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don't want to say out of paranoia or what have you, but for what it's worth I charge a good rate but don't work many hours. a few years ago I was thinking about starting a company just because consulting in my niche (Rails ppl) was booming so much that I figured I could make more money taking on more people and thereby answering "yes" to every offer of work. didn't do it, though, mainly because it also would have meant more responsibility, and failing could have screwed other people over. plus tbh I fuck up planning shit all the time, so unless I get better at that or hire someone else to back me up, running my own business isn't the greatest idea.

in terms of how much work there is out there right now, I really don't know, but I troll jobs sites just out of curiousity, and I think everybody's noticed there are less ads up these days. techcrunch reported that dice.com saw a drop in job posting volume of about 40,000 posts, measured monthly I think.

somebody posted that their niche is booming and if they hired people they could take on even more work. if you want to find out what niches are booming, it's really easy shit to figure out. go to dice.com, or monster, or whatever, and just google different languages, applications, and platforms. (bear in mind, though, if you've got very minimal experience with a given hot niche, learning it overnight might not be the most credible claim.)
Yup, bite the hand that feeds you. Excellent plan. California has a stellar track record of producing essential things for the rest of America. I'd be willing to bet it's a better record than what is produced in Washington. Please, don't fuck up the goldmine that is the Valley with uninformed regulation like this.

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On a related note, our financial system is so convoluted that our Treasury Secretary doesn't even understand it. His knee jerk reaction is to regulate everything. The complexity of our economy on a national scale has grown beyond the reasoning ability of most people.

I have an idea. How about we simplify things. Reduce the role of the government and give states more control over the situation. Competition between states would produce a far more optimal result than the behemoth that is the government can produce. It's what we would (read: should) do with a large failing company, why not with this?
For one, you have to work an hour. Often, several, right in a row. When other people want you to.
I know that was a typo, but I think the answer is still relevant...

The 'media age' [sic] of the Associated Press is 161 years. And it shows.

;)
I wish there was a device I could wear, maybe like a wristwatch, which could track whether I was awake (which is probably possible based on pulse and/or movement). It should tell my phone my status, and my phone would automatically go into silent mode while I'm asleep. It might as well display on Facebook and GChat too.

If it was accurate enough, the data on my (and everyone else's, if they chose to make it public) sleep patterns could be very interesting and even medically useful.
I can't believe I'm saying this but... I'm feeling increasingly guilty for voting D in the last election, as the Nancy Pelosi 'nanny state' Democrats take over.
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One of the neat things about JavaScript is that objects are just hashes/dictionaries. It turned out to be a really flexible way to do objects. Unfortunately, when you actually want to use an object as a dictionary, all the methods get in the way. If methods weren't owned by objects, there wouldn't be any such problem. A JavaScript with generic functions would be awesome.

I've been thinking of implementing such a thing (and a couple of other things to fix JavaScript), but it's sort of pointless, seeing as Common Lisp already does many things right. The only thing JavaScript has going for it is that it runs in browsers. A full-fledged interpreter (in JavaScript) for another language would be too slow. Perhaps such a language should be compiled down to JavaScript using only very simple and fast text transformations.

All this would be just for kicks, of course.
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He also set up the class rosters for high school, surrounding himself with all the cute girls.
...what? That's nonsense.

You might be able to "stamp out" return by reducing risk, but the converse doesn't hold: there are plenty of ways to risk money without having any reasonable expectation of return.
My state can't manage to legalize alcohol purchases on Sunday, and it just banned stem cell research. Not sure giving us more power is a good thing.
I think the fastest way to put and end to garbage like this is to give states more power. Businesses will just move out of states with archaic legislatures like this one to a neighboring state that offers better incentives. Once the state treasury is empty, the legislature will come to their senses pretty quickly. On the other hand, if the government is handing out money to everyone, there is no incentive to move. Most countries have no opportunity to create internal competition. We do and we should take full advantage of it.
I think the big corporate money likes fundy law, because the same guys passing these laws support deregulation and tax cuts.
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I end up having a lot of people ask me "SEO" questions which basically just amount to understanding PageRank and the basics of Google's ranking-fu. What I've seen is that the desire for SEO comes from and ok place -- people just seeing page ranking as black magic and wanting someone to demystify it. Nerds tend to take for granted understanding the basics of web search. A surprising number of people in the web world have no basic grasp of the concepts, but still know that showing up in search results is important for them.
Good point. I haven't quite figured out how to address this problem yet. I would hope that the free market would just cancel this incentive out. If the fundy legislature in the next state over is offering low taxes, the progressive legislature will offer low taxes as well to compete. You're right though in that fundy law does seem to align with corporate interests quite often.
Probably not: the .com crash didn't take the rest of the economy with it. Can we avoid politics now?
What does it mean when you didn't receive a rejection email.
BUT
You also didn't get anything saying you got it.
Was there a point that they just stopped reading the applications?
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"Yup, bite the hand that feeds you. Excellent plan."

I recall that hand giving us the finger about nine years ago, and it hasn't done a whole lot to make up for it since.

Given the number of pensions, trusts, endowments and other "essential" institutions that invest in venture funds, I don't think it's unreasonable or onerous to expect that they might have to report the identities of their investors to the eventual regulators of systemic risk. It's not like there isn't precedent for the VC sector to depress the economy.
Well, he did say:

"I don’t think we’ve yet hired an employee who knew Python. I just say, “everything you write needs to be in Python.” Just so I can read it. And it’s awesome because I can see from across the room, looking at their screen, whether their code is good or bad. Because good Python code has a very obvious structure. And that makes my life so much easier."

Which boils down to: I make them use python to be able to control them better. It is legitimate for a boss to do that, he pays you after all. But it's hardly groundbreaking new management style or a good criterion for choosing a language.

I also can see why you are sympathetic to this. I know the good feeling when you know the language so well that you can see across a room from the shape on the screen wether it is good code or bad code. I love that myself.
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10:31 Realize that you went to grad school because you're intellectually curious, not because you want to incrementally increase Man's knowledge.

10:35 Web drop yourself from all your courses and buy a plane ticket to the Valley to start a startup.
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From my perspective, our local politics are hopeless because my state is controlled by religious fundamentalists. The feds exist to protect me from those around me by limiting their ability to change my state to Jesus Land by enforcing the constitution.
They invest in very limited amounts, and the amount they are allowed to invest in VC is quite limited by existing regulation, isn't it? If this crisis shows us anything, its that real estate and stocks/bonds are not safe investments, and diversification into VC is nothing if not prudent.
What if we never got a rejection letter,
BUT
We also never got contacted for a confirmation.
Does that mean they are still going through them?
Let's be clear: I'm not teasing you for your business model, nor suggesting that it was easy to do what you did. I also don't care that you bought something for ten cents, and sold it for 30x more than that -- that's capitalism. You exploited a market inefficiency, and made a lot of money from it.

I am teasing the OP a little bit, because the comment that "execution" was responsible for your success is basically useless. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the critical ingredient wasn't the quality of your virtual goods or the writing in your newsletter, but the timing and novelty of your approach.
You can judge better and act accordingly if you now Python very well. That way Steve can control better using Python. Is external to the language, that's why I didn't find their reasoning that interesting, because it is Java or C# for somebody else. It is Steve-centric and not programming language-centric thinking.
Here's a real histogram: http://blog.davidziegler.net/post/94464030/how-much-contract...

It uses a Dapper feed, so it should automatically update itself.
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On Mac OS X (Panther and Jaguar) you need to install a modified keyboard driver...

No you don't. Just open your Keyboard&Mouse preferences, select the "Keyboard" tab, and click on the "Modifier Keys" button...
Honestly, it looks like it's a very small amount of work required on the part of VCs – and only the larger ones, at that.

But it's still stupid. I know we're not exactly an unbiased bunch when it comes to VC firms here on HN, but you don't have to spend too long thinking about it to figure out that VC is about as isolated a risk as one can make. If a firm managing a 401k is throwing money into startups, now that's a WTF scenario. But a VC firm putting money into startups? I'm pretty sure they know what they're getting into, and I haven't heard of VC firms repackaging investments into startups as default obligations to sell to other companies. I mean I guess they could? That seems quite a bit more insane than the already insane CDS stuff that was going on.

All of this knee-jerk legislation scares me. Both parties are guilty. Leave ALONE the sectors of the economy that aren't doing anything wrong.
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So can you make the first page of the survey a request for an email address, which you send a verification email to. They enter their email address, you send them an email with some sort of uid in the url, they then click that link to continue with the survey.

Obviously, you'd need to log the email address to make sure you only send one email to each address, but that should be the only thing you'd need to keep a record of.

This would seem to provide enough verification of individuals, without too much assing about on the end user side.
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If you're talking about a PhD:

As the typical advice goes with this sort of question: make sure you know what you're getting into. It sounds like you have a pretty good deal in terms of funding, but remember that regardless you need to write a dissertation. Now, you could take the funding and leave after you get your masters, but you'd have to decide if you're morally comfortable with misleading the University.
Especially here in the Bay Area, Craiglist is huge. If I'm looking for something used, I always hit it up first before eBay. I find I'm way less likely to get scammed if I can meet the dude in person when I'm buying or selling something first. eBay is basically two things at this point; a more ghetto version of Amazon's third-party storefront, and a place where scammers try to rip you off. It was awesome in the "golden days" but it's such a pain in the ass now.

And if you're in the Bay Area, it's the where jobs and rentals are advertised, period. Craigslist's ability to offer these services for free in other areas until they quash the competition keeps it encroaching on new territory all the time.

Basically, it's a bad time to be a newspaper :)
As far as I know, there's no law that prevents a private endowment or a pension from investing heavily in venture funds. The point is not to look at what they do today, but what they might do tomorrow if the system is left unregulated.

Five years ago, the regulators didn't think that housing was a high-risk sector of the economy, either. How'd that turn out?
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I found the various commenting on the questions he was asked quite interesting because they were coming from someone who does a lot of interviews.

I didn't take the "Great question" as phony exuberance at all because of that, but that could just be me. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
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The difference here is 10 cents for using greeting card engine..then there will drop off for the people who sign up for newsletter..then drop off in terms of maintaining+monitoring the newsletter and the final small conversion ratio in terms of newsletter subscriber signing up for the offer..because the $3 was per sign up..I am actually curious about math..because say there are 1 million subscribers and 1% of they sign up as user for VC funded company's offering then it is just 30k in revenue.. and 1% is not low in the given scenario (a reason most of the newsletters don't host ads is the returns are very low)..I want to learn more how can the returns were much higher in this scenario..unless the users were more like bzzagent where they are going to get something in return and actively monitoring the newsletter to sign up and get some cash incentive.. similar to what bzzagent does or subvertandprofit/usocial etc people do for gaming social media sites
The whole thing oozes irony.

Users are now paying for a service to "protect" them while they download stuff, that they didn't want to pay for.

Not only have the RIAA and MPAA completely failed to slow down the filesharers, their heavy handed tactics have provided a way for TPB to monetise their services.

So in the end, which side does Hollywood think is going to win? before you answer that I'll pose four more questions.

1) Are the number of filesharers increasing or decreasing?

2) Who's technology is evolving more rapidly, Hollywood or the P2P community?

3) Is it more convenient to go sit in a crowded cinema and pay for overpriced tickets/popcorn/drinks, or click "download this torrent" ?

4) Do you really think users are concerned with respecting the copyrights of studio's that glorify theft in their films? (eg Gone in 60 seconds, The Italian Job, The Oceans 11 Films etc)
If they didn't realize it was high risk, why were they printing money all along to keep it going?
GM is a modern farming practice that is horrendously underused, and GM can wipe out most of the disadvantages of intensive farming - GM crops can fix their own nitrogen and repel pests without pesticide. They can also be designed to grow well in 3rd world climates and contain extra nutrients.
You can already buy MacPro's with 32GB of Ram. For about 8k$ unfortunately.
The same people who are religious fundamentalists are often literal constitutionalists too, tho'. To all intents and purposes it's the Book of Jefferson to them. That sort of dynamic tension is generally a good and creative thing (the dialectic, Marxists would call it), and of course you as an individual are free to practice regulatory arbitrage.
They weren't. This is a crisis caused by debt, not currency devaluation.
You did when he wrote that article. And it was a right pain too...
It's not just about being physically able to install something (i.e. having admin privileges), we aren't allowed to install (or even write) anything that is "network aware" for security reasons.
Five years ago, the regulators didn't think that housing was a high-risk sector of the economy, either.

Yes they did (here in the UK at least). That's why interest rates were kept artificially low, screwing savers (who outnumber borrowers 4:1 - you don't piss off that many voters unless you're worried).
The causes of the crisis are complex, but home building was driven by cheap money from low interest rates. Had it not been, the bubble would have burst long ago. The fed put the petal to the metal for a long time, and kept it there because they knew housing was saving us from recession.
That link is worth expanding (Rudy Rucker interview, also quoted source of singularityhub piece):
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/wolframalpha-search...

And in that page, the tail 'Resource' links include this:
http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.htm...

which is the Jorge Luis Borges essay with the amusing mention of a system of animal classification: "(a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame ..."

Borges lucidly nails the Achilles' heel - the definition of the database scheme. I stand by my less insightful comment of three weeks ago - care and feeding of 'fact databases' is hard (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520281)
and more cowbell.
Do you mean to say the default way of adding methods to existing Objective C classes can't replace existing methods? That's not true. I just hit it recently. Subtle bug.
I'm assuming from the guy's profile he works on ATG (ecommerce for Java)
This data would be much useful if it were coupled with geographic information.
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Funny, I always thought the expression was "pedal to the metal", guess I've never seen it written...

To be fair, low interest rates were meant to encourage investment across the board, not just in houses. Your point, of course, is still totally valid.
Gorillas.bas? Are you sure? I can't find a reference. In particular Wikipedia makes no mention of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GORILLAS.BAS

(It was also QBasic, not GW-BASIC)

Donkey.bas, on the other hand, was co-authored by Gates, according to Wikipedia.
I have actually talked to many professors about this. There is no contract. There is no implicit agreement. People leave all the time for various reasons. Sure, it is kind of crummy to apply for a PhD program knowing you only want a masters, but that is life.

If you leaving early had such a terrible impact on the university, they would make you sign a contract.
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Is there the same volume of work though? Being paid $400/hr is good, but if you can only get 20 hours a week, it's not so good...
1) This special program is for students interested in pursuing the Masters Degree, though it would be completed alongside students pursing a PhD or MS/PhD, and one could switch to the PhD track if they wanted to.

2) Applying to grad schools as a PhD candidate is standard advice given by professors, so that wouldn't be an embarassing thing to do.
see also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552799

I'm sure Google can see just how many sites are still using the old script. They have nothing to gain by shutting those sites out and pissing people off.
What exactly do you think a mind is? The definition you gave is not far from the biological definition (much debated on, by the way, and mixed with the forever escaping concept of consciousness.)
> Everyone is better off just watching the video.

If they actually want to watch the video. I skim articles. I can't skim a video.
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Someone in that company needs to read the tao of backup. Section 3 - separation

http://www.taobackup.com/
a lot of what goes on is avoidable and there's nothing wrong with you pointing that out

Alright, so why the "(you) publicly blame and shame others for the mess" then?
Point of reference, (Mibbit)

IE6: 5.7% IE7: 11% IE8: 1%
FX1: <1% FX2: 3% FX3: 63%
SF: 2% OP: 5% CH: 6%

Really cool how Chrome has overtaken Safari, Opera, and IE6 (Admittedly it's a webapp, for which Chrome is well suited).

Also Firefox does a really great job of upgrading its users to the latest version.

At the moment I support IE6, but I'll probably stop soon. It's just too much extra work for not a lot of payoff.
It is pedal to the metal. You got me grammar man! ;)
At first I thought you needed a device to actually tell you if you are awake or not.
Length of contract is quite relevant here, is anyone charging over 150 when working 8 hours a day for several months?
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Misleading title. The thousands of sites GA might "go dark" for are still using the deprecated urchin.js.

Upgrade to the new version; problem solved.
Doubling traffic, and thus revenue in a webapp, is a simple matter (If you can get people to come use it). You might not even need to spend any extra money on servers or bandwidth.

How well does a coffee shop scale? Not so well. Space in the real world, is not free. Space on the internet is essentially free.

You also seem to have assumed that a graph that has grown from 0 to 100 in 2 months, is now going to stop growing and stay at 100 for a year.

Off topic: Love the about: "mobile is the future" in your profile.
In my university they also require an internship. However in reality, all they require is a company stamp and a signature on a piece of paper that says that you did an internship, plus a few pages from you talking about what you did in your internship. There's nothing barring you from incorporating with a bunch of friends, and intern at your own company.

Of course you should do something worthwhile during that internship.
I am glad that I live in a country more tolerant to atheism. Berlin has even been described as the world capital of atheism in the Economist.

"[The former chancellor of Germany, Schroder,] did not add the optional phrase So wahr mir Gott helfe ('so help me God') when sworn in as chancellor for his first term in 1998." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der)
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About 3), I can tolerate the crowd, but the hour of advertisement before the movie annoys me. Especially the shorts against pirating: "Hey, I did pay and I sit in this cinema. You do not need to punish me with this indoctrination. Perhaps next time, I'll just download, to watch the movie and only the movie."
Isn't timing and approach part of the execution?
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Too bad, tor's latency makes it painful to use for daily browsing..
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It's a while since I signed up to facebook, but I've never done that.

Hi5 and LinkedIn still bug me about not doing it, everytime I login and it's not like I even use gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc. anyway.
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