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Yes, your point of view is naive.

On many of my sites, I earn at least 12 cents per pageview, on average, and sometimes as much as 50 cents.

Because I don't charge our users, I don't have to deal with customer service, payment processing, and many other things related to collecting money.

While I haven't ruled out letting subscribers pay us in the future, it would add a huge layer of complexity to our business.

Additionally, if subscribers where to pay $.0002 per page view, guess who would get all of the money? The credit card company! And I definitely don't want to be in the business of figuring out how to do micropayments.

Advertising is simple, it works, and actually provides value to users when done right. Furthermore, as a publisher, I have the right to build a sustainable business.

People who remove ads are directly attacking the ability of any publishing business to exist. Not cool.
There is much to be decided about any investment deal beyond what is contemplated in the protocol. For some examples:

http://mashable.com/2011/05/27/term-sheet-startup-investing/

Just as a thought experiment, let's imagine what would happen if you tried to enforce this handshake deal (complete with email confirmation per steps 3 and 4). How would the courts decide all the issues that would normally have been negotiated and agreed to in a terms sheet?
This is a perfectly reasonable attitude. If your constraints don't allow you to make a handshake deal until later (when a lead is found), then you shouldn't be making a handshake deal until then.
The MSFT change in position on supporting CalDAV (and the linked Win8 help page) is news to me. My Windows Phone 8 is still syncing with Gmail calendar. Does anyone know what's really going on here?
This is a great question as well. I'm a little concerned by this choice because I'm not looking forward to constantly enforcing updates all across the board.
You could do it for cargo ships of all kinds. Something astounding like 35% of the Maersk fleet sits idle at any given time.
I'm continually getting "403 forbidden" when I try to visit this HN. Help?
I seem to be able to access Hacker News via 3g connection on my phone, but via wifi I continually get 403 nginix errors. I know HN was getting DDOSed the other day, is it possible I wound up getting banned due to something related? My account doesn't seem to be deadified, but between the Google Reader closure and this, it's been a frustrating day. Can someone help?
Hmm, did you read the article? The priconomics guys went into that where they said:

"The costs of running a food truck are relatively modest compared to a restaurent. Phat Thai is mostly a family affair, with only one employee from outside the family. The main expenses outside of labor are $1,000 a week for food and supplies, $200 of insurance, and $120 to fill up the truck’s enormous tank. Its engine is the same one that powered Camaros in the seventies, but even at its terrible gas mileage, a tanks suffices for the week. Bobby’s family borrows kitchen space in a friend’s restaurant, but commissaries complete with a kitchen, waste disposal, and a parking space run up to $1,000 a month. "

Not only does it cost less to start from 0 to operating food truck than it does a restaurant, there is also the fact that you (probably) own the truck so rent doesn't go up. On a tax basis you can actually depreciate the truck which you can't do for the restaurant.

The food isn't prepared "in the truck" it is actually prepared in a certified kitchen. And then moved to the truck. Granted not all meals work well like this, but a number of them do.

So I suspect Danny wasn't thinking things through.

Given the surge perhaps a good investment would be a commercial kitchen tailored to support food trucks more efficiently. Sort of a food warehouse kind of deal.
That's ridiculous. It's a resemblance in name only. The format is actually a tremendous shift of power towards the employee and the developer gets a portion of the total recruitment fee.

And obviously no one is literally auctioned off, employees and employers both have a say in the matter.

Also what slaves got auctioned off to make six figures in loft offices of hip cities?
It's 3.14159 though, so ... shouldn't it be 3/15/16 that we're looking for?
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Not necessarily. In New York state for example, it's required that any contract worth $500 or more be written. Oral contracts over $500 aren't enforceable.
A key difference is that the slaves didn't have a choice about which bids to accepts, they just went to the highest bidder, nor did they keep the proceeds.

With this, they aren't really bids in the strictest sense, they're non-binding offers of an interview.
It's wrong because it makes the assumption that it is either hair club for men or malaria research. Also I don't think hair club for men = large donation to malaria research. It is far cheaper.
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If I call any recruiting agency in the Bay Area, I will be offered interviews with at least 3 companies, along with promises that I would be offered a salary of 20% above market. The interviews would be conducted in the recruiter's offices and the salary figures will quickly decline once actually speaking to a company representative.

I feel like I'm still not seeing the additional value that Developer Auction brings to the table. Am I missing something or are they just offering an air of exclusivity?
It's been around for a while. It got some occasional advertising on UK TV due to a celebrity backer/founder.

I understand they have been quite successful.
Sounds like exactly what everyone expected when Mitchell announced Hashicorp. It's interesting to me that there is such a sharp line between open source projects that are buddy-buddy with proprietary closed services and ones that aren't. i.e. Node.js is all buddy-buddy with Microsoft, Ruby on Rails by-and-large isnt (you can use it with closed services, but the community doesn't have much sympathy for you). Puppet is "enterprise-friendly," Chef seems much less so. AngularJS is for corporate drones, Ember.js is for startups.

Maybe this dichotomy is just in my head, but I usually get a vibe within around five minutes of browsing a project's homepage what kind of project is. There's only a few I still consider to be on the fence: Vagrant used to be one. Clojure is another.
It seems clear that any more complete theory describing particle physics must inevitably reduce to something equivalent to the standard model in the appropriate limits. So in that sense, the standard model will hold forever.

It's exactly the same as saying that Newton's law of gravity will hold forever. It applies very accurately under most circumstances; situations that require us to deal with the complexities of general relativity are quite rare. (GR only begins to differ from Newton's gravity when you have extremely strong gravity or when you need extremely high precision.)

But if you want to really understand the inner workings of the universe, Newtonian gravity won't cut it: you need GR. And it's pretty well established that the standard model can't be the whole story, either: its mathematics eventually break down when the energies get high enough. So there's got to be something else up there... we just aren't sure what it is.
I'm afraid this is just not true. With full TCO, if function A calls function B in tail position, and B gets an error, the frame for A will not be on the stack; it will in general be harder to tell how the code got to B.

Although TCO is often essential and I have written large blocks of code that depend on it, I have also long advocated better heuristics for when to turn it off so as not to impede debugging. The compromise taken, for example, by some Common Lisp implementations, where calls from one top-level function to another are not tail-optimized but local calls (calls to functions defined with LABELS or FLET) are, in my experience works very well most of the time.
Just grabbed my copy of 2nd, already had a copy of the 1st edition which I loved, so excited to see the updates both in terms of changes for 1.5, the clojurescript stuff, and logic programming.

Happy times :)
I really like this idea. But "handshake deal" is too ambiguous. pg couldn't have proposed it without sounding crass, but I think it should be called a...

"YC handshake"
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It would gain being easier to write. I'm assuming that the OS defaults to checking system certificates, and requires customization to do otherwise. Maybe that's not the case on Windows.
I would love to watch this, but O'Reilly's presentation streamer is awful. I tried jumping ahead, but the video stream doesn't actually jump with me so I end up listening to one part and watching another (tried under FireFox, Safari and Chrome on Mac).

I don't suppose someone has an alternative version somewhere?
Just an observation about the parentheses... Although it can be hard to make sense of the large number of parentheses, using good indentation (emacs does it for you) helps a lot.

Of course Python makes it easier to figure out what code belongs where, it was made with this goal in mind after all.

I believe it is a tradeoff, Lisp's syntax gives you flexibility and an easy (in terms) and powerfull macro system at the expense of code readability (when compared with some languages).
Yes, the scale of wars has not been on the multinational "total war" level the last half century, but it is hardly been peaceful. Just more along historical norms pre-World Wars. That is normally true of wars following more encompassing conflicts.

Ideology played just as large of a driving force during the second half of the 20th Century yet the bloodshed was less. It is hard to say that withdraw from Ideology equals greater peace.
I was impressed by how small the price change was as a result of this blockchain split - it gives me a lot more confidence in the future of Bitcoin. Mt. Gox saw a selloff and price drop of about 20%, which was mostly stabilized in a day, and about back to the starting price in 2. All of the other exchanges look about the same or less severe.
This is a new topic to me. Are there any whitepapers or open source projects touching on this?
True. I hadn't considered situations where the content would change if you replayed later. For the apps where I'd use this that's never been a use case, and aside from the cached content, Selenium accomplishes the same and more. Selenium is typically used for testing and verification, but it's quite useful as a recording/playback or full-fledged browser automation tool. Another good one is iMacros.
> Imagine that Go were used to write most components on a system. One security vulnerability in one package and you don't replace just one library, you'll have to reroll every binary (or package if you are maintaining a Linux distribution).

Imagine that a shared library were upgraded, and it contained a new vulnerability. This vulnerability now automatically exposes any program that uses said said library.

Trade offs :-)

(Compiling Go is fast. Re-rolling a binary isn't a Big Deal.)

> Also, since there is no version management in Go packaging, you better hope that every program uses the API of the latest or fixed version.

Simplicity has a price. But there's no reason why an external tool cannot be made to handle versioning.
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Actually I read that differently, I read 10% of their sales, they expect $1000 per day in sales so $100 per day, or $500 for a 5 day week. Not a $1000. Also with the fee as a fraction of sales, if you have a slow week with the truck you're out 10% of your slow revenue. But at a restaurant you have to pay the full rent, even if nobody comes in during the week because the Hockey Players are on strike (for example).

Businesses where costs are a fixed component of revenue can price their margin to always be "profitable" but businesses where costs are fixed have to meet minimum revenue goals to make minimum margin. On the plus side in a restaurant if you do a lot more business you get to keep the extra windfall.

However as the article mentions if you are really successful the landlord can up your rent when you renew your lease.
Yeah, I must admit I was confused by this as well. Do we need Fusion + a license for the Vagrant VMWare provider, or is the Vagrant VMWare provider stand-alone?
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> Does this mean that DeveloperAuction will only accept developers residing in these specific cities?

They probably only accept developers who want to work in one of those specific areas. Those are probably the only cities where they have connections with enough companies to get bids. The whole thing would be pointless if no one was bidding. I would imagine that if they are successful, they will expand to other areas.
Something I've always been curious about with 37s.

What % of their first (say) 100 customers were RoR developers?
Its a bit redundant with the article, but I think everyone should at least check out the Lambda the Ultimate papers written by the guys in the MIT Scheme group. In particular the "GOTO" one amazes me a bit because even today the "expensive procedure call myth" still exists somewhat.

http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
This is exactly the same handshake deal the founders of Fairchild Semiconductor did with each other.
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Your points makes sense, but I think it is fair to say that the US is openly engaged in a kind of Cold War with Iran, for good or for ill, and everyone understands that.

When a government uses its resources to prey upon another country's companies, that is also a kind of Cold War. Of course, we cannot prevent China from doing so, if they choose. But are they actually prepared for the eventual tit-for-tat response? At this point, China is merely getting its fair warning. What matters is what unfolds over the next decade.
No, no they won't, anyone who says they will lacks a grade-school understanding of plant biology.

Plants eat sunlight. With adequate irrigation, light is the key limiting factor on plant growth. Stacking plants vertically is a very expensive waste of time, because you're not gathering any more solar energy than if you just planted them at ground-level. You're just spreading the same amount of light between more plants - plants that are housed in a very expensive building and that are impossible to tend or harvest in an efficient manner.

The future of farming already exists. It's in southern Spain, around towns like El Ejido and Almeria. These areas look white in satellite images, not because of any geological feature but because they're absolutely covered in polytunnels - hundreds of thousands of greenhouses, creating a humid microclimate in an arid but sunny region, to supply salad vegetables to Europe year-round.

http://goo.gl/maps/WrZ5j
This conversation thread is always an interesting one that surfaces from time to time, disappears, then resurfaces again. For me I think the issue is really one of access and exposure. Black women have been at the helm of technology companies as either CTO's, CEO's, C-suite executives, etc for several decades (see notables such as Shellye Archambeau, Ursula Burns, etc). Yet we still rank VERY low in terms of the number of black female founded startup companies which receive venture capital (less than 1%), thus the media coverage for black female founders is likewise sparse. This is probably why we appear nearly invisible in the articles you may come across but it does not mean there are not many new enterprising young women led startup in the space. It just means our voices are not often heard. I personally believe as more women of color enter the technology space and build businesses which will scale at the level of tech behemoths such as FB, Twitter, etc we will change this dynamic. There are many promising and talented young women currently in the space moving in that direction and certainly many even younger codenistas from programs such as Black Girls CODE that I certainly feel change the future. Then hopefully this discussion will finally go away. For good... ;-) ~Kimberly- BlackGirlsCODE
I think that's the fatal flaw...
It attempts at the same time to be a contract and NOT be a contract. If it IS a contract no one will be willing to partake without legal review, so it loses all the time saving benefits. If it is NOT a contract then its no better than what is done today without all the protocol just with a simple handshake.

I think the chief benefit I see is educational for new business people/founders as to what you should and should not consider a 'deal', and what is just networking/bullshit.
If this is refactoring, then you never used a proper IDE with refactoring support.

Slide 5 is the proof this is no better than search and replace.
Not sure how HN does it, but reddit sorts by the wilson score. It seems like a logical way to sort these sorts of things.

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
This Chrome feature is useful for 'I'm going up on stage to demo my product' scenarios, thus the

> even if your servers have exploded, a bug has been
> deployed, or the conference wifi has dropped out
Pointless to the individual after he is dust, though. There is no meaning to dust.
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The value can be as simple as they couldn't get it for any less. For example, if the wholesale price of an item is $1.50 at 10,000 units, someone who only needs one may happily pay $7.50 since the alternative is coming up with $15,000
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Do you have a link? I'd love to read/watch. Thanks for turning me on to those groups!
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It's not totally off-base. The OP wrote:

"Luckily, with the availability of backend services and tools like StackMob, you can fairly quickly come up with a very functional app in a matter of hours."

It's not a functional app unless it has all of the back-end structures that make the actual thing an 'application'.

The basic Airbnb interface/data structure was simply used as an example framework for the author to show off the tools and workflow.

That was implied, but not stated, hence the criticism. Hyperbole wins again!
Exactly. I'm imagining a world where I tell a customer to use a Chrome add-in that automatically starts recording what they do and uploads it to me and I can see what is going on.

Even if not that wonderful, just the ability to have QA or fellow developers send me a file that I can analyze instead of tying up their computer would be wonderful. Especially when working with remote co-workers.

The problem with video is that I can't inspect their DOM or their console.
Not really, if I understand correctly this is capturing only the requests, "caching" them in a way, so when on playback mode if you do an action that fires this request, it's fetched from the recorded store.

I think its use is limited to what the article suggests: making sure real life demos don't break.
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Report all these emails as spam. One click.

Telemarketing phone calls are best treated by putting spammer on an infinite hold in expectation of sale. Their time is valuable and they'll absolutely hate wasting it unproductively. Rinse and repeat.
The product is still catching up to consulting revenue, but in the red by about 50% without consulting after salaries. Have a runway of about 4-5 months.

The reason for the salaries is that we both quit our jobs to do this full-time and have families to support.
It's 1000$ per meal with 2 per meal per day your back to 1000$ /10 * 2 * 5 = 1000$.

However, I think the real trick is it's far more negotiable as you can park somewhere else a lot easier than you can move a resistant.
I really enjoy using CompoundJS for quick prototypes. Wish there was a larger community though; well, really, I wish any of the MVC nodeJS frameworks had the kind of community that Rails and Django have.
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Yes but that was not always the case. Malaria was endemic to North America and existed from Florida all the way up through Minnesota. The CDC was formed as the center for malaria control. I was responding to the point that "pretty much all rich countries" are in areas with climates not conducive to malaria. There are at least a half dozen rich countries that once were endemic to malaria. USA, Hong Kong, Australia, Italy, Singapore, etc.
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Co-founder of Work for Pie (the other company mentioned in the article) here. I will say I'm glad that these guys expanded from their original, pretty elitist degree and/or experience requirements.

There are companies that do it right--like Github and Etsy--and there are companies that do it wrong. The big problem is that doing it right probably takes more time. Supporting the local developer ecosystem, presenting at conferences and meetups, mentoring others, open sourcing projects, writing blogs that help others, etc. are all great recruiting strategies (and just darn nice things to do overall), but they all take a lot of time (and none are guaranteed to bring you new employees).

I think the fact that these guys are successful tells me that a fair number of companies are saying "my time is more valuable than $xx." I'm not sure how I feel about that. I completely understand it--especially when you're a part of a super-small team--but I still kinda wish it didn't have to be that way. And fwiw I'm not sure how well cultural fit is addressed by this platform, but maybe the companies figure all that out in interviews.

I'm biased, but I think giving developers the chance to discover the one company (among as many options as possible) that fits them best is the way to really improve recruiting. That forces companies to actually be worth a damn--not just have deep pockets--to recruit successfully.

..and now for the shameless plug. It's free to set up a company page on Work for Pie, and you can post up to two jobs for free too. Tell our thousands of developers how awesome you are: https://workforpie.com/companies/join/
Self-concious people are less selfish.. their life will tend to have more meaning.. the ones that surround them are more happy because self-councious people are more aware of himself, more aware of the things he does, and the result of his actions in the life of others..

Sensibility is always a good thing.. with more people like him we wouldnt have experienced the arise of the nazis or the koch brothers destroing everything around because they are the "only ones who matter", "the elite"

is subtle, it may look small.. but the attitude of always think about the results of your own actions (in the moral aspect, not just in the results for himself) is one of the things the western civilization are in deep need..

Do we only act like vampires of resources and the earth, or we contribute a little back? do we worry?
At the very least it makes people accountable and open to shaming if they don't follow through. And in a small community word would spread about who breaks their deals.

Also I think PG should make this into a small mobile app. Every VC is going to add some wiggle text to his boiler plate.
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It may be computation-bound (I'm not sure) but training deep networks generally does use a lot of memory, because of the giant training sets. You're right that GPUs are a good fit, for example libraries such a theano exploit this.
I wish I knew, but this seems to be getting out of hand today. What happened to Google supporting open standards?