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Markets are what people with diverse motivations and rights to dispose of their property "do" when they wish to dispose of their property (or deliver services) or when they wish to acquire new property or have services performed. The market as a concept isn't something handed down by the gods, nor instituted by decree.

I agree that there are other concepts that dispose of people's "property" and require them to seek or deliver services; in the past we called them things like theft, war, and slavery.
The mistake was for your friend to think that he was a good judge of ability based on the features at hand. It might be useful to reflect on whether the people your friend normally prefers to hire might just be the people who are best at managing presentation?
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WORA in Java - not really
Thanks for that, original link was blocked for me as well.
Good thing you clarified that, because the only way I could see to take the previous comment was negative (just a heads up).
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The name of the publication is "Vanity Fair".
client: I need a software tht can find information about my mp3 files online and it must work 100% correct

me: What information do you have and what do you want to look up?

client: I have the folder and file names and there are 5 webpages like google where you can search for music. I want the programm to get the right song info from this. BUT IT MUST WORK 100% right no error ever! I had 6 other programmers try it but no one can make it right!

(the real clients english was even worse)
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Aspiring musicians appreciate the vast odds against them becoming the Next Big Thing. It takes an extremely young or naive person to believe that they will become a wild success off the back of some unpaid gigs or their YouTube channel.

In fact, most musicians that I know are rightly insistent on being paid for their performances and are suspicious of promoters and agents who are eager for them to gain exposure by playing for free.

Edit: Essentially there is a continuum of risk/reward between

* Consulting or creating a small and stable business (or, say, playing as a session musician)

* Buying lottery tickets.

I just don't think that people are always aware of where they are on that scale and it doesn't seem right to give people false impressions of where they and their ideas stand. Yeah I do sound like a grumpy sod :)
Ignore the (percieved) risks and simply do great work. That's overwhelmingly likely to have the highest EV. Any amount of time spent fretting over the possibility of unfair treatment is wasted time. (all of this is merely opinion, of course)
I really really hope that discussion about revenue is not seen as grounds to cancel those accounts.

I understand that Google is very touchy about people talking about ad revenue.
Wow. Thanks for saving me umpteen bucks over the last few years.
> Surely it's better to have a subsidised minimum service than to rely on charities?

No. Charities have to maintain efficiency because they are not subsidized, if they want to continue to operate they need to prove to contributors that their contribution is going to the cause to the extent that a market critical mass of contributors cares to know.

> if your objection is purely because you don't want to be told that you should look after your fellow Americans, then that's either a really sad representation of how little respect Americans have for their kin, or the facet of a childish mentality where kids deliberately disobey their parents because they like to test their boundaries. Either way, it's just a terrible attitude to have.

Effigies should only be burned in street protests when there are teeming masses to rile up. They are less effective in print.
You're just piling one assumption on top of another.
I've heard mixed reviews, it would be interesting to see some comprehensive comparison.

Rates are going to be driven by cost of living as much as expertise, so it's not unfeasible to imagine skilled developers in Malaysia / China / Russia / India who didn't get a green card (or didn't want one) being able to comfortably sell their services for < $10 per hour.
"As I added in the comments to the post, you should be able to turn the logging/tracing on or off on a running system. Furthermore, you need to be able to select what what should be logged, for example only messages to a certain mobile phone."

There's little to gain that way. If the logging was off when the problem happened, you have no logs. You can switch it on and try to reproduce. However, if you are able to reproduce, you can as well attach the process to the debugger and check what's happening. No logging needed.
Should StackOverflow run a programmers' matrimonial service?
What's the cost of adding these hydrogen atoms though. Too bad they're not talking about that in the article.
You just have to scroll down a little beyond the "Buy Now" box. The tutorial is just below the fold.
I sure hope compilers haven't been twiddling their thumbs for the past decade.
You're right; fixed.
What do you guys do for pushing blog updates to Twitter? An RSS crawler?
I'll ignore the fact that hiring a CEO is something that startups pretty much do not do and ask you this: why do you think it's so easy to hire top talent on primarily equity?
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39482
So, what's best current practice for naive clients when trying to hire designers or programmers?

Is that advice online anywhere?
What are your thoughts about the "first-time user" experience of Sendloop?
Hi Guys,

Just wondering if we achieved to "stick" the first-time user within 2-3 minutes after sign up?

Can you please take a test drive on our website, sign-up and let us know if the first-time experience is good enough to "stick" the user to Sendloop?

http://sendloop.com/

Thanks a lot for your valuable feedbacks in advance!

Cheers,
Levent,
Sendloop
Do you mean doing things (in jQuery) like:

$('<div id="' + identifier + '">' + some_text + '</div>');

If so, consider doing:

$('<div>').attr('id', identifier).text(some_text);

which handles escaping correctly for you.

Or equivalent in your preferred JS framework or lack of framework.
They do not really read what the customers want until the bid is accepted.

foreach(newProject as project){
new Bid( projeckt.averagePrice * 0.8 ), "We are the best nd have done this many times");
}

In the most cases they can really solve the problems and get good ratings.

Some clients include a "password" in the project description and ignore all messages without the password.
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What about the wonderful modes of Hercules, CGA and EGA? :)
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Many of the most interesting HNers have accounts strongly tied to real world identities.
Logging means a I/O operation in some way or another to observe the message. If it's not the disk, it's a buffered stream with a syscall and all kinds of slow. Any other magic (using another thread to do the slow stuff, etc) risks the log message getting lost during a crash and the whole thing being useless.
The only reason for wanting to read this is in hope that it alerts everyone about how flawed US gun regulations are and home much there is to do. Also, if this "manufacturing" was to be regulated, it would be great to know that gun manufacturer's representative, the NRA, will no longer be needed, if in fact "freedom" is that its members want.
You appear to be very jealous of their success. This is Hacker News, we should celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit and look at the lessons that can be learned from success stories like this.

If I could build Instagram and sell it for $1b I sure as hell would. Might not be saving the world but people appear enjoy using it so who cares. They did manage to sell a company for $1b, a feat which practically all of us never will achieve.

That said, they probably should try to get some cash flow some time soon.
> Why is there no outrage at the government that actually arrested him?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/27/new_zealand_kim_dotc... and http://abovethelaw.com/2012/09/megameltdown-new-zealands-pri...

"If they had been more thorough in what they had done, they would have worked out that Mr. Dotcom had a residence class visa, and therefore was protected by the law,"

"Frankly, I’m pretty appalled by what I’ve seen because these are basic errors."

"This is really a matter of mistake and human error, not one of a great conspiracy,"

"the agency has let itself down very badly."
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Chat with the guys who want to screw carriers with their roaming-killer app
"When a person located abroad violates the laws of the United States, that person may be held criminally liable despite the fact that the person has never set foot in the United States."

Americans, you really need to do something about your goverment and laws. The sooner the better.
How does Class box get 1 million users with only 4 people?
> That is a fancy way of saying "we don't like to share".

I like to share with my family, not the collective mass of Americans who make less than me; whose sole claim for charity is that they make less than me.
I believe it's more to do with establishing a secret or 'exclusive' mode of contact between the hotline and the child. I imagine a large (possibly the biggest hurdle) about getting kids to phone when they need to is to make them feel safe from their abuser finding out. Establishing that safety off the bat is important - the communication is in confidence.
what if that program finds bugs in itself? wheres your god now?
Strangely Middleman wasn't mentioned here as a alternative yet, so I'll do it: http://middlemanapp.com/

With its 'blog'-gem nex Jekyll features like excerpts and support for timezone-config have been implemented for a while.
And this works as long as you don't advertise the whole world how you did it!

Idiots!
If it was that clear cut, the judge wouldn't have anything to worry about.

Let's preface our discussion with the assumption that the DOJ lawyers are 1) not totally incompetent, 2) not complete idiots. I think we can all agree on this, right?

Now, look at the legal limbo that the MU has been stuck in for absolutely ages now, where their lawyers continue to press for case dismissal and all kinds of other things.

Is not that the judge is just flipping them off is it?

You think, perhaps, the situation is a little bit more complicated than you give it credit for?

Or maybe the guys at the DOJ are actually just complete idiots? really?

Come on.
If an aspiring musician were only motivated by the chance of making it big, I would definitely tell them to stop trying. Not because they’re pursuing an irrational goal, but because that’s not sufficient motivation to get through all the shit it takes to have a chance at making it big in music.

Similarly with startups, if someone is only motivated by a huge exit then they won’t last through the years of low-success and failure that precede building a moderately successful business. Individual who succeed in these careers get some satisfaction out of the process and the small successes along the way (e.g. performing before ten people in a bar or having one potential customer get excited about your new product).
According to the Googles, you can grab the .mp3 of the talk here: http://mp3yeah.com/download.php?id=83442458&t=Peter%20Th...
If you hover, it explains that it's green when SPDY is used for the "top-level" document and grey when it's only used for "sub-documents" which I guess means included resources. If there isn't any SPDY on the page, the icon goes away.
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One important aspect of logging is to include enough information when something fails. This sounds like it should be common sense, but I have seen this too many times:

java.net.ConnectionException: Connection refused
...

Why not include at least the hostname and port? And what connection is this exactly that failed? You might be able to find out what it was trying to connect to based on the stack trace, but that requires knowledge of the internal structure of the software.

This seems to be a common problem in software written in Java, I don't know why exactly. Maybe something to do with the way exceptions are handled, so that the relevant information is not available when printing the error?
Find joy in working with accomplished hackers regardless of age. On this very forum I have discovered several worth following - I read their blogs, look at their code, aspire to learn from them, and sometimes despair at all that I still need to learn.

This article mentions how chess training software has sped the training of chess players to the IM level from a baseline rating of 2200.

Wouldn't it be fun if a similar training setup was available for hackers . . . I wonder what that would look like.
But isn't it great that we can choose?
I think you are overreacting a bit. I'd just tell my kid that the kid on the ad had an accident.

There are much worse things your kid probably sees daily just by turning on the TV.
Have you built a substantial application using Scala on Android? Bump uses Scala, and they had to do a lot of messing with build processes, and they ended up using Java for performance in places as well. I can't find the talk right now, but here's the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/michael.galpin/scala-on-android-ex...
I definitely block out my time for projects and work on one thing at a time for a day or two if I can. Task switching can be expensive, but if you have some state saved outside of your head/computer, it can help jog your mind when you want to come back to the task. So I keep a (paper) journal of things I'm working on.

Coding is all about the mental work, so if you can keep your mind sharp it is good. Get enough sleep and devote some time to learning new things that are beyond (more difficult than) the work that you do. Getting better is all about challenging yourself.
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Ask HN: Motivation in open source
TL;DR A really short survey on motivations in open source, wont take a minute and it is our intent to release the results as soon as we can. Here's the link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FigRXVstzstH0L7A4QDv6U5ecpJPS8rgRLDxqXMbTm8/viewform

We're writing our bachelor's thesis on the motivations of open source developers. This is a follow up to the earlier survey we did where we asked you to write shortly on what motivates you. We had a great turnout and amazing answers!

In a similar vein this is very short and quick! We're looking at which factors motivate you more and which do less. Help us show the world what an extraordinary phenomenon the open source community is!
I tried and failed, although admittedly there were other factors at play. Bump tried and succeeded, but it took a lot of work: http://www.slideshare.net/michael.galpin/scala-on-android-ex...
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So true! One of my pet peeves! Truly pathetic to not include dynamic info like hostname, port and reason.

Who are these people writing code like that - they never had to debug a problem before? Include as much as you can! A stack trace is only part of the story.
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Vapid is too strong a word, but it nothing but glorifies successful start-ups, and provides no caution for people who'd like to learn something from this. The only conflict described is agonizing over which multi-gazillion offer to take(!).

It's also fairly thin on new insights into the history and acquisition.
Clearly this is nonsense:

> Your right to anything at others' expense means that they become rightless.

So let me understand this argument ... my right to anything at all removes all other rights from others? Because the UK has universal healthcare, its people have no rights?

I suggest that the truth is not that exercise of one right diminishes all others 100%, but by some fractional percent. And that life, liberty and happiness are best served by a mixture of rights and liberty, not an extreme in one direction.
1 for each service. If we need to scale beyond one per service, I plan on doing sharing across varnishes based on url so we don't have to propagate bans.
Copying Google Reader UI
I am trying to develop a small duplicate of Google reader and want to use the same UI as Google reader have.

As this product is going down in few days. Will this copying affect me in any way. I am not planning to affect the income of Google or earn something using this clone. I just want the reader to be alive. At the most I may request donations for hosting the app.

Will this copying affect me in any way.
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and if not? I.e. I host in Canada.
So it should be: "Judge, but include error bars in your judgament".
I see.

Let's say I see a big incumbent who's UNIQUE selling point is 'we have everyone's private photos. people have to come to us if they want to see their friend's photos.'

I start threatening them.

They pay and buy us.

I get rich. The incumbent gets to keep everyone's photos.

At what point in the above do we not have a business model?

Oh, you mean it can't possibly WORK! Except that it just did.

Well, I'm sorry, but something that just worked obviously did work.
See also the DigiComp II, which could do multiplication:

http://digi-compii.com/

They have an enormous one that uses pool balls:

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/a-video-introduction-to...
Worthless security claims
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aka:

echo 'set -o vi' >> ~/.inputrc

And you no longer need to have it in your bashrc at all any longer because bash uses readline.
You could probably say that Emacs originally was Stallman's customizations. He made the editor how he wanted it.
I grew up spending weekends with Grandpa in the workshop. This is great!
>obviously copyright infringing material

Are you talking about youtube here?
The only terrible thing about the misunderstanding that VC's are uniform herd animals who all act the same way, have the saem ideas of what's good and what they'd rather pass on, is that it's true!

Terrible but true. You will literally see vc look at the other VC and do exactly what they're doing.

You can literally create your own VC market by making VC A think that VC B is interested, which is true, because VC B is interested in anything that VC A is interested in.
I agree with the sentiment surrounding this for a "build something your passionate about business" (which thankfully mine is), but many people out there are more passionate about business itself than the idea of what they are building. They aren't their own users, they are building a business where they see an opportunity (or think they do) and they need to validate their market assumptions because they don't know the market, don't know the customer, etc. etc.
The POSIX standard requires a full memory barrier for the underlying operations. The problem is that synchronization is expensive: not only because of the memory barriers, which have to include the most expensive ones, but also because locking and unlocking operations need to access main memory directly, bypassing all caches.

The problem is, in any event, not the synchronization, but the common path -- for which double-checked locking tries to avoid synchronization --, which needs at a minimum a load-load barrier. That can be done efficiently on TSO architectures (where a load-load barrier is a no-op), but is not guaranteed to be fast on other architectures.
You seem to have snuck in "I start threatening them." as if that is easy and repeatable.
If talk therapy fixes a measured neurochemical imbalance, great. If temporary use of pharmaceuticals can help patients overcome negative thought patterns, also great. So in that regard, I don't think the distinction matters so much as long as the problem is solved.

If I were to design a diagnostic and treatment system for psychological conditions, I would take an engineering approach. I would start by identifying all the inputs and outputs of the system and correct undesired inputs one by one until the outputs reach their intended values.

I'm not particularly well versed in control theory, but I'd be willing to wager that one could use feedback loops to model the tricky bits of the human mind where one element (e.g. a particular neurotransmitter) could be considered either an input or an output. Maybe it doesn't matter whether you treat the thoughts or the chemicals, because rather than one being cause and one being symptom, they're both elements in a feedback loop, and all you have to do is interrupt the loop.
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You seem to have snuck in the word "easy" there.

Out of curiosity - what percentage of real, viable business plans do you think are "easy"?

Seriously though. While not easy, it is 100% repeatable - it is one of the great ways to build a business. (Actually, regardless of whether the incumbent buys you out - their investors or those who regret being investors migth instead.)
We moved, yes, but I'm not aware of anyone who left because of the move. I'm actually happier up in Yorktown - it's a better building than Hawthorne.
It's baffling that Google requires a captcha to download this book, which prevents anyone (actually no one) from efficiently downloading all of these books, and that google adds a ridiculous page to the front, self-servingly begging the reader not to remove, but really just serving as an ad for Google. I'm not saying Google doesn't deserve credit for digitizing these, but they should not be restricting access or defacing the book. The book is public domain and belongs to everyone. It's not more content for them to use to drive ad revenue. So much for "don't be evil".
Misleading headline alert. All code is debuggable. Logging, mentioned in the article, is more similar to code tracing. It may or may not be useful, because the log might omit information crucial for debugging. There is no way someone can write logging code for every scenario that might break in production.

To me, easily debuggable code (whatever that means) is code written clearly with good documentation. Often well architected systems are modular (rather than a spaghetti mess) and problems are easy to isolate.
Oh please. Spare us the jealousy insinuations, and stop perpetuating the myth that if entrepreneurs are actually worth anything and work hard, it is guaranteed that they will swiftly become inundated with success.

Sometimes there are no "lessons that can be learned from success stories like this". Believe it or not, for every Instagram, there's a hundred startups with founders that are just as smart and try just as hard, but don't make the cut. Do the founders of Instagram deserve their success? Sure! Should we pat them on the back and "celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit"? Absolutely. But let's not fall over ourselves praying to the success gods while we forget to work on our own products.

> If I could build Instagram and sell it for $1b I sure as hell would

Bullshit. Maybe you could! All you need is hard work, the skills to get there, and yes, a good amount of luck. But let's not pretend you, or the founders of Instagram, are destined for success because you're special or you "knew" your ideas would kick off. Look up hindsight bias in the dictionary.
Losing logs at a crash may not be a big deal. It would still be useful if you don't crash.

Also, if you can turn logging/tracing on and off dynamically, the average volume of output can still be quite manageable.