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Sure! There are already companies offering this to StartUps. Even remote workers are doing advertising for managing social media channels. But most StartUps just have a student for this job.
Comments & suggestions desired :)
What's the actual proposal here? This just seems like a description of the intended organization of an Angular application.
Fair point. I guess it's more that since you can mix and match pretty much anything on any distro, and I don't use Unity, I wouldn't really be affected if I moved to something else.
Do you plan on creating the content yourself? You could integrate with a content service API and have it generated almost automatically. http://www.textbroker.com/us/client-api.php
I have searching for this - before I hired my own guys. Freelancer is not the most dependable way to go. Please tell me about all the companies which are offering these services currently at similar scale.
Won't hiring a student be costlier :)
I clearly would be willing to pay for this, but what is also important for me is to respond also to mentions+DM ( now we don't have them )
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Google Glass only needs to get over its initial days in which it is viewed as awkward and then it will be socially acceptable. Unlike the first cellphones, its plainly visible even when you're not using it, and like Bluetooth headsets there's a risk of being perceived as someone not caring about their surroundings.

Even on a forum like Slashdot which is populated by uber-geeks, here's the results of an ongoing poll with ~5000 people voting.

Head-mounted displays / sensors like Google Glass are:

Creepy	1823 votes / 32%

Cool	821 votes / 14%

Ugly	502 votes / 8%

Baffling	323 votes / 5%

Intriguing	1498 votes / 26%

Short-sighted	413 votes / 7%

I've got my own adjective! (Explained in comments.)	208 votes / 3%

http://slashdot.org/poll/2577/head-mounted-displays--sensors...

The 40% positive outlook is still not bad though.
There is also the nifty "Break on ... Attributes modification" in the web inspector.

Just go to the element in the "Elements" tab, right-click, "Break on ..." and choose what kind of breakpoint you want.

I just tested it with jQuery.hide() and it works wonderfully.
I believe they've already integrated Google Goggles into the Google Translate app.
This happened on Facebook's chat system too. For some reason, and I know no other language where this is true to quite this degree (except maybe lisp), but Erlang has a tendency for people to believe they understand how to build an app using it when in reality they can do nothing of the sort (at least in Erlang. It's common for folks to 'do it in Erlang' because its seen as different and somewhat elitist. People think of Erlang engineers as 'hardcore'; I shudder to attribute skill to a language rather than a person, but I digress...).

In the case of FB, as told to me, a bunch of folks in the valley said "of course we know Erlang!" and built the app but when push came to shove the only hardcore Erlang guys were in Poland and that made working on chat difficult. I'm not sure how much of that is truth, but its a recurring theme in Erlang projects, one that I've personally heard time and again.

For some reason, Erlang inspires confidence, perhaps even foolhardiness.

Side note: I work at an Erlang shop and our lead engineers speak at Erlang Factory every year. It's a great language and quite powerful but it can be difficult to understand.
ATTENTION GRABBING. Cypherpunks != mathematicians. I find it very hard to believe that a mathematician who writes 500 page papers invents Bitcoin on the side. Mathematicians of this style live in their own world.
The internet Tesla mythology is indeed unfortunate ('unknown genius' - for a man familiar to every physics student and with an SI unit named after him) and he was certainly an eccentric, self-promoter and not free of obviously misplaced ideas (he railed against the theory of relativity, for instance).

Beside his genuine scientific inventions and the crazy talk of death rays, though, he seems to have been among the first to give some thought to the implications and possibility of global communications.

"it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place." He didn't actually invent any of that but the vision is broad and striking, for the first decade of the 20th century.
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I love the idea of Google Glass and I'd definitely use them if I had them.

But...

> Google Glass only needs to get over its initial days in which it is viewed as awkward and then it will be socially acceptable.

People said that about segway and sinclair C5s and etc etc.

I really hope that Google can manage to make Glass work. Lots of other headmounted displays failed or didn't make it out of very small niches.
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Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but since you're working on a HN-like site I'd be curious to know if you gave Telescope (http://telesc.pe) a try?

And if you did, what made you decide not to use it?
Thank you for the concern. On one hand, it's haunting to consider what it's like to learn you've been operating at 50% efficiency all your life. On the other hand, you focus on how much you've done in spite of the condition.

I didn't mean to imply that you would suggest to someone with a condition to "just reflect on it." No reasonable person would, and apologies if it came off like that.

Rather, my hope is that more people realize that this condition does exist, it does carry a stigma, and you might not find out until you are well into adult-hood. Too many self-help and GTD-like books and articles focus on simple tricks. These all might help out, but if you find yourself constantly struggling, get checked.

And if you know people like this, people that are otherwise smart and do good work, but are somehow always behind, always playing catch-up, suggest they get tested.

A part of me was ashamed about having this condition. I felt as if it said to everyone around me that I'd really never been giving 100%. That I had lied to people around me. I thought that I can't complain. I had a great life already, and who was I to worry about not doing enough. OCD and ADHD, the premier first world problems.

None of that is true, of course.

The truth is, the best thing I can do is speak up about it. Make people aware. And share with them the fact that proper treatment and care can result in a dramatic difference in their lives. That the more we are aware of ourselves, the better off we can be.
>I used to be the sort of programmer who would waste all my time surfing the net, and maybe banging out a script once in a blue moon, while congratulating myself on working 'smart'.

If I have tasks to do involving programming, I would naturally gravitate towards doing them rather than screwing around.

Hmm. Perhaps you don't have enough passion for programming. I'm not trying to attack your skills or anything, but if I were you, I'd try to find something that involves coding, so you don't have to learn completely new skills, but that you actually have passion for. Then apply your skills towards that.

The thing about passion is that it makes most every other concern moot. You don't have to worry about procrastination, you don't need to concern yourself with whether you're wasting your life, because you already have something driving your actions every day.
Thorium sucks as a fuel. There are a couple issues:

1) People use fuel type as the identifier but exclusively talk about reactor design WRT safety and economics and efficiency and all that. A 1960s uranium BWR will, in fact, suck, compared to a 2000s thorium exotic design. Both will also suck compared to a 2000s era uranium exotic design. There's a hilarious stack exchange on this topic WRT whenever you hear someone talk about fuel choice you can assume they know nothing about chemistry or physics and are actually talking about reactor design. There is some linkage of course. You need a fast reactor to breed U which pretty much means sodium coolant but you can breed Th with thermals which means a more controllable reactor, etc.

2) See #1 now WRT big scale system design issues. Existing system in the US is to not reprocess. Hmm if we switch fuel to Th we'll have to reprocess to do it at all. Well if we use Th we'll therefore have less waste. So what. If we reprocessed U we'd also have less waste. But we don't reprocess. So either Th isn't happening as an executive decision, or if it does happen the only way it can "win" if executive decision not to allow U reprocessing, so that the .gov (instead of .com) can select the winners and losers.

3) Lots of optimization of trees at the expense of the forest. So the cheapest part of running a reactor is the fuel, and you'd like to save fuel why switching to Th. Uh... OK. Well Th neutron economy in the core is awful, you don't get as many n as from U, so you have to "make up for losses". No problemo, if too many n are eaten by structure, just use less structure, make it weaker, thinner, shorter lifespan, not as strong. Whoops you've now optimized the cheapest part, the fuel, to be a bit cheaper, at the cost of ballooning the four most expensive parts of running a reactor, that being building costs, design/approval, maintenance, and disaster recovery. Doomed. Just doomed.

4) There are proliferation issues with Th that are "somewhat" worse than the U system. Not insurmountable, just twice the work and headache. In this way its like switching from imperial measurements to metric. In theory as small long term gain, but the short to medium term PITA makes it never happen. Slow evolution, maybe, maybe not. Revolutionary leap forward, um, no, not gonna happen.
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Is this similar to RedHat's mock environment?

The advantage is that you're not limiting yourself to a RedHat distro. But conceptually is it similar?
The concept isn't new and unfortunately the execution isn't either. The issue with sites like these is the poor signal to noise ratio. We're all capable of blind speculation and these sites seem to be riddled with "ideas" that are nothing more than a faint unattainable wishes.

There are people out there with real problems. They've lived the pain and have stories to share. There are also people out there that if they took the time to listen to that story and ask questions they might be able to formulate a real idea on how to fix or lessen that pain. And if they find a solution to a problem that people are willing to pay for, they'd have the seed of a business.

That's the site I want to see built.
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Erlang has gotten some hype about how "amazingly scalable" it is. The reality is that, as with anything, it takes work to make it scale, and once things get Really Big, it gets difficult.

My sneaking suspicion is that, in some cases, people pick it because they read that it's "web scale" or something like that without really knowing the details, and when things fall apart, they revert to something that they know better.

BTW, reference for the FB chat thing being rewritten?
100$ for one blog post... plus X FB&Twitter posts? I wonder how you plan to make this scalable/sustainable unless you have some secret algorithm that does all the work for you (which I assume would generate pretty low quality content given the current state of AI). Otherwise, you'll likely need a pretty big team in India or the Philippines and your service is then again probably going to be pretty low quality. Care to share your secret with us or some representative blog posts?
I like the site and while I couldn't see myself using many (any?) of the ideas, it sure did trigger a flood of related and/or symbiotic ideas.

As an aside, I'm not so thrilled about the "Mens suit that turns transparent when lying". It's based on heart-rate, what if you almost step in front of a bus and your BPM increases due to the shot of adrenaline your body produces?
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Good for a start up!
Thanks for the pointer. Did not try teles.pe - basically Firespotting started as an exercise to create a "hacker news clone" on EC2 - and Google guided me to the arc script implementation on EC2. Basically this link:

http://nicholasblee.com/blog/hacker-news-clone-on-a-free-aws...
The section of the tutorial on <vc-annotate> was along the lines of what I am getting at - i.e. the starting point for everything is <M-x command>. As critique, my opinion is that this should be the approach of introductory tutorials from the point immediately following "Installing Emacs."

The general argument form of:

<there are lots of default keybindings -> learning default keybindings>

is premature optimization for introductory Emacs tutorials - at least anecdotaly. The scattered evidence is that the default key bindings contribute to people abandoning the activity of learning Emacs. This is to say that it is reasonable to assume that default key-bindings are an impediment to Emacs adoption by new users and that thus the benefits of consistency between default bindings and calendar mode and IRC chat mode and email mode, etc. are never realized by most new users because they give up on the process and only a small percentage of those who adopt Emacs to some degree wind up living in it full time.

The argument form also ignores the idea that key-bindings can be aligned programmatically. Emacs is designed for programmers, after all.

In my opinion if a tutorial emphasizing CUA makes adoption rates higher, then the tutorial is more successful. The idea that CUA is not good Emacs is a social more, not an Emacs idiom. The emphasis on standardized keystrokes as the starting point in Emacs tutorials, logically parallels the idea that the first step to learning Emacs is to remap the keyboard to Dvorak for efficiency.

Someone wants to learn Emacs. They start with the standard Emacs key-mappings. Now they have two things to learn...

The second is the language of Emacs. The first is the gang-signs of the Emacs community.

The Emacs model has a command language and a means for making command language abstractions, elisp. The ability to make keybindings is feature of the process for making abstractions in the command language, individual keybindings themselves are values.
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I am going to be so happy when this whole social media bollocks blows over and all of the companies who make a living off of it slide off into the great beyond.

In the meantime, make hay while the sun shines, I suppose.
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Third Assistant Engineer / Third Mate: $100,000

Second Assistant Engineer / Second Mate: $120,000

First Assistant Engineer / First Mate: $140,000

Chief Engineer / Chief Mate: $160,000

Master (Captain): $200,000

And that is only working half the year at sea. Salaries listed are approximate, and if anything, on the low end. Schooling is the easiest way to enter the profession. Free if attending the federal maritime academy, approximately $10,000 a year for 4 years if attending one of the six state maritime academies. Able to upgrade license to the next rating after one year of sea time in the current rating.
Using S3 for file hosting is still a better solution than using a raw box (or shared virtual hosting) which is what most people who use S3 instead of a CDN would have been doing otherwise.
I guess the multi-platform Burp Proxy should fit the bill..

http://portswigger.net/burp/
Is there a HN for Designers? I peruse Behance and Dribbble for ideas, but since I'm a programmer and not a designer I really need read discussions and tutorials on Photoshop, Illustrator, design theory, color, etc. I would think that there's enough material. Occasionally, really good stuff like this appears on HN:

http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

I'd like a daily dose.
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The answer seems obvious. Create another, read-only version of Hacker News. To get permission to post and comment you need to aquire n karma. Voila.
To be honest, businesses that are good at making money will always be valued higher (relatively speaking) than businesses that are just good at getting users.

Getting someone to use your free product is a different skill than getting advertisers to put their ads on your product or getting people to pay for your product.

Making money is a skill and if your company doesn't figure out how to do that successfully, you shouldn't expect to sell for a large amount of money.

At the end of the day, businesses are about making money, you know getting customers to pay you. They aren't about getting people to use your free product.
5 hours and no one provided the answer yet?

Its cat and mouse or white hat vs black hat.

The existing worldwide system uses U to make Pu to go boom, more or less. Th doesn't make Pu so existing experience and practice means no boom, at this time. The problem is it does make an alternative U isotope that can eventually go boom although not much research has been done on that because it sucks as a fuel compared to U so no one has bothered to use it yet on a wide scale.

I figure if you deploy Th reactors "widely" you've got about a decade or two of semi-guaranteed non-proliferation before the reprocessing / industrial base builds to make boom. Not sure if thats really worth anything as we still have the existing U infrastructure so we're not going to save any money. In the long run the situation is probably worse because now there's two channels to watch.

Its also a WWII German "big lie". As the USA shows, you can do U as a fuel without reprocessing, where stuff that goes "boom" can be diverted / stolen / skimmed. In other words implementing fuel reprocessing (presumably of U) means opportunity / costs WRT "boom". On the other hand Th more or less requires reprocessing. So overall world safety will decrease if you do Th because you have to implement a reprocessing plant. Its a false dilemma. You can cut off your leg or your arm, with different lifestyle changes, which is worse? Hmm, why not cut off neither? Well we're not going to talk about that option because, um... just because.
That's awesome, how much ... wait, 'call us... download our credit application'?? Ouch, must be pricey.
I'd forgotten about the "charging the ionosphere" part, but there is a wireless (well, effectively wireless) transmission system that only requires a common ground. Even just plugging a wire into the earth works. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3696.en.h... Note the video linked at the bottom includes a demo.
This message has been targeted as a Customer Research. And your response brought me to the belief that 100$ a month is not so high for this service and that people might be ready to pay me more. Thats good news.:)
My back of the hand calculation shows at 100$ a month I would be making money enough for coffee.
Would surely tell you the idea I have in mind- will DM you on twitter :)
I like you but I hate you :) Peace .. lets just make hay while the sun shines
I have that feeling too... I kindof want to look but don't want to do the whole song and dance.
"Finding a good set of key bindings is unfortunately not all that easy, and something I'd rather not have to do."

There is nothing in the idea of teaching <next-line> as <M-x next-line> versus <C-x n> which requires finding a new set of key bindings. Emacs will even helpfully remind me every time I type <M-x next-line> that it is bound to <C-x n>.[1] That's an absurdity within the standard approach to Emacs tutorials.

[1] I am assuming that this is not just a feature of the Emacs configuration I downloaded as part of LispCabinet. http://lispcabinet.sourceforge.net/
Hacker news for problems would be great then.
Yes, there's Designer News[1], an elitist version of HN caught up in as much controversy[2] as in low traffic volumes.

[1]: http://news.layervault.com

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331766
Nice, but he needs to change the name. Kudos isn't a plural noun. There's no such thing as "a kudo" or "several kudos". It's like saying "I had a computer in the 1990s that had an MS-DO on it, but I upgraded it with a couple of DR-DOS I had lying around".
Upvoted simply for being amusing. Beats any 'rockstar programmer' ad I've ever seen.
If women were as interested in programming as in talking about sexism we would have many female programmers. So tired of hearing/reading the never ending whine.
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There is already a blink sensor that is trivial to access. It also does other eye gestures.
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I had the same reaction. This is really not a fair critique of any weaknesses in Erlang or any strengths in Python. In his description of how they implemented maintenance of some global state, this line caught my attention: Our code was not set up this way at all, and it was clearly crippled by being haphazardly implemented in a functional style.

In addition to the statement that they had no Erlang experts currently on staff, it sounds like the people who wrote the system were not Erlang experts either. I wonder if they used OTP to build the system? The post doesn't say, but I'd bet they wrote a lot of their code with erlang's message passing primitives, if they were using messaging at all. This will get hairy and that's why most people should use OTP to build server applications in Erlang.

Lesson learned: you build better systems using languages and frameworks you know vs. using something trendy that you don't understand.
>"His words have gone from mere thoughts and opinions that he's felt a need to share, to being received in some other way that it was intended and loaded with so much extra interpretation that then leads to that support cycle."

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Some people identify with him because he is the litle guy against the The Man (Edison).
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He said that python is the actual language of choice in the company. That's why they don't have erlang professionals, i guess. Maybe good enough to throw together this API server but not good enough to make is scale and reliable?
Thanks! We called "that feeling" the "Itch," and built our site around it -- http://FiveYearItch.com.

Song-and-dance definitely not required.
It seems backwards to me. Why "ideas?" Why not "problems?" Think bar room, not board room.
Torbens method is very interesting. At each step it takes O(n) to half the range of inputs. This doesnt say much about how many numbers in the array it removes, but it does say that on average its about half, leading to O(nlogn) expected time. In the worst case it is Quadratic, with one example being [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, ...]
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