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If you're looking specifically for US based quality developers, my startup matchist (http://matchist.com) can help ya out. We have great LAMP developers from all over the US.
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Its entirely unclear to me if it stabilizes or de-stabilizes an area by rendering missile attacks ineffective, but it is clear that this has come a long way from the Patriot batteries in the Gulf War which were not nearly as effective as one would hope.

Having done a bit of coding in my robotics work to have moving robots attempt to intercept other moving robots I came to appreciate how hard the tracking and intercept problem was from an inverse kinematics perspective.
>just because someone invented a broken disincentive late arrivals instead of just being a better manager and telling people to get to work.

Or even better: realize that work getting done is what counts, not the exact time your butt hits your seat.

> Employing that one semi-functional alcoholic destroyed hundreds of person-hours of work, because people were less restrained when they went to the pub at lunch time.

What are you saying here? That hundreds of man hours were destroyed because people became a little more laid back? Do you have any evidence to back up that this is really what happened?

Or do you mean people came in totally trashed and actually destroyed equipment? If that's the case I'd blame the manager(s) for letting that happen more than once.
That seems fairly typical: parents who are convinced they did everything right, and never realize they are emotional train wrecks. So they can blame it all on the children.

Whatever - it is a complex issue, having children is not like buying a new TV. You can not predict all the issues that will arise and the emotions they will evoke. So I guess it would be wrong to propose a simple formula for child rearing, as it wouldn't apply universally to all kids.

But as I said, if you have specific expectations as to what your kids turn out to be, it is probably a recipe for disaster...
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I've got this today:

"Because you've used LinkedIn's GitHub application, we wanted to let you know that we will be closing the application today. You'll still be able to share your code from GitHub on LinkedIn by sharing links via your homepage, or in relevant groups. "
A for in Scala? That's ridiculous!

That's more like this:
http://alan.dipert.org/post/172774481/fizzbuzz-in-scala-and-...
sutterbomb's post is 100% correct. Energy companies are often under strong regulator pressure to reduce consumption or to reduce consumption of specific fuel types (e.g. coal). Compared to wind or solar, a voluntary reduction in use by customers is a much more cost-effective means of meeting such regulations.
Pretty way to get around Tumblr limitations !
>Trust me, you do not want an agile and fast government.

You do not want an agile and fast incompetent government, that's for sure.
I wrote tool that can export classes from pharo/squeak in the syntax that redline expects. My original idea with this was to aid people who want to develop in Pharo and deploy to redline. In order to make that happen, there would have to be a lot more work done.

There have been several discussions about using that tool to export large chunks of pharo and using that as the basis for the redline class library. I personally have tended to resist that (and swayed many people) because it brings along with it a ton of cruft. That said, we all have full time jobs and I'm starting to think that it would be better to start with cruft and remove rather than starting clean and build up. Which side of that I fall on, really varies from day to day. I'm thinking of taking a chunk of pharo and seeing how hard an export of modify would be vs. doing the implementation from scratch.

https://github.com/redline-smalltalk/redline-smalltalk/tree/...
I can't believe the level of elitism and immaturity that this idea represents. Firstly, homeless are not hobos. Second, you want to give homeless jackets of rivals - why? Because you want to laugh at them. How elitist. An MIT project you say?
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I just wish they could scale their production. The Pi is great, but a waiting list of months is just crazy.
The product seems really innovative sex toy for female. I've seen a interview of tenga's founder before. He thought there were much room for innovation of sex toy industry. I was quite impressed that he spent a year to build his first product. I've been impressed again.

http://www.tenga-global.com/
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Crockford called it "Lisp in C's Clothing" and then created this: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/little.html
It would probably be against security laws.
You may be focusing too much on the fact that the example habit the OP talks about has to do with exercising. The point of the post isn't how to become "physically attractive", it's about to build habits by accepting the fact that you will break them from time to time and to not feel guilty about it.
And the ultimate situational irony being that it's built on the JVM, which was built for Java, which was built on all the great ideas of Smalltalk.
Nowadays I prefer to wait until a language is more widely used before I will spend more time on it. The most recent language that caught my eyes is Go. Although I may not agree with some of the trade-offs and design decisions, this language is well-thought of and tries to solve real-world problems.
Love your job. Olark is Hiring a Lead Rails Engineer. (Anywhere, USA)
From my experience, to get the best performance on WiFi you need direct visibility of the point you're trying to reach. The signal weakens very fast and can't get very far if there are walls, buildings or other obstacles between points.

3G/4G/HDSPA/WHATEVER can penetrate easier and use less towers to transmit.

Disclosure: I have no idea of what I'm talking about.
YC doesn't have a target demographic. It has a target company type, described here: http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
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How would it destabilize the area? Hamas and Israel aren't in a missile arms race.
Have you taken a look at https://github.com/leftnode/get-shit-done ? It's basically the same thing. I have been using this one for a while now.
Classifying women as mothers or non-mothers seems correct. What other possible categories are there? Either you are a mother, or you are not (in fact the same classification system could be applied to men, too). Just saying.

Also, really, do non-white women also think of white, straight upper-middle-class women when they think of "the model woman"? That seems very unlikely to me.
Umm...Let us see. Assume I am trying to build a fancy new recommendation system for movies on a completely new media device. Let us assume that for now we have been collecting user data and recommending them random movies. The first thing we do is to go through this data and try to figure out what would be relevant user features. While you are at it, you might find that there are some odd issues with the way data is being collected which is creating statistical biases: Say for example, you only have server time when the user rating of the movie hit your system and not the actual time at which the user rated the movie. So you go back and fix those. Repeat, rinse and redo. Now, you go out and find out that your potential feature set is extremely sparse and high dimensional. So you think about adding other features from the Movie set. Go through those: Hopefully you are not starting the problem from scratch and you already have gone past the data collection and feature extraction problem when it comes to movies. Now, you start thinking algorithmically, nothing too complicated because everything has to be made production ready and adding bugs in machine learning algorithms is extremely easy (See Mahout ;-)). You prototype a few algorithms in Hive or your favorite scripting language and then get some data out for A/B testing. You run your A/B tests and hopefully you have something that looks significantly better than baseline. Now you go through the boring part of making that algorithm production ready: This means thinking in terms of scale: 1) How do I deliver these recommendations on the fly to millions of users who are using my fancy new media device. 2) How do I do this while not stressing out my system. So you write a bunch of code, integrate into your current APIs, run a cron and hope nothing breaks and monitor graphs like a nervous little rabbit.

Then, you repeat this and do all this over next week.

EDIT: Obviously depending on the company and the job, this entire story might completely change etc etc.
We don't now? There's more private gun-toting personnel in the Middle East now than you could easily count.
The critical step is that your idea be good. So much indirect sabotage is committed by people who cling to a bad idea simply because it's theirs.
Unencrypted management packets...

General Security.
Which part of acid is relevant specifically to SQL (joins, I assume you mean)?
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i think you might be referring to this:

http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2010/Talks/Montice...

i haven't really watched monticello 2, but last I remember you're essentially merging packages in and out of your vm.

it really depends on what your goals are, and I guess the old discussion of visual and non visual programming also applies a little bit to the vm, non vm smalltalk discussion.

personally i like to avoid magic whenever i can
Get ready for the YC interviews: make sure you know the partners
Agilent used to do them, but someone else does them now:

(http://www.home.agilent.com/en/pd-1000001383%3Aepsg%3Apro/pr...)

(http://www.symmetricom.com/)
In my opinion, the biggest problem with Smalltalk is documentation (and perhaps rigor). It's the only oral tradition in programming, and you'll never win over a significant chunk of professional programmers with "we have no documentation, just read the source," which has always been the basic state of documentation in the Smalltalk world.

Along those lines I would suggest creating a way to formally differentiate between private and public methods and perhaps formally define interfaces, so that you have more opportunities for implicit documentation. That may be detrimental to the spirit of Smalltalk, but unless the spirit of Smalltalk is willing to accept some concessions you're not going to see much change in the status quo.
I wonder if Google Fibre is one such breach.
It's hard to detect if a terse question is a request for information or a challenge. Back to the subject, Ruby's OO is much closer to Smalltalk's vision. Method dispatching in Java is essentially dereferencing a function pointer (found by traversing a class hierarchy) and adding a hidden argument (self.) In Ruby, you can override an object's method dispatching mechanism to be whatever you want it to be (although the default behavior is very similar to Java's.) This makes it a lot harder to optimize, (your JIT compiler can't simply inline those calls) but it opens all kinds of interesting meta-programming possibilities.
Could Google be attempting to do what Republic Wireless[1] are doing? I always loved the idea of Republic, but they only ever had one (crappy) handset available, and I'm on a $30 a month plan with T-Mobile that largely fills my needs.

But it seems like an area that's ripe for a larger player to come in and do it better- I very much hope that Google intends to be that player. They've been frustrated by the existing players in wireless enough times (Google Voice, Verizon's treatment of the Galaxy Nexus)...

[1] http://www.republicwireless.com/
Most of the cost is in getting the fiber to your door. This cost is huge ($1000-$2000 per household)…

Wait, the monetary barrier to having fiber is only about the same scale as my two year cell phone contract?
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That totally works btw - statistically. If you notice you are being taken for a fool (or your customers notice it) then expect there to be hell to pay.
I suspect OEMs will start bundling something similar with Windows 8 laptops/desktops. Dell has bundled OS X-like docks in the past.
Range, for one. I also imagine that switching networks is considerably more painful- you can switch from cell to cell and not even notice, but switching between wireless networks can take up to 10 seconds, in my experience.
Crazy. I didn't know there was still a backlog on it. I ordered two when it launched and have had both for months and months.
In your inbox. hth :)
Two things are important:

1. Your OS will use free memory as a filesystem cache. Ideally, your index is being served entirely from cache. Usually, your working dataset is maybe 1/3 of the size of the index, so if your index is 6GB on disk, you'll typically want to leave 2-6GB unallocated. iostat is your friend.

2. You need enough heap. More than enough heap hits diminishing returns quickly. I wouldn't trust ES with less than 2GB, and I've never seen it need more than 8GB. GCs will be less frequent with a larger heap (even up to 30GB), but that's really the only benefit. I'd make sure your index fits in RAM before expanding the heap.

More about GC:
http://www.slideshare.net/aszegedi/everything-i-ever-learned...
Robert Morris is a very very very serious guy in his field. I wish I could interview with him to chat a little bit about exokernels!
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I'm not sure why this is Microsoft's fault as opposed to the developer's. Exactly the same kind of techniques have been used for years on desktop applications/games.

(and, y'know, you could pay for stuff that you like using, feed a developer's starving family and continue to get updates and improvements rather than ripping them off)
The article is from 2010...
Pretty smart page :) Whoever did that deserves their YC spot!
Gabe - Is there also a linkedin group for this?
3G/4G access is licensed and regulated so you know there won't be interference.

Nothing stops other people from setting up hotspots that interfere with your hotspot.

3G/4G offers better range and official coverage for moving platforms (cars, trains, etc.) Although the hardware is expensive "carrier grade" stuff, generally this infrastructure has weak points and fails in a disaster. Wi-Fi hardware is mass produced and much cheaper as a result.

Wi-Fi can only cover densely populated areas (airports, coffeeshops, etc.) but if you want to use your tablet when you're driving you should lose your license.

I think smartphones would never have taken off if Apple hadn't strong-armed carriers into offering unlimited data contracts. Metered billing at any price that would be "reasonable" to the carriers would have been way too high for mass adoption.
It is a compiler right now. It is file based like GNU Smalltalk. We are still working out how to bring in image based development (as an option, not a requirement).

We are working on integrating with existing tools but having the resumable exceptions that you get a 'standard' smalltalk environment. The ability to poke and prod the objects, inspect them, change them etc. The basis for it all is there, now it is about exposing it first through existing tools like eclipse and intellij and hopefully, eventually, other tools as well.

This could lead to a rather long conversation for which HN isn't the best platform, feel free to email the mailing list or me directly if you want to discuss more in depth.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/redline-s...

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About young people looking after the old; Here in France it's not an expectation, it's the law.

My grand mother needs to go to a retirement home, her retirement pension doesn't cover the full cost. My mother and I are required by law to cover the rest (at least that part that is not paid for by the public health system).

I'll gladly do it, but who am I to impose that to another person ?
But CC bill had all that before, and before CC bill Ibill had it, and before Ibill DMR had it and so on.

In fact, if there is one Achilles heel in Stripe it is that they don't segregate their merchant accounts. In other words, as far as I understand their set-up, if they lose their merchant account the whole thing goes up in smoke.
I got my notification a week before they billed me for it. Using the same method they use to advertise all their many services monthly (3-4 postcards/month). That's certainly falls in the 'sneaky' category, I think.

If it was important it should have been included in the bill - like virtually every other sane company would do.
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But does that correlation still hold in developed countries? I guess reasons to have more kids in poor countries is that they'll help you with your work and take care of you when you are old. Besides, some of them are going to die prematurely, so you need to create more to have some successes. The cost for having a kid might be low. In developed countries things are pretty much turned on their heads in that respect?
Good luck everyone for the interviews! We've made that for us to prepare but we thought other people will be interested too, so we've quickly made this website (works well on your phone as a full screen app!)
Crossposting my comment from the blog post here, because the Arduino servers are apparently under heavy load, and most people will TLDR the post and just look at the comments here.

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Hi All,

I recently launched a Kickstarter project as well, that ended about a month and a half ago: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/18182218/freesoc-and-fre...

Dimitri, the creator of the smARtDUINO project got in touch with me a few weeks ago to collaborate on creating a smARtBUS adaptor for our platform.

We’ve exchanged over 40 emails since then, and my impression is that he’s an earnest, upstanding man, who really cares a lot about the electronics community and making it easier and less expensive for people to do creative things.

We had a discussion about Kickstarter in particular, and one of the things he mentioned to me in our conversation was that he felt his campaign placed too much emphasis on the “Arduinoness” of the project, and not enough emphasis on the true innovation, which is the smARtBUS interconnect system.

We discussed the perils of successfully marketing a Kickstarter project, and said in retrospect, “If we communicate better the project, I have no idea were we can be now that it should be clear this is not just another Arduino.” (this was about a week ago, near the end of his campaign.)

I think if you can honestly blame him for anything, it’s not effectively conveying the message of the product in an concise way. If his workers were indeed manufacturing Arduino in Italy, there’s nothing wrong with claiming it. I’ll admit that the claim might look deceptively grand at first glance, but my intuition tells me this has more to do with Dimitri’s English ability, rather than a malevolent attempt at hijacking the Arduino brand.
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Especially with the work that has gone into have a git backend for Monticello.
People weren't laid back, they were drunk. This wasn't a pint at lunch; this was three or four pints. Lost time was spread over several things:

1) Late return to work

2) Tipsy / drunk workers taking longer to get stuff done

3) tipsy / drunk workers doing stuff worse, thus needed it to be reworked

4) tipsy / drunk workers not inspecting properly leading to increased returns from customers

5) the occasional broken / lost item (with JIT this can be a considerable delay if it's the right item)

6) occasional broken tools

7) sober workers resentful at drunk workers and at bad management not doing anything about it.

etc etc.

Yep, a lot of this is down to management, but the UK has a poor reputation for the quality of middle management in industry.
Awesome, will do. Thanks for your response :-)
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Cool, having some professional experience in this domain, I'm interested in what you folks are doing.
And that place is in great shape :)
50% off is not the same as buy one, get one free. Let's say each Ebook costs $10. On a "buy one, get one free" deal, I have spent $10. On a 50% off deal, I have spent $5
Who's definition is that?

That's not the definition of female either I (and others) use, and it's also not the definition of female used by modern society.

Hardly anyone knows what their chromosomes actually are, since people rarely get them tested (do you know yours? did you get them tested?), there are numerous biological conditions where people-commonly-treated-by-society-as-female do not have XX chromosomes, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_androgen_insensitivity... and all the other "intersex" conditions. Likewise some people-commonly-treated-by-society-as-male do not have XY chromosomes. Phenotypically female does not always imply genetically XX. Many people only discover their genetic gender if they go to a fertility treatment (since many of these conditions affect fertility), sometimes the genetic gender is not their gender.

There are also lots of people-commonly-treated-by-society-as-female who do not (or cannot) produce eggs. Pre-pubescent girls, post-menopausal women, women after a hysterectomy, women on the contraceptive pill, etc. Likewise there are many people-commonly-treated-by-society-as-male who cannot produce sperm, sterile men, men after testicular cancer etc.

Regardless, some regions (e.g. UK), have law that allows a person to change their gender (they are treated as that gender "for all purposes"), and get a new birth cert in that gender, and makes revealing the previous gender a criminal offence. ( http://www.yourrights.org.uk/yourrights/right-to-receive-equ... ). That's another definition of gender right there.

Sorry, but the world/people/biology are complex and does not fit your simple definitions.
Yep. Cargo-cult parenting, that's got to be a new one. I'm quite surprised at how people will latch on to the parenting as something to imitate. I'm sure it can be a factor but you can't assume that you will get identical results by cloning the procedure. Nothing good can come of that.
>Out of the many kickstarters I've contributed to, only one has shipped and only one more appears to have had any progress in the past 6 months.

For what it's worth, I've had my own reservations [1].

Since then:

- 2/9 have shipped, one precisely on schedule.

- 1/9 is shipping now after a forgivable hurricane-related delay and just might meet the schedule.

- 1/9 has barely gotten started, but has a relatively generous schedule, veteran team and continuous updates.

- 1/9 appears to be just marching right along, unremarkable.

- 2/9 are behind schedule, but have been providing enough in the way of updates and/or early access that I remain quite confident. However, I will say that in both cases, their schedules appeared plainly unrealistic from the jump.

- 1/9 appears to be floundering and has gone a month or more without updates at times.

- 1/9 is so massive and ambitious that I can't help but expect problems even though a lack of updates has been the only issue so far.

The impressions I gather from my admittedly tiny data set:

1) If the schedule seems unrealistic, it likely is. One year is probably a good starting point for creating anything from scratch.

2) Exceeding the funding goal seems to correlate to delays.

3) Experience counts. Veterans have performed better at delivering and much better at providing updates.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323835