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>The main feature of my site though is a private messaging feature. This allows users to instantly message other users of their interest instead of having the inconvenience of opening another application or window for email, and as well as giving out their private e-mail account.

I don't believe that feature is good enough to make people switch from Craigslist. Messaging to me is just one click. For less savvy computer users they won't mind the extra step to email.

I admire your chutzpah though. Keep thinking of ways to make a better product than CL or ebay.
Sometimes though, you really do have lots of data and need appropriate solutions. At Quantcast, our cluster processes petabytes per day and our edge datacenters handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. In fact we recently open sourced our file system (QFS[1]) built on top of HDFS, which can up to double FS capacity on the same hardware. Although it's certainly true that not every company (or even not most) needs all that horsepower, there are definitely some for whom it's the core of their business.

[1]. http://quantcast.github.io/qfs/
I'm not Indian, but I truly hope that India rises above it's current economical level, for the good of the entire world. Having whole generations of very hard-working (too hard working!) young people that have grown with an unhealthy tolerance for very bad working conditions, work abuse and for bad living conditions decreases the quality of working conditions worldwide (or in EU and US at least) and enforces a stereotype that will only turn back to hurt the younger generations of Indians.

My advice to qualified hard-working Indians (or any other qualified and educated people emigrating for a poorer country to a richer one):

1. be PROUD of yourself, don't be willing to work for 2x less just because you've just immigrated to an EU country or to the US (or for 10x less if you're working in your home country for an outsourcer)! you don't deserve less!

2. stop selling yourself with the "I can work really hard" label on your head - every employer and manager will respect you less as a human being if you do so, even if they may value you more (as in "business value", not human value!). (let me tell you something: even if business owners and top managers paint themselves as hard working guys, they just do it to project this image to their employees - 50% didn't get there by working hard, but by working smart an by good delegation and externalizing skills; only 10% probably got there by sheer hard work; and the other 40%... let's just say you don't want them as your role models :) )

3. once you get to a certain skill level, grow a bit of smugness, pride and condescendence for God's sake (it's healthy for you, trust me!), and try to wear the "reluctant genius" hat form time to time instead of the "hard working bee" one, even if it's not who you are - it teaches people the value, scarcity and tricky nature of "high quality wetware", it teaches that they have to pay top dollars for brainpower and accept that it will not always work as they want it and they just have to put up with this!

4. don't be afraid to show Uncle Sam the finger if you get caught in an US VISA trap, like being unable to quit your job because you'll loose your H1B VISA or something - this is demeaning and you shouldn't work in a country that puts you in such a situation, even if you'd earn more and learn more than anywhere else! You shouldn't because you don't have to: the "rich" world is bigger than the US: there's Canada, Europe, Australia, rising economies in South American countries etc.

Be angry, but also be proud and don't sell yourself short even if it hurts you in the short run - by asking for more and doing less you're actually making the world a better place for your children, even if it seems against your intuition and values!
What else are you going to do when you retire early? (cf http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/)
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Remember though the right in the USA has been on a tear of paranoia.

This sounds an awful lot like a bureaucratic directive ("there's an awful lot of alleged tea party groups raising a lot of dough, keep an eye out") being reinterpreted through the conspiracy lens
In the case of a botnet you would have to consider whether you go by the number of calculations each machine a bot runs on can perform or whether you consider the number of calculations each bot can perform with the risk of detection remaining insignificant.

Realistically you would have to go with the latter in that case I don't think the computing power of most if not all botnets would account for much.
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The computing effort required by mining is almost completely decoupled from the actual number of transactions. It's designed to scale up with the available computing power, that's why it has grown.
After reading that, now I want learn it.
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This is utterly devastating and long overdue. Sandberg makes $845 million in a year (at a company she didn't found), lives a charmed life, and is promoted aggressively by men...yet has managed to convince herself that the world is/was biased against women.

But even Greenspan is prevented by polite convention from making the obvious point: women and men have different chromosomal structures, lifespans, organs, and hormone levels. There's also substantial evidence[1,2] that they differ in average levels of spatial, verbal, and mathematical reasoning ability (with women generally having an advantage in verbal and men in visuospatial/mathematical). We should not expect them to have the same outcomes on average.

Women also can only have at most 10-20 children over their lifespan, whereas men like Genghis Khan[3] can have a virtually unbounded number. This is why males have a greater evolutionary payoff for high-risk, high-reward behavior: intrinsically higher reproductive variance.

But hey. That's evolution, and even though it provides a consilient explanation for a variety of allied phenomena, everyone knows that doesn't and couldn't apply to human beings (we all well know what happens to people who propose that a behavior has genetic influences). It is instead easier to pretend that humans aren't biological creatures with hard biological constraints.

Yet if your premises are wrong, one is simply practicing fashionable creationism. And that is where we are today, presented with the spectacle of a privileged billionairess who lashes out at phantasms rather than wrestling with the realities of molecular biology. Why not lean in to a publication on behavioral neuroendocrinology, for a change?

[1]: http://www2.nau.edu/~bio372-c/class/behavior/sexdif1.htm

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Female-Brain-Louann-Brizendine/dp/0767...

[3]: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_...

[4]: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-diff...
>because it's so uncomfortable to be lucid

That sounds very serious, and I hope you get help, but there's no way that's addiction.
I'll be sincerely surprised if anything ultimately comes of this besides a slap on the wrist. Firms are so dependent on Bloomberg to determine whether their numbers are right that I can't imagine anyone migrating elsewhere outside of very small sectors. Literally no one else has the coverage and accuracy.
Many of these groups would like the IRS to go away entirely. Many of these groups would like to not pay taxes at all.

Why would the IRS spend an equal amount of time investigating everyone, when certain groups go out of their way to paint big targets on their backs?
I would love to see this. We had 2 deaf hackers compete at our recent Startup Weekend. An app built on top of Google Glass would have helped them communicate better with the other participants. Bonus points if there would eventually be an app to convert sign language to written or spoken text - so that comparatively fast 2 way communication could happen.
Very nice, pricing seems pretty good too imho
These are anti-tax organizations. Imagine that the taxing authority might be interested in their activities. The head of the IRS is a Republican appointee, who if anything would be sympathetic to them from a political standpoint.
You have to be intrinsically motivated to succeed at getting a PhD, which normally means being strongly interested in your area of research. It's a lot of hard work; I wasn't kidding when I said I pulled three weeks of 16 hour days in a row (and that paper wasn't even accepted!).

If you've gotten an undergraduate and master's degree in computer science, you should already have a pretty good feel for the different areas. Choose the one you really want to immerse yourself in for reasons of pure interest, and pursue that one. Once you have the PhD, you can go on and do whatever you want afterwards. You don't have to stay in the same subarea as your thesis; lots of professors (my advisor included) have changed areas based on the times.
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It is still replicating the past.

What new ideas in operating system design has Linux brought, other than being a UNIX clone at zero cost?
I think I can help you out, it's a secret project of mine but I'd be happy to discuss it 1:1 -- roshan at bloc.io if you're interested
"By placing their apps on iOS, and essentially being the best of breed in every category..." I have to say that this is a stretch. Their mapping app is worse than Apple from a UX perspective. Granted the data is better, but Apple are improving very quickly in this concern. The Gmail app isn't even the best Gmail app on the platform, and their anti-user stance (getting rid of ActiveSync, not supporting push on other devices) is the only reason Mail isn't particularly great with Gmail. Conversely AS/Exchange, Hotmail/Outlook, Yahoo! and iCloud mail all work really well with Mail. The Google app itself is riddled with bugs that made the last update practically unusable and Now useless. The other apps barring Chrome, which does have issues but are out of Googles control, seem to be abandonware. For me, if you are already locked into the Google ecosystem, then Android is the obvious choice. However Google, IMHO, are playing dirty on this front.

"...they could all become fronts for Google's apps." Which would, IMHO, be disastrous for consumers and the open web. Google already have far too much control in the web space, getting close to ubiquity. Samsung, at this juncture, are the lesser of two evils. However, I wouldn't trust them as far as I could spit.
It's the IRS's job to collect tax revenue. It's not the IRS's job to protect its own existence. That's politics, and the IRS should not be involved in politics.
I have a Gentoo server and dev box.
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Not every well polished but i like Drop 7(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.areacode.d...)
http://myhosting.com/

I've used these guys for a few years for basic web and email hosting. Not as full featured as the major US brands, but decent, inexpensive, and based in Canada.
Some are interesting, but there's lots of mundane and generally boring stuff too, e.g. [1]

[1] http://www.keithschwarz.com/interesting/code/?dir=argmax
After I'm a billionaire, for my second startup, I think I'll hire exclusively women, save myself 30% on human capital, and run everyone out of business. "Take that margins! Pow! Kablam!"

Somebody give me a Nobel for thinking of this. Obviously, since no one's doing it, I am a genius.
For anyone interested in such a story, I highly recommend Richard Branson's autobiography - "How I lost my virginity."
I have to fire the url twice in chrome in console I get

uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined

Is it firing some code before it can load Jquery?
Craigslist in my opinion is a soup of new and old products. My website/service offers a more specialized distribution of only used goods. It offers less confusion to users and gives a more detailed presentation of the product displaying their condition. I also offer two distinct features: a private messaging system, and a search-within-an-area feature (which I find is more accurate). If I am from Mountain View and want to search in both Sunnyvale and Palo Alto, I don't have to click on south bay and peninsula, I just have to key in my keyword and input "within 10 miles", and it will search the items within 10 miles of my location regardless on which area I am.
Tail wagging
Commenting online is an afterthought, and it is really sad to me why this is so. Disqus and Livefyre are what most people use, but they have a ton of room for improvement. Some might say that they are doing really well, which would be true; however, there is hardly any competition, so anything Disqus and Livefyre do will be perceived as well, or simply, good enough.

I've been working on a way to redo commenting in my spare time, and I would like for it to become a thing. My idea consists of synced comments, an RSS like feed, a one column design (no threaded comments!) with expanding and minimizing replies, and a currency connected with real money that people can use to tip one another. I know it sounds far fetched, and it is, but I truly believe that commenting should be given saliency if writing and publishing online is going to move forward.

The next step is making my designs and ideas into a reality, however, I don't know how to code. I'm seeking someone who does, and in the meantime, I am teaching myself how to get starting with programming. The thing is, I could spend the next 1-2 years of my life learning how to code what I want to do when there is someone out there who knows how to do it already.

I suppose this comment is also to raise awareness for what I want to do for the future of commenting online. Send me a DM on Twitter @raymondduke if you are interested. I do have a plan to monetize from day one. I'll gladly tell you what I want to do and if you are interested maybe we can start making this happen.
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Business opportunities, money, being rich is not what life is all about. Clean air, clean water, good work culture, honesty and respect for other human beings is what is missing in India. There is somebody in every corner looking to con you here in India. Conditions are very pathetic. Its a rat race in the cities, with every person trying to outrun the next guy. People are aware of the money they can make and are blinded by it. All they see and respond to nowadays is money.
“Is Miranda Kerr's Bikini Too Skimpy?”

“Rules for Unmarried Couples Staying in Dubai Hotels”

“4 Newfound Reasons Why You Should Have Sex …”

This is Disqus, making a well-written programming technique article look cheap and tacky.
Washington Politics Splits Silicon Valley On Keystone XL
Correct me if I'm wrong,

Their unique value proposition is a platform for styling maps?
This is where I cut my teeth on the business of software, actually, but the forum is a bit less vibrant than it has been in previous years.
Well, in this case they are subscribing to our $10/month service where they would generate the site themselves. But to your point, even with that, they don't want to do it themselves with their time constrictions.

Interesting idea on a competition on creating a site for a restaurant though...
It needs a $ on the first line of shortly.js
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I'm coming to the conclusion it's best to write your own Analytics if you want reliable and precise information. Google Analytics is an out-of-the box solution targeted at websites between 1 and 1000000000... visitors per month. (Regardless whether it's a blog, an online game or you name it.)
I wonder if both "responsive web design" and "big data" were just hoaxes that we were all fed to sell more books and seminars.
Bite the bullet and learn to code. I did. It's easier if you have a project in mind. You can be competent enough to whip up an MVP in about 10-12 weeks if you work hard learning Ruby On Rails.
Been mulling this one over myself - please do ping me details in profile
Subutex and Suboxone are not the same drug (I have no doubt my parent knows this, but for others edification), though both contain the same narcotic. Suboxone includes an opiate antagonist for the sole purpose of trying to keep people from injecting it. Injecting suboxone will send you into very unpleasant withdrawals immediately (I imagine there is some way to overcome that, though).

I used Suboxone to wean myself from physical dependence to opiates after years of pain management. I agree that the article glosses over how bad opiate physical withdrawals are, and my experience didn't include the emotional withdrawals. My understanding is that suboxone withdrawals are much longer, due to its long half-life, but not as intense as heroin's. For six weeks, I didn't sleep more than two hours at a time, had constant chills and diarrhea, couldn't really eat, ached everywhere, and had non-stop restless muscles. A fever, indeed!
He knew all the tricks, etc."

Apropos: Monty Python's "Piranha Brothers" sketch, specifically, @ 1:35 of part 2 (but watch it all):

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64aVHzoSdaI

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aihjThGabYY

(Or you can just read it:

http://pianosa.com/pic/sketches/piranha.htm )
How can anyone tell when I started working on my project?
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Well, not throwing them in jail with ludicrous sentences is probably a good start. I would look to Portugal for a template.
Yeah I definitely don't have a perfect solution for this. Sometimes it piles up. One thing that I have found effective is having a designated end of day "clean up to-do list" time. Definitely open to hearing what you think would be a good solution.
Here you are: http://37signals.com/bootstrapped
Lots of such stories. Highly recommeneded.
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Which modern experience would that be? Citation needed.
Ask HN: Like ParenScript(Lisp Library), Is there anything for C# 
I'm looking for a CL library which can generate C# from sexp. Similar to what Parenscript does (sexp to JS).

If not available, is it easy to write it from scratch?

Any pointers please.
Thanks.
I'm a sysadmin and I code according to requirements - which are drastically dissimilar to products that would be used by hundreds of people, not to mention consumers.

* Often it's a Puppet recipe.

* Often, the program gets used once, then rots as the environment it was designed for changes. I might look at it for ideas if similar requirements occur after a few years.

* Only one other person needs to know how it works (and he'd prefer not to).

* When my employer (who is not a software provider) wants something with the attributes of commercial software (professional documentation, ongoing support, ongoing development) they understand that dividing the cost with other customers is far cheaper than having me attempt to accomplish the same thing.

The distinction between scripting and coding is parallel to that between interpreted and compiled languages - there are great grey areas in between. I will exec external programs when those accomplish what I want. I have no hesitation to use libraries either. I came out of college a programmer, but a Fred Brooks dictum is lodged deep in my soul: the cheapest code is the code you didn't write. In a Unix environment, that meant most of what needed to be done looked more like sysadmin than coding - and here I am today.
Yeah, for me, this review points to a bigger picture issue. Why is the tech / startup scene so easily lured in by establishment values?

Of course there are exceptions, Fog Creek's articles about their compensation policy comes to mind, but very little of the egalitarian ethos that made hacking so cool survives in the way people talk and write about working in tech.

Corporate long-hours and ladder climbing ambition? Where every dating site [or other product] presumes fixed gender, sexual preferences, and monogamous behavior. Happily pouring your earnings in to high rents and overpriced 401ks, quibbling over the .02% equity versus the extra $5k a year at the next job while recreating the hierarchy and wage slavery which characterized the 19th and 20th centuries. To the point where even the feminism seems regressive. And the "art" is airbrushed illustrations and all the music is power pop.

Did I wander too far? Well it is one lens to view it through.
Styling maps is just an added feature. Their main uvp is simply "maps". Competitor and alternative to Google Maps, Mapquest, etc.
As someone unfamiliar with these 'terminals' the OP was extremely confusing. Evidently, reporters had access to authorization timestamps of accounts for a system that reported stock prices and new.

No credentials were exposed.

What's the issue?
I'm the business co-founder of a startup in Japan called MakeLeaps. Co-incidentally, I run the Hacker News Tokyo meet-ups with my co-founder Paul.

I'd be interested to learn some programming (enough to be dangerous) perhaps by working on a small project with someone who is willing to help me out and teach me.

In return, I'm happy to talk about anything/everything I know about business/marketing/sales/product/validation.

Edit: motivated to learn Python/Django/webdev!
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I think you are misunderstanding. I believe the parent's point is not that the IRS is targeting anti-tax groups out of umbrage or fear, but that people who loudly declare taxation to be illegitimate are signaling, "Hey, I'm especially likely to try and evade paying taxes."

Similarly, if there were a group dedicated to the idea that seducing little boys was OK, you could expect it to get some extra scrutiny from the FBI. This is not because the FBI is made up of little boys who feel threatened, but because these people are waving a big red flag that they're probably engaged in activities that the FBI has an interest in.
Does somebody know if there's a way to use these with one's own OSM server?
Having been to both places - the similarity may be there, but America has just started on the path of wiping out the ability to think from its children.

We've been 'teaching the test' for decades now. No child left behind has just started for you in comparison.

The Indian education system is busy creating mental athletes who are literate, but incapable of actually working outside of their experience set - essentially training fencers instead of fighters.
Injecting Suboxone (Buprenopherine/Naloxone) actually has no ill effects apart from what I've posted below (hardening veins, danger in general...).

Bupe's affinity for opiate receptors is so high that the Naloxone never gets a chance to bind itself. It simply has no effect, and doesn't stop a number of people at my clinic from injecting Suboxone.

I hope you're doing better SoftwareMaven. Opiate withdrawals are hell, although mine were self-inflicted.

As another interesting anecdote: Suboxone/Subutex withdrawals are far more drawn-out (although less acute) than heroin, due to it's long half-life. They suck balls, too. EDIT: LOL, you said that yourself. I'm an idiot.
I've tried to get started a few times and I am finding it to be the most frustrating thing I've ever done in my life. I think there is something in my brain that is completely against what is involved with coding; it's like I have some cognitive-allergic reaction to it.

But, I see your point. And I want to put what I want to do a reality, so I will keep trying. I think it would just be so much better if I can find someone to work with instead of try to do it all myself.