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> Religion is the belief in an absence of evidence. Science is the whole of objective reality.

Both of these claims are 100% false.

Religion does have significant evidence; the problematic part of religion is in its interpretation of that evidence, rather than the evidence itself. This ranges from the metaphysical "X exists, therefore God" to the specific incidences of revival tents and miracle workers. This is evidence. Just because you have a different interpretation does not automatically invalidate theirs.

Science is a fucking method, not some "whole". There is and possibly always will be parts of reality that we do not know. We cannot stand outside reality, by definition, and we will always have non-objective biases coloring our perspective. Pretending to be objective is self-delusion. Trying to be objective is worthy and good, but recognize that you can't be.
If the US government started minting 0.1 cent coins and 0.01 cent coins, would that be viewed as increasing the supply of dollars?
Froyo is very boom/bust. There's been another big boom (around the tart yogurts from Pinkberry et al) recently.
If Zimbabwe adding extra zeros before the decimal point to its money doesn't cure inflation, then Bitcoin adding extra zeros after the decimal point won't cure deflation.
Always great to hear about how entrepreneurs find their way.
I don't know about this author's history, but the connotations of "parable" in this case make it seem a bit over the top. Another Steve J.C. Jobs story; we've even given it a snicker-worthy nearly-Biblical name.

The interview snippet itself isn't bad; while I see the point he was making, it's not terribly strong or well-stated, and quite honestly it doesn't deserve its own proper name. It's worth reading, but if it had been Jobs' intention for this to be worthy of the title "parable," I'm quite sure he'd have been able to throw it back in the coffee can for another few cycles and turn it into something worth repeating.
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I agree. Even before the police scanner feeds, the news posts about the bombing were kind of like a filtered twitter search. While twitter is a better source of realtime information than cable news, it is very hard to filter out all the noise, but it seemed like during this story that reddit was able to do that.
"Even in cience, even cientifics are able to take a useful and teorically neutral tool and make it into a "religion"."

Outside of parapsychology, cold fusion, and free energy devices, how are you stating that this occurs as a regular practice? I criticize scientists from within the framework of poor evidence, biases, systemic issues, but calling it a "religion" misses the point. Personal biases don't make a religion. Watered down pop-science isn't a religion either.
SO (Significant Other) is solid gender neutral verbiage IMHO
What does your contract with them state happens when they don't live up to the terms of the agreement?

That's what this is. The agreement was that they would provide a documented API and a well-constructed iOS app, and you would build an Android app, right?

So now that they haven't provided at least one of those, that's a breach of contract. What does your contract say happens?

Mine say if the scope of work changed by more than 10%, work stops and the contract needs to be renegotiated. If they don't meet their deadlines, work stops and the contract needs to be renegotiated. If something outside of my control occurs (users not showing up for feedback sessions or something) to the degree that it materially affects my work, work stops and the contract is renegotiated.

Sometimes that renegotiation is just a couple of phone calls and an updated statement of work.

Sometimes we kill the job and they pay their kill fee and we both walk away.

What's your contract say?
I think the trend towards educational choice and diversity will continue.

I have an AA, a couple of certificates (one from a technical college that my former employer sent me to), and I am a few classes short of a BS. I have taken plenty of classes on a college campus but have also taken online classes, condensed classes aimed at adults, and other stuff. I have also homeschooled my kids and what I know about running websites and writing code comes from books, educational CDs, websites, online discussion and other forms of uncredentialed "independent" or self study.

For my websites, I don't need any credentials. The king's stamp will not make them gold. Either I put up something good that has value to other people and I figure out how to get traffic and monetize it or I don't. A diploma makes zero difference. That doesn't mean taking courses would do nothing. That means if I took a class and it taught me something useful it would make a difference. But listing my educational credentials will have little to no impact on usability, appeal, etc for my websites. I get it right or I don't.

Since I don't plan to get a regular job again, credentials are not terribly important to me. I was STAR student, a National Merit Scholarship winner, inducted into Mu Alpha Theta in 11th grade (that's a college math honor society), state alternate for the governor's honors program, blah blah blah. None of that made very much difference in my life in terms of employability and income or certain other critical areas. I was a homemaker for a long time. My educational background and typing, math etc skills helped me get a better than minimum wage job while going through a divorce but I never got a promotion in part because of my health issues. Since I have special needs in that regard (and for other reasons), credentialing is of little importance to my life. Credibility is something I need more and that's a completely different animal.

So it depends a lot on your goals and needs. With a few billion people on the planet, we can easily support a diversity of educational approaches. There are plenty of people to fill both roles of provider and consumer. Even a fairly niche area or approach can routinely fill a class. That wasn't always true.
As it stands, I don't see how this manages to improve upon the basic blog (which is Hackday). Upvotes are not really worth it there, because Github has Stars. Meaning that your upvotes are less valuable than a Star on github. Stars translate into other non-tangible benefits, like better chance of getting a job.

I dont know how you could create more value to hackers. Fact is, we are a hard group to deal with.
I've felt the same way for my whole life, and the idea of a pre-cation is how I have to trick myself into taking time off too.

My first jobs were "in my spare time", and instead of taking a vacation from school to go party in Cancun for Spring Break (spend time AND money), I'd work. Mostly to pay for more school OR for that sweet computer I wanted.

Since having a "real job", my brain still considers vacation as "time I'm not earning money", even though it's Paid Time Off. Even when I do manage to trick myself into vacation, they're usually "active" trips, where I feel like every minute needs to be spent doing something "productive" like snorkeling or feeding sharks. You won't find me laying out on the beach anywhere!

The ironic thing is that I work in the travel industry and I know how important this stuff is! I think our problem is that we want to create value with our limited time on this planet, so maybe we need to consider it to be an investment that will pay us back in inspiration later down the road.
"Karma/Vote whoring" is a pretty common term for someone who is doing something immoral/dumb just to get upvotes.
I'd be fine with that as long as the "hire me" page makes it clear that it's one guy. "We" has a more collaborative feel when describing the projects.
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I can understand the dig on zealotry, but the direct comparisons to "atheism as a religion" remain a pretty good sign that someone doesn't really understand what either term means. It's as unfair to religion as it is to those who lack belief in any God(s).
This proposal sounds like a very reasonable and fair system.

What's the catch?
While this specific movie may not be tech news per se the concept is very relevant. We're seeing a shift away from traditional funding models towards web tech allowing individuals and small teams to self fund. This fits the hacker ethos.
This was really helpful to me: https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs/tree/master/nginx
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So if you have 10% margins, which are great to have, once you start bringing home 100K a year you're in the soup with everybody else.
Go to where the demand is: Location and the right programming language
The Kickstarter supporters are likely to be his biggest, most loyal fans.

I can understand a reluctance to offer a reward that will disincentivize those same people from paying to see the movie on opening weekend.
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Add --with-http_spdy_module to the configure flags in your PKGBUILD. But expect problems with parallel XHR file uploads in all major browsers.
I worked with the engineer cited in that article. He left the company, on less than amicable terms, pretty early in the bulldozer project. I'll just say he lacks credibility, and leave it at that.
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Today, the buyer does not experience the fee. Sellers accept it, because the middle man gives them no other choice. With bitcoins, the middle man has no leverage anymore as the buyer and the seller can interact directly. That was my point.
@ntumlin: when the issue is explicitly gender based and is referring to "using one's girlfriend"...there is a great deal of baggage that comes with the word whether the writer intends it or not.
There are some notable imprecisions:

Particular bad: A business will not be liable for errors in its tax returns if they were prepared by a certified provider. That means no penalties or fees for mistakes. -- What the bill actually provides is that a business that uses a certified provider will not be liable for errors "if the liability is the result of an error or omission made by a certified software provider." (Section 2.b.2.E of the bill) The business remains fully liable for any penalties, etc., that are due to errors or mistakes that originate with errors or omissions the business itself makes.

Other notably imprecisions:
There is a "small seller exemption". If you collect less than $1,000,000 a year from out-of-state customers, you will have no new obligations under this bill. The small seller exemption applies based on remote sales the prior calendar year, so you'll never have any obligation the first calendar year in which you have remote sales, even if you have $10 million in sales out the gate, and you'll never retroactively become liable for taxes for sales earlier in the year as a simple $1 million/year threshold would suggest. OTOH, you also can will liable for remote sales taxes in a year where you have less than $1 million in remote sales, if it is preceded by a year in which you had more than $1 million in remote sales.

Online sellers will be required to collect, report and pay sales taxes in all of the states (once the states meet certain requirements), rather than only the states the seller has a physical presence in. Well, all of the states that (a) have sales and use taxes, and (b) choose to apply them to remote sales. Presumably, all the states that meet (a) will eventually do (b), but not all states have sales and use taxes to start with.

Each state that wants "remote sellers" to collect sales tax must establish a single entity to manage tax collection and audits for the entire state. Sellers won’t have to deal with all 5,900+ separate taxing municipalities in the country, just 50. This makes the typical mistake of assuming that there are 50 'states' in the sense used in the act, but that's not correct; 'state' in the bill are defined to include "each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.", so there are not less than 57 potential taxing authorities.
Hahaha, Thank you. I think we get a little too "technical" sometimes.
At the very least, make the food better!
interesting. I just wrote that earlier that day. I was trying it for the first time in that comment. Failure already! That was fast.
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Like this blogger, they attribute a lot static language advantages as unique to Go.

This is true, but there is one piece ~unique to Go: type inference. It doesn't exist in Java or C, and it's only just made it to C++.

For an individual coming from an interpreted language, it makes an otherwise statically typed language feel a lot less unwieldy and bureaucratic.
I understand what others are saying about a possible "gimmick" by using the "my girlfriend" line to get people to click on it. Although that may be true, and they could be pulling a fast one, I think we are all being too cynical.

Hacker News is supposed to be a community of like minded people sharing their interests with others who enjoy the same thing. I think it is really cute that she did this for her boyfriend. She didn't have to do this, but she either likes him so much, or likes the product so much, that she wanted to help him make it successful.

I don't see how there is anything wrong with that, and if it is on the front page, then others must agree as well.
I think it's time to bring out the Gimp. Gotta go medieval on their ass.
It shows he understood the creative process better than 99% of corporate CEO's and that might explain his success
Calculating the number of tests needed to reach statistical certainty is not straightforward at all. The equation for simple A/B tests relies on the change of conversion rate from a control. More info here: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/ab-testing/reference/ab-mat...

That's for simple A/B tests - this is not simple A/B tests, instead it is setting up a search space of possible variations of a page and comparing many to many to find which is best.

Splitting the data based on visitor referral, country, and more make the sample size needed even larger.

TLDR: This solution needs a decent amount of traffic to have reasonable results. The exact numbers are not definite.

Source: I co-created xander.io which is basically this concept but more open source.
Who knows, maybe.
Go is block scoped, and if statements are blocks. I don't see this as surprising.

I meant surprising for someone used to Python, like the article author. I'm surprised he didn't mention it.
Depends on the tests. However a point to note is that this is not classical testing followed by hard-coded values. It's more like a multi-armed bandit-type optimization.
And the free publicity gets whatever else he was talking about heard.
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Seconded. My friends in high cost of living cities make more than lower cost of living in terms of raw dollars, but they don't always make more once you take into account living expenses.

EDIT: I meant "seconded" in that you'll obtain your $120k salary in high COL areas, but it's not necessarily the best choice. I wasn't advocating actually moving there (I'm in Austin)
As much as I have a personal dislike for Jobs, I think this is advice that a lot of people fail to see value in. Having people who care standing up for their opinion and taking whatever comes out on top will often lead to the best product.

People need to stop avoiding friction between opinions and ideas and instead embrace it. That's how great things come about.
Too bad it's relying on (blurry) snapshots vs. https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify
I really should make that link go to a page that says "See what I mean?"
I was speaking for myself rather than making a principled stand; my site still links back to some documents on my old university's system, via gopher. Perhaps there is an http equivalent that new students would use, but if there is then I don't have access to it.
Haskell has tuples. It also has pattern matching, which is destructuring done right. So I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at.
I always get questions relating to email. People have a lot of issues with that. They don't seem to get the value of automated email selling. Or even doing it manually. I, for example, make the most money from email marketing. So I know it works. But Hackers and email marketing are a very weird subject. Your insight might get some of them to understand the true value of it.
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"Your coworkers are your friends. It’s so much closer to a life style than a job that taking a vacation from your startup doesn’t have the same connotation."

This guy does not get what vacations are about. I know what it feels like to work hard with people you like at a job you enjoy, but I also know what it's like to kill two weeks lounging around southern Europe and swimming in the Mediterranean Sea every day. Both things are good but they are not the same thing. If you think satisfying work is a substitute for a good vacation you are doing it wrong.
Garden State was not a perfect movie. But it was a very good one, and I didn't find it as self-conscious as you did.

Meanwhile, I think your read on the rewards is wrong—-they are meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek. There are less personal rewards he could have offered, with less work involved. I think it would be more off-putting for him to not interact with his fans and supporters.

In the end, that's the power of Kickstarter. Neither you nor I are in charge of greenlighting this film.
I can't get the DVD after the run if the kickstarter fails. I'd like to help it succeed by committing ahead of time to buying the DVD.
The CPU pulls tens of GFLOPs in single precision, too (and > 5 GFLOPs double precision!) It’s at least as powerful as any desktop you are likely to have had a decade ago.
Just a giant PITA.
And also those same fans are now less motivated to go see the film in theaters because their DVD is already pre-ordered, potentially hurting box office revenue.

It is actually brilliant, now he can go to the distributors and say "these thousands of people were so excited about this project that they paid to make it... so of course they will pay us to see it!"
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What if you have large vendors like PayPal only offering transfer to other institutionally-controlled wallets?

for example:
"Since your funds are transferred only between other PayPal users, PayPal can always reverse a fraudulent transaction."

Then you would have a veritable roach motel of bitcoins.
Once you get used to it, it's a lot nicer to work with, too.
It's because of arguments like this, that's why. They render a huge swath of subjective, unproductive discussions about style completely moot.
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Acting quickly on news is a risk that they hope will pay a reward, but there is no guarantee that the news is correct and thus the risky position will be rewarded.

If you wait for verified, accurate news, then anyone who moved before got to move before you. Thus, participants in that market move when they want to accept the risk they want.

It doesn't matter if you verify Twitter with the best security around because markets will and always have reacted to rumor and unverified speculation and news. It's a gamble that the participants willingly make.
I'm not sure if you're in the US, but sales tax here differs from other parts of the world. The buyer expects to pay sales tax as a separate line item. It is added to an order, rather than included in the price of an item, so this wouldn't have any effect on margins. You would have the additional overhead of tracking and collecting sales tax, however. That will have a negative effect on margins, but as an indirect operating expense rather than a direct cut from sales.
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It's in their best interest to ramble about any of the current hipness and simply wait out to see about the viability of integrating it into their business. If it takes off in a non-niche way, they can claim that they were "first" thinking about it today, if BTC collapses for mainstream adoption, they can adopt the next and forget about their nonexistent "plans".
In finland there was an serious attempt to use smart cards for general populace. It didn't pan out mostly because nobody had card readers and it had to compete with OTP based solutions which didn't require extra hardware.
> The points about Pinker etc are not that these aren't impressive people, but rather what do they have to do with the technology or business of Counsyl other than snob appeal?

Ah, I see your concern. That's an understandable critique coming from outside of this industry. I had similar thoughts before I got more familiar with why we have the advisors that we do. Our industry (that is, genetic testing) is a minefield. Lots of people have strong opinions about it and there are many unanswered ethical questions. We need ethicists as advisors to help us make the right decisions. I can't tell you the number of times I've heard the question "So you're like GATTACA?" (For the record: No!) When your customer base is primed for strong negative reactions you need great minds to help inform both the public and your own decisions.

> What disturbs me is the seemingly coordinated release of the article, with the overwhelmingly positive comments by employees here, and rapid defense of any criticism.

Heh, I promise nothing suspicious is afoot here. TechCrunch came by a few weeks ago in preparation of writing a story. We've all been eagerly awaiting its release and as soon as it was up it got announced on our internal "chatter" email list. As you can imagine, when your startup gets profiled on TC it causes a bunch of excitement and we all immediately went to HN to upvote and comment (incidentally, I think we set off the voting ring detector on one of the submissions since we were all voting from the same IP). We love this place and all believe in what we're doing. Nobody was instructed to say nice things or defend the company.

disclosure: I'm a software developer at Counsyl. The above are just my opinions, I am not speaking on behalf of Counsyl, &c. &c.
It is used quite frequently in reviews of literature, even at the non-professional level (e.g. amazon reviews)
Unlimited vacation policies are mainly a way for the employer to avoid the accounting and financial burden that occurs when providing defined vacation benefits. Vacation benefits are not required, but if a company offers them, most states require the employer to track employee absences and leave accrual. Unused vacation must be paid out when the employee leaves the company. Unlimited vacation policies remove the need for tracking and payouts for unused vacation time.
3 to 6 months of living expenses would normally be sufficient to keep in the bank in a checking account. That said, we don't live in normal times. Considering the state of the economy, and how long it takes for those laid off to find new jobs, keeping 9 to 12 months of cushion is a better idea.
Ah cool. Yep, that's what we did, thanks.

edit: I thought too fast. Amfy's reply to you is correct (and what I have seen previously). When proxying with nginx, you use up the ports locally (unless I'm missing something?).
You can increase the open file descriptor ulimit very easily. Regarding the port-limitation: I think he means the connections from nginx to your Websocket-App...
It's a perfect method to transfer BTC ~into~ someone's PayPal account.
If you use the famous upload module: http://www.grid.net.ru/nginx/upload.en.html, it no longer works since Nginx 1.3.9.

See: https://github.com/vkholodkov/nginx-upload-module/issues/41