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Two pieces of advice from a very drunk technologist.

One, never approach a community that lives and breathes startups using words such as "fairly certain," and "try." They have no power here.

Two, start the company, make a respectable business plan, and then whore yourself out. No one is going to be interested in a joint venture with a few paragraphs of information to go on.

You don't have to be perfect, nor do you even need a full roadmap of ideas or plans, but people need to see that you're willing to put effort into it. No one makes a successful startup, especially in the medical field without considerable research and effort. If people don't see that you're willing to put in the time, they'll never get behind you.
Nice idea - nice project. IMO, it could really thrive once it gets good traction - congrats.

One (small) suggestion: Change your tag line from:
'Build a Shyahi profile to showcase your developer contributions and social activity.'
to:
'Showcase your developer contributions and social activity'
and make it visible somewhere in the first screen-fold. HTH
> I am not sure the President is in the loop here. As far as I can tell he gets most of his info in these areas from the same sources that we do.

And you're okay with that?
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I too think this guideline is far too simplistic.

In a sense it almost puts relationships in a transactional context. And people who do that are often assholes.

I think it's important to seek out people with whom you value spending time with, as well as to distance yourself from people who are not good friends and aren't deserving of your time or energy, but that's a much more complicated topic than can be summed up in a handful of words.
Entropy? ;)
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Of course they're taking over. We are provoking a massive extinction of species in the oceans. Jellyfish are the one group of species we have no use for, so they're taking the free space we give them while enjoying the disappearing of their predators.
> I think most of the religious texts (even in buddhism) is bullshit. I constantly try to question everything.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Most of the religious texts aren't bullshit. Especially the bible, which is anchored in a very old tradition and way of thinking.

Theology is really an interesting body of knowledge. Out-of-context quotes of the bible, it is almost always cited like that, aren't relevant and detrimental.

Running from judeo-christian tenets to a softened-up "occidentalised" Buddhism isn't more enlightening.

Context: I am an atheist, my mother is a protestant pastor, her husband is a die-hard science chemist and that make for some interesting and heated winter evening discussions :)
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A bit sad that the page is down.

However, people interested into (vanilla) Plan 9 might also be interested in this:

http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/
I did the same. How do you uninstall it?
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>because, like me, they probably have tens of domains they don't plan on ever using.

So, you mean, small-scale squatters are okay; large-scale squatters are not?
Some valid points, I do freelancing in parallel to my regular job for the past 10 years and I can see that a lot of what he says are true.

But regarding: "You start wondering if your skills are deteriorating." I think he got that wrong. You can't imagine how much your skill-set deteriorates when you work at a company which has a specific set of tools you are allowed to use and everything is micromanaged by usually less than competent project management. If it wasn't for my freelancing projects I'd be stuck for the past 10 years with no new knowledge. What's worse is that sometimes you know that you can offer the client something better but for the good of the company its best that you don't - it makes you feel so bad in the end when a project finishes and you realize you didn't do the best you could because that choice was taken away from you.
Magic the gathering will teach you more about the stack then you ever wanted to know.
The American people simply haven't had the misfortune of living under a totalitarian regime. That said, right now they should be earnestly listening to those who have; but sadly they seem to be brushing those views aside with thinking such as "well, that won't happen here".
The problem you are pointing out is related to doctors' excessive eagerness to prescribe medicines, not any inherent flaw in the field of psychiatry. This is a problem with the culture among MDs in the US, it is not a global problem of psychiatry.

I've been in first-hand contact with a fair number of doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists and their patients in Scandinavia, and I haven't seen the rampant prescription of drugs to treat vague diagnoses that you describe. If you're in psychotic and in a mental hospital, they'll prescribe drugs, ditto if you have a mood disorder that is severely affecting your functioning. If you have something that reminds of ME or a similar poorly-understood conditions, the meds usually remain off the table and other forms of therapy attempted. Regardless of the situation, if meds are attempted, it's an ongoing experiment to figure out if something works.

Psychiatry would benefit tremendously from a better understanding of brain chemistry. But you're suggeating that we shut down our interim attempts at improving the lives of patients who are suffering greatly today. Psychiatry uses our best guesses yet, and is the best option we have. Its similarities to quack medicine are superficial and incidental.
Million dollars for unwanted domain?

This could work so much better if you could only ask below the registration price.
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As a responsible hospital, I will have to ensure your software will work 99% of the time and that if anything goes wrong you'd be paying the loss. That's a dangerous field to get into.
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This and similar comments in this thread is a plausible guess, but it's fascinating how so many of the computer programmers here are domain experts that have thought of things that all the psychiatrists in the world haven't thought of yet. All psychiatrists have six years of basic scientific education before starting their specialization. They're not the unwashed idiots that people here seem to think.
I've been working for myself for almost a decade, so I feel this guy's pain. I have a few thoughts.

Marketing has to be treated like a software project: make it scalable. Drip campaigns, blog posts, and books all help with this. I once overheard a client say “People do business with people." These materials are to help you build trust with potential clients without investing in one-on-one time until you're fairly sure you'll have a sale.

One of the most effective things I've done in this area is to put a copywriter on retainer who "gets" our agency's voice. I can drink 3 coffees and bang out 4 paragraphs of technical jargon and she reworks it into pleasant, friendly copy, for a fraction of what my time as a founder/tech lead bills out for.

This isn't my idea by any means, Brennan Dunn covers it much more effectively in his book. [1]

NDAs suck. Agreed. I've never had a meeting that started with an NDA turn into work. Ever.

Guts are huge. I sometimes feel like Malcolm Reynolds in the pilot episode where he's double-crossed in the middle of the desert:

“I do the job. And then I get paid.”

One trick I stole from Million Dollar Consulting is offer a 10% discount for up-front payment. Maybe not the whole project, but, say, for each week or each month. I'm not saying 10% is chump change, but we're small enough that I'd rather have $9,000 today than $10,000.... 60 days from now (or never.) It eliminates a lot of risk.

On that note, retainers are awesome. I simply refuse to complete hourly maintenance without a pre-paid retainer anymore. No more "oh hey we need this 9 hours of work done by Monday" when I'm already scheduled for a full work week anymore. (Many thanks to patio11 for opening my eyes to this.)

"You do not get to grow with a team." This is the single biggest downside to working on my own, and one of the reasons I'm disinclined to leave Austin. I'm always the smartest technical guy in the room, and that is not a good thing (although it's certainly great for my ego.) To balance this, I try to be heavily involved in the Austin on Rails community. We meet up every Tuesday night and hack on stuff, and when I'm not sure about something, there are a lot of really, really smart guys who have been in software a really long time to talk through ideas with me. It's fantastic.

The other way I try to continually improve is teaching others. In between code reviews with my team or occasionally volunteering with MakerSquare [2] I'm forced to dive a lot deeper into the "whys" behind code. Having to explain concepts forces you to understand them really well.

Freelancing is definitely not all fun and games, but for whatever crazy reasons, I love it. The flexibility of scheduling and the ability to work directly with so many clients who are all doing great—and different!—things outweighs all the downsides.

[1] http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/
[2] http://themakersquare.com
Here is one question. How will you do with all the tape? This creates a potential lawsuit point in case of failure (or even in case of blamestorming, when the software worked correctly but a scapegoat is needed). So you will need some form of insurance or regulatory approval.

I can create a very few extremely simple solutions in my mind that will be quite precise. You don't even need much coding. In the worst case OCR can do with simple extraction script if the PDF is too unruly. And are a weekend job. But selling it to someone will be a pain.
In modern times perhaps. But they were Christian for a thousand years before that. Majority atheist nations have existed for only a fraction of an instant in historical terms (unless you count the Buddhists as atheists). The first was probably the USSR.
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Nice to see someone who has noticed that a good doctor actually bases his opinions of science. You could be fooled by the massive disdain for medicine in this thread, or at the very least be led to believe that no one here has ever talked to a doctor.
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It would be cool if programmers switch to this language(instead of english, which is quite unfair to non native speakers).
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Ask HN: Is there a market for a Screenshot capture service?
We needed to capture screenshots of some 50k+ URLs for one of our proprietary projects. After looking high and low, we found many services - some offered totally free usage while others offered (free +) paid plans.

On further study, we found that most of the free services were either defunct/broken or very restrictive and only the paid/commercial ones were going to be any good.

While exploring third-party solutions, we were also working on a roll-our-own hack which, eventually, came about quite nice recently.

At this point, I'm wondering if it would be worth while to launch a service of our own.

All comments, questions, ideas, suggestions etc. welcomed. :)
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> It goes back to the fact that if the NSA has infiltrated the RNG

NSA has NOT infiltrated the RNG. They did one particular hardware implementation of it. You don't have to use it.
Turtles.

Lots of turtles.
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Is DO AMS down i can't even ssh into the server?
VHDL for FPGA's is easy but in the real world you need to deal with things like latency, PLLs, et al. There are few academic programs that make students aware of the trials and tribulations in modern hardware design.
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Because 2.4 is still marked as alpha. Versions on the torproject download page, their repo and Ubuntu repo all match.

% wajig policy tor
tor:
Installed: 0.2.3.25-1
Candidate: 0.2.3.25-1
Version table:
*** 0.2.3.25-1 0
500 http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.2.3.25-1~quantal+1 0
500 http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/ raring/main amd64 Packages
From Wikipedia:

"Originally, Verilog was intended to describe and allow simulation; only afterwards was support for synthesis added."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog#History
Good discussion on r/programming, too:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1lwtyk/theory_v...
What's wrong with the already-existing commercial ones?
Really nice and well done. However, there are multiple services like this – it would be cool if there would be a cap on how much you demand for a domain, like $200 or something. That way this really would be the place to load of domains and give them to someone who might have more use of them than me.

Those complaining that this makes squatting easy – not true. I myself have collected 30-40 domains over the years for projects that I want/will/should build – but never have built... I keep renewing the domains "just in case", but if I could list them for $50 to $200 each and know that someone else will use them for a good purpose, I would.
Hey guys,

I'm a Dutch national who had the same question a couple of months ago. Our country has net neutrality by law so has less trouble with government surveillance etc.

Since there were no good VPN's hosted by a Dutch company I started one as a pet project, with free accounts and paid ones. The free ones are equal to the paid ones. The idea of the project was just to give me and my friends protection when downloading or traveling.

By no means am I trying to spam promote here, but it's free and awesome. Truly believe that it would be useful for you. You can find it here: https://bluevpn.co/

There is indeed no best choice, but unless you are going full metal jacket wit Tor this will work perfectly and on all devices.
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> religion makes you happier

In this case the distinction between correlation and causation is actually very important. The alternative causal chain, that happy people are more likely to become religious, is highly plausible. Further, there are myriad plausible confounding variables. In many cases correlation can be taken as evidence of causation, but in this particular case it really should not be.
Well, I suppose you could say assembly is an analog of writing hdl that is very structural.

I haven't done it myself, but generates can be nested. You'd have to check to see if your tools support it or not though.

With the xilinx example, I'm not sure what you mean. Is it choosing to do multi-level muxing vs a naive muxing solution? I'd start by just writing a simple behavioral version, and only if that didn't meet performance constraints would I bother doing anything structural about it.

It's late and maybe I'm just not thinking it through. I'll take a stab at some of this and maybe it'll be clearer to me.
That's one of the reasons why it matters so much that the guy is actually a doctor. Not only does he have technical expertise in the target domain, he already knows what's going on with safety regulations, liability insurance and suchlike.
You mean the "laughing for 5 seconds and then burying your head in your hands" way?
It would've been even better if it wasn't a massive gif. I kept hovering and clicking the page the whole time wanting to control the animations.
I agree - freelancing is way better for learning.

After 9 years of jobs at large corporates, I shifted to freelance consulting for startups and small companies.

Working freelance keeps me on my toes.. Learning new technology and working with smart people who need to get things done under challenging deadlines. I usually end up learning a lot, and pushing myself to new limits.

In the unlikely event that I didn't enjoy working with the client (I am fairly selective), I can always walk away at the end of the assignment and don't have to feel trapped.

Between assignments, I usually end up taking short breaks to work on personal projects, learn and play with new technology or attend the occasional hackathon...

After several years of this lifestyle now, I have had no reason to ever look back...
Here he is talking on EconTalk in 2012 about his work. An excellent introduction for those who prefer to listen rather than read: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/ronald_coase/
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Why not sue over waste of resources in US economy, and facilitating further computer crime?
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Nothing that we'd really know of, because we never actually used any. :)

Having said that, I must admit that we did study the specs of some of those and found a few gaps here and there (at least so far as our requirement was concerned).

To list a few off the top of my head:

1) Returning of http response codes
2) Following 300 class redirects
3) Control over exact pixel size of the images
etc.
Really cheap service. Without ownership transfer this service is pointless.

Whats next? Make a plattform with bootstrap to sell Real Estates, or Cars ?
They haven't done anything there though... They've just provided a standard IMAP service, and a standard file syncing service...

When they provide an option in GMail for people to upload their public PGP keys, and then start encrypting email on the way in, and don't store any non-encrypted versions of those emails, and build PGP support into Chromium for accessing those emails. Then they will have done something worth noticing.
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I got an email from them a couple of days ago about peering upgrades. They are moving away from Cogent to a higher teir provider and said there could be some hiccups. Perhaps this is one of those hiccups?

You might check their status page [1], which shows activity this weekend.

[1] - http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com/
Facetious means flippant, not mean. OP was spot on.
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What's the MSc in software engineering course you're going to do? What's the curriculum for it?
I think the "Any amount" listing is a bit vague. You should make it required to have at least a minimum amount. For example, video.io sells for "Any amount" but I doubt that can be taken literally.
I bought a copy. Nice book! The format of the book seems kinda odd thought. This is a screenshot from my iPad Mini with Readmill (eBook reader): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/947269/IMG_0053.PNG
Thank you for providing your insights, it is important to know that the data on the disks is encrypted. I know about the encryption (https) between the browsers and Google's services - Google was one of the first actually to switch the services to https.

But I have to say that I am still quite surprised that there is no encryption between data centres. Working from time to time for industrial customers, on business critical software, most of the time it is required to encrypt data between servers, even when the hardware is in the same building, because they are afraid of leaks/attacks from inside.

I think Google has to do some explanation to the public about their security. Though I do not know if it is not too late for some google users.
Why didn't you use them? A few missing features don't justify launching a whole new service, as the existing ones can just add the features in a day or so.
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the problem with google is simple: the government demands data, google provides because it must. encryption means the government at least has to demand.
You can overcome 2 by building a software that parametrizes your hardware.

Just like a core wizard, you can build a Python scripts that output the Verilog/VHDL code according to the desired settings. Not only accelerates the process, but may also prevent bugs on the long run.
Yes, that was the reasoning of what I said. It doesn't really change the way you think about the program, but in PHP it leads to stuff like variable variables (`$$myvarname`) and to assigning a string "foo" to `$x` and having `$x(...)` execute as `foo(...)` and so on... which is cool and useful sometimes, but this really messes up a beginner's mind or it leads to code that is almost impossible for beginners to read, comprehend and learn from.

Perl at least had the "if it's different, it should look different" philosophy as a justification for its sigils. PHP just makes functions and variables look different and it feels like CLs two namespace system with `foo(...)` / `(foo ...)` and `$foo` / `(funcall foo ...)` being different, but it was mostly useless in CL too and it has the same side effect of adding extra cognitive overhead to passing functions around, which imho should be as simple and natural for a beginner as possible to ensure that later on he has a safe landing in functional programming land...
Her final statement (and in particular her final word) resonated quite strongly with me. It's hard to know where the point of no return is on this issue but I suspect that when it comes (and goes) it will be without fanfare.

It seems fairly clear at this point that as a race we're facing some fairly substantial problems that need to be addressed if we want to avoid major catastrophe, and yet almost without exception the people I speak to about these issues are dismissive and unwilling to make even minor changes to their lives. Nobody is willing to accept responsibility for the problems and everybody believes they will somehow be resolved without their personal intervention. Even as somebody who is genuinely concerned and willing to accept responsibility, there seems to be nothing of worth that I can actually do to help.

The scariest part is that we can well and truly pass the point of no return before we even realise there's a problem to be addressed. This is true for practically all the environmental issues we are facing. By the time we realise how much we've upset a system and that awareness propagates down to a significant proportion of the world's population, the damage is done and we can't do anything to fix it. Some people do notice earlier, and some of those people will jump up and down about it, but nothing real can change until a significant proportion of the population is staring down the Gun Barrel of Consequences. And so we just keep charging towards the bluff.

Her use of the word 'adapt' is quite prescient. Things are going to change; we have so much momentum at this point that it is unavoidable. And as it happens we will just have to ride it out as best we can. The thing that makes me saddest now is not that I might personally suffer (although that certainly used to worry me) but rather that we are going to destroy a lot that is quite beautiful, and once it's gone we cannot bring it back. But life will go on, and one day the world will probably be beautiful again.
I listened to the audio book version - - the man sounds like the Devil himself. Great book though - - I recommend it to everyone I know.
Convince people that it is even better for "potency" than shark fin or black rhino horn.