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this is an amazing article for me since I also tore my acl and am considering getting the reconstruction described in the article done, any one out here who recommends/ does not recommend this ? I am developer with a 9-6 desk job and usually go jogging rarely and don't find time to work out due to a busy schedule
You have an excellent point. And all this advice to graduates really has to depend on what the person wants to do and how they want to do it.

The individual maker/consultant/contractor model of living is fine.

Then there is the model where you employ other people to do things for you and leverage their skills (and your risk) to get more money. For obvious reasons that can't work for everyone but it is a very reasonable plan for some people.

And finally you can be part of someone else's business. This can actually be a very rewarding thing. My point to prove this is that we could not have placed men on the moon without a massive organisation with a lot of people following other peoples plans.

Blanket advice just smothers individuality. We don't need simple solutions today.
Apple is very likely to bring a less expensive iPhone to market to address some overseas markets where Android is dominant due to price.

And, while Apple may lose the advantage of having the most remunerative app market, there is still the fact that Apple takes home most of the profit in the industry as a whole, and will probably be able to increase both margins and profits while bringing a cheaper phone to market.

On top of all that, a rising tide is still lifting both Google and Apple, and there might even be buoyancy left over for some dinghy from Finland and a couple other OSs.

Any fundamental risk to Apple is years away, possibly so far away that it's past where some other major shift in the industry will happen.

And now that the Android SDK works with a IDEA-derived IDE, it's less painful to get up to speed coding for Android. Try it. You might like it.
I was wondering why it was still up 0.3% today...
USSR crushed Nazi Germany, but that does not make it a force for good. In fact one of the most annoying things about WWII is dividing the world into good guys and bad guys. Some were worse than others, but I don't think e.g. the US was all that nice either given all the civilian suffering they brought on both Germany and Japan through fierce bombing.

One evil does not cancel out another. Of course it was still preferable that the US won, and there is no denying that they made a very important contribution to end WWII. But there is no need for hero worship. Just because the Allies fought an opponent that was worse, does not absolve them from criticism for their behavior.

I think there is a lot of post rationalization about the attrocities commited by the Allies. If one admitted that a lot of the killing of civilians was unessesary and barbaric, then the story would not be such a nice good guys vs bad guys story.
Some people don't view work as an end goal of their life.
Setting Up a Model for Success: What Should New Testers Know?
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There is a new SQL release, SQL Server 14.
You can indeed edit the color scheme.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-...
I was hoping that eventually App Engine would be implemented on top of GCE, with all the services App Engine now provides available for GCE, and move to container‐based sandbox, like OpenShift/Heroku/Elastic Beanstalk, instead of application‐based sandbox. Especially now that App Engine has switched to instance‐based pricing.

For example there’s this old thing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDRKNzd... (Google App Engine VM Runtime TT Sign‐up)[1]

Unfortunately, since all of this effort went into securing yet another runtime (PHP), I don’t think it will happen.

It would be great if at least it was possible to use Appscale over GCE or just the Datastore – which is by far the most attractive feature of App Engine, other than Task Queue – with custom deployment solution.

Google Cloud Datastore could deliver just that if you don’t mind paying twice:

You should be aware that Cloud Datastore has a serving component
that runs on Google App Engine, so there will be instance hour costs.

[1] “If you are interested in using VMs with your App Engine applications in the future, let us know by signing up here.” http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-compute-e...
Some do, and it appears he was only billed for the ones that don't. For blades and other sharp things, it's probably cheaper to just use new ones than to have the equipment and staff to sharpen old ones. Some of the other stuff, I suspect, isn't autoclave-able, which is the standard for sterilizing surgical stuff. That pretty much precludes reuse of plastic things, for example.
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That guy? Paul Graham.

From http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html -

What do I mean by good people? One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? It might be hard to translate that into another language, but I think everyone in the US knows what it means. It means someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive.

Something got lost in that one sentence synopsis. He wasn't suggesting that you dehumanize your employees by literally thinking of them as animals.
I don't have experiences with large-scale systems, so no. 30+ secs can be useful for smaller projects though.
One thing to be aware of in how all of this stuff works; oftentimes medical billing codes don't map 1:1 to exactly how things work in the hospital, so the medical staff puts together a statement of everything they did, and then the billing staff (approximately) maps it to billing codes.

This means that they'll overshoot on some codes to make up for other acts and overhead that doesn't have an exact billing code, and every medical provider has different places that they'll overestimate, and by different amounts.

Additionally, as most people know, the billed amount is usually FAR in excess of what the insurance company actually pays.

I'm not in the industry so I may be off base here, and someone who is can correct me, but I just finished Oreilly's excellent ("Hacking Healthcare") which is about how patient services and billing work.
Assuming that OP was simply buying bitcoin (and nothing else...i.e. not automatically selling on an exchange on the backend or something...), then this could be a big shot to Bitcoin.

Unlike other recent headlines (around i.e. Mt. Gox, etc.), it seems like the question here is whether or not bitcoin constitutes "stored value" under VA law[1]. If so, this would render anyone who buys and sells bitcoin a Money Transmitter Business.

That said, I doubt FinCEN would consider Bitcoin "stored value" based on their definition [2] and recent "guidelines".

Stored value laws were created for things like prepaid cards (I believe...[3]), which were cracked down on because of their role in money laundering.

[1] http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+6.2-1900
[2] http://www.fincen.gov/financial_institutions/msb/definitions...
[3] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-29/pdf/2011-19116.pd...
I'm not sure that's necessarily true. Sites like Amazon, NewEgg, EBay, and anyplace else with a ratings system for products and product sellers seem to do fine, despite the potential for getting negative reviews and ratings. These are sales channels rather than advertising channels, so maybe that makes the difference.
You would most certainly be right if there was no context for those pieces of advice, but they're part of a large list that I think paints a pretty compelling picture.

Soundbites are also nice because they provide quick reference points and mental footholds when you're thinking and working through problems.

I'll also refer you to #46 regarding your better piece of advice.
I think the "don't work, but start a business" mantra is overdone. Starting a business IS working -- probably much harder than you'd ever work at a 9-5 if you plan to be successful. Even people that are passionate about what they do can burn out. There is no "quick fix" to having a job and it certainly isn't "just follow your passion and start a company."
>Who decides when a stock get's halted to stop it from tanking?

It's partially automated and partially up to the primary market.

Each exchange has circuit breakers for detecting large drops in both the stock's price in a short time period and a drop in liquidity. These are also known as non regulatory halts.

Additionally for material news leaks like this there is a mechanism to manually halt trading. These are known as regulatory halts.
Your explanations are textbook idealizations but don't hold in the real world (at least in the context of this discussion) and leave out some very important factors.

For instance, while it may be positive sum strictly for trading partners, the positive value accrues to a smaller percentage of the population (i.e. the corporations and shareholders) and frequently even comes at the expense of the worker (or ex-worker).

This is in large part why we are seeing the economic inequality that you referenced. It is a product of the "zero-sumness" of the game when viewed in total vs. just between trading partners/corporations.
Only cup and paste the code provided in your website.

I think you spelled copy wrong ;)

Otherwise, neat idea!
Google's job is not to be fair. Google's job is to have good results. If they really wanted to, they could have 99% perfect results, and deliberately screw over companies the other 1% of the time, and they would still be doing their job.

Do I want a fair search engine? Yes I do. Does a search engine have to be fair to have good results? Not at all.
"but what you are probably missing is larger context"

I would disagree, there is no larger context than the erosion of democracy. That is what the protests are about.

The people on the streets are not trying to push any agenda except democracy.

Other groups trying to further their own agenda is inevitable in any system and not related (this is obviously a much more favorable story line for the current government to tell the world).

I cannot tell if the top comment knows this, but the comment about blowing up on social media suggest he doesn't understand it is the only way to communicate and get the message out.

A) there is a media blackout, no television station reporting this inside Turkey.
B) Turkcell the nations largest communications provider was pressured to disrupt communications in Istanbul (which they did)

Point being social media is the only way to communicate about things like this, as the press are either in prison already or afraid.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=3103432560875 (police attacking random people including a woman for no reason).

Here is the democratic leaders response “There is now a menace which is called Twitter,” Erdogan said. “The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.” (you just can't make this stuff up).

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/06/02/Erdoga...
Fingers crossed that this will also include a good version bump to the CLR and take .NET tech up a notch, rather than just tooling.
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Twitter (http://twitter.com/jobs)
Looking for new grads, (junior||senior) full-time
San Francisco, CA

--

Note: I am looking specifically for candidates for my team. However, if you would like to apply to any other jobs at Twitter, feel free to contact me as well.

Looking for one or more of the following:

* Front-end/full-stack experience

* RoR, javascript (use of JS libraries and frameworks is a plus)

* HCI, UX/UI experience

* data visualization experience

My team is responsible for the product and infrastructure behind an internal tool that monitors services running across Twitter. We're talking big data, big visualizations and big problems.
If any of the following piques your interest:

* fast, iterative and incremental development cycles

* full creative control of a web tool used by all engineers at the company

* fun collaborative efforts with a small product team

.... then contact me and let's chat more!

email: jyip at twitter
Keep your LinkedIn network up to date can be extremely helpful too :)
I feel like an astronomer who got advance warning of a supernova...
Amazing what controlling the means of production can do for you.

Well, if others want to control the means of production, let them go out and take out loans, burn through their life savings, and crib money from friends, family and fools, to take a chance on a business that might or might not succeed, possibly leaving them broke, penniless and destitute. Let them figure out how to promote and market the business, design all the processes needed to make the business work, and develop the ulcers and headaches that come from stressing over the possibility that the business might fail and you might have to lay off your entire workforce, putting good people... people that you hired, trained, trusted, and worked, sweated, laughed and bled alongside.. out of work.

Because "owning the means of production" IS a total cakewalk after all. Just retreat to your robber baron mansion, burn a few thousand dollar bills for heat, and march down to the (store|factory|plant|refinery|etc) every few days and kick the shit out of the lazy workers who are probably stealing from the company anyway. Oh, wait, did I say "march"? I mean, "be driven by your chauffeur in your Rolls Royce Silver Ghost". Because all business owners have chauffeurs and a Rolls Royce.
Thanks for the heads up Dave.
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Woah -- I did not know this happened. Thanks for taking the time to provide sources.
Some captains refuse to leave their sinking ship.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000532
Now working on http://www.thinkful.com/ this one stands out as spot on and often ignored:

10. Growth solves (nearly) all problems.

I'm amazed at the number of people who don't understand the difference between improving conversion of people already on your website and driving new users _to_ your site.

While this one is spot on for team members, and opposite when finding investors:

19. Generally, value aptitude over experience.
Whenever I hear this, I think: Is this just meant to be advice for the elite, gifted few? Or does the author mean that nearly everyone should eschew wage labor? If the latter, then who will do all the only-mildly-interesting things in our world? There is a need for people who are willing to get work done. And by work, I mean stuff that's not fun or glamorous, but still important. Yes, you can hand-wave all that away with some vague claims about technology making drudge work obsolete. Except it hasn't yet, and we don't know if it ever will.

Besides that, not everyone has the right attributes for self-employment. I suspect that much of what makes traditional employment painful is bad coworkers/bosses. Do we expect these same people to be successful running their own enterprises?
One could argue that Stalin was a hero for defeating Hitler, or one could argue that Hitler was a hero for trying to defeat Stalin. Because Hitler was certainly a worse leader if you adjust by years in power and population I'm quite glad that Stalin won, but I'm not going to call someone who engaged in ethnic cleansing a hero just because he defeated someone engaged in outright genocide.
"hokey team visualization gimics" keep management off the teams ass, so I appreciate a little attention. Though I ultimately agree, there isn't a lot here that's scratching any of our itches.
The article seems determined to assign a single cause as the reason for the timing of the surrender when I think it is quite more likely that it was an accumulation (and a rapid one at that) of serious developments that precipitated that end.

Claiming "Stalin did it" when there had also just been an atomic attack and an entire summer of horrendously devastating attacks, that the Japanese were almost powerless to defend against, on cities not to mention the ever tightening noose of allied encroachment throughout the region and the anticipation of an imminent final invasion, just seems like someone is trying to come up with a catchy article title... not honestly looking at the situation.
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The takeaway here, for me at least, is that Zynga got a lot of early success via a couple smart exploits-- early social network virality (since shut down by Facebook et al. because spammy Farmville requests hurt user experience) and freemium gaming (which has been embraced by the rest of the competition and no longer serves as a competitive advantage). So Zynga now has to be just another gaming company, and gaming, as an industry, is high-overhead and high-risk, with a lot of very serious competition. There's no hockey stick in running a big gaming conglomerate; it's just a media business. If you have a hit, you make money for a while, if you don't, you lose. Just like running a record label or a movie studio.
This pisses me off, too. I really should patch the menu resource someday and change it to lowercase. I also don't understand that Microsoft violates its own HID guidelines; shouldn't they set a proper example?
I have a special plan for startups. If you are interested to put a webchat to talk with your visitors in your website, let me know.
There's usually signs, if you're sufficiently attuned to see them. Another thread on HN a few days back led me to write a blog post about one reliable type of "warm up the résumé" indicator:

http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/05/introducing-lefkowitzs-law...
I am with you, certainly I have my startup almost always in my mind, and I "work" (reply emails, research stuff, etc..) at strange hours. But I have family and my time with them and with friends is very necessary.
In fact I have noticed that certain matters need their time and it doesn´t matter how much you push them, they are not going to take of faster. There is a kind of social tempo that an idea needs to engage, I am learning to relax and wait for those waves in order to ride them (there is still a big proportion of work that needs to be done and that can accumulate very fast if you let the time past).
You have more leverage finding a new and better job while employed. Be on severance is a huge disadvantage.
I'm just going to invoke No True Scotsman at this point.
By the time you add in overhead costs (rent, those free sodas, computers, etc), insurance, taxes, and salary, ~150k per employee is probably about right.
Heads down (thumbs up)
The video has the hidden presumption that capitalism is a problem and then goes on to prove that capitalism is a problem. It's circular logic at its ugliest. So what if some charity gets associated with profit? No one is stopping you from giving charity for its own sake, unattached to the profit motive, AND there is a marginally increased amount of good being done in the world, AND there is a marginally increased amount of awareness of important issues.

What, exactly is the moral alternative that Zizek would have us live by if not trade? Marxism for example, which runs under the philosophy "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" sounds great. But then, who decides what constitutes ability, and what constitutes need. And how can I make me and my friends that committee?
On the other hand, "Apple Computer" became "Apple" with apparently no adverse effects.
The OMGPOP purchase was for a ridiculous amount; I think they were fairly compensated.
> The move today will affect every part of the San Francisco social gaming company . . .

Zynga is a gaming company? That's news to me -- I thought they were still in the business of tricking people into paying for the privilege to click things faster.

Is it any surprise that wasn't enough to sustain a company?
That wouldn't shock me ($153k/yr). Say the average Zynga employee in NY & LA is making $90k, an employee overhead of 1.7x isn't doesn't seem outlandish (especially for a company that has grown very quickly and presumably hasn't had time or energy to streamline costs).
Most of HN criticizes microsoft for slow releases cycles

Just because it's trendy to bash MS for not releasing new browsers/IDEs/whatever every few weeks, that doesn't mean the vocal critics speak for all of us, nor even necessarily for the majority. I get paid to build stuff that works, and doing so requires stable foundations and reliable tools. Lately, I wish we had more Microsofts in the world paying attention to things like backward compatibility and long-term support, and fewer Googles and Mozillas and Apples who are quite happy to push out updates that break useful things that worked before.

There was nothing wrong with releasing a major version when you had major new features, more frequent minor versions that introduced minor features in a compatible way, and point releases for urgent security issues or bug fixes that didn't change any intended behaviour at all. This approach has worked for a long time, and IMNSHO the recent regular, fixed schedules for updates regardless of actual changes aren't doing most people any favours, and the version-free, always-online, push-updates-whenever stuff is just a mess that causes far more trouble than it's worth.
How hard would it be to create stub apps that really just call out to clang/llvm?
http://www.adafruit.com/products/1346

2.7" with the dev kit for $40, so not too expensive overall. I'm requesting a quote from another company at the moment since I'm curious :)
>It's definitely nowhere near as annoying as intellisense randomly breaking and putting a red line underneath half your statements.

I feel your paIEnumerable
Zynga might have some fairly tight contractual obligations to Facebook as part of being a preferred content maker on their platform.

Worth investigating, if you're interested in this business.
"28. Keep salaries low and equity high."

"Don't pay people a fair salary; instead, offer them bespoke lunches catered by the finest local delis, a bus pass, and the promise of an amount of equity ultimately so trivial that even if the company sells for a couple hundred million, they still won't be a millionaire after all the taxing is said and done."
> I believe the last notable instance was after Jobs died, AAPL was halted.

That depends on your definition of notable. You could always use the "no true Scotsman" logic to say that Steve Jobs death was the last "notable" halt but they happen all the time.

here is the Nasdaq list of halts. Notice that there have been 3 halts already today.

http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=Tradehalts

Here is a list of IROC halts( Canadian)

http://micro.newswire.ca/70886-0.html

Note that there have been 4 halts today for Canadian stocks.
Article writers don't come up with the headlines. In this case the headline does the author a bad disservice by making his piece seem simple-minded. It isn't. Its strongest parts come before he even gets to discussing the Soviet invasion. Those are (a) his dissection of the timeline by which surrender unfolded, and (b) his case that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not outliers in the destruction of Japanese cities and thus not game-changers in the minds of Japanese leaders. When he does turn to the Soviet invasion, his argument isn't that the Japanese surrendered because they were overwhelmed by it, but rather because it closed off their remaining strategic options.

Agree or disagree, these are serious arguments that deserve to be met with more than platitudes and belief-repetition.