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Social sciences aren't all bad, and can be used properly. Experimental economics is an example of a field with very interesting, solid scientific insights.

Unfortunately, far too much of the social sciences are funded by extrmely politically motivated and/or sensitive organizations. A big bias I've seen in social sciences, which is present in this particular case, is an acute and completely non-scientific aversion to "blaming the victim." There is clear, and obvious to the layman push to always blame external factors, despite the obvious and persistent presence of possible internal factors.

Poverty isn't rape. Victims can often times be at least partially to blame for their state. However, these studies are often funded by sympathetic groups who are seeking to ascribe external causes whenever possible.

If you have ever known a severely depressed person, I can assure you that they will find a way to make themselves poor very quickly. I could insert my many, many family members and friends who have struggled with depression into this, but it would all be anecdotal. Instead, I'll stay abstract:

1) Depression lowers energy levels
2) Depression drastically inhibits motivation
3) Depression destroys relationships
4) Depression causes self-destructive behavior

All of these things, by themselves, will serve to decrease a person's income. Put them all together and you have a poor person in the making.

Couldn't resist 1 anecdote: My mother was given a very, very generous alimony (house, car, shitloads of money) by my father. She was depressed. She blew through it all. Never got off her ass. Self-destructive behavior meant she drank away her medication's effectivesss. She's been broke (homeless half the time) for the last 25 years. Poverty didn't cause her depression. Depression (and lots of bad decisions) causer her poverty.
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Actually, I prefer the YY.MM format of versioning (like Ubuntu .)
Yes, hate the player.

Unethical behavior does not become fine because it is popular.

Stop norming abuse.
What OS are you running Chrome on? There have been some serious problems with Chrome on Mountain Lion.
I regularly get up to about 30-40 tabs. I'm a spacial thinker, so I can remember where the content that I want is relative to it's position in the tab bar (+- about 2 tabs usually), so having the icons disappear doesn't bother me. I just compulsively ctrl-click things to open them in new tabs, in case I want both the new content and the old content.
What state are you reshipping from? There are sales tax implications unless you are in a state like Oregon.

Also, I'm sure there are users that need an international reship.
But we don't know future carbon ratios.
I'm going to make NoTab, which closes Chrome for a 100% reduction in RAM usage.
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here, the dot is not used to separate integers from decimals, just to separate two integer numbers. This is common practice in software projects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Incrementin...)
I kinda agree with the headline, but only because I think the followup is "Instead, you should become a UX expert".

I think many developers do themselves a disservice by not working to get good at this stuff. It's not magic, but it takes consistent, conscious practice like any other skill. What's more, every time you sit down to code is another opportunity to practice, because every program has a user, and every user has needs, expectations, and frustrations.
This.

1. I bookmark lots of sites but rarely go back to them (mainly because it's hard to find what I'm looking for)

2. Sometimes I spend ages looking through my history to find something I remember seeing but didn't bookmark

3. I leave dozens of tabs open because I think I'm going to refer back to them but 50% of the time never do. The order and which window they were grouped with is info I need for context.

So I want -

1. a full-text search of history or bookmarks (I haven't decided which)

2. someway to really quickly convert my open tabs to history/bookmarks

3. A psychic computer that knows when I meant to bookmark something ;-)

I know some extensions can help with this but I've never found the ideal one yet. Suggestions appreciated.
you can also download it through their website as well, except their site is being hit super hard right now (error 500).
I have had some success with aluminum foil (the kind you might want to use in a kitchen) -- place that over the webcam lense and then use whateever tape you want to use to hold it in place.
I'm quite surprised of the feedback so far with this. It works well for what's offered. I find myself looking through dribbble or hunting down a problem and need to have a few reference tabs open on occasion but I don't necessarily want them open but I'd like a reference if I needed it again. I would suggest being able to make lists inside the OneTab page and saving those lists as presets if you can't already. That way I can label certain groups "Design inspiration for XYZ" and have those tabs directly related.
Hi.

There was many interesting things listed at the blog post. I have been planning a system similar in idea to Sting, your OLAP server (?).

I'm planning a light RPC style system on top of Pandas dataframe objects, transferring HTTP requests to Pandas method calls. Memory usage of such a system with our data is too expensive if all data is in use. So, I'm investigating possible caching and database solutions.

Could you perhaps elaborate on the implementation of Sting's in memory database?

[posted from yet another HN account]
We just put "incorporate" in the title for simplicity's sake - we actually take care of the full set of paperwork you need to set up a startup (founder stock issuances and all that good stuff). So we do quite a bit more.
I'm pushing for more python use at my company as well. It's tough as everyone is drinking the ruby kool-aid.

P.S. I really enjoyed your talk at QCon SF last year!
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Agreed. Also, I know Chris personally and he's awesome. He helped us a lot during the early days of IndexTank.

By the way, I love the pattern where someone experiences unsolved problems within their industry and creates a startup to address them.
Version numbers are not numbers. How would you explain, for example, Chrome's version 24.0.1312.57?

Dots separate logical numberings, like version, patch, bugfix, etc. So 3.0 goes after 2.0 And 2.0.2 after 2.0.1. And 1.10 after 1.9.
It's not an ad hominem to suggest that a piece of unconventional research is unlikely to be correct because it is published in a disreputable journal. Academia is all about reputation, and the standing of various journals.

If they had sufficient evidence to back up their claims then they would be on the cover of Nature. Unfortunately for them, actual Science requires peer-reviewed evidence. Publishing in your own journal does not count. It's a huge red flag.
Look here for a detailed analysis of benchmarks. http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/03/11/node-v0-10-0-stable/

From that post, their focus is on v0.12 and then v1.0. Nice to see we're getting to that stage.
It's true the light will come on, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to get away with surreptitious monitoring. Remember the controversy in 2010 in the Lower Merion School District?

* http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/school-district-hal...

* http://www.pcworld.com/article/190101/article.html
Thank you so much for your help. I will start looking into your suggested references. I know my Prior knowledge is in OOP but that is because it is the main focus these days for academics. Thanks again.
Today's not towel day. They done goofed.
DanBC mentions this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356028
Unofficial node v0.10.0 support for Heroku
This is awesome. The pages are clear, the process fairly transparent, and the whole thing seems relatively hassle-free.
I wish this had been around when we did our incorporation, because I think our use of a heavy-duty lawyer was unnecessary.
Thanks for the feedback - we'll add an information page about that! For the timebeing, we're focused on startups that intend to be venture-backed (if they aren't already), which is why we're focused on DE C-corps. Definitely looking into adding more services though - since there are a lot of other types of companies out there!
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(I work at Stripe)

Patrick answered a question on Quora about why Stripe doesn't have product managers and the cultural aspects behind that decision: http://qr.ae/TFjJK
I'm curious - I believe that in many states you need to register in the state you live, even if you are also registering in DE.
Does Clerky guide you though this process as well?

I believe that DE also requires an agent on-site? Do you provide this the registered agent forwarding, etc?

Very neat idea. Good luck!
Whatever the brightline test for "a lot" is, there's no compelling reason each tab should be consuming about 70MB. Under Chrome, each tab runs in its own process, which is certainly a contributing factor. I appreciate this is for stability and security, but it's not the best solution for the problem and has some serious drawbacks, i.e. horrible memory usage.
Aomori Group | Panasonic Profits After Cost-Cutting.
I am a major procrastinator. I've noticed that the few times I was able to beat it was when I had projects that were both small enough and which I was passionate about enough to finish quickly. Larger projects are a no-go for me.

PS: Dropped you an email about an unrelated matter.
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> Resist the urge to cynically compare and contrast the old and new stacks. I have interviewed too many candidates who could not stop talking about how great their old language is, or how “these new hipster languages are just a fad”.

I thought at first this was headed in the other direction - e.g. candidates who could not stop talking about how great their new language is and how their old language is "a dinosaur". That is the tendency I have - to inflate the advantages of languages that interest me most because of their novelty to me.
If only there was a formal name for that behavior.
The first comments in here sound fake. I couldn't stand that the site has the default theme from Twitter Bootstrap. Please take an effort to make it a little different.
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I seem to be in an invite queue so I can't check for myself -- how do signatures work? I see from the FAQ that "We're fully compliant with the ESIGN Act, UETA, and 1999/93/EC, which govern the use of electronic signatures in the U.S. and E.U.", but how do you achieve this?
Probably but it's still 70MB per tab.
Learn new paradigms like functional programming (the purest, the better). It'll teach you how to "bend" your mind around certain problems/structures.
There's no way you could effectively work with 100 tabs open, and that is surely a smell for inefficiency. For any given task, 5 tabs is probably reaching the upper limit on what's actually _required_, with around 10 being the upper limit.

Granted, you could have multiple tasks ongoing in parallel, but are you really working in parallel at that point? If not, save the tabs and return to them later. I really doubt you are visiting all 100 tabs on a regular basis so as to merit they stay open at all times.

I've seen way too many people use their browser as a sort of todo app, by virtue of "I'll open a tab for this so I don't forget to do it later" -- hell, I do this too -- but that's not at all the intended usage of a browser, and so naturally, it sucks at it.
And if he would like an overview of evolution An Ancestor's Tale would be a great book to pickup. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/061861916X/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/185-0865240-1556308
This is a very strong argument.
if you have a 100 tabs open, you're using it wrong.
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I recently found TabMemFree
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabmemfree/pdanboc...

It is similar to OneTab but keeps the tab open (with Flavicon and Name) but just "parks" it after a time period. It saves back states.

As a heavy open tab users (we have a support group I've heard) I like it. Working with 4 GB of Ram is made much easier!

If you have a tab that you don't want "parked" after 15 minutes (configurable) then you just pin it. So Gmail and Pandora get pinned. The rest park themselves and reload on when I select them.
Nice! I've also been thinking about something like this for my photos. I have a ton of photos littered in a pics folder. Would love an API would I could query on EXIF data.
Totally agree here. There's a lot of domain knowledge that goes into making things easy to use/learn. The entire goal of UX is to make it seem simple -- but PRODUCING something simple isn't!
In other words, not <integral>.<fractional>

This should be fairly clear given your typical version number takes the form of <integer>.<integer>.<integer> which can't possibly be mistaken for a decimal fraction.
I liked this up until the point where it felt that they made the push for LinkedIn hard. My skeptic detectors went off. If you were to follow a lot of this advice it would drive someone to use LinkedIn a lot more which makes sense given the authors.
Awesome. Thanks for that. Do you know if there are any examples showing the opposite approach? If they force the bacteria to go directly from no antibiotics to the maximum concentration, with no stepping stones, I wonder if that just slows down their mutation or if it actually makes it completely impossible.
Panspermia's hypothesis still under investigation/undetermined
You work for Adobe right?
Actually, this is wrong. Reductio ad absurdum should be:

((~x) -> x) -> x

or:

((x -> _|_) -> x) -> x

Which is not constructible in Coq/Idris.
Lithium is the way to go for anything < 20°C. (A refrigerator should be around 2°C.) Digikey carries 9V lithium cells.
Version 0.8 isn't version 0.80. A version number is a sequence of natural numbers, ordered lexicographically and written with periods separating elements. The version (x1, x2, ...) compares to the version (y1, y2, ...) as follows: If x1 =/= y1, then whichever of x1 and y1 is bigger decides which version is the highest. Otherwise, recurse and compare the versions (x2, x3, ...) and (y2, y3, ...).

You can think of a decimal number in the same way (well, leaving out some minor technicalities with numbers requiring infinite expansions here), but you then have to allow only numbers between 0 and 9 (inclusive) in your sequence. Let's leave out positive numbers (because otherwise we'd have to grow sequences in both directions from the decimal point, which is an annoying technicality). Then 0.12345 is simply the sequence (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), which in version notation is 0.1.2.3.4.5. On the other hand, decimal 0.80 is version 0.8.0, not version 0.80.

Really, all in all, version numbers are just decimal expansions, except that we leave out the equivalence relation that says that, for example, 10x10^1 is the same as 1x10^2. So while 0.8.0 and 0.80.0 are distinct version numbers, they collapse to the same value as real numbers (or you might want to collapse 0.80.0 to 8.0 -- it doesn't matter, that's all a matter of taste).
The trouble with this idea is that Google can't magically see private links/recommendations on social networks any more than anyone else can.

For example, one site I help with has just a few inbound links from low PR sites as far as Google is concerned, and gets a page rank of zero accordingly. In reality, it probably gets more inbound links via social networking in a single day on most days, and unsurprisingly those personal recommendations often drive more inbound traffic than any search engine.

Google's basic premise of ranking the importance of a site based on how many links it gets and where from is wildly inaccurate in the era of social networking. Normal people mostly don't run their own public web sites or blogs any more, they share stuff on sites like Facebook and often only with their "friends".

Personally, I think this is a good thing, because both as a visitor and as someone running sites I would rather rely on legitimate personal recommendations from people who are genuinely interested in a site than on some arbitrary algorithm running in a data centre somewhere on another continent. I don't think it's healthy for any one intermediary to have a dominant effect on whether interested people can find interesting content on the Web, and sites like search engines and social networks are merely intermediaries.
I want to second what div already said, with the added comment that it's better to have a specific goal than to wander aimlessly through the source.

Every piece of software has bugs and limitations. When you encounter one, go figure out why it is the way it is, and maybe even fix it.

If all your dependencies are so perfect that this never comes up (hah!), you can always pick a project you use and like and look at their open issues. Begin trying to solve one of them.
what about the current session?
think browsers as an os, not just a program. you spend most of your time in front of it. they deserve more resource than the other installed programs in your computer.
I meant to say the internet is NOT the web...as in not HTTP.
I've been eyeing the gmail import tool with suspicion, and I'm glad I didn't give in to my curiosity. I'd be mortified if all the contacts in my address book got an email blast from a 3rd party website.
Nate Silver to startups: Go for the low hanging fruit
It looks like a startup by lawyers, not developers/designers. If it works for them and they provide a valuable service, so what?
tabs are not a replacement for bookmarks, the idea is not to open an ever increasing number of tabs, but rather bookmark and folder things if you need 100 concurrent research tabs. It's just the wrong way to use the browser.

It would be like me arguing that driving my car with the parking brake on makes it get hot, of course it does, it's user error.
Keep it up!

Posts like these are great on a tech level, but they're also good recruitment - Seeing Python, along with hackers that I respect (like you) at Netflix make me at least the littlest bit tempted to go there ;)
I'm constantly amused at the nit-picky things people seem to use to determine whether a site is trustworthy.
> RAM is now fantastically cheap.

Sure, but IMO it is the height of hubris to assume that your application's space-time-trade off to gain a few ms here or there is vastly more important that every OTHER application I am trying to run.

Play nice.
Thanks!

We have an optional template that will get you registered as a foreign corporation in California, if you need that (and if you need another state, just let us know). I should note that the California Secretary of State does not accept electronic signatures though, so there is some manual process there.

For DE, we do partner with a registered agent service (all that is handled by us so it doesn't add any extra steps for you).
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Hospitals really can be that bad. People get sloppy if they aren't constantly reminded that they need to be vigilant. I have personally witnessed doctors open doors with bloody gloves and then interact with patients.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/08/hospital-checklist-...
Actually he changed to "mostly harmless" from "harmless" if I remember correctly.
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My version: I was on the iPad, somehow hit a link to send invites to everyone on my "you might know" list.

Much embarassment ensued.

Surprisingly, about 75% of people who I've never met (online or IRL) accepted the invite.

I'm not exactly sure why Linkedin is worth a damn anymore.
One suggestion: for the majority of startups (based in California) that will use your service, it might be easier to register as a California C Corp.

I can't imagine any VC denying you funding because you are not a DE corp. Plus, you save ~$400 per year in Delaware Franchise Fees. Even if you are a DE corp, you'd need to file paperwork to qualify to operate in CA. You also need to pay taxes in CA, even if you are a DE corp.

If you do a search on http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/ you'll see that Google started out as a CA corp.

C2119530 09/04/1998 MERGED OUT GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY INC. DAVID C DRUMMOND

Once you get your series A/B and get big... I'm sure it's relatively easy to convert your corp to a DE corp.

Since you are charging $100 / $300, you probably want to target as wide a customer base as possible. By concentrating only on DE C Corps, you are limiting yourselves to the Dropbox/AirBnB style startups. What about all the potential S-Corps / LLCs that could benefit from your service?

I run an S-Corp, and would have easily paid you $500 to get all the paperwork (correctly) filed for me in CA.
Interesting. That's a shame that Vancouver doesn't have an urban core that is family friendly. I really enjoyed the city when I visited. I have a huge dislike of the "draw the drunks in" mentality of so many urban cores these days.

I think that, similar to the way New Urbanism was viewed in the 1990's (no demand, so why build it), urban family living is a case where the demand appears as soon as the supply is present. But good luck getting a real estate developer on board when they can just stick to the tried and true of sucking in the yupsters. The closest thing you get to families in a lot of these place are BF/GF with a dog.
In addition, if I'm never exposed to a gun or a pool, then my risk of dying by either is zero. That doesn't mean those things have no risk. It means that my personal risk of dying from those things is zero and I shouldn't be included in any calculation that measures the risk of owning those things.

Zero people in my town were attacked by lions last year, but I'm sure a few were attacked by dogs. Cool! Lions are way safer than dogs!

UnoriginalGuy, I'd suggest taking a step back from your argument for a minute. Every single response here has explained the flaw in your original claim. It might be worth taking a minute to understand where you could have gone wrong in your reasoning.
No, the difference is that you actually know what a browser is. "Google" is still a common reply to "what browser do you use?".
Thank you so much for your reply! I like your advice, I think it's a great place to start.
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“For those looking for commercial support, StrongLoop (Ben Noordhuis & Bert Belder's company) has released a distribution containing node v0.10 that they will support on Windows, Mac, Red Hat/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu and multiple cloud platforms. You can download their Node distribution here.” —http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/03/11/node-v0-10-0-stable/
My whole family was in Buenos Aires
Also Mountain Lion. 15" rMBP.