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Hi adamzerner
how do yo enter line breaks ? :-)
This is a great article! It's very close to the stack I think I'd chose to build a web fronted project nowadays - with the exception of Haskell on the backend. I'll post some more thoughts when I've properly digested it. Thanks for sharing!
I want a good late night map app. I want to know what's open at the current time, where I can find a bathroom after the bars close, which gas stations are 24 hours, where there is a 24 hour drivethru, etc.
Other related things would be good, like letting me know if parking in a certain place will require me to move my car for street sweeping before midnight.

Data could be crowd sourced, as well as gotten from location check-ins.

Call it InsomniMaps or something. I would pay for that.
Bit of a bad analogy - they're both pretty unreliable cars as a whole!
And what is the definition of winning? If you're a theoretical problem solver, you are probably getting your kicks from doing just that. And that's "winning" for you. Now if you only care for money, "winning" would naturally be when you reached your goal of making some. But a lot of people probably would consider winning just getting by being in the moment doing what thrills you (like thinking about how to make the product even better).
Regarding the network effects , yes it is true and a chalenge
regarding the quality of persons that will come , there is a question if to leave it open, i think it should as when you collaborate, you will do it with the best you can find, not with the cheapest you can find... your point of view is changing ...
Freelancing is a startup.
You have a market, you have a new idea and product and you go after customers.

You do marketing, sales, development, design, accounting, networking. You grow your own business like your own startup.

Moreover freelancing is a lean, slim startup. You don't spend time on investors and hiring. You won't change the world -- only yours. And that's good enough.

You do only you know the best.
I've never noticed this before. Honestly, this makes things a lot clearer. And while it's still not terribly easy to figure out things like char ((x())[5])() it makes a lot more sense.
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I would think about potentially re-doing the ui to show just one choice in a single page (or make the choice bigger and make it one per row). That way you put a greater focus on actually voting on whatever is in front of you. I just ended up scrolling down the page to see what other stuff was on there and didn't interact at all - I clicked once but the logging in turned me off too. I think you might need to do away with that for voting but perhaps require logging in for adding a comment?
I find Lisp-like syntax highly readable - more readable than C-like syntax for sure.

I find that anything more verbose (EDIT: I'm having difficulty thinking of the right word for what I mean here - hopefully you understand anyway) is useful while you're writing the code, but actually increases the difficulty and length of time to understand what's going on when you come back to it.

Symbolic representations of relationships - including parentheses among many others - just make more instant sense to me. To the extent that a characterisation of the Lisp family as "parenthesis soup" just does not make sense to me -- it implies an arbitrary jumble of symbols, while for me, as none of the parentheses could possibly be moved, they're in a perfect and immovable pattern.

I'll admit, though, that without [ and ] I would sometimes be more than a little lost.

I think I might enjoy an APL-like language if I ever had time to learn it...
Any reason why you didn't go for clojure script for the front end?
That sounds tedious, but it's not my experience. People do leave to work at big corporations because the stress and relatively low pay of academia drives them to it. But the work here is pretty exciting.
> You use the same password and email combination other places

This is the problem. Every password for every account you create should be unique. Bonus points if you use a unique email alias for every account you create too.
From where I'm standing Perl is declining quite rapidly in systems administration, which probably is their largest "userbase" nowadays.
I don't see Medium as an all or nothing platform.

No-one is forcing anyone to post ALL of a person's writing there.

Personally I see Medium as an extension of my publishing options, so I've retained my own blog whilst occasionally posting selected articles on Medium.

This seems to chime better with the whole concept of collections or buckets of content on Medium.

It is subject first rather than author first.

Which perhaps explains why so many of the "essential" parts from other services are missing.
I think it's correct saying NaCl apps, since the same API restrictions are imposed by PNaCl.
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My perception is the opposite -

Perm employees, particularly junior ones, are often hired because they can be developed.

Whereas, contractors need all the skills to do the job on day one.

As a perm employee, I assume contractors are somewhat elite at what they do.
More importantly, you don't need someone technical to tell if it's an important change. This can easily be signed off by QA, designers, PMs, etc. They can see what it was before, after and what changed and decide if that's OK.

Also, the difference between a wanted visual change and a break is dependent on the change you want. That makes this quite a flexible tool (it's not just "any difference is wrong") that can be used simply and is unlikely to have false negatives (while making it easy to ignore false positives).
How many days were you in Singapore? Probably the best way for a traveler to get a solid unwired connection would be to buy a new phone (unless you're lucky enough to already have a device with compatible LTE bands) and then enjoy the wonders of prepaid LTE and tether ($7/week/GB).

Maybe it is just because most people haven't upgraded yet, but I have a 4G connection over 90% of the time on my phone (with good latency) and I can't remember a speed test under 10 Mbps down (20-40 typical). It's good enough that it takes my home WiFi (backed 200 Mbps fiber) working near-perfectly on the 5GHz band to beat it.
> Italian levels of coffee quality.

Interestingly, Italians, from what I can tell, are not "coffee snobs" at all. They drink espresso, cappuccino, macchiato, etc... and just expect it to be pretty good, but I've never seen people discuss it much, like you might with wine.

I don't drink the stuff at all, so have no opinion on the quality anywhere.
> So yeah; I have a very limited number of "wake me up" slots I can sell. They need to be expensive.

Retainers, man, they're wonderful. You can oversell to a small extent, which is unlikely to make your life fun when everything falls over on the same weekend, but is otherwise very lucrative.

Figure you oversubscribe by 50% and split half of the difference with the customer in savings - $1500 * 8 customers for what would normally cost them $2000 for your time, or something like that. You can arrange it so at most you're waking up 4x over the weekend, mean of 1x and median of <1x.

The way I've done it in the past, it's a flat fee for having your time available, and then X hours at a substantial discount, further hours at the normal flat rate, that way they have an incentive not to burn your time unless they need you - I used to just do 10 hours a month for free with retainer but then you get mickey mouse work just to use the hours at the end of the month.
To put it other way round, maybe comprehensive writing is not a strong suite of the Internet.
Which mobile platform is right for me?
They don't care about that. They don't care if it's within 10px of the right location, or whether it's one DOM element or multiple, or how it's structured. They care it looks right, and that certain things look identical between builds. The size and position of the BBC logo, for example, must be in exactly the same position.

Also, this means it can be verified by a non-technical person. All you need to do is verify that the differences are either 1) wanted or 2) irrelevant, and this is an extremely simple and robust way of achieving that.
The Android bashing in that article is unfounded: http://www.eggwall.com/2011/09/android-arm-assembly-calling-...
It seems to be oft-overlooked that Manning and Snowden have managed enourmous breaches of what is supposed to be secured information (yours and mine, and probably everyone elses!). Staggering breaches. Any they're boh essentially nobodies - Snowden was an army washout who became a securtiy guard who has penetrated the US security apparatus in a way that would have been considered the greatest KGB coup ever if it had been a cold war operation.

There's a staggering lack of basic competance around protecting this stuff. The CIA director who lost his job over Aimes must be wondering what the modern mob have to do to get fired.
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oh God!! why do some people have problem with adding semicolon?
Ask HN:Where are 'Who is hiring?' and 'SEEKING freelancer?' threads for Aug2013
He has a point though.

Look at his awful blog post. It's appallingly-written, doesn't make much sense, invokes various logical fallacies - and hit the front page of HN!

"So here I am getting this post out in the field ASAP, let me know what you think lets talk about all the theory people we've, how does it still exist in this "lean startup" world? Perhaps we should go from lean to anorexic startup. I've never heard of a company launching too fast as Paul Graham says very few do and so far I know none."

A garbled mess of nonsense. And yet here we are, talking about it!

Proof that, at least sometimes, taking action without any kind of meaningful thought behind it is capable of generating success.
Thanks for reporting it in!

It seems I enthusiastically chose a larger buffer size that appears to be having some issues on some devices that have a lot of memory pressure.

If you reboot your phone, as awful as that sounds, it will likely fix the issue.

EDIT: I've just submitted an update to Apple that uses a more conservative buffer size.

This aspect is hard to get right: I once used an adaptive buffer size that heeded to memory warnings, but that meant that the buffer filled to lower levels than a conservatively sized buffer.

If only iOS had an opt-in for an *alloc returning 0 instead of these warnings, or at least notifying us of how much space left before we're SIGKILL'ed.
Your poor grammar and sentence structure makes your argument (whether it is good or not) much less effective than it could be. Spend 10 minutes proofreading, and your post will be much more effective.
I like this guy and his presentation style, it is good to see someone delivering seriously on an old idea: queue machines. (The "Belt" is the queue machine model revisited. I can't see a theoretical breakthrough here). But the Mill's realization that combines a queue model with VLIW and embedded spiller machinery is worth attention.

Some criticism however: no sign yet of how variable latencies in memory will be tolerated. Requiring fixed latency for FUs is problematic with cache misses and FU sharing between pipelines. Also his comparison between a 64-item belt and the 300+ registers of OoOE is unfair, since the 300+ registers will likely tolerate more latency than the smaller belt.

I wrote a review of what I get from his first two talks here: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~poss/posts/2013/08/01/mill-cpu/
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yes - survival of the noisiest: talk first, think later.
Hah, I told you getting your PhD was a waste of time ;-)
Could you share a link to the student achievement metrics pertaining to the average of peer teachers in the same school?
This is not always true, especially if there are business-imposed constraints on hiring (or technology).
"They are running it like an editorialized magazine."

This is the odd thing about Medium - it's a bit like an editorialized magazine but with no editorial line or identity. If I want to read people writing about academic arts and humanities topics for a non-academic audience, I might go read the London Review of Books; if I want to read extensively researched but also personal essays, I'll read the New Yorker. If I read Medium I get - what? Some stuff written by people on the internet that some other people on the internet thought was good?
I defer to Brendan Eich on the matter:

https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/the-infernal-semicolon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323597 Who is Hiring ;)
That's pretty much the same thing.
Nice crotch shot jpap :-)
Remember that KickStarter is really about giving donations to cool projects ... not about investing in something, or buying a product. This is a really important niche, and they should NOT be bullied into abandoning it.

If you want to buy a product with little-to-no risk, then go to Amazon.com. If you want to connect with individuals trying to do cool stuff, help them with their project, and maybe get something in return, then Kickstarter is for you.

Certainly, Fraudsters and abusive individuals will always be drawn to tools like Kickstarter - and the team there need to be vigilant to keep blatant abusers away from the system.... A few will always get through. That is a risk that we all take ... but it is a risk that is well worth it for the service that Kickstarter provides to "fringe" projects that are simply too high-risk to attract conventional funding.
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Ugh, that looked good until I got to the bit about using Markdown. I'm not using a vt100 terminal, for gods sake, I can handle an editing system that understands basic formatting.
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Regarding the ITC's exclusion order against Apple
I strongly agree that Kickstarter's mission is great, and they should stick to that.

Perhaps they need some clearer warnings. Even with recent projects I see people complaining that they haven't got the items they've "bought".

I haven't seen much data to show how many Kickstarter projects there have been, broken down by successfully funded (or not) and delivered (or not) and out-right scams (or not).
Here is a favourite passage of mine from Johns Stuart Mill autobiography (he is speaking of the demanding education his father arranged for him):

I remember at some time in my thirteenth year, on my happening to use the word idea, he asked me what an idea was; and expressed some displeasure at my ineffectual efforts to define the word: I recollect also his indignation at my using the common expression that something was true in theory but required correction in practice; and how, after making me vainly strive to define the word theory, he explained its meaning, and showed the fallacy of the vulgar form of speech which I had used; leaving me fully persuaded that in being unable to give a correct definition of Theory, and in speaking of it as something which might be at variance with practice, I had shown unparalleled ignorance. In this he seems, and perhaps was, very unreasonable; but I think, only in being angry at my failure. A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does all he can.
We tested it for a project and actually liked it. However the configuration interface is a bit tricky to get your head around. It looks nice and works just fine for most things, we just found it to complex when working with we started adding multiple Django application, domains, rewrite rules and so on.

In the end just firing up Nginx was quicker to configure, easier to understand and most of all easier to debug.

Still it a webserver I like to pull out and play with every now and then, even if I end up just using Nginx.
Yep, it's just to hard to get help. Perhaps because it's easier to just post a config snippet for Nginx or Apache that having to take a bunch of screenshots.
If you're an employee, you quit your job and get going.
If you're a freelancer, you have to get rid of all of your customers, which is much more troublesome than to just quitting a job.
They get posted at 9am EST: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
Give it a few hours.
It is in the slides the article links to: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jul/31/nsa...

Slide 16: "Show me all PGP usage in Iran"
Imagine my disappointment when I opened that link to discover there were no sledges.
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I pledged to abide the rules in my car, but somehow I still wound up with a speeding ticket. These assholes are doing 95 in a schoolzone during afternoon pickup, where the hell are the cops when you need them?
I'm sorry but… are you an idiot? this is the coolest thing ever. Like, my mind is blown right now. I futzed with something that did the whole page but wasn't really impressed by it. but this is 100x better. Like, you changed my life this morning.
Also, if something use case comes up that your software didn't handle, you can write new code to handle it and rerun the old data. You cannot do that with law, you can't write new law and use it to punish past action.
Impressive stuff! And just in time to capture some action shots of my puppy :-)
-Appreciative fellow Australian, in Switzerland :)
Adblock has a safelist for non-annoying ads. They understand this problem and they have it enabled by default. I keep it on.
That's an interesting idea.

Even better would be for the NSA to penetrate Thwate, Verisign etc and make the keys they "generate" non-random (perhaps only for a subset of certificates sold)
there is a lot said about the assembly code. I wonder whether it make sense to code it in LLVM IR?
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Millennium movie 1989: http://www.cherylladd.com/movies/mill.jpg
Your screen size example isn't terribly useful because fixed width design was always just a cop-out. Both Android and the web have mature ways to adjust layouts to match screen sizes.
This strikes me as a further progression of the idea of register windows; in particular the SPARC architecture.
You should port it to several platforms and license it as a library. I would think there are many companys interested in a fast jpeg encoder that is not embedded in an iPhone App :)
A couple of quotes...

"SoftKey basically gutted the research and development side and put all its money into marketing"

and then

"Shorn of its talented staff, however, the Learning Company began haemorrhaging money. In 2000, Mattel posted a net loss of $430 million."

Does this pattern occur because the large companies doing the acquiring don't understand what making content for computers entails (creativity, a few good results from quite a large number of attempts &c). Or because of the logic of public quotation (share price)?
Just watched it again - it's so instructive to see how Keith Alexander is well equipped to function and lie like probably only psychopaths can.

And then, is Obama part of the same category? The contrast between how he's been selling to us and what's really happening is just too much.
Ah, the idea of the generic CEO or other executive that can manage anything, which I have said is a myth before.
SIMD, you say? Are you relying mainly on NEON optimizations or are you also doing encoding stuff on the GPU? Very impressive performance I must say!
So the question is - is it Stockholm syndrome on the part of Android developers or do iOS developers just think it's a bigger issues than it is in reality? That's the core of the debate, right there.
Worth noting that int&& is not illegal in C++11 since it specifies an rvalue reference, essentially for efficient move operations. http://thbecker.net/articles/rvalue_references/section_03.ht...
That's August last year. Nice try.
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> for white guys

Nonsense. Location could be China or America.
The people at Microsoft should remember that the users of their past platforms have huge investments into programs running these platforms.

Do they really think that people will do a re-invest on those programs just because Microsoft wants to change the whole inner workings of those platforms?

Wake up people at Microsoft, it is not going to happen, and you have set that trap yourself by locking in those users to your platforms.

Backwards compatibility is the only thing that binds people to your platforms in the first place, if it were quality then why did the whole world flock towards Android?

Next time when you do things like this then keep offering to people enabeling to keep their investments, they might be more sympathetic towards your goals.
So, who's running their site off an astromech? Bottom of the "Other" list.
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MP3 tends to remove some of the phase information (though I don't know how applicable this would be at lower frequencies) from the signal, which would quite likely have some effect on binaural beats.
As an architect and as a human that has had to work in these kind of offices, I completely agree. But the spec of offices is usually decided by a developer to maximise rental income, not the convenience of the end user. It's pretty unusual for a company to have it's own headquarters built to a custom design these days. In fact, you usually have different architects designing the shell and core to those designing the fit out. The developers architect designing the shell and core will have been instructed to maximise the lettable area based on the assumption that the fit out will most likely be open plan as that what the rental market is asking for. The fit out design will typically be done by the the lessor's architect after the shell and core is under construction. So yes, you can fit out partitions for lots of cellular offices but they will cost you a massive amount of money in rent as you will waste quite a lot of Net Office Area in doing so. Bear in mind that typical Cat 1 office rents in London are about £500 to 700/m2/year. If you really cram people in like call centres you allow about 6m2 per person out of Net Office Area. Boutique corporate lawyers more like 12-15m2. Resulting cost per staff member of £3000 to £10000 per year just to rent their desk space. So a company like Google with a progressive attitude and more money than they know what to do with will fit out to maximise productivity, but most others will fit out to minimise rental costs.
As far as I can tell, what makes this one different is that the "Project Creator" took up a boardgame which already had a following, roped in the artists and creators behind it, and then used their names and artwork to get the project funded.

Of course, they had no control over his actions. Ordinarily I'd look at the past output of the project creators to decide whether to fund a Kickstarter. Which is why funding Ryan North's choosable-path-adventure project was such a no-brainer.

So this particular instance is unusual, the guy behind it traded on the reputations of other people.
I'm over in the States in a month-ish but not over your way (Seattle, NYC).
Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger do a lot of reading. I think they win alright.

See http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/05/the-buffett-formula-...

And if you're serious about reading or learning, this is great: http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/07/seneca-on-reading/
Your faith in Facebook and Google not giving the NSA open access...is a bit strange.
You get theese when the instruments in a section of an orchestra or band are out of tune. It's a very good "lazy" way of checking to see who's out of tune if you don't have perfect pitch.