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Now you might think that, the way things are going, by 2025 a person born without VC connections (i.e. an EIR position earmarked for him when he's in the womb, somewhat like a trust fund) will have to live in a shantytown in order to have a shot at surviving in VC-istan.

Well, I'm here to tell you that you're wrong. He won't have to inhabit a shantytown. He'll have a nice storage cell to live in.
Hi there, I live in Comox. Found Victoria too pricey. Working 100% remotely, and have young kids.
yeah, well maybe all manufacturing will be superseded by 3D printing.. in which case you'd want to move into design rather than assembly.

I think eg. Foxcon is going to be a very temporary thing.

I always thought that at some point a robot arm will be cheaper than a human to assemble electronics.. but we may skip that stage altogether. Pretty soon you'll just print your iPhone, bypassing assembly completely.
I don't know what language you use, but we wrote an open-source Ruby app called Vanilla [1] that acts as a generic OAuth provider. Maybe it can be useful to you, either directly or as an example.

Vanilla is a Sinatra app, exposes a simple API and user database, and the UI is rendered entirely through webhooks. In other words, it's designed to be a headless system that works in concert with a real app, so that the app itself does not need to implement OAuth or indeed the core account handling.

(Some parts, like the ability to sign up by verifying your phone through an SMS code, are very specific to our workflow, but it's intended to be completely generic, so those things can be changed.)

That said, OAuth 2.0 is very simple to implement. It's pretty much entirely encapsulated in oauth.rb, token.rb and authorization.rb, if you want some inspiration.

[1] https://github.com/bengler/vanilla
The 30 year fixed mortgage, with a low interest rate and high leverage, is also the product of government subsidies.

The reason it makes sense for a lot of Americans to buy a house is because the government spends an awful lot of money making sure it makes sense. Otherwise economies of scale, differential costs of capital, and risk-free returns from diversification would lead to a very different picture.
I've hounded my kids on "the expected answer" many times. Recently my son was told to write an essay on gun control. I shudder to think what might've happened had he not given the expected conclusion on that one.
One big factor to consider when looking at US vs. Canada is health insurance. I can get my entire family insured for $133CDN/month (base insurance, no extended). I hear that this could be 10x higher in the US. With the base insurance I can have babies for free, and I can keep my burn rate low.
I'm not positive but very confident. These surveys are not anonymous, says the article. School administrators are required to adhere to the zero tolerance policy to the letter.
Which was the whole point the teacher was making - you have a right to not incriminate yourself (by giving a false answer or not answering), even when asked by authority figures (judges, police, teachers) to do so.

A lot of people feel that they must fill in every value of every form "or else". While really, if you value your privacy you should ask if every value is really required.
That is an absolutely awesome writeup. Thanks! Been looking for something like that for a while now.
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For your next challenge, try recreating the functionality from the version found in an episode of Red Dwarf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFkb0d1kbU
It's true that many tasty meals can be rather quick. I used phrases like "it can be" and "a lot of dishes" specifically to avoid creating a false dichotomy.

Sometimes I get bored of pan-seared salmon filet with sauce-of-the-week and microwave-steamed fresh broccoli. After the umpteenth time, I'm not deriving pleasure from the cooking process.

The cook in bulk recommendation is front-loading a time commitment for the kind of freedom something like Soylent would permit without sacrificing part of your weekend. I cook in bulk every so often, but blow half my weekend every week? Not a chance.
Ask HN: I didn't get accepted into GSoC. Now what?
I'm pretty sure that you could do that, the only problem is that it would accelerate the sun going nova and the eventual engulfing of Earth ...

It's all a matter of priorities. :-)
Would suggest putting up a simple one page description of this somewhere on the site.
In the late 1990s, I remember people there being recruitment efforts to find people with very little coding experience, teach them COBOL, and have them search for and fix Y2K bugs in COBOL code. I actually thought about doing that at the time, but ended up getting into Java. Even now, there is a lot of more COBOL out there that you'd think.
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Contact me. Let's get a beer. I went to the Bills game in SF this year. We got killed, but it was still a lot of fun.
794 - Someone let PG near a REPL

Is it talking about that PG?
Sydney covered by fog (aerial image)
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Is there anything that is not somehow VC-istan's fault?
Totally man, we should go back to traveling by horse while we are at it.
I cook in bulk every so often, but blow half my weekend every week?

And now you're straw-manning. Cooking in bulk generally takes only marginally more time than cooking the same thing for a single meal.
I think the most interesting thing about this whole experiment is that it took this long for someone to do it. You would assume there'd be a wealth of information from military studies of battle-ready rations, or something.
I wonder if, legally, kids have identical Constitutional rights. They certainly don't have the 4th (not in the sense that an adult has it), for example, and I wonder if Juvenile courts have to give the 6th.
I don't understand how this disproves that the value could be $13K in the future?

St. Petersburg paradox seems to say: calculate the maximum cost vs Expected Value.

So if we assume that bitcoin has a future EV of $1000 buying it at $130 would be a +EV decision with a 10% chance of success. If it has a 1% chance of reaching $13K buying at $130 is still +EV.

What I'm I not understanding?
> After the umpteenth time, I'm not deriving pleasure from the cooking process.

Learn a new dish.

"After watching Batman Begins every night for 4 months straight, I got a bit bored with it".

Watch a new movie.

> blow half my weekend every week?

Yet another false dichotomy. As I said above, many dishes can be cooked without supervision. Cook one or two of those. On nights when you feel like cooking fresh, cook fresh. Otherwise pull the stew, curry, chilli, ragu etc etc etc out of the freezer and heat it up.

It's just not that hard. And cost:reward vs drinking sour white water seems pretty good to me.
I disagree pretty emphatically. Not having to cook every meal is just one benefit of the product. Other benefits include cost, weight level, mental acuity, stamina, skin. You could eat soylent 14 times a week and still make a nice meal every day. And in fact, the creator suggested that he enjoyed regular food meals even more after being on soylent.
"So I'm sorry, but if you're not adopting new programming languages, tools and frameworks, then I don't think you are a good software engineer. Because good software engineers only solve the problems that they have to, and don't continue to solve the same problems over and over."

Yes, and? You're arguing a straw man. I'm not claiming that things haven't changed for the better in 30+ years of coding, or that people should be writing web apps in FORTRAN, or that you shouldn't re-use code.

But you're being...imaginative...if you believe that the latest shiny webapp tool (e.g. Node.js) is actually as new and innovative as you're claiming it to be. Anyone who has been around long enough to have written early Windows or Mac apps will have a lot of experience with single-threaded, evented programming. (Certainly enough to know that Node.js is a wonky regurgitation of a very old idea.)

Same thing goes for your MongoDB apologetics: actually, no, the industry didn't settle on relational databases because "that was how you did it". They became widely adopted because they hit a sweet spot in terms of speed, reliability and flexibility (a spot that basically none of the current NoSQL products have yet to match).

In other words, even if you like new things, experience helps you know when the new thing you're evaluating is a pile of crap. And judicious decision-making is far more important than the latest shiny when it comes to being a good engineer.
Well, it depends. Say you want to model a user of your application, this looks very much like a candidate for an object. Sure when you just start, you can use a dict or even only the id, and have functions working on it.

But will this scale when the number of possible actions over a user will be in the hundreds? Then, with all it drawbacks, the object model may make sense: at least, you have a way to know which actions are available on a given thing.
Why are questions asked of students copyrighted so as to not allow any visibility to parents? If I had a child required to answer potentially incriminating questions at school I would want public scrutiny, otherwise this becomes a kind of secret inquisition.
It never occurred to me that dead bodies would just be left there.
You don't get it. He read some freshmen textbooks and noodled around on pubmed, that makes him the expert. /s
The OP created a false dichotomy. No one is requiring soylent 21 times per week. Save up your enthusiasm and make 4 or 5 excellent meals per week. You'll even enjoy them more than you would have.
>>The older you are, the more time you've had not only to gain concrete skills, but to learn to abstract your existing skills and knowledge to apply to other things.

Unfortunately the older your are, you are less flexible, less adjusting, running short of energy, you can't take risks as you have a family, you can't work too hard or push yourself too much because there are health risks associated with that. The list goes endless. Its not a very comfortable position to be in old age.

As some one who is in 20's and watching people in their 40's(My uncles) and my father(in his 60's) I can tell you the only chance we engineers have is to make loads of money, real estate and savings before we are 40-45. Else we are screwed. That unfortunately is the most blunt way to put it.

You may believe in whatever you may like about experience coming with old age, but your employers will take raw passion and energy over accumulated experience any day.

Your best bet is to make a lot of money and be safe or risk going through a lot of pain when you grow old.
Maltodextrin is used in bodybuilding supplements because it's quickly digested. It causes an insulin spike which might help shuttle protein into muscle tissue.
It's a slippery slope argument. A logical fallacy, but identifying logical fallacies in casual argument is rude at best.
I can't see myself using Coinbase after hearing they had directory indexing on the directory with all the payment confirmations. Others may see past this, but for me it's an unforgivable mistake on their part.
> Watch a new movie.

What? Why do I have to watch a movie?
Google Maps gets biking directions for 6 more countries in Europe
Oh ok. It was a bit confusing. I think this looks like a good project for people to check out. By no way was I being pedantic. It is good to have informed beginners. It does make. Big improvement. Marketing is a lot about testing.
Right exactly. It's used as a postworkout supplement often (possibly with dextrose) and it's pretty cheap. I wouldn't want a quickly digested carb as my main carb source in Soylent.
You're right. I could just watch the static instead. It contains about as much intellectual content, is quite soothing and has a much lower environmental footprint.
The first amendment of the US constitution is curtailed in schools in specific instances: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_amendment_to_the_united_s...
Please let me know if you think of something, so I can be sure to figure out how it is in fact VC-istan's fault after all.
It's a long time back (1023 days, actually), and I can't find a reference to the article itself, but I do believe we had an article about how to take a poo by none other than Zed Shaw. At least I felt moved to comment thusly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1596830

I don't recall whether Zed was optimizing for speed or comfort.
It beats putting your private keys in client-side code (JS-only apps being those which this solution seems to be built for).
Ikea table tops on a 2x4 wood frame. The lift does work just fine, however it never sat flush with the floor to begin with.
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I don't understand this metaphor at all. I want do go do something else. Shoot, maybe I want to go cook an elaborate and delicious meal! Why are you forcing me to watch anything?
And so did we.
My mom was mayor of Jamestown for a couple years. Most houses that were maintained have kept their value. We just have a twisted sense of how housing value should work.

Even around Chautauqua lake, where the best real estate is in that county, the max is probably around $3mil for houses that would make an $3mil house around here (DC) look like a cottage.

Location, location, location. I can drive there in under seven hours these days. Straight through central PA which makes central Jamestown look like London.
What is the expected opinion on that. I'm not from the US.
I'm a little unclear on its purpose myself.

Also, it seems like (if abused) it would make unit testing really cumbersome without some sort of side-effecting mechanism to expose these persistent variables.
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I am willing to bet none of that will help. Not for a common guy.

The fact that you are the inventor of the D programming language puts you in a very different league of people.
This story seems very thinly sourced. I'm having trouble verifying it through reports in more reliable media outlets. The blog post by Google linked from the article doesn't have the same speculation that the article submitted here has.
In a world of PaaS and the cloud, and amazing communication capabilities like Skype and Google Hangout, why? What about CA or NY makes them more talented? They're there because the work is there, not vice versa. Also, you don't have to be in the middle of nowhere. There's plenty of large American cities where you can buy a nice house for less than $150K. I realize that the SF reality distortion field would suggest that everywhere else is powered by oil lamps, but I figure as long as you have high speed Internet and are within an hour of an Apple store, then you are quite capable to getting the work done from your home.
I have used git. I've accidentally gotten myself into messes that take a lot more learning to undo.

If my goal is the functionality of ftp, I prefer ftp in every way except the security issue. (Which is why I use scp instead.)
What is wrong with looking out for you own self interests?
It gets mentioned most times that soylent is raised.

The thing is that soylent is a perfect storm of PR.

Lone genius has brilliant insight, develops perfect food. Just like those 60s pulp SF novels where people eat food in pill form! Why did nobody think of this before?

Lots of things that become popular or widespread do so because of the narrative they fit into.

For example, which story will get published:

"22 year old PhD student corrects famous scientist"

or

"14 year old student corrects famous scientist".

People correct famous scientists all the time, that's how science works. But it is the narrative (brilliant youngster vs establishment) that makes it a story worth printing.

And if a story is good enough, journalists won't look too hard at it. They're called "Too Good to Check" stories.
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As the kalzumeus blog would say about pricing, base your pricing not on how much it would cost you, but on how much value your product gives to your users.

Based on your recent post about your specific target market (Wall St.), talk to them. Based on your recent post it seems that you're doing high-volume B2B transactions. If you ask HN about how much we would pay for that, you would get lesser value from our answers since we would compare your hardware offering to EC2 instances, which I guess, isn't the type of market you're after.

Talk to the Wall St. guys you're targeting, call them up or send them an SMS, grab 30 minutes of their time and treat them out for coffee. Don't ask them how much they'd pay for it, instead, spark up a conversation about what they're currently using and if you're lucky they'll tell you how much they're spending for it. Watch out for keywords on what they value. You can charge more by offering what they value.

If they value SLA's, high-level support and a specific amount of latency, charge based on that.

After talking with them, tell them and their IT team to subscribe to your mailing list which will not spam them, but educate them about handling financial data coupled with your hardware.

Gain their trust from your expertise, close sales from that mailing list once you launch.
This botnet has been attacking servers at my work for the last few days. I'm glad we upgraded within a month of the security patches.
Agreed. I think it could be a useful product, even if the majority of people probably would not want to replace all of their meals with it.
Or didn't consider the joke appropriate for Hacker News, I guess.
(sorry that this comment is not at all coherent - I have a bad headache right now)

I agree. But the problem is that those who chant "Death to America", like the status quo; they don't want change! If things change (like you said in the second to last paragraph), they'll be out of their jobs and have to do an honest day's work. They don't want that. And do everything they can to prevent that. They "have" to portray US as the "Great Satan", that is behind all their economic, cultural and political mistakes.

It might be strange and unfathomable to you and me, but some people prefer to be King in a wasteland, than to be an ordinary citizen in a country with much greater standard of living. They'd rather be a powerful Mullah in Taliban, than to live normally in a western country. Many of these clerics have spent years studying in European countries, but after finishing college they've left the west and now are living in a shack somewhere in Ghandahar and are the local commander of Taliban. Why? I don't know.

Most of these people won't "cool down, relax or embrace peace", because they are enjoying their shitty lives. And that's the problem, because they have the power to make life miserable for others too. They'd sooner bomb their people (Saddam, Ghadafi, Assad) and ruin their own country, than to "let it go".

There are exceptions like Mubarak or Bin Ali (or Iran's Shah) that fought furiously, but in the end decided not to completely ruin their countries and fled. But not all dictators are like that; some are like Assad.
The purported reason is because the survey was designed by a private company who claims the survey to be their intellectual property. Similarly, if a school screened a controversial film, a parent could not ask the school for a copy of said film, because the school doesn't own the intellectual rights to it.

This is a microcosm of what happens when public institutions, whose records and dealings are considered to be part of the public record, uses private contractors. Other public instituions have used this to deny access to what is usually a citizen's right to know: e.g. public worker salaries being maintained by a private payroll company.
> Stupid, yes. But I think it is likely that the school has a real legal barrier to sharing the survey.

It could be. It could also be that the people who dreamed up this survey saw that legal barrier as a convenience. You can administer an unfair and potentially useless, invasive, survey, to your students, AND you have a "reason" not to tell the media, too! Had I been a student at this school, I would have put my survey directly in the trash.

The idea that a publically funded school is passing out surveys to students, and we cannot read them, makes me rage. If this doesn't anger you, then something is wrong. The reason is irrelevant, they should have thought about that before buying the survey.

When tyranny comes it is not going to introduce itself. No one is going to hand you a pamphlet, entitled: "Your rights, and lack thereof" and roll out the details of how they will all be taken away. It will do so by stealth. It will do so by employing lame excuses. It will come as a trojan horse. Increased security, no more terrorist attacks! This is all secret so we can keep the kids off drugs!

The road to hell was paved with good intentions.

This teacher is a hero.
"The letter" being that if a student admits partaking in drug or alcohol use, ever in their lives, they are immediately expelled? Do you have a source for this?
put this on a boat and we could have a tax haven like Sealand!
What I find interesting is that communal living is not new (it has all the benefits you describe) but there hasn't been more of it recently. Historically this has been a common way for artists to get by and practice their skills. Given how much programming and design is artistic in nature I'm surprised there aren't more such communes these days.
I grew up there from 79 to 97. My mom was mayor and a ton of my friends live there. I've since gone to school and lived in NYC, LA and now DC. Jamestown is still one of my favorite places on the planet. Cheap housing is just a bonus.

It's incredible how far your money will go there:
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2055-Willar...

The question is how to get the money... :) probably contribute to your community. Err I mean contribute a new app idea to the community of angel investors. Whatever. ;)
So basically you're saying "that's hard and vaguely similar things have failed before."

That's not much of a contribution to the discussion.
Who cares what Apple needs? Consumers voluntarily gave Apple that money and they should have the right to do whatever they want with it and not have to worry about the government arbitrarily stealing it from them in the name of fairness.
Thanks for the link. This article appears to be the most positive, least biased article criticizing Rob and Soylent I've come across. That's something I like to see, although the title is a bit link-baitey.

I'm in support of what Soylent aims to become, and if I'm not mistaken, so is the author of this article. All I'm seeing here are very direct suggestions for the next formulation of Soylent, nothing that lambastes Rob for his recklessness and ignorance.

What's more, this article, seemingly written by a nutrition expert, doesn't spread FUD over the potential dangers of exclusively consuming Soylent. Even in its infancy, if all I have to do is take a multivitamin for my psuedovitamin quotas, some extra whey and creatine for my gainz, and maybe a salad and a steak every few days in addition to Soylent, I'm still sold. It would still save plenty of time and effort to get the benefits of optimal nutrition. That is, if what's claimed about consuming Soylent is actually true.
For a school the expected opinion is that less guns is better.
This seems more easily parsed by humans. My immediate faction to this is a positive one. Instead of having to scan the entire class to tell whether or not a variable is static, it's declared in the method itself.
They weren't payment confirmations - they were public merchant checkout pages that were linked from other pages on the internet.

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/47198421272/data-on-merchant-p...
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