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3 C's: Compatibility, Complement, Charisma.

Compatibility: Is it someone you could spend a month with in the woods without hating, abandoning, or killing each other? But he must be able to argue his side and be right- you don't want a "yes" man. You need the other hand of the steering wheel to course correct when needed. But you have to be able to spend a massive amount of time together.

Complement: Does he fill the gaps (in more than just technology) that are missing in the team for success? This is not just a coding or tech position. He may end up being project management, product management, sales, accounting, office manager, etc.

Charisma: In both well-accepted meanings of the word: (1) compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others, (2) a divinely conferred power or talent.

Those three are most important.

Skillwise, look for someone with proven experience (mobile development), preferably in Android, iOS, HTML5, one or more modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular, Backbone, etc.). Also, what would they write in service-side? (Java? Go? Node? Sinatra?) What would they serve that with, and do they have experience setting that up? Server-side will need significant Linux admin experience, experience working with Amazon services/cloud storage, significant hardware setup and networking knowledge, has setup network before at work not just in his or her house. Good with PostgreSQL or MySQL- can setup, admin, design schema. Someone adept with design and user experience. That is the bare minimum. You need more than that to be successful, though. Anyone can fake those enough to get the job, but can they manage themselves, design the product, work 48 hours straight to fix things, etc.?

MBAs with a "good idea" looking for a CTO to implement it are a dime a dozen. If you don't have a great sell, no one worthwhile will apply, so have a good tech lead review any job you post before you post it, though you really will be better off with a referral. And to bring them in, you will need to have everything that the CTO doesn't have- the connections, the money, and the ability to sell (if needed), etc. Don't be a hardass and don't sell too hard- be yourself but more professional. Pretend this person is an angel or VC you are trying to sell, then turn it back a few notches.

This person is not an employee. They are a founder.
Congress doesn't print money. The Fed does. Congress can spend money that it doesn't have by getting the treasury to sell bonds.
Foreign CBs are not mopping up all those bonds which is why the Fed is buying them up with QE.

What is the problem with a toy model in extreme to illustrate the absurdity of your position?
Mathematically you end up with the same capital whether your pay income taxes today and invest post-tax money

No.

___

Put $100 in an IRA.

[$100]

Quadruple your money by keeping it in an index fund for a couple decades.

[$400]

Pay 25% income tax on the money.

[$300]

Spend $300 in retirement.

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Or,

___

Earn $100.

[$100]

Pay 25% income tax on the money today.

[$75]

Quadruple your money by keeping it in an index fund for a couple decades.

[$300]

Pay 15% capital gains tax on the $225 gain.

[$266.25]

Spend $266.25 in retirement.

---

But you could also tell this story:

___

Put $100 in an IRA.

[$100]

Double your money in some garbage high-fee actively managed fund your boss's boss picked out based on the quality of strippers the investment advisor hired when he sold your company the plan. Your awful 401k offered limited investment options and the rest were even worse.

[$200]

Pay 25% income tax on the money.

[$150]

Spend $150 in retirement.

---

But lobbying your boss to get low-fee index funds into the 401k plan doesn't fit on a card. It's still the kind of thing a wise planner needs to do sometimes.
The strange thing to me is that our minds aren't really that great at studying and describing themselves. You'd think that a mind interested in how minds worked would happily examine itself in whatever level of detail it wanted. One could hope that someone like Dennett could just close his eyes, sit back, and directly observe the answer to all of his most pressing questions. Why doesn't that seem to be possible?
Thanks, this is great! More specifically, there's a (draft) version of the second edition in PDF format, which is a much easier to read than the HTML format. Link here [1], on the very bottom.

[1] http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html
Apparently out of stock I'm the US, still available in australia.
Ya I have data, here is the current debt:

$16,744,814,606,837.32

Or how about a quotations from our president:

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.
In 1998, the NSA required MIT to subborn their PGP. MIT publicly stated that at the time. NSA simultaneously banned the use of MIT's European confederate's version of PGP by U.S. citizens, and blocked access to that university's FTP from the U.S. Naturally, being overseas at the time, I downloaded the European version and, since it allowed creation of up-to 4096-bit keys with the option of manually-specifying non-standard lengths, I created a very large key which I saved to floppy disk.
I think most people are unaware that MtGOX is an acronym for "Magic the Gathering Online Exchange."
How about facts about what nearly all English speakers agree is the correct usage?
You can't even post a, "this is not advice but here's what I am doing..."? That seems overly strict.
Central Banks sit on bonds because holding USD in their reserve banks does not earn interest.
I think this is less 'Silicon Valley' the geographic location and more 'Silicon Valley' the idea -- the metaphorical land of hype, of venture capital, of red bull vodkas and launch parties, of being wired in -- of buzz.
I guess I was looking for a respond like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6385199, making it more than just a mere novelty.
Budget to save before you outlay your discretionary income. You might have to redefine discretionary to include car (if public transport suffices for your job), cable, etc.

Don't lay out your budget and set aside $x for entertainment (eating out, etc). Savings will always suffer. Set aside desired savings first and then work with what's left.
Libraries like Hopscotch.js[1] or Intro.js[2] would probably be a good starting point.

[1]: http://engineering.linkedin.com/incubator/creating-product-t...

[2]: http://usablica.github.io/intro.js/
Why would it be? Evolution is mostly driven by getting enough calories and mates. If your brain needed to be twice as big and needed twice the calories to perform self introspection, for example, it would probably be selected against by evolution since the gain wouldn't be worth the cost.

It would be like running a debugger in production. Kills the performance.
GM developing car to rival Tesla
I guess the point that I was really trying to make was that reading the code and documentation can only get you so far, and doesn't help nearly as much with the bigger-picture "why" questions. (The code I worked on, in addition to being well documented, was also IMO pretty well organized and clear.)
I just did. No warning.
https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter has multiple sorting using the shift key. I alternate between this and DataTables. The hungarian notation threw me off at first too. Far from insane though.
How can I get involved?

Seriously - I am in the Valley's nebulous zone: good history, background, and connections - never made the major hit, too much bridge-skills not enough developer skills to see what I personally would prefer built - though I have enabled some great successes...

I'd like to help others, and myself, over the hump to execution on your dreams.
In related news, GM is starting a new division it will call Saturn, in hopes that it can compete against Toyota and Honda.
>> completely secret for decades. Virtually no secrets survive that long.

> How do you know that? If a secret did last for decades, you wouldn't know about it.

No, I meant secrets that quickly came out (that weren't secret for long), versus things that were only revealed after a long time. It's a reasonable yardstick for the degree that things can be kept secret "for decades", my claim.

Things that really have remained secret:

* Where Jimmy Hoffa's body is buried.

* What happened to Judge Crater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater)

* What women want. Freud famously asked. but no one knows, certainly not women. This may belong in a different category, since it's not clear that anyone knows the secret.

> A US bomber accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb out of an airplane into the dessert near Albuquerque, New Mexico, triggering a conventional but non-nuclear detonation. This happened in 1957 but was kept secret until 1986

So that's in the never-revealed secrets column? Just checking.

> This secret [Enigma] was revealed in 1974--after 34 years--because of two books by key intelligence figures.

Actually, it was because of the British Official Secrets Act, that required silence on sensitive matters until the government granted permission, and that was obeyed by all concerned. The books were't simply published, after due consideration they were vetted by the authorities in advance of publication. That example belongs in the well-kept secrets act, because everyone involved obeyed the rules until given permission to do otherwise. If it had been a 50 year silence requirement, I suspect that it would still have been obeyed.

But I think you'll agree that rare exceptions don't disprove rules.

> I'm commenting only about the persistent meme that big secrets are quickly exposed: it's not necessarily true.

Not "quickly exposed", that's not a position I took. Thirty or forty years is sufficient validation for my original claim.
The line that has always stuck with me is that code should aptly explain how and comments should aptly explain why.
Readme.io - free to a good open source project
My Secret Non-Software-Developer Life
I bought this domain for a pet project a few years ago. That project hasn't gone anywhere so I thought I'd offer it up.

I'd love to see it used by some documentation repository or similar. Ping me if you're interested.
> More good news is that the "longstanding squabble over Android-specific kernel features has faded completely into the background," the report said. "The much discussed 'wakelocks' [power management] feature has been quietly replaced by a different mainline solution which is used in the latest Android devices."

Can someone in the know say what this replacement is?
I'm not saying that we should be introspective in lieu of reproducing. It's not an all or nothing thing. BTW that same line of argument could be made against philosophy or even large portions of science, but clearly people can (and do) think about things that don't have an evolutionary advantage. But for some reason, direct knowledge (and manipulation) of our own minds is curiously out-of-reach.
I think you're getting into the mind-body problem there. The mind is not machinery, the brain is. You'll never be able to cut open someone's brain and find the content of their thoughts or experience.

We (mind/soul) are only semi-transcendent, not transcendent, so the objectivity required to do what you're describing is not directly possible.
Those are Pacific water regulations. This site, http://novascotia.ca/fish/ is what you'd want.

Just in general in Nova Scotia you don't need any license for non-commercial fishing in tidal areas (still need to observe bag limits though.) You do need a license for any fishing in fresh waters.

If you're hand picking crabs you're fine. Just don't set any traps or snares, but you might want to check to see if they are safe to eat. Sometimes the close areas for shellfish harvesting due to food safety concerns.

The murder that dhughes is referencing had more to do with it then them just catching someone cutting their lines, there was a long history between the victim and the boat crew.
>> ... Bump it to 35% and you'll retire after 25 years. Bump it to 50% and retire in 17. Bump it to two-thirds and retire in 10 years.

Can you/someone please point to the maths behind this? It sounds to me there are some assumptions about returns on investments and inflation rates.
As some one who takes great meticulous care in planning and investing regularly, both for the long term and super long term(retirement savings), I can pitch in and offer some advice here.

First advice I would give is, totally avoid using credit cards. It might sound impractical, but I've found some workarounds for it. Which is to use my debit card as a credit card. Go frugal for a few days and save some money in the savings account, then use that money as credit to yourself. The worst thing about any kind of debt/loan is the interest part. Lesser interest you pay the better, except in situation where you are making an investment with the loan(like buying a property of a home) and the value of the investment is growing faster, when the at the same time inflation is decreasing your loan's net value.

Second advice I can give you is to buy your own home and avoid paying rent. If you look at the whole thing having your own home is vastly more profitable than renting some one else's home on a long term.

Then there are a few assorted advices I would like to give, especially to people in India(My country), But I believe it applies equally to else where to. Buy gold in small quantities regularly. Gold is protected from inflation, and is the near standard of economic growth around the world. And value of growth(over long term) always grows. Once you have sufficient gold- sell it and, learn to buy real estate in city outskirts. You will see in any growing city, sooner or later outskirts merge into main city areas and then real estate prices shoot up. Take loans to do this, if and only if the loan is small and as I said before, inflation affects your loan faster than, the rate at which its value grows.

Make the mandatory 1 lac per year(if you can't make as much as you can), tax savings investments on things like endowment insurances which serve as both life insurance and long term investments.

Its good if you could rotate money by building a home which you could rent out. It will serve as a steady source of income later and after retirement.

Lastly at the risk of attracting downvotes, please don't invest in stocks and show pointless heroics if you don't understand that business. Far more people have burnt their hard savings hoping for magical miracles to happen and make them millionaire while dealing in stocks. In short if you know how to do it, do it. Else keep out for your own good.
"Girl Tickets"
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You mean like this one? http://www.mongodb.com/press/10gen-announces-mongodb-backup-...
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I was a bit surprised to see this in my inbox today. Am I the only one to find this a bit offensive?
That's a good point.
Further, you are unlikely to pose a serious threat hiding food (or making political moves, scheming to find the best mate or whatever) from yourself. Others do pose that threat. You can see the effects of the greater stakes by way of evolution. We can intricately reason with folk-psychology, "he believes she thought he put the food under the rock but he thinks she knows he knows she thinks he's going to hide it there, so he thinks he may get away with placing it there" but we are introspectively blind.
The problem with a PhD is that it requires a laser focus on a narrowly defined topic. I'm much more interested in the connections between different areas. Thus, no PhD so far. I also wouldn't want to put myself entirely under one advisor's control to the degree that PhD programs typically require.

I do think it would be an interesting way to re-structure my time, though.
"My friends and I bought 5 acres and dug a moat around it."

Yup, that's a +1 there.
Python also had this pprint.pprint() and pprint.pformat()
This is a great way to remember a person who gave a lot to the community, in a very positive way.

As an aside, I've always wondered whether there are potential legal complications involved with these kinds of awards. A group I was involved in had to forego a monetary gift and instead we awarded tickets/transportation because of some fear mongering related to local laws within our board.

Not sure what the case would be here. IANAL, but would be very interested to hear opinions from one on this topic.

Again, its a great thing to do.
there would be civil war if this were remotely true. ever think about those "facts" for a second?
> I genuinely think I have a problem.

I sometimes find myself unable to detect a satirical or ironic intent in someone's writing, one that may seem obvious to other people. Then someone charitably points out what I've missed, and I slap my forehead.

This was once described as a symptom of Asperger Syndrome, but that supposed mental illness has been reluctantly abandoned recently because of its dubious foundation and widespread abuse by opportunistic psychologists, which leaves the more likely explanation -- a variety of nerdy intelligence that makes subtle ironies essentially opaque, but that hardly merits a mental illness diagnosis.

In other words, a little smart, not a little sick.
That notwithstanding, what advice would you naysayers like to see on this card for poor people? Is there anything that simply knowing is going to help them?

This card contains all the major points of advice a poor person can use about finance. Whether that is enough to save them is a completely different question. Raising it is not a valid criticism of this card.
> He was not just another member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, he was Rector of Heidelberg University while Hitler was gambolling about Europe.

He was rector for a year and then resigned. He kept his party membership current though. He spent the last years of the war digging trenches, so he wasn't inner circle in the least.
I'm using it in a project presently, it's a very powerful library. The project started simple.. but the table part quickly grow very complex and that plugin never let me down. The best part of the documentation is the examples IMHO.

There are also very good plugins[1] to use it on the backend..

[1] https://bitbucket.org/pigletto/django-datatables-view
What do you mean by "inherently multithreaded"? I have written a network application handling 100-500k TCP concurrent connections using libev. It was multithreaded to distribute the number of connections evenly per thread (typically from 10k to 100k connections per thread). This is a model that is perfectly supported by libev. And I observed a nice linear scaling of the network throughput with the number of cores since my jobs were also purely CPU-bound. Depending on how CPU intensive my jobs were exactly, my libev code needed anywhere from 2 to 10 threads to saturate a GbE link.
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C# code does require some modification to be run in a WinRT context, but I'd say the likelihood of code sharing with an existing C# application is still significant.
Yes, that line of thinking can lead to a distinct adaptive deficit, which will simply be selected against.
Does the server need to be accessible to the world, or only to your web or other application server?

Many DB developers consider it good practice to be paranoid about who has access to the DB port, even if they can't authenticate:

http://www.postgresql.org/support/security/faq/2013-04-04/

"Any system that allows unrestricted access to the PostgreSQL network port, such as users running PostgreSQL on a public cloud, is especially vulnerable. Users whose servers are only accessible on protected internal networks, or who have effective firewalling or other network access restrictions, are less vulnerable.

"This is a good general rule for database security: do not allow port access to the database server from untrusted networks unless it is absolutely necessary. This is as true, or more true, of other database systems as it is of PostgreSQL."
This is good!

Would be great if it supports somehow retina display, maybe returning 2x size?

Good job!
I use this in a ton of different projects. Besides the fact that it is an awesome library, I love pushing all of the sorting work to the client side (and telling anyone who complains about the speed that it's their browser's fault :) )
More generally known as Murphy's Law. It's invaluable in writing software, and practically anything that will ever be used.

If you can't make it not go wrong, the second best thing you can do is make it apparent that something has gone wrong.
The math is covered here:
http://earlyretirementextreme.com/

Basically the thought is that 20-25 years of living expenses will generate enough income for you to early retire on.

If you make 100k (post tax) with a 20% savings rate, you save 20k, and have living expenses of 80k. Ignoring future compound growth, for each year you work, you save 1/4 a year of living expenses.

If you go the other extreme, and have 66% savings rate, you save 66k, and have living expenses of 33k. With 33k living expenses you need 660k to retire. Each year of working you end up with 2 years of living expenses. Even ignoring the effect of investment growth before you retire, that is only 10 years of working.

Of course 20 years of savings maybe be too optimistic. The book is good and has more details.
Simple, GSM and 3G are encrypted between the telephone and the mast.
The debugger analogy is spot on.
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Ask HN : Implementing a scalable Chat server.
I am working on an idea which involves chat backend. I don't have much knowledge about scalable systems. If I need to have a scalable chat backend, should I go ahead with ejabberd or should I write some custom software. And What are the design decisions that I should consider if I am writing custom software. Or is there any other better alternative?
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Nope, not contrary to law -- it turns out the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for pension accounting are just total bullshit.

The GAAP says to assume a totally unrealistic rate of return; then when it's not met, to depreciate those losses over decades. Neither makes any sense at all.

If there's any gross negligence going on, it's shared by the entire profession and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.

And there very well may be. Except it's probably beyond 'gross negligence', in the sense that the ridiculous standards served some financial firms and their pocketbooks very well. Not so different than other crazy shit banks and financial firms got away with in the last decade, and nobody's held responsible because, after all, everyone was doing it, so it was 'best practices'!

Some accountants have been sounding the alarm about this for years, and been ignored by 'the establishment' until fairly recently, when issues like Detroit made it impossible to ignore.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ancIi... (lacking a dateline, but based on a phrase in the article about 'drag on into 2004', appears to be from 2003, 10 years ago)

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/detroit-gap-reveals-i...

http://capoliticalnews.com/2013/09/10/pensions-are-still-mak...