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Good thing I am not so insecure about my ideas that I need others to give me validation for them.

I can imagine though that the kind of person who goes to networking events on eventbrite, who starts talking about his 'great and orignal' 'idea' to create an app where people can take pictures of food in restaurants and then let others search these pictures to see whats for dinner around them, does need this validation. (I have actually been to numerous events where more than one person at a single event had this 'idea'. )

I think when your idea is crap, you secretly know it, but after quitting your job and investing all of your savings, it becomes really hard to cut your losses.
Very sad to see all the 'HN competitors' (lobsters, hackful, lamernews) are all essentially dead (at least extremely dormant).

To me, all they needed were a small handful of dedicated posters/commenters (and to be open, i'm looking at you lobste.rs) to start to catch on; i'm very much reminded of the story of the reddit founders sockpuppeting to make the site not look like a ghost town; this kind of 'forced' activity doesn't seem to be necessary for long until the site would take on it's own life.
I was talking about direct democraty, not taxes. Political systems where citizens propose laws that are voted by citizens, and where citizens propose to suppress laws and make all citizens vote on this suppression, by example.
What are the main reasons you want an API?
You can play it like that, but to be honest, it's more fun when everybody has at least some concept of what's going on.
Pencil uses markdown.js to render markdown. Unfortunately markdown.js does not yet have support for the Redcarpet dialect (a.k.a. Github Flavoured Markdown) which supports auto-linkifying. I'll probably fork markdown.js to add Redcarpet support sometime soon.
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Right now, I don't really have any plans. But if it gets popular enough and if people would actually pay for it, then maybe a hosted service might happen.
Great stuff. Keep up with the good work!
What if it's in a US territory to escape minimum wages and standard benefits? Does that count?

The minimum wage in all US territories was recently raised to the US minimum wage in increments of $0.50/year, starting in 2007.

It's one of those rare cases where a min wage increase had any effect at all - usually min wage increases go from WAY below market to simply below market.
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I have not been publishing in many years so my reading appetite has diminished, but I think the trendy -ism in philosophy of science is not so much relativism but pluralism.

Regarding your quotation, Feyerabend explicitly rejects that science is successful and in fact has been actually harmful in understanding in the case of biology. And he argued cogently that "science" should be seperated from the state with as much rigor as "religion" is. He was one of the greatest anarchist minds I ever had the pleasure of meeting.

Nancy Cartwright makes a similar argument but keeping a realist stance about how science doesn't really make progress describing the fundamental truths about the world. That is, people usually hold up the wonders of the modern world as evidence that science progresses towards universal knowledge, e.g., jets fly! But she would say I think that jet engines do not depend at all on scientific understanding of turbulence, which tend to be completely wrong in the material world, and require all kinds of simplifications and specializations in order to make this concrete jet engine work. [0]

[0]: good review of her book Dappled World [pdf] http://bit.ly/TLcMAD
>This article is very shallow. I would say it wrong to assume that there is ever going to be a drought of customers. Investors with risk appetite? - may be, but there can never be a drought of customers.

Oh, there can easily be a drought of customers. The article covers specifically the Indian market for one, but even in the US, with the squeezed out middle class, there can very well be a drought of customers.

>Here is the real picture: there are over a billion customers in India.

No, there are a billion _people_ in India, which is a different thing. Even if you bypass the starving masses, the actual internet ready audience for what an internet startup might sell is smaller than the US, less adopted to the internet way of doing business and with less money.

>They need something. All you have to do is open your eyes and ears and figure out what they want the most. Solve a pain that people currently have.

Well, most of their problems have nothing to do with what an internet startup can offer. Hence a "drought of customers" for internet startups.
Ask HN: Node.js code documentation -- how are you doing it?
What Node.js code documentation tools are you using on your projects, and why?

Are you using something similar to Javadoc, a perldoc like tool or your own stuff using Markdown and other text processing utilities?
> Consider though that in this community 99.9% of the time others have solved your problem before. You could reinvent the wheel (which is arrogant), or you could do some research to see which architecture has been successful for others.

The best way to learn something is to come up with it yourself. If you base your architecture on what you read in books or elsewhere, you probably only have a limited understanding of it. And that's especially bad when you're talking about the architecture of a program.

So maybe a better idea in terms of the end result is to first come up with your own solution, implement at least a functioning prototype, and then do some research, to improve upon your idea based on what you have discovered (or throw it away, in the worst case, but of course keep what you've learned doing it).
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* It is native code, unlike Java. Which means you don't need a VM. Only the API's. Java defines both.

* It is not a "black box" in the web page like Java Applets. People would not hate Java Applets if they integrated seamlessly and were built into the browser.
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LinkedIn already does this. Fiona's beautiful eyes are worth a visit to the site though.

I love the way that @mottled hasn't linked to stablished.me directly. More mouse clicks make me happy though. Maybe a good 'startup' would be a short-url site that makes you click through 20 pages of non-content before finally getting at the end goal.
Haskell has it's own warts of course, but the functional straightjacket you're forced into makes it very easy to understand the scope of a computation.
...that's probably why algorithms are never too big to hold in your head (except crypto, for my head at least :) ), at least once you understand them ...and software tends to be "overgrown" at the interfaces, be it UI or IPC or some networking protocol, not where the "complex" algorithms are anyway (probably because if you can find a mathematically expressible algorithm to do something it doesn't overgrow like a mad bush, even if you add a dozen branches for special cases...)

...and I'm not entirely sure that most algorithms are truly "hermetic" ...maybe in some areas most of them are, dunno...
How on earth does anyone think this is trolling? Anyway, I disagree with your points.

1) There is a very big difference between a heated argument and an argument. Maybe it's just a side effect of the medium we are using, but everyone seems to have so much trouble being civil. For example, instead of suggesting that OP go look to North Korea, you could have said "For me, the heated discussions are a good thing" or something similar.

2) OP realizes that HN isn't a technical forum, and isn't asking for it to change.

3) Comments are a massive part of the value that HN provides, and even if OP were to stop reading the comments, he'll still see the same mix of articles on the front page.
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Ask HN: How to get a job in Tech industry without long education?
I'm currently trying to find startups or companys that are looking for young, creative and engaging people but without any education. I'm 20 years old, live in Barcelona and have no education related to IT what so ever but have been building websites and web apps since I was young. I've provided examples for jobs that I've applied to but every time, my lack of education seems to ruin it for me.

My question is as the title, how can I get the first stepping stone experience within the tech industry when all positions require long education?
I hope those guys make it successful
And to go further, scientific persuasion doesn't really depend only on publication and dissemination.

Scientists in the historical record who are successful of achieiving significant theory change use about every means at their disposal not limited to just "consensus building" but also including underhanded tactics such as excluding opponents from professional appointments, conferences, access to data and equipment, etc.
Ask HN: What's the current state-of-the-art for personal email?
With Google Apps going non-free, I'm jolted back towards hosting my own email to get a little bit more flexibility.

So, what's the best setup at the minute in terms of email servers, spam filters, etc? Are there any good web UIs? Does anything provide something similar to Gmail's filters?
I believe the default was 640x480x16 bit. I am not sure whether you could up it to 32 bit 1024x768 but I know you could in BGII. Still have my disks somewhere.
One suggesting is to visit new and upvote good stories; flag unsuitable stories; and submit excellent articles.

What you're looking for can be found in HN, and is appreciated by many people, but does perhaps need a bit of support and encouragement.
It's not uncommon to see staff from Google going to another small company and then some months later, the company is acquired by Google...
...but the reasonings are deeper than jingoism.

Could you explain the reasoning? Your post is very unclear unclear what greenhouse gas output has to do with American manufacturing.
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Did you try oDesk?
I couldn't agree more with your post scriptum!

The ecology argument makes sense, of course, insofar more of the sales are in the US than Asia. Nonetheless, it seems to me that it's usually more of a convenient side-effect than the actual motivation. But thanks for your perspective.

Some of the Kickstarter project take manufacturing to an extremely local level. In the project description it will say that their costs are higher because the designers want everything to be manufactured in their hipster town. I feel really uneasy about such sentiments. (And mind you, people call me a hipster all the time.)

As for the Chinese economy, I try to be optimistic. However… The housing market seems really unhealthy. You'll pay more for an apartment in a not-that-great neighborhood in Beijing than for one in an awesome neighborhood in the capital of many European cities. Meanwhile, the quality of the Beijing apartment will leave much to be desired and the building is actually built on land that is merely leased from the government! Consumerism is crazy too. Did you know that on China's Single's Day (one of the many holidays in China invented by marketeers) sales were higher than on the US's Black Friday?

Finally, the Chinese definitely don't care about the environment. It's not in their mindset at all. Everyone wants to drive an SUV (while public transportation is dirt-cheap), the amount of plastic packaging they use is insane, the only recycling is done by homeless people who collect plastic bottles from trash cans, etcetera.
exactly. I loved those displays, running at at least 90Hz. That in a dual moitor setup was hard on your desk becasue of the weight, but awesome for programming. Being so used to the vast amount of vertical space, I felt sort of let down by the 'now let's make all widescreen displays' movement. 1080 pixels vertically really doesn't do it for me. But maybe it's just me? Sometimes I see people programming, with the editor taking up only half of the screen and the rest all IDE windows and toolbars and whatnot. That's like 15 lines of code on one screen. I don't get it.
But the point is the fact that Canonical made the decision to enable this by default breaks my trust in them. What are they going to do next? How am I going to monitor to make sure I know what I need to remove/disable/opt-out of next? If I choose an Ubuntu variant how do I monitor them to check that they aren't adding any of the parent undesirable features.

That is why when I decide to change from 12.04 it will almost certainly be to another distro. Maybe I need to give the parent distro a try (Debian).
No mention of Usenet :-(. It scores on many of the points you mentioned (Reddit subreddits come close.)

I'm sad this part of the net has been fading into obscurity the last ten years especially since its alternatives have proven to be inadequate. Its greatest power was it being decentralised and thus couldn't be policed by anyone, the variety and custom readers.

Its greatest weak point was perhaps the trolls. Maybe others can supply more weaknesses?

Really, what does Hackernews as a website have over f.e. a newsgroup alt.news.hackers?
I make 6 figures as a software engineer with an English degree. I used my freelance portfolio and experience in a different field (test prep) to land a job at an educational tech startup. I then used that experience to apply for the next job, and so on. Try to find a company in a field where you have non tech experience and get them to hire you as a developer. A CS degree is not as useful as someone who gets the industry.
Slashdot? :-)
Getting a south asian customer to pay $1 for the most beloved of their services is actually hard. Things like 'security of my banking information', 'can't someone in my family do this for me', 'These guys are asking for money in dollars! Just too expensive.' etc come to mind. Physical products are different though.

Its a cultural thing.
If anybody wants an easy way to set up their own HN, may I suggest taking a look at Telescope?

http://telesc.pe/

It's a real-time, open source HN clone built on Meteor, with features like invite-only mode, notifications, and a lot more stuff.

And since it's open source, if something is missing you can always code it yourself and contribute it back to the project.
I very often get that feeling especially about corporate charity but I am somewhat torn as public examples can lead others to follow.
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one simple rule: be cheap.

don't ask for a salary that will make the graduate seem more appealing. after you gain experience, ask for a higher salary.
"Try to find a company in a field where you have non tech experience and get them to hire you as a developer."

How can I get a company to hire me as a developer without any real experience?
I guess something like the possibility to have a mobile application (either web based or native app) which would be usable (the tiny up- and down-vote arrows of HN are not easy to use using a finger on a touchscreen) and which would actually work by not relying on html-parsing or search kludge.
You are right that the money will go out of the local economy, but this is not excuse for making better tools and technology.

For example I live in Europe, and when I get an iPhone... the money goes to the US, but this is not a problem as its technology and its an extra in my life.

But see when you have to buy basic things for living, like food, fuel etc... from non local companies its a problem.

Especially the poorness of Africa is deeper subject and i don't think that tools like that are the cause of it.

This thing can be applied my many more places that lacks electricity and its rather good than bad to have it.
If you take away the religious subreddits like atheism, politics and worldnews you can make your own reddit well worth its weight in neutrinos.
My guess is that this isn't because of lazyness but because of getting users NOT to check something. I often find that opt-outs of social sharing, sending statistics or something else that the application will benefit from isn't linked to the label. Maybe because they want to make it harder to check/uncheck?
I've been thinking in making something similar: But I though people might not be interested having HN, Reddit and Slashdot.
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r/math generally has a pretty high quality of discussion.
The salary isn't really the thing I'm after. I just want to build things that people use...

To gain the experience, I need a job which gives me experience. And to get this job so I can get some experience, I already need experience.
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>> I guess something like the possibility to have a mobile application

See http://ihackernews.com/
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I don't even think they are popularization to be honest. As that would involve an effort to educate or inform about the state of the art. Neil deGrasse Tyson is an effective popularizer (but not a very good one); Richard Feynman excelled as a popularizer.

TEDx seems to be more about entertaining than informing a certain audience that attends because they want to feel part of the brand. It's like how Reader's Digest and Book-of-the-Month clubs formulated middlebrow culture and profited from middle class desire.

It could be argued that TEDx is the contemporary equivalent of salon culture that flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries. [0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)
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They can beg. Meanwhile the casual games audience is moving on.
If OpenSSL::Random isn't working (because OpenSSL is not installed for example) there is also SecureRandom in the stdlib. It tries to do the right thing in any situation: Use OpenSSL:Random if available, otherwise it will fall back to what's available in the OS you're on.
> Treated Linux as a second class citizen

I'm a big fan of Linux, writing this on a Fedora based machine but for the life of me I can't figure out why you think that was a 'wrong move' by AMD.

Linux exists by virtue of there being a viable PC eco-system built around microsoft products. We're all second class citizens because we ride along on something that was not made by us or for us.

Theoretically we could hi-jack that eco-system by providing something that is better / easier to use. But that takes a long amount of time and very high levels of dedication which usually means people need to get paid, which in turn doesn't work all that well with open source.

The reason Linux will continue to be a second class citizen in the PC world is simple: open office / libre office etc sucks. Excel is amazing and word is what a generation of people grew up on.

If you want Linux to be a first class citizen then you can achieve that by improving the state of office software. Get the numbers and at some point you'll find that even AMD can no longer ignore you without really being wrong. For now that point has not yet been reached, and I doubt it will ever be reached.
Yep. Closed the tab when I got to that.
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Now all we need is a Bitcoin powered MMO.
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This project is all about payload mutation and management
You seem to be confused as to what functional roles represented on a motherboard are present in the chipset, the cpu and auxiliary chips.

System-on-a-chip asics have been around for more than a decade (via makes quite nice ones), they're soldered on to the board just like every other chip and nobody cares.

Chipsets serve many purposes, mostly to do with buses and memory. Yes you could integrate chipset, cpu and ethernet controllers all into the same package. But in the end if you want to expand your computer you will be interfacing with a bus, not with the cpu or any of its internal registers directly.

So what you'll do to get more devices hooked up is to plug in some device into PCIx, USB or whatever the flavor of the day is.

You're not upgrading your CPU today to get more ethernet ports either. And if it's soldered onto the motherboard then that won't change one bit.

The reasons driving this are economical and practical, even if there are downsides too (such as shelf life and the amount of money invested in a component that exhibits severe price volatility).

The major upsides from soldering the cpu onto the mb instead of plugging it in are:

- shorter signal path

- cheaper (no expensive socket)

- increased reliability (bga alone vs bga -> socket -> cpu)

- more compact

- weight savings
Does not follow. Holding stuff in our heads is not the only bottleneck in programming. For example, it's not the bottleneck when solving almost any Olympiad style problem, and yet those exams seem to do a good job of stratifying people.
Yep, this is why I try to avoid IDEs whenever I can. The best "IDE" is Vim running in Screen in urxvt.
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You're describing semantics of moving from a solution concept to an implementation. How you get there is entirely up to you.

What I was suggesting is that a design that separates concerns will obviate the need to keep the entire thing in your head. This is problem solving through the composition of discrete components. AKA managing complexity.
Pusher actually degrades to Flash Sockets if a browser doesn't support WebSockets: http://pusher.com/docs/flash_fallback

Here's their browser compatibility: http://pusher.com/docs/browser_compatibility

I'm biased - we use Pusher and love it - but regardless, didn't want misinformation spread. :) I'm all for competition.
Lobsters isn't dead, just not as noisy. I check it once a day and usually walk away with one interesting tech article. Discussions are less lively, but that's because every site follows the 90:10 law (90% lurk, 10% comment)
I agree that Usenet was fantastic.

> what does Hackernews as a website have over f.e. a newsgroup alt.news.hackers?

Communal voting?

> Its greatest weak point was perhaps the trolls. Maybe others can supply more weaknesses?

A rigid definition of what counts as spam (Breidbart index)?

People using all kinds of domains in the From: header. That's a problem because bots scrape the from header for sending spam, and there's nothing to stop people using valid domains that don't belong to them.
I'm talking very specifically about a feeling.
Sometimes you can tell when things are going to die, just a thought stream buried in the subconscious.

I didn't want to have a discussion. I just wanted to put it out there. It just feels like the novelty has worn off, and everyone is going to realize they are wearing tracking devices instead of believing we are in a magical techno-future now.
If that is 100% obvious to you, I would recommend some writing classes, along with a good bit of reading comprehension work. Good luck on your journey to meaningful communication.