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EDIT: I see the idiocy to which this reply was aimed as been removed.

Mmmm, yum. Delicious back-alley "underground" yoghurt. "Please, don't mind the urine smell on the way to the counter and no, of course we don't have any Botulism today."

And this right here is where the anarcho-libertarian "logic" breaks down. In reality there is no "just go underground" where "just" means "do something with trivial or non-existant transaction costs." In reality, there are a whole host of problems that come with running a food service business that's outside the purview of the health authorities. First and foremost, you're also going to be outside the purview of a lot of potential customers. And the few who can see you well enough to find you are also going to see a whole host of warning signs before they reach the point of sale. Unless you're selling something so addictive that people will risk their lives for a fix, good luck running a viable business on the few who are foolish enough to hand over their cash.

Remember, the point of regulations is not to eluiminate dangerous, fraudulemt, or otherwise undesireable conduct entierly. It's to drive up the cost to the point where the number of people doing whatever they're doing is low enough for the hazard the represent to fall below some commonly agreed-upon threshold.

Obviously, the toxic idiots who find themselves getting marginalized by effective government regulations would love to get back into the mainstream. These are not people governed by any internal moral compass. They're fundamentally sociopathic, and they'll push back in whatever way they can. One of their favorite tactics is a form of psychological warfare where they try to convince people that efforts to police them are a waste of resources since they'll never be 100% successful, so honestly, why bother at all? Gun nuts use a variation on this tactic wherein they point out that some aspect of the mass shooting du jour means that some generally sensible legislation wouldn't have stopped that particular killing. And therefore, they conclude, all legislation is pointless and doomed to failure, so again, why bother?

Rejecting the obviously absurd assertion that anything not 100% effective is 100% ineffective, it's clear that efforts to limit abusively self-serving conduct can make themselves worth the expense, even with a success rate that's well below perfect. It's not about each an every incident, after all. It's about creating conditions in which mayhem and death are statistically far less likely. Statistics 101.

So yes, there will still be problems in even the best regulated environment. But they will be fewer and further between than they would be in some lawless free-for-all that only the staunchest libertarians would see as paradise.
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"The absolute cheapest benefit you can offer an employee is their title, and if they have a rational reason for wanting a better title, why on earth would you refuse to give up some title to get a good candidate on board?"

Well one reason [1] might be that by giving the a "big" title it will enhance their resume in the eyes of another company that is looking to poach. Doesn't matter if it works out or not at the new company. You've still lost out.

[1] This is simply pointing out a downside. It doesn't mean what you are saying "cheapest benefit" is not correct.

In all honesty though what stopped me cold was this which appeared at the start:

"Keith Rabois believes the CEO/founders should interview every candidate until the company is at least 500 employees."

And then:

"*In the beginning, get your hands dirty.

Speaking of spending time, you should spend the time to learn a role before you hire for it. If you don’t understand it, it’s very hard to get the right person. The classic example of this is a hacker-CEO deciding to hire a VP of Sales because he doesn’t want to get his hands dirty. "

How much time is proposed to spend on learning the job of a company where you are supposed to hire (he agrees with the statement) "the first 500 people".
Startups are Rockets
Awesome! Thanks for sharing, I'm going to have fun pimping my scripts now.
The website is working fine for me. Also, the videos convinced me to try the free trial.
I'm a PHP developer that's been looking to become better at JS. Right now I'm at the level where I basically can write some simple JS to do what I want, most of the time, but the code is a mess of spaghetti.

I am also a huge testing fanatic, and absolutely love that you're teaching using TDD from the first episode!

Consider me signed up and a paying customer!
My living room is perfect use case for this. Has an older PC just for simple games. Now it could stream my entire Windows/Steam library of games, powered by the more beefy hardware in my home office rig.

As you say, if the streaming feature works well, this is a huge win. At the very least, it should save me from running 60+ feet of HDMI/USB cables which was my original plan.
Financial Times' Reading List of the Best Business Books of 2013
Looks like the rest of the posts about them are here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2009/04.aspx
If you're 10x, I don't think you're thinking about making money.
The cheapest phone that launched was $549 so your estimate is wildly off base. The average selling price was likely closer to $700.
What are the best languages for aspiring programmers in 2014?
Hello HN, I'm a front-end web developer and I write HTML, CSS, and work with with PHP and JavaScript. My girlfriend tinkers with a little HTML, a little CSS, and learned Java in university but has since forgotten most of it (just remembers the thrill of solving problems through code).

She's interested in picking up programming again as a hobby and I'd love to join in on the fun too! She thinks building simple Android apps would be a good goal/reward to work toward, so here's my question: Which language(s) would be good for non-programmers to ease into that could eventually lead to hobby Android apps, or make it easier to learn further languages?

PHP - seems like it has passed peak relevance

JavaScript - seem useful but limited (but getting more powerful slowly)

Ruby - seems easy to get into but hard to perfect

Python - seems solid but with a steep learning curve

Java - saying Java is great because it works on all OS's is like saying...

What would be some good options for us to tackle, are any of the above languages ideal, or there are other languages (like Go or others) that would suit us better? Any insight you could offer would be a big help to both of us!

Thanks so much, and happy hacking :)
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Wish granted: Open Dictionary.app, go to Preferences, and select extra reference sources. German and French are included, among others.
You'll want to make sure all models are of legal age, and that the person submitting it has the rights to upload the material. Yes there's DMCA clauses to live behind that help make such tasks easier but in adult DMCA is so widely abused that it's best to make sure your stuff is 100% legal and legit to stay out of trouble. Not worth the returns in my opinion.

Source: I have just spent the last 12 years in adult and recently just severed all ties with the imploding industry.
You're onto something here. WordPress + docker + koding.com + jetstrap.com.

I can see the problem this product would solve and the target market will definitely understand it. That being said, I think this looks like an early MVP and needs lots more work.

I look forward to seeing what this evolves into.
I paid 15 euros in Kutna Hora (Czech Republic) to visit the Ossuary and the Cathedral nearby. There were roughly 10k stacked skeletons in the Ossuary basement, and there were two cannonized Saints in the Cathedral. (As in-- mummified and dressed up, in glass boxes with wax faces.)

The market is everywhere, and your emotion is misplaced.
Cloud Monitoring (disclaimer: I work on it) can actually be configured to poll as often as every 30 seconds from each location, or just every 30 seconds in the case of agent checks. I believe we default to 1 minute intervals, but if you want to change it you can browse to your check in our Control Panel and click the little edit icon where it says "Period: 60 seconds".
It was selling for $8.26 this morning--the drop you're seeing is from last week after they announced they lost $1,000,000 over the previous 90 days and were laying off 4,500 people. The buyout announcement is what provided the small boost this afternoon.
I agree. The conscious focus of most 10X people is probably on specific programming problems, rather than higher up things such as making money.
I was pleasantly surprised by this, with the exception of the question about the Social Mobile Cloud's ability to Disrupt. Blech.
I like it, but it won't resonate with my non-technical family.
Is that 10 hrs per new customer?
The decorator can only add behavior prior to the original function's execution, and many decorators may not necessarily be applied together. CBVs allow a composition of mixins that can include behavior that's substantially more complicated and can deal with any of the methods and members defined for the view.

A well-defined base CBV allows you to limit the use of RequestContexts, checks for method types, and special validations. For small projects it may not make a difference; for projects with at least couple dozen views and a bunch of common behavior, they increase readability tremendously.

Also, they offer a very good template for defining view behavior. Once you're familiarized with CBV method definitions it's much easier to grok code, as the view flow is much more standardized than for regular function views.
Oh man I thought fuckingshellscripts.org was going to be like giveupandusetables.com (which is now down).

I want to just use fucking shell scripts to configure servers. But it's a gem too which I don't want to install.
I want to see this exact attack repeated based entirely on the fingerprints left on the device itself. It's an all glass surface and we leave fingerprints everywhere, including on the device itself. It you are literally leaving the key all over the screen itself, this is pretty damning. I wouldn't be surprised if an entire photograph of all the partials all over the screen could be used to reconstruct one full fingerprint of the desired digit.

Now that this type of security is on the iPhone, it is likely to become widespread, which will only further increase the value of improving attacks on this particular security measure.
He would probably figure out common patterns/requirements between them and build the best CRUD framework ever (possibly in Haskell), the only problem is that he would be the only person smart enough to use it.
Value investors don't share the founder's shame in riding the revenues of the installed base. Many software firms find home with private equity firms that are happy to cut R&D and Marketing, and live off of services revenue. I could see Blackberry going down this path.
This operation seems like a complete waste of taxpayer money. While paid reviews are a violation of Yelp's TOS, since most businesses didn't add themselves to Yelp (they were added by reviewers or Yelp itself), they have not agreed to and are not subject to those TOS. Some incredibly blatant actions may qualify as fraud, but the bar for avoiding such accusations is very low. Businesses can simply ask paid reviewers not to post inauthentic reviews, and they have met their burden.
Cathedrals and catacombs at least require some upkeep. If the $.89 is somehow making its way to this man's next of kin then fine. Otherwise it just seems like cynical profiteering.
It's not only electric cars, they sell a full line of gas-powered vehicles, which sell a lot here in Latin America.

Several people I know own a BYD car, and are reasonably happy.

See their local pages:

http://www.bydauto.cl (Chilean page)

http://www.byd.com.uy (Uruguayan page)
So does this mean we've lost some emails forever or does this mean we'll get the emails eventually just delayed?

EDIT: I have an email currently lost in limbo. 3 hours delayed and counting. Not sure if it will ever get delivered.
There's a very steep depreciation on this capital spending too. Every year technology gets cheaper, and prior data center CapEx loses value.
I don't think there's a consensus on what the more relevant issue is here. Based on my discussions with people I'm acquainted with, I'd bet a lot more are concerned about the legality issue: is the government making a good faith effort to stay within the bounds of the law.
Not so simple nowadays.

Games are not fire and forget anymore. Now it's all about downloadable content and In-Game-Currency (which is basically a way to allow gambling legally)

Just being profitable initially doesn't mean jack. I think everyone learned that from the emails from Jobs and the Printing industry (and what i'd give to read the ones with the music industry...)
> So, if I run a car rental company, and people start stealing cars, is it my job to recover the cars or filter out the criminals?

I'm pretty sure they do credit checks and run my license.
"but remember that great companies are not usually created by experienced people"

What he is saying is that startup shot in the dark companies are not created by experienced people I am guessing. But then again from what I can tell the one company that the author created essentially failed. Now his job is to invest and give advice to others.

Anyone who thinks experience doesn't matter in the real world has (for lack of a more graceful way to put this) a screw lose somewhere.

I've also yet to run into anyone who has ever told me that they were better at what they did when they were younger than when they got older and had more experience. To be sure experience can also jade you and prevent you from taking chances and be a negative in some cases but that's no reason to not hire the most experience people you can. The fact is that some of the best people out there have nothing to do with the "startup" community.
We Need a Fixer (Not Just a Maker) Movement [June 2013]
BlackBerry agrees sale in $4.7bn cash deal
The Man Who Gets The Science Right On 'The Big Bang Theory'
That's cool, I think. Do you have any links to examples from other CPUs/GPUs?
Leap Motion + Oculus Rift + Kinect to visualize real time events on HANA
Don't forget Unity, and C#/XNA support via Mono/Monogame.
"The reason apple doesn't put touch on their Macbooks is cause no one wants it"...

The reason they have not added touch input to OS X, is because its not design for touch. I am sure, Apple will find another input method for their non-mobile hardware. Perhaps something similar to MYO or Leap Motion (or a touchscreen).
I've always found their bandwidth to be by far the most financially obnoxious aspect. $1,200 for just 10tb of bandwidth. You can get far more than that standard with any number of tremendous dedicated hosts on a $150 box. Digital Ocean charges a mere $0.02 for overages, by comparison.

I don't mind paying a premium for the easy systems and integration capabilities that AWS makes possible, but paying such extreme rates for bandwidth (when Amazon no doubt pays next to nothing per gb of bandwidth), is a cost too far.
There are probably a few real "10x developers" out there but the reality is that there are so many lazy and under qualified developers out there that it's not hard for anyone who has put concentrated effort into learning to program to look like one.
Interns From Ivy Leagues Or Private Schools Are Unwanted
I remember when my boss told me I was a 'Rockstar' because I stayed up all night finishing a project by an unrealistic deadline he had agreed to for a customer. That was when I knew it was time to quit. Most of this is just ego boosting trumped up by managers or VCs or MBAs to get 'brogrammers' to try to compete to outdo each other with 'dedication' to the company. Sure some people are better then others but if you buy into an idea that you are a 'rockstar' or a 'ninja' or better then '10 other programmers combined', then I'm sorry to say but you're probably really just a 'tool'.
I have a problem with this method:

"Payscale draws on its information about alumni salaries. It calculates the expected earnings of a newly minted graduate over a 30 year career by summing the median incomes of alumni from his or her school who graduated between one and 30 years ago."

Yes, I know that college was worth it 30 years ago, and even 15 years ago, and even 10 years ago. That is not the real question. The question is will this continue to be true in the future? Those who are challenging the value of a college degree are in essence arguing "We may be at an inflection point where the value of a college degree will, from this point forward, decrease."

You can not prove or disprove the point by pointing out that trend lines from the past, if projected into the future, show that college remains a great investment.

That line of reasoning is irrelevant if we are in fact at an inflection point. What is relevant is any argument for or against the idea that we are at an inflection point. Arguments based on trend lines from 30 years ago miss the heart of this subject.

The strongest argument to be drawn from this chart is one based on the 5 year trend line: if a college degree was worth a great deal during the Great Recession, then surely that proves the enduring value of a college degree? However, there is a counter argument: what is being measured here is the income premium beyond what someone with a high school degree makes, and the Great Recession wiped out millions of jobs in industries that hired large numbers of people who only had high school degrees (for instance, the construction industry).

Again, the question to be answered is are we at an inflection point? When the economy recovers, and jobs in the construction industry have returned, will a college degree still offer the large income premium that it offered in the past?
Google begins barring browser plug-ins from Chrome
Did anyone else just realize that there is NO WAY for us to be notified when an issue is affecting your specfic account?

/appstatus isn't good enough...
Real-Life Photoshop Color Eyedropper
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The schools doing well didn't surprise me. $120K for a Petroleum Engineer - wow!
Given the costliness of most colleges in the US - why not consider getting your degree outside of the country? There are many great universities in Asia, for example, that have a much cheaper price tag. I have not seen very many (if any) US students consider this option. I guess prestige and name-brand recognition is still very important.

But really, I am on a semester abroad in Taiwan at the moment, and I have calculated tuition and airfare combined at the school here is cheaper than just tuition at my school in the US (for 1 semester). Aggregate tuition and costs of living over 4 years and I am sure you could save a ton of money compared to staying in the US. You could then go on to do a master's degree in the States. Indeed, many Taiwanese here do just that - at places like Stanford, Caltech, etc...
It doesn't matter. Developers almost never develop/test in an environment that mimics production - multiple load balancers, multiple app servers, multiple database servers, failover to a second data center, etc.

If your dev environment is not different from prod, you're either insanely rich of your server setup is trivial.
It's great to see some research that shows a college education is still worth it. And I certainly believe that, although I'm admittedly part of the academically trained elite.

That said, the work to "democratize post-secondary education" is still an exciting area that can co-exist with traditional higher ed. There's a whole segment of the population for whom higher ed is not appropriate (for a variety of reasons). See what the Gates foundation is doing: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/US-Program/Postsec...
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(There are Kepler and Southern Islands patterns on the same page for comparison)

I am trying to internalise this for CUDA and OpenCL kind of mechanical sympathy optimisation.
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This article, like nearly all on the topic, ignores the distinction between correlation and causality. Of course those who attend college, particularly a prestigious one, earn more. How much of this is due to college as a symptom of their competence and/or privileged lot in life, and how much of this is due to college as a cause, is rarely discussed.
Sorry, but speaking as a software engineer who does have a bit of talent, I disagree with you in saying that this type of audition exercise is below me. We complain and complain and complain as an industry about how the interview process that The Big Boys still use (which is essentially just a pop quiz of vocabulary terms at its core) is broken. Why is this not a better alternative?

You wouldn't pitch this as "hey, I'm still not sure about you so I'm going to ask you to do X to prove your worth" - though it seems that's the interpretation you're getting from this. It's less a question of raw skill than it is a question of how all the different subtleties that factor into effective teamwork would play out when you're working on something together. There are so many vectors that are in play when it comes to actually working with someone tells you so much more than just an interview will.
"To accurately measure the earnings bump graduates receive thanks to their bachelor’s degree, Payscale takes this expected income of a college graduate over his or her career and subtracts the total income they would have made during that time if they did not attend college. To do so, Payscale subtracts the median wage of a high school graduate over those 30 years as well as over the four years a college graduate spent attending college instead of working."

"Accurately"? Rubbish. I don't see them controlling for a single confounding factor here.

I'd love to see a study comparing college attendees with those who were accepted into college and did not attend (e.g. for financial or personal reasons). At least then you are controlling somewhat for ability, ambition and circumstance. My suspicion is that being "good enough" to get into a good college is sufficient to wipe out the wage differential for many fields of study, independent of the fact of attendance.

Or, as Groucho might say, "I wouldn't go to a college that would have me as a student."
I always thought of 10x engineer not as one that writes 1000 LoC while others write 100 LoC. Rather, as one that says, at an early stage of development "let's do it this way" and the total amount of manyears spent on the project (including maintenance etc.) happens to be 100 rather than 1000, which would be the case if second best approach is pursued.
Or SteamOS inside a Docker container!

;-)
I don't think I've ever done this on 5+ years on HN, but thanks, Thomas, for this comment. Definitely one of the best & most helpful ones I've ready here in a long time. It really lines up with old-school advice from the seemingly forgotten Drucker (and his ilk), whom I'd suggest to anyone reading this comment (The Effective Executive).

EDIT: I really think it's key to emphasize not just hiring people you like. Some of the best people I've worked with I wouldn't hang out with on a Sunday. As long as you're able to be productive together, the rest is moot. A company isn't about creating a friend group.