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Rails CTO replacement asap... Need help. How?
Hey guys,

Wondering what I should do as I would have never thought this was going to be an issue for us but of course, sht happens.

We're an early-stage, well-capitalized Chicago based startup about to launch to general public in <1 month (been developing for 9 months). My current CTO that I've known for 5 years has some major family issues to tend to and have to go back home asap but willing to help with full launch and smooth transition. Web product is almost launch-ready, having gone through many iterations. Have an awesome, super talented designer. Marketing team and execution plan is solid (we've thought about business model and tested various hypotheses for the past 6 months). All of team major/minor hiring is complete with lots of very competent people on the team (even android mobile guy on board). Only thing that we need is a new CTO! (Rails based). Wondering what would be best way to find competent new CTO and how you guys would act in my situation. Any insight would be very much appreciated.
It was MS themselves that turned the OS/2 2.0 project into an entire fiasco:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...
Not a hater

but Brendan Eich? I just saw a joker.
A comment gwern left in reply to something like this 2 years ago: http://www.gwern.net/About#comment-257772944
Why not use JSON HAL?

http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
"I have a problem with hypocrisy."

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one :)
You know, there's a possibility that it would suck if investors got itchy and pulled out of TSLA after these news.

I mean, it would be very understandable, but from a game-theoretical point of view, there's the question of what you want to signal as an investor. If it's too costly to make mistakes, or worse, if you inadvertently signal it's fine to err given the company doesn't ever admit it publicly, then there's a variety of possible outcomes. The least worst is you end up with glorified, electrified, GM stock. The worst is, you end up with Enron. Which, incidentally, Wikipedia says was too "one of the most innovative companies" back then.

Of course, you probably already know that.
"Long story short, please don't say "we," since your ideas are strictly your own."

Did it previously say "We don't like guns and we think..."?
For anyone else that is wondering which Google product lived for one day ("Days: Min: 1"):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_X
Yeah I get that, you might like Google maps more if say you cared about the actual maps.
Is this the one?

http://nextstuff.info/mirrors/ftp.peak.org/next/apps/games/m... (tar.gz file)
You guys should see what they've done with Groups. :( The inmates have truly taken over the Googleplex asylum.
Great post. I think one key to the whole program are the weekly deadlines. And of course the big deadlines. It's the same as not having a boatload of startup cash. It forces you to figure out what is really important.

The trick is, deadline only work if there are consequences. There can only be consequences if you feel accountable to someone or something. So, tell someone you're going to accomplish something by a certain date.

I'm going to contact 25 potential customers next week.
Insight from censored originals is thoughtworthy.

Likewise other sites share same problem, I asked http://www.quora.com/Editing-Questions-on-Quora/Could-showin... equally concerned we lose important info, by burning what real people wrote first.
His point stands: if you need a manual to set the time, then the UI is poorly designed. Period.
This is where Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) with web tech (ideally) and/or Apps (practically) could shine: the sprinkler system could vend a much better software UI to our smartphones than the hardware UI it's currently offering.
Hopefully, between deterrence and prevention of recidivism, police are actually pretty good at preventing crime...
Ask HN: What survey services do you use for customer development?
So far am checking out Google Surveys which seems powerful but a bit expensive. Doing ads and landing pages is also very expensive.

Any alternatives to get access to a target audience and ask them questions?
You do realize that the 30% that Google takes from Android Developers from App sales doesn't go to Google right?
Some people are incapable of introspection. Sadly, including some of the more active people on HN.
I usually try and use Readability to read long and interesting articles... but it did not like Gwern's site.

http://www.readability.com/articles/5jqxbits
Why we value democracy? What is it in this process that we think it is good when it's there and is bas when it isn't? Why we think democracy is better than monarchy, for example?

If you think about it, one answer could be - because democracy tends to possess some features we find valuable and necessary, such as respect for the rights and freedoms of people that we consider basic and unalienable, personal security from arbitrary prosecution by the government, orderly transition of power, general participation of the population in the political process, not inhibited by government restrictions, etc.

Now if you look at what happens in Gaza with Hamas, you will find very little of that. Personal rights are not respected, government is a bunch of armed thugs ruling with iron fist and violently suppressing any dissent and any competing movement (it helps little that those are another bunch of armed thugs), and in general almost no benefit of democracy except the ability to vote for whoever is already in power is available to the citizens. If this is not a failure, what is?

However, if we look into the matter even more, I'm not sure there was democratic election involved at the first place. Political fate of Gaza was decided in 2007 in violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas, and Fatah lost. It would probably have lost also if the elections were fully democratic, but what actually happened and the process that led Hamas to assume power in Gaza had almost nothing to do with democracy.
From the address bar,
Chrome shows http://www.xn--p3h.com/
Safari & Firefox show http://www.★.com
Wasn't me - I actually was really interested in your comment (as I indicated).

The link you provided, btw, states, "Although the exact scale of the Newton losses remains unconfirmed, some sources say that the company sunk a billion dollars into the Newton and recouped only about one quarter of that amount in sales."

"Some Sources" might have merit if that was the Wall Street Journal, or New York Times (though, in both cases, those "sources" might have ulterior motives") - but they aren't useful in this context.

Also, as a later poster indicated, losing $750mm over the lifetime of a multi-year project, is a lot (lot) different than losing $1B/year.

I'm still intrigued, and would love if (anyone) could track down some data on the Newton, and it's losses. Or even how many units it actually sold.
It seems like it's allowed explicitly by LWN: "The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider accepting the trial offer on the right. Thank you for visiting LWN.net!"
If you're changing your sprinkler configuration, you're doing it wrong.

Or your lawn is dying because there hasn't been enough rain. Or your lawn is dying because there's been too much rain. Or you're resodding a part of your lawn. Or you're removing part of your lawn to put in a garden. Or you've started using rainbarrels to naturally irrigate your backyard. Or your city has changed which days you can water your lawn on.

you can be pretty sure that the reason the internal clock is wrong is because the author tried to tweak things.

It could also be because the power went out or because of Daylight Saving Time.
It's a little more than a pop; the bottle builds up quite a bit of pressure before it ruptures - I know this because we use to make these quite a bit when I was a kid. That said, are they dangerous? Potentially. Does this merit the reaction taken by the school and prosecution? Hell no.
How the TSA, FAA, and airlines encourage crime
Yii 2 Public Preview is Now Available on GitHub
Something is fishy in the press release, TechCrunch is carrying a story claiming where Jason Kincaid says:

"At one point, Jason says "one GPU core per instance." But actually we're told that the technology scales so efficiently and cost effectively that you can allow anywhere from a minimum of 10 users per GPU, up to 100 depending on the application"

10 users per CPU? 100? This sounds like wishful thinking and vast hyperbole to me. GPU's don't really like so much context switching, but more than that, a modern game tends to saturate system performance, not just RAM, but VRAM, GPU cycles, and CPU. The idea that you're going to virtualize a couple of instances of Crysis or Call of Duty onto a single GPU seems preposterous.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/videos-otoy-in-action-you-h...

OnLive had similar problems overhyping the scalability and economics of their service.
I would try QuickTime or ffmpeg.
the lwn editor(s?) periodically post subscriber only articles here on HN, I would be surprised if this article wasn't posted with lwn's blessing.
This is great, but I can't seem to be able to find the NoSQL flavored support. Seems great for relational style data models, but (I'm sure I'm missing something) I didn't see support for full nested document models. Did I entirely miss the point?
Unfortunately, he doesn't have a day job and he's really poor. If you like his research, consider a donation in paypal dollars or bitcoin.
Hi Ajay - I just sent you an email.
Yes. I few friends and I have been working on this for a few months as a school project. We're done with school now, but we may still continue the project. So far we have been more focused on the mathematics and the software and less focused on the product because the project was for school.
Well, there are several problems.

First, to address your point. Paper is not pure white, and ink is not pure black. Books are also not backlit. If you want to recreate the experience of reading a book, use a slightly off-white color and a dark colored ink (for example, a very dark blue or brown).

Second, most everything on the page is way too cramped.

Third, you need to constrain text width. It's a lot of work to scan 1000 pixels for each line.

I made some quick changes in CSS to address the basic readability problems, and uploaded a screenshot:

http://new.tinygrab.com/d5ac58cc253b078fa42a97b3c35417d28563...

(I was playing around with the links before I decided I was getting too far into the weeds, but the links in #content should have the underline. The links on the side shouldn't.)

CSS changes:

html {
background-color: #FCFCFC;
}

html, a {
color: #303C3C;
}

blockquote {
font-style: italic;
}

#header {
margin-top: 50px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}

#sidebar {
width: 150px;
margin-right: 50px;
}

#content {
width: 550px;
margin-left: 200px;
padding-left: 0;
line-height: 150%;
}

#TOC {
width: 200px;
margin-right: -235px;
}

#TOC li {
margin-top: 0;
}
The announcement in the forum: http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/42967-yii-...
The related documents are indexed by id from the primary document, so ordering doesn't matter, and it makes sense to use a format suggested by calebio, as it's both more efficient and terse. However, the primary document and other nested entities which require ordering should return an array of objects.

Edit: clarification
As soon as I read "Plus is a wasteland", I knew you had no idea what you were talking about, and stopped reading.
Simple Raspberry Pi Rack
It's interesting where Mozilla draws the line on openness: proprietary code is fine as long as it's not part of the browser. Likewise proprietary services. Not our problem.
If you find value in it, does this really matter? Knowing these things about a person does little more than give you something to like/dislike, approve/disapprove, etc. about them.

Why should we care what this person does? How much money they make from the small parts of their life we see? Why they choose not to bare their souls to us, the morbidly curious?

If this question were actually answered, in my opinion, this site would become less interesting. Keep and enjoy a little bit of mystery and wonder, even if it is just a very little bit.
> Google has been trying to substitute ads for content and trying to get people to go along with it. Of course Google can show you a multitude of sites about supplements and maybe 2-3 ads, not 30 ads and a few results (buried by ads.) Just because an ad is "relevant" doesn't mean it's anywhere near the same, financially speaking, for the user.

Evidence?
Appalling irresponsibility
Things bothering me in this proposal: the need for the relation; the use of "posts/1,2,3" to represent a list of resources; the "resource template". None of these are needed with REST/Hypermedia.

I've been using djangorestframework, and one of the things that I love about it (instead of tastypie) is the "Browsable API" renderer/parser mode. It's an excellent way to see if your API makes sense: if I'm not able to discover/manipulate resources just by clicking on the links or posting forms, it is a sign that the API design is ill-conceived.
Not sure what you mean. Of course browsers run websites containing proprietary code all the time. They wouldn't have much to do if all they did was run just open source websites (no proprietary websites would mean no Google, no YouTube, no github, etc.).
Harper Lee is a very private person, almost never gives interviews and hasn't written any other books, so yeah very understandable reaction.
I really love to kill a mockingbird, still remember being assigned to read it in 7th grade. The teacher actually started by reading the first part of the book to us in class and i was hooked, went home and actually read ahead(quite a big deal for a bored 7th grader that barely did enough to get by when he had his IRC friends waiting). I think thats a huge reason for me being an avid reader today.

I really hope this Pinkus guy gets what he deserves. People that take advantage of the elderly are right near child molesters on the scumbag scale, and forcing some one that obviously values their privacy to have to make a public spectacle of themselves like this should be a crime in its own right.
Whenever I see mention of displaying apps locally that are running in the cloud, I also see pretty sloppy language that could mislead people who don't read carefully. PC apps running in the browser? MS Office on the iPad? Not really. It makes me wonder if the only way to sell this concept is with misdirection.
What, you're not into this kind of thing?

http://goo.gl/ZvOlp

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2012/08...
Now You Can Buy 3D Printers From Staples
I think your pricing is a little off; my parents have had a Rinnai heater now for more than several years with no reliability issues and spent far less than $2800. Even Amazon has them priced much lower [1].

1 - http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=rinnai+water+h...
It may be 10 years old, but it's still what's being sold:
http://www.amazon.com/Rain-Bird-ESP-4M-4-Station-Controller/...
I'm not really interested in those two specific examples used by the OP. My question was more along the lines of the beginning of your reply.

The association of the features you mention with 'our' view of democracy is part of why I personally associate "democracy" and "good".

But, for example, why is it "bad" if people democratically choose a government with values different from ours? Shouldn't the 'voice of the people' be of enough value?
I wouldn't advocate Firefox trying to block proprietary sites. But it's just interesting that Mozilla fought H.264 for years and now he's endorsing something that's even worse (it's not even documented or RAND licensed). Is Mozilla interested in freedom for users or freedom for Mozilla themselves?
Why We Inflate Our Résumés
Am I the only one bothered by the fact the software is free, but the e-books are not?

They're both merely an arrangement of bits in files, duplicated at a near-zero cost. But one of these (the free one) has usually gone through many man-years of development while the other (the one that costs money) is the result of a few man-weeks or months of effort.

Oh, wait, I just learned that the the non-free quickie version of bits is now available at 50% off. Never mind.
I have an Ecobee thermostat in my condo, which I am currently in the process of selling. Young people are usually pretty excited about seeing it in action, but older people are actually turned off. My guess is they see it as another complicated VCR that they can't program, and so, it's actually a negative.

Even the Nest, with it's simple dial would probably scare them, because smart things scare stupid people.

When I tell them that it's an Internet enabled thermostat, they must immediately think, "OMG CHINA HAXORS GUNNA STEAL MY THERMOSTAT MHZ" because that's what the scare-monger media has been telling them over the last six months.
RFC vocabulary, and indeed, the entire format is perfect for writing specifications. And software people have become good at reading them. So it's common to see it outside IETF standards and docs.
"I'm kinda hoping that if I do enough statistics because I find it interesting, I'll stumble into a real job" - gwern

One of the more resourceful and consistently interesting people I have had the pleasure of knowing.
US Dept. Labor Watering Hole Pushing Poison Ivy Via IE8 Zero-Day
What School Should Be: On Curriculum
I'm not sure he's "endorsing" it or not. All I see is him saying it's cool technology - which it definitely is. It opens up a lot of possibilities, and proves a whole different set of approaches is possible to a large set of problems. That's exciting.

Will it end up being good or bad for users overall? It's hard to say with any new technology, but this does look promising in some respects.

But how is this "worse than H.264"? We don't know anything about it yet. (When it launches on the web, perhaps it will be documented? Licensed? Who knows.) Unless you have additional information not in this article?
I can't stand UI controllers for physical stuff:

1. When you want to change some parameter of the physical thing, you have to know where your phone is. You can't just go there.

2. You need to take your phone out of your pocket, navigate to the icon, press it, wait, probably tap a button or two, then slide your fingers along a smooth surface in some sort of complex pattern. Meanwhile, you could have walked downstairs and turned a dial, which you can actually feel with your fingers and you don't need to look at.

Nest makes big awesome dials. I too wish more startups with good designers would find some way to displace common hardware controls that are unfamiliar and complex.
W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache Vulnerability Being Targeted in the Wild
First they did it with the roadtrip range calculations and now this one. Credibility is hard earned easily lost you know.
I may be missing something, but how is searching an array of JSON objects more efficient than direct lookup by ID?
Nope, mine don't seem to go higher than around 6MBps (48mbps) on a good day. Edit: That was with one of the first models. My new one seems to hit about 75mbps.
That thing looks like a nightmare. I don't blame them.
An irrigation system is far more complicated than a thermostat however there are already strong contenders in this space. I use a Cyber-Rain[1] controller which adjusts based on humidity, temperature and forecast along with details provided during setup such as sprinkler types, soil types, grade and more. When your system has a flow sensor the controller will even shut down the system in the event of a broken head and send an email instead of letting hundreds of gallons of water run down the street.

[1]http://cyber-rain.com
+1 funny.

The author is the protagonist, who is female. I'm astonished at how many commenters expected an author whose only book is told by a female first person protagonist to be male.

In real life, Boo Radley is, of course, Truman Capote.
I question that as well, but it's also been pretty much debunked. The biggest 'arms manufacturer' donations to the NRA actually come from Midway, which is a retailer, not a manufacturer, and their donations aren't actually from Midway, but donations solicited from users at the end of each sale. If you purchase from Midway, they invite you to donate the 'roundup' to the NRA; if your purchase is $19.50, they'll ask if you want to round it up to an even $20, with the remainder earmarked as an NRA donation.

For the record, I'm not an NRA or NRA-ILA member, though I am a member of the Second Amendment Foundation.

That said, even if we accept that they are in the pockets of arms manufacturers, I don't really see that as being too bad a thing. Arms manufacturers don't have the same degree of exploitative control over their users as, say, telecoms, or software manufacturers.

For the most part, the interests of the manufacturers and gun owners are much more closely aligned than how you find it in the IT arena.

For one, arms manufacturers don't want their name tarnished whenever a nut uses one of their arms to commit mass murder, as well as the headache that inevitably ensues.

That isn't to suggest that they're perfectly aligned of course, but definitely moreso than what we're used to seeing.
To expand: just because someone is doing something that entails risk, doesn't mean taking advantage of that is not a scam. In fact, it's the essence of most scams.
Yup, you're right. In industry, that's called a near miss. It's treated with the motions as though you were hit by that car, but none of the consequences are enacted, since nothing in fact happened (YMMV). Basically, it's a freebie: lessons are learned without anyone getting hurt, which is about as good as it gets.
At least 50% of the teenagers in this world who have access to products X and Y would mix them up if somebody told them that mixing X and Y will create an explosion.

That's the nature of being a teenager. As far as I'm concerned teenagers are showing more signs of mental health than adults these days.
Adding links really is a huge pain in the Compose window now.
Ah, the memories, the memories. Yes kids I was there and it was beautiful. My company built systems for financial traders. There was always a battle between the techs in the banks who wanted something architecturally elegant e.g. object oriented and the traders who wanted a UX that worked in an incredibly high pressure environment. In some deals the techies won and in some deals the traders won and in both cases the bank lost. NeXT was the only thing that was equally good at both. We ported to NeXT and sold a few. The rest as they say is history (i.e. NeXT disappeared into the dustbin of history and remerged in Jobs's brilliant second act. Today in our real time social mobile web we are all like traders, so that is why we have NeXT 3.o aka the iPhone.
Having money and having valuable information are not 100% correlated. Therefore, showing only information published by the people with the will and the means to promote it will always have some problems.
I agree with you. "OP" was referring to your suggestion. I edited my pervious comment to clarify.
Using iperf (i.e. pretty ideal conditions) I peak at around 75Mbit/sec on a latest-generation Pi.
3D Printing of Proteins
Do you know him personally?
Great find. It must have been total chaos - good chaos - in those days.
The problem is the potential for felony as an adult. That's life-ruining stuff there, and people don't want to go soft on protesting that sort of severity. Without malicious intent, it's hard to rationalize it as criminal behavior, rather than
No, but I do interact with him on a daily basis on IRC.
Declare everyone free, within Quebec and without, and I'll be there with you. Until then it's just another government deciding what to do with "its" people.