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Ask HN: Expanding technical consultancy into California?
TL;DR There are lots of need for engineers in California. What about outsourced product development?

Background: I run a boutique web/mobile-web consulting shop in Canada and am interested in drumming up new business. We have quite a bit of experience taking our clients products ideas into really great products at a reasonable price. Is there a need/interest in having products outsourced over there? If so, how could one break into that market?
>There are multiple publicized cases.
I love racist anecdata as much as the next guy, but if you can't figure out whats wrong with this line of argument you might want to sign up for a stats refresher.
Correct - is there something wrong with that kind of argument? Examining edge cases can be revealing. I replied to someone saying that these actions are never justified to anyone. But that's not true.

Apparently everyone agrees it's OK to search a smuggler. What level of proof should CBP agents need to decide this?

What other potential criminals should be searched? Someone that appears to be intending to reside or work in the US despite not obtaining a visa? Can they search their belongings to help determine their intent? Or should they just close down the visa waiver program entirely and force everyone to clear positively before coming to the US, so that border agents have an easier time?

Really the only plausible thing I find is that for things like strip searching, a supervisor should need to agree that the person poses a smuggling or other threat that a strip search is likely to prevent.

But either way, it's far more complicated than "this behaviour is always unacceptable".
>fairly broad and deep surveillance

Also known as performing a search on Facebook? Just saying, there's an easy alternative explanation.
It's even a continuous political issue, since there are always talks about the next countries entering Schengen, UE or Eurozone and the associated inner-migrations.
Ask HN: Advice for finding housing in SF/the Valley?
To those who've done this recently - where did you start looking?

What helped you a great deal, and what didn't?

Also, where did you end up and what do you pay?
https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser/blob/master/src/main/...

you post non-idiomatic(?) scala in a comment to explain what you are doing, i think? not a criticism of textteaser (which was behind this excellent project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498625), but seems to raise questions about the language...
Volokh is not a philosophy site for people to opine about morality.

Exactly my criticism. There is an underlying current of morality at that site and it seems to be firmly anchored in process. They need to exercise editorial control to eliminate that moralizing, just because it is subtle doesn't mean it is compatible with a site that aims for an analysis of process rather than a cheer-leading of the current process.
Not an answer to the question, but does anyone have experience with PayLane? I'm met them at the next web conference and their rates seem pretty fair. Since I will be processing small transactions, I'm looking for a payment provider that has a low fixed amount to integrate in my startup product. $0.30 is quite a sum of money if you only process $10 and you make about $0.50 margin on top of that.
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No. I'm upset if it's not shown. I write 1 star reviews as well. There appears to be no commitment to show reviews fairly instead of selling 5 star reviews to the higher bidder. Compare and contrast with the care for fairness in the core search functionality.
http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html

Another great list of books for programming languages/tools/frameworks/gen dev
my friend's step-sister makes $84/hr on the computer. She has been laid off for nine months but last month her check was $21144 just working on the computer for a few hours. Continue Reading
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For an example that (sort of) confirms my bias ;-), see:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2006/07/art4full.pdf

"The likelihood of leaving low pay decreases
dramatically as tenure in a low-paying job increases. Low-
wage employment could itself decrease future wage growth
if it causes workers to receive less training or skill
development, conveys a negative signal to future employers,
or provides access only or chiefly to weaker labor market
networks. Significant numbers of stagnant low-wage
earners could also be visible because of “sorting,” as those
individuals with lower employment opportunities remain low-
wage workers. The latter finding indicates that, not only is
earnings mobility a reality for a substantial number of initially low earners, but also there is continued poverty within a large subpopulation of workers."

In other words, it's not quite as simple as "work will always win".
They do not have a law saying people who try to play non-profit shows are strip searched.

They probably do have a law saying anyone who is denied entry is strip searched and not allowed to contact anyone.
Spam!!
Quite happy with vim/fireplace here, though I'm still pretty interested in lighttable.
What do you do when management won't allow Unit/Automated testing because it takes time away from writing user facing code?
I wanted the format to degrade to CSV which is why I chose the ordering I did.

As for the escaping that's because I wanted to be able to escape a comma without using a comma. I want to be able to use sed or awk without having to worry a field having a comma.

The pascal and null terminated values are for binary datatypes, which wouldn't be editable in a text editor (by muggles anyway). That said I'm not sure why I thought storing a string in a binary field was a sane idea.

I've been debating using the header to store field metadata. I do agree that it'll be cleaner. Also, it would alleviate most of the issues with the odd seperator precedence.

I also agree that it should default to utf8 friendly strings by default. I'll change that in the spec.

Thanks for your feedback; I greatly appreciate it.
When I lived in Van Nuys/ Sherman Oaks I sort of wished I lived in Burbank or NoHo

but ask these guys. Its how I found my job when I first got there

http://www.reddit.com/r/losangeles
It's called AngelList.
"This is [because] I am always on offense and never defense."

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/my-phone/2013/03/dave-mori...
I have a habit of doing this too, actually. Talking on the phone just feels too much like work.
You are right. I think Scala is a good language and handle functional programming well. But the code is too abstracted that even me might not get what it is doing. I just placed as a reminder for me. And also for everyone else to easily get what that piece of code is doing.
This might be what you were remembering? http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/07/23/2127253/pc-gamers-t...

It also reminds me about how CS:GO was originally supposed to allow true cross-platform play (PC against console) but Valve scrapped that support because they couldn't work out a reasonable way to patch on consoles due to "patch scheduling" on PS3.
Radio interview with Lavabit founder Ladar Levison
> He's not getting paid. Someone's cooking him dinner and giving him tips because that's what hospitable people do.

I agree, but if I were making the case to the INS I would phrase it differently: feeding someone who came to town specially isn't remunerating them, it's covering their expenses. And covering someone's expenses doesn't take money away from Americans who need jobs — because the American who didn't get the unpaid gig because this foreigner got it instead, is now sitting at home and consequently doesn't have travel expenses that need covering.
Is it "submit random wikipedia articles to reap karma on HN" day already?
"And yet, I watched the call come in without touching my phone."

Pro tip: Hit the volume rocker to mute the ringer without cancelling the call. Works on at least iOS and most Androids.
“I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.”

talk about wasteful...
I've actually read the entire Patriot Act. There's nothing in the Act that justifies the mass collection of U.S. citizen's phone calls and other data.
Ah thanks for the good laugh. "It’s a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind bespoke app."

Think I'll side with Gruber's thoughts: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/29/dave-morin
I have unplugged my work phone. No one has noticed or mentioned it. Most messages are emails and texts on my cell. I don't answer the cell unless I know who is calling.
http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...
Basically we still don't know enough to know how good it's going to be. Having used the next gen controllers at PAX, it's going to very hard to be as good at they are at being a controller.

Valve's controller does seem to be a good 1/2 step for mouse/keyboard replacement, eg very good accuracy, but maybe not the best of all worlds. Also able to do controller based games but not quite as good as a real controller.

to me it's a sign that they hope to help developers support console versions by making a control system that will work well for games designed for mouse and keyboard, if not as well as a mouse and keyboard. But to be honest, standard controllers on games not designed for them are quite bad. Moving a "mouse" pointer replacement with a controller is not good. So I think it will be good in that regard. It'll also be better than a keyboard and have MUCH better support than a logitech controller for games that want controllers.

So I see it as a good middle ground. And I think this will allow game devs to support both more easily. It's not the tactic I would take to make games work on both, but I think it's a good approach even if it isn't going to be the best of either world.

However, if it IS as good as the next gen console controllers and it does better than them at mouse/keyboard then it's a big win.
I know someone that does booking for European musicians in the US and it's a gigantic hassle and a complete waste of time.

The process to even "prove" someone's a musician is ridiculous, and on top of that, you as much as need to prove that this "job" couldn't be done by an American. Music is not some commodity that can be provided by just anyone. You want a certain celebrity to headline, you don't just want some guy who happens to sound similar.

Since when is a touring musician stealing jobs? It's a process that's obnoxious and time-consuming even for someone who does it day in, day out. I can't imagine what a headache it must be for a hobby musician just trying to have fun.
> I already repeated multiple times what claim I find ordinary: that Mudd is somehow able to retain so many female CS majors simply by accepting more.
It is up to you to prove that they are able to do this otherwise.

State your prediction for the female population by year dependent on initial enrollment percentage and I will consider do some hard research and bring it back.

> I did not add any details the argument, merely to reinforce the fact that my argument stems from common sense

Occam's razor argument is usually only effective if their is a obvious difference in the complexity of the two arguments. The details are often needed to establish weather or not their is a significant complexity difference.

> yours appears to make wild conjectures on how Harvey Mudd is better than every other CS department.

Is their a particular claim you are referencing? I try to stay away from making wild conjectures.
I was really hoping this was a club for hackers who like to brew beer. I'll keep dreaming.
This kind of sickens me, who treats their family like that?
VPN is always great. I'm using http://myhosting.com/ and it is pretty decent
You can cut and paste some text here to try it out:

http://www.textteaser.com

If you leave the "Title" field empty and click "Summarize", nothing happens -- which I thought was very confusing. You have to fill in something for the Title.
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You didn't read what I said. If you're selling cheaper socks, you're going to lose to amazon and walmart. If you sell new innovative products, you aren't going to lose to them.

Also, with paypal, they get your sales data, sell it to others, AND then just keep your money and close your account.
Where is the title editing when it is needed? Noble -> Nobel
Great tumblr. This could be contender for the "Fucked Company" of Web 2.0 if it was frequently updated.
I went to NYU as well.. and actually commuted from Queens as well! (Did we go to the same CS classes as well?!!)

When you graduate from college, it's a whole whole different ball game. Most people lose touch with their friends from college, regardless of whether they dormed or not. Everyone gets a job at a boring Corp. Everyone eventually stops partying until 1 AM in the morning. Everyone eventually starts worrying about paying the rent, and all the "adult" things... trust me, by the time you graduated, everyone starts from Step 1.

Now go build a startup, so you can got an escape hatch after you graduate ^_^
I require the title because I need it for the algorithm.
Yeah, my point is that the two are in no way analogous.
Stephen King wrote a book called On Writing that is part memoir and part guide to writing. It's not intended to be a full writing course, but it's a great intro to the important bits presented in a really entertaining way.

I also really like the Self-Publishing Podcast. If you're interested in being an indie author rather than pursuing traditional publishing, it's a fantastic look at three guys finding their way in that industry. The Writing Excuses podcast (recommended earlier by joanofarf) is a better podcast for the craft of writing, but I find the Self-Publishing guys both entertaining and inspirational.
Eh, it's been covered by the BBC (by the astute and experienced Gary Anderson), by Racecar Engineering, a highly respected publication, among others. Hardly forums and low-end 'blogs.

The Wired article, while to be commended for bringing the appeal of the technical challenges of Formula 1, demonstrates a shallow and incomplete understanding of the issues at play, unfortunately. It's unsurprising, but a little disappointing.
Not to belittle this guy but I'm getting a bit tired of the whole 3d printer thing. It's not actually very hard to cut wax/plastic/etc with a milling machine and you can get a very accurate manual mill for pretty cheap. Then just pump out plastic molds much faster than the 3d machine can do.
There is good and then there is good.

A lot of what HN perceives as good I perceive as a problem that I will be left to solve.

I'm old, I'm over 50, got kids, spend a fair amount of my pile of ability each week trying
to coach those kids in hockey.

Still working on the company, still trying to make money, still trying to keep it going.
Every time someone shows up with something like Haskell I either beat it out of them
or I fire them.

I'm sorry but I don't have the energy to deal with your new cool language. I've got a
company to keep going, a life to live, I just want to take care of our customers and
do it in a way that the next guy can understand and support.

Haskell might be God's gift to programming, I don't care. My job has nothing to do with
making people like you happy. I've got customers I need to take care of, Haskell doesn't
help. I've got employees I need to take care of, Haskell doesn't help (we are weird in that
we've been around for 15 years and most of my guys are still here, we're all getting
old and when you get old all that clever shit starts to look like stuff you can't
support).

We recently added some pretty complex stuff to BitKeeper, basically a file system
and a VM system. For a frigging source management system. In user space. Life is hard
enough in C, you want to toss Haskell into that mix? Really? Come interview with us and
you'll run screaming from Haskell and everything like it.
She's a horrible excuse for a relative. Yea, I get the point that "nobody picks up the phone these days", but it was her own sister calling.
Even when a relative calls?
Unfortunately, that's right.
It could be a value judgment.
Well certainly you can, because he did. I think perhaps that's the main point here.
Hah! Thanks for the link, didn't think anyone remembered it. Coder Heya was fun to build, I wish a community would have built around it though.
I think this is a side effect of the Internet. Smartphones give you unlimited information at your fingertips. With all the distractions online, it's easy to become detached from your friends and family. I have the same problem.
The top button on iphone will mute the ringing and let it "ring out" as if you're away.

I feel sneaky using it as opposed to declining the call, but Italy's best rule for warfare as always been "the best defense is to not be there".
It's funny, I'm often exactly the opposite. Sometimes I'll just call people up...without warning, without scheduling. It'll catch them off guard at first, but I find it hands-down more efficient. Often times five minutes on the phone can garner a resolution easier than eight hours on an email chain (only to end up scheduling a call for the next day).

I really wish that people were more open to this; it's strange because it's how most of the world operated 10 years ago, but the thought of just calling someone up is almost ludicrous now...
I have what I believe to be an excellent innovation methodology, but it's tailored to more established organizations with significant means.

The methodology involves talking to potential customers before you hire a team of developers and even before you brainstorm ideas or design anything. I haven't tried to apply it at a startup, but there should be no reason why the core concepts can't be leveraged by startups. I suspect there may be certain nuances and limitations specific to applying it at early-stage startups that need to be worked out. So what I'd like to do is help develop a few early-stage product successes to act as a proof-of-concept to iron out these details. I just sort of need a willing participant or two to experiment on. Of course, in return, I think they'll benefit immensely.

So, how do I find out about hackathons or startup events?
Wrong day I'm afraid; http://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o8hul/i_am_lawrence_lessi...
I always pick up because I'm excited that someone wants to talk to me.
I know it'll sound like I'm just coming at the same thing from the other side, but the purpose of the mass damper was not to allow for more compliant suspension, but to stabilize the aero platform.

And the way the regs were written at the time, "any specific part ofthe car influencing its aerodynamic performance must be rigidly secured to the entirely sprung part of the car (rigidly secured means not having any degree of freedom)," and "must remain immobile in relation to the sprung part of the car".

The regulators fully understood its benefit–as did McLaren, Ferrari, Toro Rosso, Honda, and Midland, who were all testing their own versions of that system–but it's hard to see how a moving weight strapped to the sprung part of the car in order to improve the aero platform is anything but illegal.
.2% of world's population and 20% of Nobel prizes won.
p.s: * Nobel
> It's a site about law, courts, and lawsuits. These things are all about process.

Reading Orin Kerr is akin to reading someone critique the actions of the principals in a waterboarding without critiquing the rightness or wrongness of waterboarding itself.

There's a creepy overtone to that kind of commentary.
Both Scheme and Common Lisp support imperative and functional programming styles. The Scheme community has historically been perhaps more dogmatic about sticking to functional programming, and so Common Lisp has built up more tools and idioms around imperative (and object-oriented) programming. But as someone who has used both Scheme and Common Lisp a fair bit, this doesn't seem like one of the dominant criteria for choosing between them for practical programming work.
Unreadable on the iPhone (iOS 7)
> SSL is a standard secure communication protocol of the internet, it is not Lavabits design and it is impossible for Lavabit to modify while still keep interoperability.

Correct. If Lavabit wanted to be 100% immune from these type of subpoenas, then they would have designed the system to never have been accessible this way. I'm guessing (just like Hushmail) that having a proper end-to-end type encryption, like forcing the users to use some sort of PGP on their end would reduce uptake, thus preventing them from having a viable business model, so they compromised in this way.

Just because SSL is a standard etc is irrelevant. The government is going to use its subpoena power to get to the information they have reasonable suspicion is being sheltered by Lavabit. If the least intrusive method unfortunately exposes everyones data, well that really is what they call "tough luck."