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I'm not sure what this article is talking about. And what engineering is this talking about? Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Computer?

My Electrical Engineering intro course was a weeder course, designed to be so hard, undetermined people would drop out of the major. I think there are problems with this, but it doesn't sound anything like what this article is describing.

Also in EE, while the textbooks are old, the fundamentals they teach are still needed and cannot be skipped. The real problem is that there is so much more that needs to be taught, but the schools don't have the time and are ill prepared to teach all the stuff past the basics.

In Computer Engineering/Science, nothing has really changed in 40-50 years and so called modern practices repeatedly turn out to be mostly clueless BS. People were taught Object Oriented Programming would be the panacea to all problems in the 80's and 90's. Only now, people are starting to acknowledge it is not a panacea and implementation inheritance in fact violates encapsulation, plus all the messy internal mutable state causes huge problems for both maintenance (unintended side effects) and concurrency/parallelism. All the functional programming people from 50 years ago are saying 'told you so'. (Not to mention that Alan Kay who coined the term "object oriented" thinks people from the C++/Java/C# mindset completely missed the point.)

There is also the Waterfall model which for some stupid reason was taught as a software engineering solution. It's stupid because the author who originally described the "waterfall model" criticized it as "grandiose" and said it doesn't work.

I'll take Donald Knuth's "old textbooks" any day, thank you very much.
I do plan to write about my experiences as a student entrepreneur in India. I hope Resumonk becomes a profitable business soon, and I'll be happy to share my learning about it.
Wasn't obvious, but here's where the actual goodies are:

https://github.com/kaze0/winky
The only way to have good results with metals is to back it up with a huge mass. So Tormach will work. Everything else, that you've mentioned would not. Ask me how I know... But Tormach puts you at least 6.5k behind. Add tooling, table, box to keep the dust out, soundproofing, vacuum. Add PC, monitor. And CAD/CAM software. And you are looking at 10k.
Like others have said, ignore the typical cost of a domain and consider how many 'conversions' it will take to cover the cost of a decent domain. If you're intending on making money, it won't take long to have that domain name pay for itself.

All this said, ensure you can get the other appropriate usernames for twitter and any other social avenues you'll promote through.

Best of luck!
I'm ok with one or more of:
1a) Minimal required parental benefits, people make their own plans and decisions
1b) Companies competing based on offering the right mix of parental benefits
2) Government provided subsidies for childbearing or whatever to compensate for the costs (paid out of taxes)

The one thing I find unacceptable is 3) government mandates that employers provide generous childcare/maternity/paternity benefits, paid by the company (either cash costs, or costs like not being able to replace the worker or job).

The problem with generous mandatory benefits paid by the employer is that some employers, which attract a lot of childwanting workers, will be relatively penalized, and some employers will be incented to discriminate in hiring. Then you have to add all kinds of anti-discrimination laws too, which causes deadweight losses.

California is borderline 3. The US as a whole is 1a/1b. Some of the states of Europe are 2, some are 3, and I think some are 1a/1b.

Incentives matter.
Ask HN: Scratched my own itch. Is one week too soon to pivot?
Hi everyone,

I've written a bit of software that I needed. I have packaged it and attempted to market it. http://www.virtsync.com

With a few hundred dollars spent on LinkedIn and Google Adwords, there have still been no downloads of the evaluation version.

Is the site broken, or did I just have a unique need? (I would have happily spent the $49 that I'm charging, if the software had already existed.)

Is there a way to turn this software into a profitable service, perhaps like rsync.net? Or should I just forget it and get on with the next project?

Any comments on the site, software or future direction would be very welcome.

Thanks,

Chris.
Candy Box, a clever browser toy/game
Dynamic memory allocation, pointers, lack of IDE's etc etc..
Lol, it's so ridicoulos. Especially when read this news in RSS feed :)
Random idea: but if your service is so good but addressed to technical people, why not put it out for free (or even open source it) and offer paid support?
For reference, in Sweden:

* Father gets 10 days of "just had a baby" paid leave, at ~80% of normal pay

* 480 days of paid leave. Of these,390 are at ~80% pay, and 90 are at a fixed (low) compensation.

* Of the 480 days, 60 are reserved for each parent, non-transferable.

* Each parent is allowed by law to work 75% of full time until child turns 7, employer cannot refuse.

* If you adopt, you have basically the same benefits as after a birth.

In all cases "paid" means paid by the government, i.e. taxes.

The ~80% has a maximum, so you get at most ~80% of ~35000 SEK per month.
People want to work remotely. They want email on their iPhones/Androids/Blackberries. They want to e-mail people at other companies. Every once in a while you need a nontrivial amount of information to cross that airgap. Then you have Stuxnet-style attacks to worry about, too.
I talk to a lot of them through email and they are not very convinced of the new management. They are just scared that she will go on a firing bent when financial goals are not acquired. They won't cut the management fluff or even take pay cuts. They will fire the people that write the code.
Napster emerged as a way to search open filesystem shares. We need something similar for BT Sync points.
Gunshot detection does this, but raises privacy issues:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfire_locator

You end up with a city-wide monitoring network that can be misused.
In most cases when processing a withdrawal, ATMs or POS terminals don't know your exact balance and how much money you've taken out already today. A withdrawal tends to involve a request for $X which gets a yes/no response from the bank or from the chip of the card if the terminal is not online connected - the bank or chipcard logic will check the balance and daily limits, not the ATM.

You can think of the (rare nowadays, but possible) offline, paper-based card transactions (physical imprint of the card number + signature) as a very strong example of eventual consistency - your card will be billed for that amount sometime later when the documents are processed and all the balances will be correct, but for many days the "online visible" card balance as known to the bank will be different from the "real" legal/accounting balance of that card.
So wikipedia is a low quality content farm that shows up for every google search and prevents actual expert pages from being seen--taking revenue and visibility from experts--while providing lower quality content.

And that's a good thing to you.

An unreliable encyclopedia is the most useless thing in the world. An unreliable encyclopedia with the most powerful SEO in history...is a grave threat to human knowledge.
This actually explains a lot on Google's abysmal customer service, especially where they appear way too triggerhappy on the account-suspensions and pagerank penalizing for appearing too spammy.
Hey, look HTC’s designer looks just like Apple’s Jony Ive
Who the heck has experience working with panda feeding machines?
I went to the bank to pay a USD bill in RMB and they gave me 1 and 5 fens in my change. Mostly, I never see fen unless I go to the bigger grocery stores.
Thanks, do you think the price is a problem? Is everyone conditioned to not realise that $10/mo for ever is more than $50 one-off.

Yes, sysadmins are the target market.
Capitalism only works when there are security precautions to make sure that business between corporations and individuals is safe. This is true on the physical level, and sadly, will have to be true at the digital level as well. If companies are infamous for being unable to do long-term accounting, why the fuck are we expecting them to suddenly hold themselves accountable to other long-term risk?

I think it's stupid to cast this as the super whiz kid Chinese hackers and the poor SOB admins looking at the logs. There usually isn't even a proper budget for admins to be looking at logs.
Why is it per x meals?

If I still have to think about how much meals I have to make every day, the "auto-pilot" isn't worth THAT much :\

First priority should be on calories a day. After that some fine tuning with the meal count would be nice.
MacBook Pro: The No.1 Windows Computer?
Cashbacks incentives don't exist in China anyways, I believe. Its mostly a crazy American thing.
One of my theories on why Java feels so doggone slow on GUI apps is that it refuses to use native platform APIs for anything. Everything must be reimplemented in Java. So Java manages to feel more sluggish than python, which has a slower interpreter, but isn't bound by doctrine to reimplement the entire UI toolkit in pure python.

That, and I think Java has huge internal libraries, full of redundancy, that get recompiled on every run, because nothing gets done without them.

The fundamental problem is that Java can't decide whether it wants to be a low level or high level language. It tries to be both at once, and one casualty is performance.
For anyone else new to Open Allocation:

http://www.quora.com/Software-Development-Methodologies/What...

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/tech-compani...
Needs an option for "I have a half-assembled one". I'm pretty sure I'm far from the only person in that position.

(Think my RepRap just needs a quiet weekend, and for me to get over my aversion to crimping...)
It's also likely that different environments (sun exposure; humidity; food availability; water availability) have contributed to cultural traditions. That may or may not factor into genetic traits.

Because you didn't have enough confounding variables already. :P
Because Java set itself up for failure. Java _can_ theoretically be faster than optimized C code, but the problem is that people over-promised and/or believe this would be the common case. Sun/Oracle failed to deliver a JIT that outperformed optimized C code in the common case.

Java also messed up and was too preoccupied on getting faster throughput (in too specialized circumstances) and didn't focus much on latency/user-responsiveness.

End users don't care about theory. The only care about their individual user experience. When they see slow launch times, long unresponsive pauses (due to garbage collection), and similar apps written in native languages running faster and being more responsive as a general trend, people are going to rightly blame Java.
This is awesome. I wonder why this is not the default (inbuilt) way of taking pictures. Before they made it more obvious, I was actually thinking this would be the way to click pictures in a glass.
It is disingenuous to assume that we as a society should leave this to courts full of non-technical people to determine what is and is not disingenuous in terms of end-user assumptions about the correct workings of a system, versus letting the responsibility lie simply on the operators of that system because THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEPLOYING IT.

The harm that this is causing is already great, and will increase tremendously. It's simply dangerous to say "it's obvious" because, while this case may or may not be, to have to make a determination of obviousness of the intent of the programmer/casino/bank/whatever, is something courts are famously bad at. You really don't want that state of affairs.
Does access to a 3d printer count? I have a number of friends with 3d-printers (all kinds of models) and could use them any time (or send them an .stl and have them print it for me).
Thus there isn't much point in me owning my own 3d-printer.

Still, even if I had the money I wouldn't buy one, but I am planning to make one eventually. If only to teach myself about the mechanics and electronics involved.
Also, building a 3d-printer gives you the skills to maintain one, where you ever to use one and unforeseen things happen.
The HBGray fiasco really clearly delineated that there were two HBGray companies.

Yes, one was a moron. And the other was a moron for employing that moron :)
good luck with this. the good thing and the thing I admire about this and Watsi.org is you are using technology to benefit others.
I don't know if you've ever travelled but very often withdrawals from an ATM will be processed without the balance of the user being known at that time.

It's why your bank account can go into negative territory.
No, by the very rules of the game (the code), the payout was supposed to be $8200, and the machine dispensed it accordingly.

To impose criminal liability upon someone because they didn't make the assumption that the programmer/casino/manufacturer really meant for something else to happen instead is an exceptionally dangerous state of affairs.

Weev is doing 41 months right now for conspiracy to commit unauthorized access and identity fraud (possession of a list of email addresses) because his team spidered a website run by AT&T. AT&T themselves said that there was no crime and no damages, and said in court that they (AT&T) were the ones who published the data on the web.

The US Attorney felt differently, and now he's in federal prison for a few years while we try to sort out his appeal.

This is what happens when you make someone who requests data or a system state change criminally liable for that independent, autonomous system responding with data or changing to that state by its own software's defined operation. It's a blatant misapplication of responsibility.
1) If you're not a healthy young person, it's going to be quite a challenge to start a business anywhere. I'm not saying it's impossible (my parents started a new business a few years ago in their early 60s which is going quite well), but if you have some kind of pre-existing condition that would have in the past made getting healthcare a problem, I have to imagine you'd also have difficulty dedicating the time, energy, and drive it takes to start a business.

2) There are definitely similar programs for helping you get training to run your business and monetary incentives for new business owners here (mostly in the form of tax credits and the like). Admittedly, they aren't as well publicized as they could be.

3) The quantity of foreign students coming to the US for undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate studies (and then returning home to do good with those skills) probably makes the point about the quality of that education available here than I could. Not that higher education in other countries is poor, but that it is significantly better than that in the US is questionable at best.

My main point is, the idea that the US is prohibitively expensive to be an entrepreneur is laughable. The sheer volume of new businesses started here every day proves that.
I've just found GNUton (http://gnuton.sourceforge.net/), an implementation in Python instead of NewtonScript, but it seems to be long-abandoned since 2000. I hope newer and less dead efforts still exist.
Well, the quoted statement mentions bayesian filtering which is an application of bayesian rule, but it's not as simple as an if.

The other quote 'removing the impossible and normalizing is equivalent to Bayes rule' is a good thing to remember.

Just to mention that drug tests have different rates of false positives and negatives, it's not usually '1% failure'
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Norway has lots of oil. Therefore I don't think "see, it works in Norway" is a good argument. That said, if you can finance it, why not?
> ... the day a Go REPL will be possible is approaching.

A REPL is possible even today.

All is needed is an interpreter for the language and there are a few already available.

Nothing new, this is the same approach taken by many languages, provide an interactive environment for the REPL and a compiler for distribution.

Being done since the early days of computing.
Another difference in Sweden is that you don't have to take you leave in blocks and you don't have to take whole days. For example my wife and I split our leave so that I worked 3 days a week and she 2 days. Also I know several people (and have done so myself) that take 2 hours of parental leave a day so they can work a 6 hour day and pick up their kids from day care earlier.
I think $49 per machine is a lot. But the software interests me. The one thing I'd like to see is a speed comparison between rsync and this product. Also, is the underlying technology something that could be licensed?

For example, at CloudFlare we are generating 20GB of log files per minute and we need to move these around. Finding a fast way to do that is important. Clearly, CloudFlare could pay $49 per machine without a problem.
Guaranteed in the sense you are entitled to childcare. Depending on where you live, a queue could be easily over a year though.
France definitely isn't that good, the PDF you link notes 11 days + 3 days "family leave", no shared parental leave (whereas Belgium has 15 weeks maternity, 2 weeks paternity and 3 months parental leave for each parent)
Google lacks customer service. They are not interested in you, but in volume. And you handle volume through statistics.

If you happen to fall on an edge case, they won't really care. Because you fall in the error.
Split test and try some new pricing models. This seems like something that should have the core free, with paid upgrades and paid support for large clients.
I'm no biologist - but could it be that this hormone is some evolutionary artefact - a holdover from some ancient common ancestor - that we can now do away with completely? If the evidence in mice shows that blocking the ageing process showed no real 'negative' consequences, then does this suggest that we might simply block the effects in humans completely? Or, as I suspect, is it more likely that there is some evolutionary advantage to ageing in the 'normal' way?
Weird, the design of sites (other than this one) has caused me to be totally blind to content in the margin like that; it's usually some kind of social media sharing widget or something.
I find it surprising that it would seem that the only country on the face of this planet hacking foreign countries and business are Chinese. I'm so pleased that no one in the US, UK, Israel, Russia, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Japan, Canada, etc would clearly never dream of such things. On top of that, I cant even begin to imagine why countries other than the US would seek intelligence to help them in defence.

Good job that no one is using computer or the internet to launch attacks on research and production facilities in foreign countries.....stuxnet.......oh.

This might be new to some, but it it turns out countries spy and thieve off each other. But all we seem to see is lots of articles about the evil red commie Chinese, who we all happily do business with, including allowing to own our debt, hack the US. Strange that.
I run Windows 99% of the time on mine. Almost ironic.
> it is a compiled language,

Correction: It is a programming language with two compilers available as the main implementation, but there are also interpreters being developed.
Sweden has no oil, but has a similar arrangement. Russia has plenty of oil, but fathers get no jack there, and maternity leaves are employer-funded. Strange how that works!
"save you a command on every commit"? If the number of commands you type is your inverse measure of productivity, then ok, more power to you.
lol 'social rules'.

Sounds more like a cult, like they're grooming you for corporate serfdom. Having the most bitter basement dwelling neckbeard with a self taught PHD ream you out thoroughly and colorfully on a public mailing list for a less than perfect commit is a true hacker tradition. It's usually pretty hilarious, and prepares you for when you show up to defcon or the chaos congress and meet real actual hackers who shockingly will not have any social rules.

This school will groom good employees, not hackers. It's a bootcamp that uses 'hacker' for marketing. It's great this exists for people who want to work doing code, but 1980s MIT AI lab Stallman would prob be kicked out the first day, same with every other hacker throughout history.
I hated only having 100 RMB notes available when I visited China; pretty much explains why even men carry purses there (I ended up carrying my laptop bag everywhere, which kind of sucked)
> Both compilation and execution speed are really fast, so you have both quick edit-compile-test turnarounds similar to a scripting language while having the execution speed of native code.

It always makes me smile when C and C++ young developers re-discover the compilation times we old timers already enjoyed with Modula-2 and Extended Pascal compilers in the mid-80's.
I am curious to hear stats from your experiment in creating a fake HN controversy. Please report back.
Assuming an infinite series of random tetris blocks, any finite pattern occurs, including one of alternating z- and s- blocks. I don't see how the holding mechanic saves you from this. Anyone care to share some insight on this?
I don't like the mockup UI he's got on that page. Copied way too much from iMessage which I hate.
I don't get it. What the problem with paying with check? You are not going to dissapear in two days and you are going to pay in advance, right?
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Neat! I would use this if:

1. I didn't need an iPad.

2. you would mail them internationally.

3. you would seal them with a custom wax seal. (This would, of course, be a premium feature.)
Well it's definitely nice and easy. Also, perhaps the first real push for me to pick up this language (at the very least conceptually).
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