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I do not think this is dumb at all. You have stated the problem very clearly.

I would like to ask a question that nags me every time I read an article like this: Why do we assume that we need "free time"? And to answer this, I have to ask another that occurred to me while reading the article: What do these elite players do during their free time?

This is an important questions for programmers and engineers, because we generally enjoy building things. In the context of the article, I take it as implicit that the one thing the elite players are not doing in their "free time" is playing music or that would obviously be a form of practicing.

So, then what is this free time that the elite have and how are they using it? Are they bumming in the front of the TV? Is the formula for success: work intensely for two short blocks and then veg?
I also remember them having pretty much exactly a bazillion more users than formspring.

That is to say: the evaluation of a business plan is a completely different horse than the price at which a company is purchased later on. The former says is "we'd really like it to get to X". The latter says "we actually made it to Y".
I agree, which is why I said "If <blah blah blah>, then I think the FSF's political position is sound."
This was my first time visiting their website. I'll not sign up for a service when they don't show me what they have.

I like StackOverflow because they show their content, they allow you to use their service without signing up. You will signup when you got familiar with the service enough.

My rule of thumb is, show user the content, the value and then expect them to sign up. A video or some nice buzz words are not enough.
I normally go for 3 months buffer at the very least, and currently have about 6. Always have done this, even when I had a regular job. It allows me to live without worries.

But in any case, you can lower the risk of getting scammed by asking for initial deposits. I always do that. Did it with the company that scammed me and I wasn't totally fucked. I lost about 60% of the total of the project, but not a 100%.
The reason I use Amazon is so I don't have to drive anywhere to pick stuff up. It's there when I get home. If I wanted to go somewhere to pick it up, I'd go to a B&M. Or tell UPS/FedEx to not deliver and I'll pick it up.
How to measure teamwork
Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million
At age 21, prescription amphetamines are probably the biggest risk factor.
Isolated tribe man meets modern tribe man for the first time
RSpec cheatsheet updated for new syntax
I wonder how hard it would be to just compile the real git implementation with Emscripten? Isn't it mostly C?
Not if you are afraid of failure.
You can generally only sue the government to the degree it lets you.
In the US, there are various torts acts, etc.
There are exceptions to sovereign immunity, but it's not worth getting into.

In practice, when it comes to constitutional rights, this doesn't matter as much as you think, because the government will sue you if they really care.

IE they file criminal or civil charges against you for something you are not doing because you believe it to be unconstitutional.
I agree everybody should know the basics of HTML/CSS to become what I call "semi-technical", even if you're not attempting a startup. You might find you have an artistic flare for digital design, and suddenly become that much more marketable.

That being said, why would you want to found a startup if not to build something cool and get people interested in it? If that's not your natural passion, it's no coincidence you don't already have skills a technical company would find valuable.
Interestingly, we see far more usage among people with family, criminal, personal injury, landlord-tenant, and other normal-people cases than startups/businesses. I suppose it should not be a surprise that many orders of magnitude more people get divorced than decide to start a startup.

I do like the upload documents idea, though, and we'll explore that and get there soon enough.
Can You Make Sad Songs Sound Happy (And Vice Versa)?
Being on the other side of it, they crushed AWS services in 2010!!!
Can I ask how much (low/mid/high x-digits) the raw AWS hosting costs of a site like this are?

I'd love the idea of trying to take over something like this, but I have a suspicion I might be in way over my head...
I understand your frustration but I'm not sure it's relevant here. Formspring's issue certainly wasn't lack of signups; they claimed over 30 million.
Formspring does let you see someone's questions and answers without having an account if you go to the profile. I guess they could highlight some accounts on the homepage, but people mostly used it to ask their friends questions, so that wouldn't really reflect the normal use of the service.
Someone should get F# to run on the JVM. They can then call it Fava, which will inevitably result in a Chianti web framework.
Why does the US get to continue uranium enrichment/building of nuclear warheads, but places like Iran are not allowed to do so?

1. The US doesn't build nuclear warheads, and presently doesn't have the capability of replacing the ones it has. This is a whole issue of its own.

2. Because of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which Iran ratified.
The question is who's liable when the theft occurs.

In the CC world, the liable party isn't the card holder or the CC company, but the merchant. Chargebacks make services where money is transferred from one person to another extremely difficult to operate. Your service will be eaten alive by fraud unless you invest heavily in fraud detection, ratchet it up to the max, and hope that you have the volume to cover the attacks that still slip through. This is, in part, the recipe that leads everyone to hate PayPal.

In the BTC world, however, there is no risk to the service. There's no need for a fraudster to even use the service: if they've stolen someone's BTC private key, they already have the money.
I thought it was pretty interesting while it stuck to the "ask me anything" gimmick. I liked that idea, and I liked that you could get anonymous questions. But then I started seeing social details getting added that made me suspect they wanted more to be like Facebook than to be, you know, the unique presence they actually were. Not that I could blame them, but if I wanted facebook, you know, I'd go to facebook. So Formspring basically turned into an awkward imageboard/microblogging app. And then one day it was impossible for me to even log in. Except through the facebook app, from which I disabled my account (because AFAIK they're one of those sites which believes it should be impossible to actually delete your account) and never looked back.
Isn't that the core purpose of Google Search?
> IANAL, but is it not true that you can only sue the government to the extent that it lets you?

It doesn't really matter what laws say about that. Your only recourse against wrongdoing by the government is the justice system run by the very same government. It's certainly within its power to decide not to punish itself.

This is perhaps something to think about.
Node.js and mongodb?

No thanks.
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Actually the 457 issue is the side issue. The key issue for me really is there are not enough people in the industry due to declining enrollments in STEM. We need to fix our education system and build awareness of the industry with high school students, parents, educators and the government. The whole system here is setup so that law and medicine are the pinnacle professions. STEM in this country is rotting. There are some chances underway with the national curriculum through ACARA, and where you can help is to make a submission by May 10th.

http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/
A claasic is the Dropbox video-MVP. It was a tough product to build, so they created a simple, direct video showing how it would work. A lot of people liked it, so they built the product. Google it for a better version of the stroy.

It is possible to make 2 cents Adwords. I am getting about 30 signups each day for about $5. I don't know if that is enough for me, but it is working for me to test some things.

And also, your landing page should be validating it for you, it isn't? The problem is just traffic for it?
As far as Cron replacements go, I prefer whenjobs [1].

[1] http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/whenjobs/
Tesla EV Safety Training
What is pretty interesting is the explanation and inside look into how the car is built. It also meets the jaws of life starting about 27 minutes into the video.
Well, actually Instagram had around 30 million users at the time of acquisition and according to the linked article Formspring also had around 30 million users at one point.

Having said that, I never used Formspring and didn't know anyone who ever had.
Precedent is not the same thing as constitutionality. How is that possibly constitutional?
Yeah, that little bit about "piss off Valve, lose access to everything you bought through Steam" also translates to, "Valve goes out of business, lose access to everything you bought through Steam".

Sure, they promise that if they do shutter the business they'll unlock all purchases. But that assumes the business is closed down in an orderly fashion.
So your total spend on 1 reserved EC2 m1.medium instance is $579.92 a year, not including any bandwidth or EBS storage. On the other hand you could go to OVH and get a dedicated server with 8gb of ram and 2TB of disk and significantly faster processor for $468/year and that includes 5TB of bandwidth a month. (source: http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/kimsufi.xml)

Seems like unless you are going to need the ability to quickly scale the number of instances up and down it makes more sense to put your core services on dedicated servers rather than in the cloud.
It's too grandiose a statement, considering the act.
I'm trying to understand your claim here.

If I understand correctly, the sequences of events is like this:

A) FBI issues NSL to ISP, demanding information, and prohibiting disclosure.
B) ISP starts a proceeding challenging constitutionality of gag
C) FBI starts a separate proceeding reasserting validing of gag

D?) Wired also claims that the FBI claimed that step B violated the law, but I don't see that in the ruling link you posted.

Why is step C needed? Not that it seems that bad....

But if D happened, that seems really alarming.
It would be 4,000 local IT graduates per year spread across our 1,500 startups, multinationals like Google and the corporate sector like banking & finance. It's not enough by any stretch.

Also that's not saying that all those 4,000 are good graduates. A top tier institution like the University of Sydney might graduate 100 per year. If you look at Sydney city, there might be the same from UNSW, UTS, UWS, Macquarie etc. That leaves it pretty thin on the ground.
Test
just testing
Seems like wishful thinking.
Show HN: Listen what you do during sleep project
Project iSleep During your sleep, iSleep samples the sounds. By analyzing the sound signal, iSleep identifies the events like your body movement, snoring and coughing.

Google Play link:

http://bit.ly/15PzGL4
Hey, I just added intro.js to my project. One thing I noticed is the tooltip always shows up at the bottom. The most useful thing I can think of is supporting an attribute to display the tooltip on any side of the element.

I can link you to my project if you'd like to see how I use it. Just email me- mariusz.n.lapinski@gmail.com. My app isn't ready for prod just yet.
I can't help but wonder how you're planning to make money with a product you plan to give away for free forever.
I have ads looking for great javascript developers for 100k+ and I am getting zero applicants. Zero.
Another thing is that the social interfaces that these networks provide are just to good to pass up for the masses. They get one single app on their phone that can handle messaging, pictures, sharing, and video. No need for any other account. No need to remember passwords. All of that plus the future move that the social networks are going to make to become payment gateways. That would basically turn them into a one stop shop for their users to do anything/everything they can think of online.

Email as it is known today will change very soon. All the protocols will be replaced by simple JSON-like data structures being fed off by APIs (not public or open).
Type Families and Pokemon (Haskell tutorial)
Steve Jobs claimed the best coders are 100x better than avg. Still true today?
Steve Jobs said in his 1995 'Lost' interviews that in general, "the range between average and the best is at most 2-1. In software, the difference between average and the best is 50-1 maybe 100-1."

Does this ratio still hold true today given the proliferation of equalizing tools such as jQuery (or even Javascript for that matter), Rails, Mongo, Chrome, Sublime, Codecademy, Stack Overflow, Coursera, [EC2, Heroku], etc.
It doesn't help you. But that doesn't mean it's not useful.

I subscribe to about fifteen developer blogs that update only two or three times a year. Huge waste of time to visit their websites, but whenever anything important happens, I'll know.

I subscribe to the New York Times' main feed. I don't read most of the articles, but I'll flip through all of the headlines for ones that I want to look at. Much faster than the main site.

I'll Option-R right before I leave the house, so if I'm stuck without internet for a while (the cell phone connection is very spotty on a commute I make) I can still read the news and the blogs I'm interested in.

It doesn't fit your use case, but that doesn't mean no one needs RSS.
I'm going to sleep now, will give it a try!
Mailbox Cost Dropbox $100 Million
If you're trying to help people find cool stuff on Kickstarter and elsewhere...fine (good luck with that). But "Kickstarter sucks"? Really? Really lame.
There are only a few that have managed to get funds off the ground. The core problem is that VCs have trouble getting a second fund off the ground because they can't show a good return on the first.
For what it's worth, I just discovered your site and i find the overall design and experience awesome.
It's light, clean, pro, has some fun elements and a bit of a nicely integrated branding which is cool (the forking idea). Well done!
Hardly. Cops today still don't generally go after routine criminals with a full SWAT team and getup. They're usually 1-4 men with vests and pistol/shotgun.

When there's a known/probable gunman, it's prudent to take extra precautions - larger team, better armor, weapons that'll work if the criminal's wearing his own armor. No sense getting killed in a shootout that was predictable.

If people start running around with RPGs, I'd expect reports with gunmen waving rocket launchers to be met with armored vehicles and the like.

Luckily, this doesn't seem likely.
Quibl.com has launched
Whoever builds the service, that is. Few people are looking to host their own feed reader.
They couldn't be that profitable since the average of people using it was 12-13 lol.

And I'm guessing the other reason they shut down is that ask.fm took over, pretty much took the exact same idea and now all the tween's are using that now...
Well, that's a false dichotomy if I ever saw one.

I prefer "well intentioned but misguided", "worked up by a sensationalist media that obscures the fact that kids are safer than in the 'idyllic' 1950s", etc. theories.
Maybe they will kill off xmpp support for gchat entirely next. I doubt it makes them much money.
I just want to say in case nobody else comments here, that this is an awesome blog post. It was very valuable to me.
Someone commented on that article, that whomever pushed through this deal was worth their weight in gold.

Or ~4700 pounds.

$100,000,000 / ($1,500/oz * 14 oz/lb) = 4700 lbs
I think the work done here is fansastic and presents a great alternative to the zurb joyride / jquery or zepto combination. I agree with some of the other comments about the usability on an ipad and mobile device as well as scrolling the screen to the focused element. I think larger targets would really help with this.

At this point in its development, if you are able to use jQuery or Zepto I think that Joyride 2 offers a much better UI / UX especially if you are planning to use Foundation 3/4.
#instatrue
>I think the first thing people should ask themselves is: Why are you trying to get into this scene without any skills?

For the same reasons anyone with no skills gets into anything. Some people glamorize things they don't know, others have a passion but were slow starters, other still know there is gold there, but don't have the experience to understand how to get it.

I think the best thing is to be able to weed out the ones who truly are passionate about technology and are willing to learn. I would take someone super enthusiastic with an aptitude for learning and no technical skills over most others any other day.

I would also point out that the author implicitly suggests no technical skill = no skills, though it could simply be sloppy writing.

The community definitely needs more blog entries telling non-technical people to learn how to code.
Servers in Canada linked to FinFisher spyware program
> and is trying to seriously infringe the second amendment.

Oh, come on. Free speech is way more infringed than the second amendment and all anyone cares about is firearms which are more dangerous than useful against tyranny.
People don't need gmail. They need email. You know, that thing that existed for years before gmail.

To say people don't distrust google/gmail shows your naïveté and/or your rose coloured google glasses.

Search and the collaborative part of google docs (ie multiple concurrent editors on a document) is the only thing where it's hard to find a true competitor that you can self host, not to mention hosted solutions.
I love that HN has changed my default response to tech news
I'll just leave this here :)

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=FD3xe6Jt
As a user of Google Reader, I'm kind of glad it's going away. Why? Because now good quality web-based RSS feed readers will finally arise. Sure, there are some out there now, but with Google's monopoly on the product nobody really cared about them and they weren't very good or reliable. Now that will be forced to change.

To me this is like if in 2002 Microsoft had decided to stop making Internet Explorer and force everyone to use a different browser - quality browsers would have been developed and adopted a lot faster.
How about git rebasing or force push in general, which rewrites history for both git and mercurial users?

(This is hard to handle for normal git users as well, but it can be nice in some edge cases)
We did. And we were paying enough (6 digit monthly bill, not huge but significant I would think) that we did get some nice treatment, although we were definitely not a big enough customer apparently. We adopted a lot of things right away when it came out (ie windows instances, elb). I think that was a mistake and lead to a lot of issues that resulted in responses acting like its not a problem until 6 months later when a fix came out. EC2 was a lot better then my experiences with Terremark though, but we were definitely pennies to them.
I don't doubt it. I enjoy it, though it's not my favorite either. The guy collecting money is almost always grumpy.

It's still very good and (even with the line) I save time over going to a restaurant. $8 Is still pretty cheap for a lunch in NY though. Eating at a restaurant all the time would make me broke pretty quick.

Plus I'm a very shy eater and that one plate will last me the whole rest of the day. Only down side is eating outside, since I walk there; I don't have time to get back and finish lunch. That's always interesting with the pigeons around ;)
I forget the exact problem with OpenSSL, but it accepts particular invalid representations of signatures that the applicable standards say it shouldn't accept, because it doesn't treat the sign bit as a sign bit. This isn't generally a problem because those numbers should never actually be negative, but it's an issue for Bitcoin because everyone needs to agree on which signatures are valid.
> One other advantage of this machine is that Windows has never supported it.

I'm having trouble understanding how this is an advantage.
I used search twice and couldn't find I said that, point me to that comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4965868 Not that there is anything wrong on that, it could have been an opinion on anecdotal evidence. No one expects someone to check prices for 4-5 years first.
> It can be difficult to get your mail accepted by gmail if you run your own servers: I help administer the servers at one organization whose mail [...] often gets sent straight to gmail's spam folder...

As a counterpoint, I've been running my own mail server for 15 years (from various hosted and dedicated servers) and I haven't ever had a problem delivering to gmail...
Just because chose to excerpt my statement down to the second amendment doesn't mean that it's the only one I care about. It's also not all that "anyone" cares about.
To an onlooker, it seems that it could both have worked last week, and not work today.
I think I know why. It's the first google images result that is even remotely logo-friendly.
MapReduce Word Count with GPUs using Pycuda
Well, personally they give me nothing, since I'm not part of the 6.39% of the world population they serve.

But in any case, it's not just about deleting or not. Being only able to watch on other than "blessed" devices is important too, unless we want to further cement software monoculture.
Robots are actually frequently used to make contact with armed suspects holed up in buildings.
We should really be ditching RSS in favor of more flexible platforms like those on schema.org. The web is constantly evolving and changing; to try to keep some extremely legacy tech in tow is just asking for trouble. It's not even useful for its structure, as people are misusing it, so I don't see why we should. At least following schema.org conventions aides in your SEO.
China is Engineering Genius Babies
The client built into the gmail interface supports OTR.
Is this decent yet? I've been using raspbmc but I'm sure plex would be a better solution for these underpowered devices..
“This change is akin to Google no longer accepting incoming e-mail for @gmail.com addresses from non-Google domains”.

No, it’s not. It’s this kind of constant exaggerated claims that give a bad reputation to people that speak for free software, and make them look like out‐of‐touch conspiracy theorists (think Stallman).

Now, I’m not saying I disagree with the message as a whole; it is bad that google closes the door to this kind of interaction, but it’s nowhere close to what they claim (and in bold). With their example, you’d effectively only be able to speak to the person on the other side, but never receive their messages. This case is very different, as only the initial contact is unilateral (the person with the gmail account has to invite the other one), but after that, it works just as well.

It’s this kind of stupid exaggerated argument that drives people away from your message.
> Google has lost it's soul; now it's just a greedy, money grubbing machine.

Yes, it is. However, not because of the Reader. It happened years ago, you just didn't notice :)
Kickstarter sucks at pre-orders...

...because Kickstarter is not for preorders. Also, my car is an awful boat.

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store
It's great to hear that, after all these years, Yishan Wong's "Engineering Management" [0] are still being followed.

http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html