the huge amount of competition and number of quality free game downloads now.
And where do the fall off cogs go ? Where are the places where people who care get a job ?
I am finding it really difficult to understand what this tool is or does from the hand-wavy description in the article.

The part where it turns out "replace email" actually seems to be "replace usage of email for an apparently narrow document-editing task" is some good old-fashioned link baiting.

Anyhow, I'll bite.

What does this tool do that SharePoint doesn't? Or other email-integrating document management tools such as (shudder) TRIM?
(I am strongly pro legalisation of cannabis. I think prohibition has caused a lot of harm. I do not take cannabis, and have only ever used it a few times when I was much much younger.)

Some people who want to keep cannabis illegal claim they are reducing harm - reducing harm to users, to those users' families, and to wider society.

I think there might be causal links between cannabis and mental health problems. And there are a bunch of self-medication and masking problems too. But even though I believe this I cannot understand how people do not see the much worse harm that prohibition causes.

In England there is a problem with criminal gangs using trafficked workers, keeping those people imprisoned in houses which are then turned into cannabis farms. If Bob wants to use cannabis it is more sensible for him to buy it from a criminal gang than to grow a few small plants purely for personal use because the crime he commits by growing it is much more serious.

Reading about the situation in Mexico is horrific.

> In Mexico relatively few people take drugs. But many are murdered as a result of the export business. About 60,000 have been killed by organised crime during the past six years.

Sixty thousand? That's a mind-boggling amount. (There's a tv programme in the UK at the moment about road safety, with lots of "how do we reduce road deaths?" About 2,000 people die each year in RTAs in the UK.)

Even stupid people should know there's a serious problem when they're told there is a criminal called "the Soupmaker" who dissolves victims in vats of sodium hydroxide.

(http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2010/09/mexicos_...)

> another collaborator of Sinaloa's, Teodoro García, was captured in the coastal city of La Paz. He was accused of ordering his victims to be dissolved in barrels of acid by his henchman, known as “the soup-maker”.
You can drink beers in the street, nightclubs and bars don't have a closing time, policemen are not armed, there is no law about where you can or cannot smoke, it's ridiculously easy to get a visa and stay in China as long as you want. You will never ever get a fine in China for a civil offense (not wearing a seatbelt, spitting on the floor, peeing in public, crossing the street on a red light, etc.). At worse, you are going to get a friendly warning. Traffic policemen are not allowed to chase speeding cars. They will rely on license plates and CCTV cameras instead.

China is surprisingly more free than many western countries as long as you don't step into political territory. Being a foreigner also helps a lot. Some people might argue that those freedoms seem anodin compared to freedom of speech or political freedom but in many ways, those things have a bigger impact on your everyday life than the latter freedoms. If you're libertarian leaning like me, you'll probably like China.
You might have heard the "Bootleggers and Baptists" phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

Because of the massive profitability of illegal goods, there's a strong incentive to prevent them becoming legal again.

The weird mutually-fractal nature of states and organised crime is discussed very well here -- http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2012/11/08/coercive-competition/ -- where I picked up the Bootlegger and Baptist reference.
Indeed. That's the exact point I was trying to convey!
Ironic that Mitt Romney ran the Salt Lake City Olympic committee in light of this.

Also, the Ars article seemed to imply they wanted to keep how it worked a secret, so big testing like this would have tipped Obama what they were doing.
Hopefully, they find each other and go off and do something amazing. That's the best possible outcome from starting something new, right?
Thanks; I was thrown by the title.
Do I know you? I'd email but you don't have one listed in your profile, please consider adding one!
>But to keep someone off the Internet for six years — that one term seems unduly harsh.

Bullshit. With that kind of crime spree he's lucky they didn't charge him as an adult. He could have ended up in federal prison until late middle age.
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What is the best blogging platform to use for a tech-related personal blog?
This will NOT replace email, especially in the corporate world. You only need to spend a week at a relatively large corporation to clearly see why.

Look at what we have now - basecamp, all kinds of free instant chats, group video chats, all kinds of organizational SaS, etc etc etc. Yet we still have ridiculously long email chains that often branch off and start to have a life of their own.

Why? Because

1) Everyone knows how to use email. Most employees don't want yet another way to communicate.

2) Your average office employee is pretty... average. And roughly half of the employees are dumber than that.

3) Training is expensive. One quick demo on a projector will not train your employees to use some new software. It's like half-life, 50% will learn after a month, 75% will learn after another month, etc.

4) You will always have employees who don't get this new software, many will probably not give a shit about learning a new tech, while they have a perfectly working way of sending a message. They will realize that when they change jobs, chances are, they won't be using this new software. But email will be there.

5) It is similar to the craigslist syndrome - it's awful, but everyone uses it, because... everyone uses it.
Fortunatey, it's not the president's job to "manage a nation."

As a side note, an almost do-nothing president would be the best kind. (And, as a side note to the side note, that was what was intended when the office was created.)
it turns out "replace email" actually seems to be "replace
usage of email for an apparently narrow document-editing
task" is some good old-fashioned link baiting.

From what I understand of the description the idea is that it becomes a management layer on top of email for submissions (hence submittable) that need some collaborative management. Similar to how google docs forms work, but instead of the results ending up in a spreadsheet they end up in the collaborative document editing system.

After looking at their website the use cases seem clear, the Pandodaily article does seem to lack a simple explanation: http://submittable.com/
Ask HN: gifting suggestions using datamining and machine learning
Hi fellow hackers,

I received the worst birthday present this year, so I decided I will make an app that will help people choose gifts, it does this by crawling your friends social stream, then using datamining and some machine learning alhorithms will offer some gifting suggestions.

Recently I found out that facebook is planning to launch gifing pretty soon, I can't find many details related to this, do you think it makes sens to push my app any further?

Regards,
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That's true! I met Microsoft last year at the start of a large project for a client, and we were asking them to recommend a CMS to run in a .NET environment. They DID suggest Sharepoint. I laughed at them - "you are joking" I said. But they insisted, and we had to add Sharepoint to the shortlist of recommended CMS's just so that the client thought we considered everything their Microsoft salespeople were saying. But it was always a joke at that point.
I'm from Mexico, and I can tell you what is happening here is worrisome. The death toll during Calderon's presidency is way over the roof. He declared war to the cartel's like no one had ever dared to do. This caused a big uproar because know there's a real problem with trying to keep your safe route of drugs.

I'm also pro legislation (have never consumed anything) and the only thing that worries me more than what is happening right now is that maybe, with legislation, cartel's are going to jump to the next profitable illegal activity they can find (kidnapping, extorsion, whatever). I've lived in the same city all my life, and for the last 2 years, for the first time ever, I don't feel safe anymore. When I see soldiers driving around town with their hummer-esque vehicles, I can't find tranquility.

Reading this article gives me some peace, but I can't find any real assurance that this will stop any soon.
Yes, the website is definitely better at getting the gist across -- a document management tool with email integration.

There's definitely a market here, as the zillions of DMS vendors have demonstrated.

I guess I'm a curmudgeon who feels annoyed when people pass off as REVOLUTIONARY HYPERNEW AMAZING ZING BOOM CRASH things that, upon closer inspection, turn out to be nice implementations of a known genre.

(I hasten to add that the blame, if any, seems to rest with the journalist, not the Submittable team).
Sounds like Google Docs?
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Flat text files.
Space leaks are a big problem in Haskell that many neophytes and experts alike get massively caught up in—laziness is a double-edged sword.
From what I can see this product wouldn't be replacing email for a single person. Only possibly for narrow use cases of email where you are accepting and managing submissions of some sort.

Also I would assume that the product also uses email, or does the person submitting go through a web app for the whole process.

I think this is purely a case of a link bait title and an article that does a poor job of explaining what the product actually does. Which isn't ideal as the method your startup first gets exposed to a wider audience (first time I have seen it anyway).
Duly noted. It stinks, both of them. The patent system has been broken for a long time now.
I actually heard that regular policemen in China couldn't recognize the smell of marijuana.
(I hasten to add that the blame, if any, seems to rest
with the journalist, not the Submittable team).

I went back and read the article again and it really is quite questionable how the company is presented. The author seems to have tried to spin some sort of "email is terrible" narrative and got lost along the way.

I think the author should have tried to explain how Submittable would provide value to a company like Pandodaily and that would have been better at putting across the value. For example Pandodaily has a "tips" email which would be the perfect use case for the editorial portion of Submittable, yet that is unmentioned and instead the author tries to explain what seems to be a summary of watching someone use the site for 10 minutes.

They also do not seem to have mentioned any of the other specific types that Submittable cater to, which includes resumes, audio / film submissions and grant applications, all of which have their own systems to enable proper management.

Hopefully Submittable will be covered again by someone else and properly so they have a fair shot at being exposed to the masses, because this article is really doing a poor job of even hinting at what Submittable is about.
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That is one of the best implementations of powerset I've seen in a while. Thank you for that!
A benefit of legalization is that it allows the justice system to be used. When pot is illegal then the resolution to problems is violence. How do you report tampered product, broken contracts (of the business kind), theft etc?
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This title is pure genius! Enough said.
I think http://www.giftivo.com/ is doing pretty much what you're describing.
Thanks ! Glad a lot of people liked the title !
I would have thought that the weed for the pacific northwest would come from BC.
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I hear a lot of talk about how hard it is to maintain sql schemas and columns. I've used mongodb on projects previously and while it was interesting I didn't find that the lack of schema made life any easier. Writing a migration in rails is so easy, I just can't understand how managing a schema really makes life more difficult. What is it about managing a schema that makes people so eager to jump to schema-less?
Yes. For his security clearance he was required to self-report any adverse information, which includes an affair. The FBI uncovered the affair, so he probably did not self-report. That the FBI discovered it probably made the situation even worse.
> Imagine if when Microsoft was designing Windows 7 they said "well, no one is using IPv6 right now so we won't include any support."

That's not a fair comparison. IPv6 is required so our internet doesn't crumble around us, LTE is just getting cat pictures to your eyeballs quicker.
Is that a wise tag to lead with? Even if it were better articulated or better designed?
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Why jump to something else that's illegal?

I would suspect with legalization the cartels would have an advantage as a legal drug seller since they already have the distribution network and systems in place.

There would also be less need for violence with the ability to take people to court for breaking contractual deals.
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(Possibly naive question) Is that considered strictly elective control? I mean, I suppose I can assume I will always have access to sugar water so I'm electing to trick my body.
their homepage doesn't even mention email. talk about a linkbait title
I touch type at 125+ wpm using QWERTY. Don't see any reason to switch at this point.
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I've used Groupon many times to get deals. I know the majority of the costs are in acquiring new merchants and that's probably why they're hurting so bad. Why hasn't someone setup a site that allows merchants to do deals without the need for a huge sales team? If merchants can login and just do a deal, wouldn't that take away a lot of Groupon overhead is spent on?
What I like about HN is the simplicity and quality of content it has offered since so many years. I heard about HN only about a year ago and have been regularly reading it. The insights and inspiration it offers to newcomers is simply awesome.

The homepage looks just as it looked 5 years ago. That is something worth applauding. It just proves quality and simplicity always win in the longterm.
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Ask HN - Virtual dev envs for different technologies
Hi,

I'm bit of a freelancing polyglot. I'm not an expert in multiple languages, but I know enough to execute projects.

So I've ended up with active projects in Python, Java and Scala. Then I have my own personal projects in Scala and Node.

The dev setup I'm using is VirtualBox VMs for each project. I've been able to get this working entirely through the command line (VBoxHeadless + VBoxManage + ssh) but I feel I'm still doing too much.

I like how 'light' virtualenv is for sandboxing multiple python projects. Is there a way to optimize my setup?

- Sri
You asked how a criminal organization would do it; so this gets a little dark:

- Go to both main cities where marijuana is legalized and make up fake scenes where marijuana seems to be responsible for some tragedy (like multiple fatal car accidents where there is marijuana all over the car). People love sensationalism and controversies.

- Another way is so to lobby for all the politicians who strongly oppose legalization (using a legal company as facade of course)

- Another way is to kill political leaders that are in favor of legalization and make it look like unrelated accidents/crimes (otherwise the movement gets sympathy by the victimization of the cause).

Their weak point is that they are not as organized as one may think; and their savageness sometimes lead them to do stupid things (like kidnapping hackers to steal credit cards); most of them are probably not tech savy so there may be many ways to intercept their communications.
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I can't stop laughing at that great title. Seriously.
"Why jump to something else that's illegal?"

Because it's the prohibition that causes the absurd profit margins they are accustomed to. It's unlikely that they would accept an average profiting legal product rather than go after the next absurdly profitable illegal product. Also, their entire business is based around providing a prohibited product. They wouldn't likely be keen to completely change business models.
Replacing XML with YAML will make it much more clear and much more shorter.

Concept of bindings (of symbols to values) and lexical scope (frames of the environment) must be described.

DSLs must be introduced to show how a list structure and uniform function application syntax glue everything together.

The much better advice - read SICP for Christ's sake.) People who wrote it spend much more time thinking what ideas to illustrate, in which order and why.

Then watch the Lectures, to feel the bliss.)

The true piece of mind comes after you finish reading On Lisp and then the contents of arc3.tar

Before that it is still just as being blinded and puzzled by a sudden flash of premature enlightenment.)
I grew up in India and totally agree. Sure, playing with friends is what made it fun. But it was always better to play with durable toys. Nothing kills fun faster than a torn rubber ball during a game of cricket.
A lot of people give unwarranted applause to young developers. So it's pretty easy for it to go their heads. I definitely agree that doing something at a younger age doesn't really mean that it's "better".
What would happen if a law was passed banning smoking in a particular area? Would ordinary Chinese be able to object to it, would they be able to petition the legislature that passed the law without fear of reprisal? What if your kid's school adopted something in the curriculum that you found objectionable - could you complain without fear? I am not being snarky, I really am curious about how bright the line is between the political forbidden territory and uncontroversial.
Isn't gargling sugar still consuming sugar? Digestion of simple carbohydrates begins in the mouth with saliva.
No it's a fantastic idea, he's a child prodigy after all. Eagerness and being related to the editor are entirely more important than professional quality anyway.
And that makes the objection invalid?
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"can we hit the reset button on this please?" I like this expression
I had an idea of Reddit style local deals.

Merchant submits deal to their local section, when people buy the deal it would rise in the section.
No, you won't make partner. Nobody does anymore. It's more risky to go to law school with hopes of being partner than to join a startup.

You should factor in quality of life, predictability of work hours and number of them, hourly billing requirements, quality of people you will work with (shitty), job security (shitty), and debt ($240k+ at high interest rates!).

IP is hot right now, but it might not be in a few years, and demand for your technical background may wane. Software patents are shaky anyways.

Don't ruin your life. If you absolutely want something else, why not try a top MBA? Technical expertise may help you.

I'm a newly minted lawyer who wishes he went the programming (or maybe IT) route.
required each of 30 programmers to write only their code and never see anyone's else's (because the managers thought they would steal the code) - priceless! Thank you for this.)

Over-confident idiots (especially at management positions) is the must common cause of failure.