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I have had a very similar experience to Jason learning Ruby on Rails through Team Treehouse.

I was sick of just being the Hustler for my startups, I raised seed rounds, but could not get my hands dirty in code. Why I No Get My Act Together?!?!?

I have tried to teach myself to code since 2007. I started my first profitable web company at age 20 without being able to afford a computer, but had to pay someone to code it up for me. Why I No Get My Act Together?!?!?

I know that I am not a lead developer or even close, but I am learning the fundamentals and am able to build my own prototypes without bugging someone to be my co-founder. Now I can show them even if the prototype is sh*tty (read: less then great).

I am now going through the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ after going through: https://teamtreehouse.com/subscribe/plans?referrer=jameshigh... and have even played around with changing my terminal: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/how-to-cust...
played with heroku, github, html, css, js....

I can't wait to go through more: http://programming-motherfucker.com/
as well as learn python and django.

So right with you Jason, more non-tech guys should get their act together and put in the time.
thanks.. I was sure I was forgetting something...
git doesn't do large binaries well yet.

That opens up the field for that purpose, for developers.
A 1400W fan? Maybe it was the Dyson AirBlades that caused the power to go out at the Super Bowl! A typical box fan (dorm room style) is 100W and puts out 2,000 cubic feet per minute, whereas the airblade puts out 56 cfm @ 14x the power draw.

That is a lot of power, and it's interesting to see from the article "the $40-$43 per year cost of a regular Dyson AirBlade dryer." Although I'm sure their salesmen always compare it to the labor & materials cost of refilling paper towel dispensers.
> So knock one more reason to use MongoDB instead of PostgreSQL off your list.

One of the reasons MongoDB is so popular is because it is an fantastic database for developers. As a Java developer I can deal in my code with sets, hashmaps, embedded structures and have it effectively map 1-1 in the database. It's akin to an object database meaning you can focus higher up in the stack.

With the SQL ORMs you can't avoid having to deal with the ER model.
Amazing indeed. So what is this font abuse really getting at? It's a means to introduce semantic information into vector graphics. Defining the semantics of a state, its shape and name, allows us to treat the state as an abstraction that can have formatting applied to it.

So how did web fonts end up as the approach? Because that's where browsers first acquired the notion of confluencing semantics and vector graphics. Fonts demand all the advantages of those entities: semantic information to define characters suitable for mapping to glyphs, the ability to apply styling to those glyphs (bold/italic/etc), and raster-independent scalability.

Could SVG do something like this, include semantic hooks in a file for applying styles? (I'm not too familiar with the format.)
Sorry about that I should have clarified - by profit I meant money after we'd paid all our costs on the order (production, shipping, etc.) but not after we'd paid for ourselves or our office space.
"So and so has endorsed you for XML and Microsoft Office!"

Every time I get one of these emails I come a little bit closer to closing my LinkedIn account. A LinkedIn replacement in the form of about.me sounds pretty appealing right now.
An uploaded image to Wikipedia is a very weak source to assert an opinion not held by the scientific community (that there is no scientific consensus).

Also, I've been discussing the arguments all along, not sure what the reference to 'ad hominem' is about.

Here's the actual Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_c...

It mentions: "No scientific body of national or international standing has maintained a dissenting opinion; the last was the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, which in 2007 updated its 1999 statement rejecting the likelihood of human influence on recent climate with its current non-committal position."

Maybe the American Association of Petroleum Geologists made that image you reference before changing their position. I don't know, it's completely out of context.
http://kartograph.org/ (and other such libs) exists, but I'm not sure it's as "designer-friendly" as a pure CSS solution, despite being able to style them in your stylesheet all the same.
Wow! Postgres, JPG, PNG, TIFF, "The Only Coke Machine on the Internet", and more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lane_(computer_scientist)
Looks to be primarily ad based revenue. I suppose an ad-supported and premium paid version would be possible.

You've got me thinking though. Perhaps, if I shifted the concept slightly to be specific for job search, it might be a viable business.
Function types in Go
I agree with your points that PostgreSQL (or RDMS in general) is really good for certain type of reporting / analytics use cases while hadoop/hive is awesome for handling billions or rows + TBs of data.

How was your overall experience with impala ? Did you guys have a fairly new hive cluster to try it out or did you just spin up a new one since impala can only read certain file formats (i.e. no custom SerDe).

Also, for hive/hadoop datasets, is that more for just data exploration, while this PostgreSQL solution is for smaller datasets which return in a few seconds and would not perform well in hive due to the cost of setting up a mapreduce job ?
Seconded. I've been programming for over a decade and this is still how I learn new languages/frameworks.
For sure - companies like Spreadshirt and CafePress use digital printing as opposed to screen printing in order to avoid the heavy upfront costs of screen printing.

As soon as you print over 10 t-shirts screen printing becomes both lower cost (a t-shirt that starts at $15 on Spreadshirt can be $6 on Teespring) and higher quality (digital printing produces less vibrant colors and washes out much quicker).

Short version: Teespring allows you to produce higher quality products at a lower price point. We also add the benefit of game mechanics and make the experience more social.
It is also supposed to work Chrome to Chrome right? It says the room is full. Anybody get same error?
Of course YMMV completely depending upon what you mean by "wasted time" but I am turning 40 this year and I feel as if I haven't wasted enough time.

Virtually all of my fond memories from my 20s and 30s were formed during "wasted" time (at least as your stereotypical entrepreneur/workaholic would define it).
I asked a question about the merits of using dropbox and git and I specifically asked what I was moissing. How can a question "be wrong"? You have yet to answer what Dropbox+git offers that git+backup system does not.

I cannot access my repository from a remote host? I am guessing that you run windows, I don't. I can ssh into any machine that I need to access.
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You'll all regret adding -ly to anything eventually. Still really awesome, can't wait to see the rest of the world.
I also love how the strategy ties in so well with SolarCity. Sign me up for that 1-2 combination when the Bluestar is launched.

Author: Missing a 0 in..."That’s more than 20.00 cars a year."
Congratulations!! Good Luck!!
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Thanks and good luck with OpenRent!
Intra-cluster Replication in Apache Kafka 0.8
Hm, why can't this be done with simply using SVG instead of using fonts in such manner?
Wellly that’s justly your opinionly.
Go go gadget self-described hustler, url-shortening only the referral link in your post. Url shorteners are not healthy for the web and are pointless on hacker news. Referrals are fine, just be up-front instead of hiding behind a url shortener.

goo.gl/0BUvL -> https://teamtreehouse.com/subscribe/plans?referrer=jameshigh...
right now we rely on chemistry to engage particles small enough to achieve high energy density. Maybe some nanomechanics can play its role? this way we could have better control over the dynamics and maybe use explosives as fuel (only they will oxidize in a controlled way and not explode)
looks good, I'll give it a try, for testing I've been using http://testingwithfrank.com/
I agree that RSS is clunky and old. Maybe adding preset feeds and grouping them under very granular categories would keep things more user friendly.
It's been great -- setup was a bit of work (we're on Ubuntu, so had to build from source), but once up and running it's allowed us to do lots of ad-hoc analysis that would have been too hard otherwise.

I've been meaning to write a MoSQL equivalent for our Impala data, but at the moment we're doing a more traditional ETL.
You do realized that bootstrapping requires not taking funding, which Teespring has taken plenty so far. Not to discredit their success, just clarifying.
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Tesla is hardly a sure thing, and I think that many of the big car companies feel that they have sufficient engineering resources to tackle the problem on their own. You never know, maybe someone has made a bid to purchase Tesla and was turned down. It appears, however that if any electric auto upstart is going to make it, Tesla has a great chance. Fisker does not seem to be generating the press coverage of Tesla, and the only story I can recall is one where a Fisker Karma burned to a crisp and took half a house with it.
Wow, people are gullible idiots, aren't they?

Go Daddy is the last company on Earth I would register a domain with, or order ANY services at all.

And we should all remember their position on SOPA. But even before then, they were a crappy company, with lousy service and lousy security, and actively fighting against our digital freedoms.
From Hipsters to Hip Hoppers: How Audience Cliques Use Online Music Services
We've been pretty happy so far. There have been a few rough edges getting it up and keeping it running, but we've been very impressed with the performance so far.

I've passed your comment on to Colin, who wrote the Ruby client -- I'm sure he'll appreciate it!
Plenty of people literally believe in Karma.

Also, on the other side, your reputation of being an asshole can get around pretty quickly.
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Of course, the problem with that approach is you don't have anything enforcing any sort of data integrity below the application. In my experience most of the time you actually can put down on paper a schema and a set of rules the data should obey without too much fear of it changing dramatically. The nice thing about hstore is it allows you the flexibility to introduce unstructured data in just the places where a schema is unknowable or not worth the complexity.

MongoDB et all basically are built around the assumption that a schema is never worth the complexity. It's a bold claim that contradicts many decades worth of database research.
Eashmart launches crowdfunding campaign
Interesting article, but mostly wrong. The article claims:

> The point isn’t to sell a lot of roadsters, it’s creating a brand.

> The low production volume also gives the company a chance to learn how to run a car factory on a small scale.

So the article claims that the primary reason to start with an expensive sports car is to build a brand, and that technical and practical concerns are less important. This is absolutely 100% wrong. There's absolutely no way Tesla could have started with a mass production car for the general consumer, exactly for the reasons everybody already knows. You have to build a factory. You have to learn from mistakes. You have work out the kinks in the design, and so on. This takes time.

The first Tesla model was mostly hand-assembled because that was the only option. As a consequence of that the car model is very expensive and low volume. And as a consequence of that the car has to be a sports car, because the high price low volume model doesn't make sense otherwise.

Creating a sports car also makes building a brand easier -- but that's just a nice side benefit. Nothing more. So the article gets the causality wrong.
If I remember correctly, it was first discovered pretty soon after a version of Gecko was introduced with support for setters/getters, and Gecko had minority market share at that time.

http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/01/advanced-web-at...
From now on instead of foobar, we use chucknorris.
If history repeats itself, Amazon will offer virtual currency brokering as a service. A crapload of money to be made if it can pull that off.
thanks... good info.. I knew I was forgetting something..
I think that is a user-created page. This feature of Drive launched late last year[1] and you can find more about it from the Drive SDK[2]

[1] - http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/11/announcing-g...

[2] - https://developers.google.com/drive/publish-site
Lightsail energy has an opinion on that.
It might have been this article: http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/398842.html
Do we really? What browsers don't support at least TLS 1.0? Or is it other user agents?
Fair enough. Another term compromised :-).

For clarification, back in my day if the only funding you got was from founders and maybe an individual or two who believed in your idea [1], and consequently made it all the way to profitability, that was 'bootstrapping' the company.

Now get off my lawn sonny! :-)

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/teespring
Not to my knowledge. I did (stupidly) tweet the link to the post from my Twitter account though. Probably tricked the spam and vote-ring detection.
I'm not defending the guy at all. My point is that this general scenario -- upset some person with a certain amount of power, who then makes your life miserable -- happens quite frequently to men as well. The title of the post is that "it sucks to be female" and I don't agree that follows from the post.

The marriage comment was mostly a joke, but it does illustrate the point that Western women enjoy a lot of "priviledge" themselves. It shouldn't need to be said, but I'll add that this doesn't make sexual harassment acceptable.
The call sign Lifeguard is used on the radio to make everyone aware of this. No need really to explicitly declare a medical emergency unless you're not getting the priority handling from ATC that call sign is meant to provide. When I was flying air ambulance, we met ambulances at the airport for patient pickup and delivery and they were nearly always going from ICU to ICU.

That said, it's an incredibly demanding job but can be rewarding whenever you make a difference. And it keeps things in perspective. It's difficult to complain about working at 4am, when a kid is fighting for her life behind you with a parent sitting nearby.
good catch. Fixed it. Thanks.
Previous Hacker News discussion (the second of three submissions of this link):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4581362
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Steep.it
CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'
We grew a little bit in January but didn't maintain the 40% growth we had in Dec. We were warned that January is a tough month for retail, so hopefully that's the case. I'll do a follow up post in a few months if people are interested.
Pay to play is tough from job search candidates. But there might be other areas less saturated and better suited for it.
The fact that Remeron worked for me has absolutely nothing to do with belief or placebo affect. In fact, I was absolutely certain at the time that Remeron would not work, due to my previous bad experiences with antidepressants and my terribly negative state of mind. Also, there is absolutely no scientific evidence that the placebo affect can have such a drastic and lasting effect. I was not just a little blue; I was out of my mind @#%$ing batshit crazy. For months and months, and then a few days later, completely cured. A cure that has lasted for years.

As to your claim that "they do not work", the scientific evidence that they work may be questionable, but lack of scientific proof is not the same thing as scientific disproof. You have no proof that they do not work for many people, despite your claim, as the way the drugs are used in double-blind studies do not perfectly mirror their use in the actual world. E.g., combination with other drugs, such a benzos, and/or other antidpressants, and trials of a number of different drugs to find which one is best of that particular person's brain chemistry.

Furthermore, one doesn't need scientific evidence to know certain things. I don't need published double-blind scientific evidence to know that if I hit my toe with a hammer that it will hurt. I don't need scientific evidence to know that my wife loves me.

Another point of evidence: Paxil also cured my depression within a day or two, on a different occasion, but it also had many other effects on me that were highly undesirable. It removed all pleasurable sexual sensations. It made me hypomanic and not care about how I treated other people. I felt as if everyone else in the world was an asshole who didn't give a shit about me, and so I was free not to give a shit about them. I felt absolutely no affinity any more for the people that I loved. I only found them annoying. I.e., my normal personality was turned completely upside down.

I don't need scientific evidence to know that this is how Paxil effected me, any more than I need scientific evidence to tell me how alcohol or marijuana make me feel. These are not subtle things, and the effect of Paxil on me, and the affect of Remeron on me were anything but subtle. They were as psychoactive as any substance can be.

Now since my evidence is not scientific, I am not stating that you should be convinced. On the other hand, you have no grounds to assert that I was cured by the placebo effect. You don't know me and you don't have access to the personal experiential information I have. I, personally, have plenty of information to make an accurate and rational conclusion here. And I have.
Serious question to you or anyone else who uses schemaless databases. Why is the ability to change schemas on the fly a good thing? Having worked at two companies that did, it was nothing but a recipe for disaster in large groups. Code that was dependent on expecting an integer or a string and not a collection would constantly break because a developer in some other group decided to store a collection instead of a the original data type that was expected. Schemaless databases required more documentation to track changes made between groups and led to more bugs because we could never be guaranteed of what kind of data we would be receiving. I've always thought of a database schema as a contract that makes guarantees to all applications. Why would you want to be able to break that contract?
Unfortunately it seems to be more politically rational to invest in existing inefficient green technology than R&D (see: Solyndra).

Fossil fuels can last a very long time. America's largest shale oil reserve isn't in North Dakota, it's in California in the Monterey Shale formation, currently unexploited.
Thanks for pointing this out, it has been changed back.

EDIT: My inner hustler was trying to get out, I put him back in his cage where he belongs.
Speaking up, it's time
You tell me. You're the one saying that some languages are more flexible and expressive than others. How do you measure that?
If I remember correctly, Elon was saying recently* that current battery technology was good enough for EVs, though I'm sure he wishes it would improve a lot. I'm not sure if he meant that just further incremental improvements + economies of scale that come with mass production are good enough to bring EVs to where they need to be, or something else, though. That's from memory and I can't go find the exact quote right now, so I apologize if my memory failed me in this instance.

* http://www.treehugger.com/green-investments/tesla-ceo-elon-m...
I wonder how new devs feel about learning Rails now that yaml has been discovered to be a serious attack vector, and will possibly (probably) be a source of many security concerns in the future.
Stateface is another good font if you'd simply like images of the individual states. https://github.com/propublica/stateface

It doesn't display the entire map like this (so the use case is different), but it's pretty cool all the same.
That would be the case with us - we have raised a seed round but it was from a local angel (Bill Cesare) who joined the team full-time and is now our COO.
Looks neat. Wish there were some code to poke around in, though.
tl;dr version:

The largest known prime number, 2^(57,885,161)-1, was discovered on January 25th 2013. It has 17,425,170 digits.
The new prime number is a member of a special class of extremely rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes...
http://tldr.io/tldrs/51111f3dde23f15658000031/48th-known-mer...
Discourse is a significant upgrade from phpBB. Awesome.
How Facebook Is Transforming Science and Public Health
I used to get a lot of pleasure out of using #bada55 as a color when hacking together examples.

chucknorris is the future.
https://github.com/discourse/core
tl;dr version:

Tesla's huge ambitions are to sell electric cars to the mass market. Becoming a new car manufacturer from the ground up is unbelievably hard.
They are using the classic Silicon Valley approach: start with early adopters that just want a cool new toy, then cross the chasm to mainstream customers...
http://tldr.io/tldrs/51115df9de23f156580000a8/teslas-ingenio...
I'm sorry, postgres-xc doesn't work for you needs? [0] It has worked for me in the past.

[0] http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/
Remind me of LiveFyre or Disqus.

Speaking of the wordpress of forums, does anyone have experience with http://bbpress.org/ ?
Eashmart launches Indiegogo campaign
It can, but not every browser supports SVG sadly. :( This however, works in IE8
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My favorite part is that the page illustrates how it was created. Kind of a "This is my life" story.

(the url in the image at the bottom is the url of the page itself)
Thanks for the input. Gave me lots to think about.
> The discovery is eligible for a $3,000 GIMPS research discovery award.

Missed opportunity. Award should be $3,571.113
Is it just me or is there no easy way to just browse through currently available designs (not the featured area below the CTA)?
I've read the article, but I still don't understand what happened to Dell and why did they make the buyout. Could you explain it?
chucknorris is whatever chucknorris needs to be.
I'd imagine it's only a matter of time before Tesla gets involved in it... but for now Musk is on record saying that the current state of battery technology is sufficient, so it doesn't make sense for them to invest in R&D on that front until they have some surplus.
I would imagine that for your average startup, using solutions that don't even support transactionality will cause greater complexity issues. Especially given the enormous window before db scale out/up becomes an issue on well-designed applications.
I would have used it, but it always said the username I wanted was unavailable (despite the page saying "This name is available!").

Then last month it suddenly became the page of a SF-based developer, which seems to happen all the time for 'unavailable', but unused, names. Pretty annoying.
Thanks. Didn't immediately see the "Fork Us" button.
> How can a question "be wrong"?

The question was misinformation. Git within its self doesn't offer a centralised storage system.

The question implied it did. You didn't ask for a comparison, you implied there was no comparison to be made because Git already had it all.

> You have yet to answer what Dropbox+git offers that git+backup system does not.

Nothing. Same thing.
There doesn't appear to be a way to edit the files, as the owner, after they are uploaded.