skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you want to hire somebody for less than ~ $20 per hour.
And you expect the quality of $200 per hour experienced developer.

Why do you forget that the the person you hire gets around 10$ to 40$ PER DAY.

The #$ are being consumed in between by the contract making companies(aka - the outsourcing companies) .

Agreed that you hire at $20 per hour , and $10 per hour is quite good money in Indian Conditions , but the engineer gets $10 per day or even less.

The rest of the money is consumed by the CEO and the greedy non Engineers in the company.

Would that not demotivate anyone?

You really want an engineer to work out legacy code at 15$ PER DAY??

It's not about The American and The Indian -

It's about non technical management of both companies - The American and Indian.

The American 's company management wants to save cost and The Indian Outsourcing Company wants to milk out the cost.

Who suffers?

It's the technical people who suffer - on both sides.

To all American Companies - Please stop outsourcing via Some Other body shop like TCS,WIPRO,INFOSYS -

Open up your own offices in India and hire people.
You would see the difference in motivation
Thanks for providing some real data behind the assumptions everyone has been making. I remember when AirBnB first started, it was definitely much more about people renting out spare bedrooms, in-laws, etc. but as it became more popular it was very clear to property owners that they could make more taking rental units off the market especially in markets with high nightly hotel rates like New York and San Francisco.
Because rents will double.
related: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/11/new-establishment...

discuss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6510695
That is better than our old system, which was mostly ranked by "how important the manager who wants this is".

Edit: Although I do think there needs to be a way to handle simple things - wait for it - simply. "Oh, this field is broken, I know why, I can fix it in 15 minutes" should be enough - no need to have people estimate with too many metrics.

Going metrics crazy can slow things down pretty badly, too.
I understand your point and think it's not a bad line from a marketing standpoint, but the concept may not click with the intended audience.

Based on the app's features, I would say the audience is composed of tech-savvy developers / designers who want a lot of control over their content and want to establish their own brand.

I think many of those people will be inclined to blog on their own websites, where they can do all the hacking they want. Blogs are easy to establish, especially if you're shooting for a minimalistic feel.

Having said all this, I wonder if there's a way to make Silvrback available as a service that people can apply to their own sites? ...I'll admit that business isn't my strong suit, but I think this would be a great way to go if it can be made financially viable.
That would be the front end; as I recall, the back end was Solaris running Oracle. (I tried to confirm my memory but the obvious keywords do not give good results with Google.)
> Scala is for those that want to get shit done without dealing with Java's endless boilerplate

I've always wondered about this argument. Haven't modern Java IDEs more or less automated away the boilerplate?

Using a tool like IntelliJ IDEA or even Eclipse for that matter, I'm really hard pressed to find something that could be autocompleted or generated that hasn't been. They even have views that collapse or otherwise hide away unnecessary verbosity.

Sure, you have a little more code to look at. But frankly, sometimes this can improve readability vis-a-vis excessively concise and overloaded syntax. It can make it easier to grok someone else's code.

I'm not saying there's no difference, just that it's a little odd that this is the NUMBER ONE advantage always cited for Scala vs. Java. Am I crazy?
I've noticed most large scale businesses want to white label our product. It's an easy in for them from a bureaucratic stand point. In return, as the owner of a product, it dilutes our branding efforts. I'd say go all in one way or the other. Both paths make for a different business model. White labeling sets you up for big accounts with heavy pricing and you'll be doing sales. Not white labeling sets up for mass marketing with volume scaled pricing, brand and reputation matter more here.
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And now you don't have to trust the math, but all kinds of things in the physical world. A photo sensor for example is disabled by darkness. Digging up the phone by night, anyone?
Bad idea, IMHO.
Why would anyone trust bitcoin values? If the US government wanted to crash the bitcoin market couldn't they just generate a few million bitcoins themselves and then dump them?

I don't think the NSA is going to care about spending a few 10's of millions of dollars on custom bitcoin hashing hardware. Unless people don't think the NSA can outdo some fly-by-night ASIC developers.

If the US government is truly concerned about bitcoin, it won't survive long.
Don't wait for a call. Put yourself out there and apply for things. Good luck.
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>Third: Ethics about proprietary software; I think it's considerably more ethical to use and advocate libre software.

That seems a rather strange argument to make considering that the vast vast majority of web services are not Free Software. Do people really feel like they are making the world better by using Free Software to make all those Non-Free web services?
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My swimlane chart made the list (http://bl.ocks.org/bunkat/1962173) and it includes panning and zooming functionality as another example. Be warned, it's pretty ugly looking!
I am struggling to see how this approach would be beneficial outside of large organizations with massive web apps. For most apps, the benefits do not seem to outweigh the drawbacks of having (1) another dependency, (2) another piece of software (node) to install, update, and maintain, (3) another set of code base, (4) an increase in latency, and (5) all the added complexity to troubleshooting, debug, document, etc...
Sometimes if you call them and explain why you can't pay schools can waive the fee. Especially if you are a strong candidate. Like another poster said, this is mostly to keep the school from being flooded with a million applications and not having the staff (money) to go through them all.
Blogged Brand sessions from the author of The Lean Brand - Session 1
http://www.atlas.cid.harvard.edu/aidxp
which is largely based in gradual urban decay and eventually the default.

Indeed. NYC in the '70s and '80s was a dangerously magical (and magically dangerous) place.

Some good resources:

VH1's (no, seriously) "NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1080761/)

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever (http://www.amazon.com/Love-Goes-Buildings-Fire-ebook/dp/B005...)

I'd be interested in anyone can recommend good books or movies about the NYC art scene of the late '70s or '80s. (I've seen Downtown 81; it's good, but not a documentary. It does capture the downtown NYC of that time, though.)

The whole loft scene was a result of squatting in empty industrial facilities, thanks to economic downturn.
I would suggest the core issue was that you did not have the freedom to go get the important work down and be responsible for it. Too often work is subdivided so no one actually owns anything important -- because the bits are too small.
For more "generalship as management," you can read another classic, Caesar's Gallic War. One caveat: a lot of modern Classics scholarship would rather take this less as an example of great generalship and more as an example of great propaganda. But either way it's a treatise on how to command, containing if not quite the unvarnished truth, at least Caesar's opinions of what good management/generalship ought to look like, as well as several anti-models.
Ghost is also open source, much like a lot of blog software.
Syntax highlighting is mostly irrelevant due to most platforms using 3rd party bundles like prettify,Syntaxhighlighter, etc.

I'll take having an open source, easy to install, fully controllable platform over closed any day of the week, especially for something simple like a blog platform, and blogs are not about products unless that is what you consider yourself.
Is there anywhere I can actually try out the editor before signing up?
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Why should I take advice on how to stay married from some guy that intentionally and systematically drove his marriage into the ground?

Especially since the main point of his article seems to be to further promote his business (BzzAgent, in the unlikely event that you missed it).
Well you didn't answer what exactly is meant by egalitarian. 50:50 male and female workers in every profession? Or what exactly?

As I said, if "egalitarian" means 50:50 male and female workers, then the same people pushing for tech women would have to be pushing for more garbage women, too. Since they don't, obviously that is not the driving force.
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I wish this had thumbnails of the link I will be redirected to. Still a good list though.
Most large applications tend to be a constellation of servers anyway, with the advantages of individual scaling, updating, reliability etc. The disadvantages are roughly the same. So, it's optimizing the advantage of having more servers against the disadvantage of having more servers.
The IDE support is pretty good, I don't have problems with it. Ask the Clojure people how THEIR IDE support is ... sbt is a great build tool, better than ant or maven, pretty much the best I am aware of for any relevant language. The compilation speed is good enough for me, maybe you should upgrade your hardware. If you have compatibiliy problems, don't move to the new version. Wait until you have your issues fixed. You don't need to upgrade your Scala version immediately just because there is a new one.
As to Paul Philips leaving, what was he responsible for, and what were the "bad terms"?

I have a really great feeling overall about the future of Scala. This feeling is based on my 20 years programming experience with all sorts of languages, and Scala is the best one out there right now. The IDE support and tooling is far greater than for any other language that comes close to Scala. (When you code in Java, even the greatest tooling in the world will not help your productivity).
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Proposed change is here:
https://github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2013/blob/master/s...

and the Twitter thread is here:
https://twitter.com/odersky/status/382833314286956544
Why would anyone choose a closed source blog platform in this day and age, this is a serious question I truly don't understand why.
True. As you point out it starts with understanding why something needs to get built and its importance to the business. If you do not have clarity on that, everything looks like a priority.
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I agree that the current state of Node.JS is not good, however there is potential for a brighter future. The language itself is improving (such as ECMAScript 6 including yield/generators which will allow things like this https://github.com/visionmedia/co ) which should reduce the callback hell situation. Besides popularity and momentum, the language and runtimes have solid engineering talent behind them (Google, IBM, Microsoft, and others are on the ECMAScript committee and there's several big corporation supported JS engines (V8, SpiderMonkey, Chakra, etc.))
" Eu sou do Brasil... Eu quero expressar minha opinião sobre a drogas... o governo prende quem vende drogas só por causa que não da lucro para o governo... então acaba com com o cigarro com as bebidas alcoólicas..."

It say's:
"Im from Brazil... I want to express my opinion about drugs... The government arest who sell drugs just because it don't bring any profit to the government... So end up with the cigarrets and the alcoolic beverages..."

Edit: Corrected a typo
I'm getting a lot of feature requests. So I have to pick and choose. You have some good questions.

The tags are there to give the reader extra meaning about the article. For example, you could tell someone to read an article first in the tag. However, I believe I will offer a way to filter by tags soon. This wasn't their primary purpose, though. They aren't like stack overflow tags. They are more like post-it-notes to guide your readers.

If you don't want to use the auto-generated friendly slug that Silvrback makes for your article, then you would have to edit it to your liking in "advanced post settings." I don't want this to be bloated with features so I don't have a 'slug template' save option. 98% of my users wouldn't need this option. Sorry :)

With thousands of posts the page will be paginated. I'm actually still implementing this. Should be ready soon.

If you do buy a subscription and don't like it, just email me and I will refund you.
I guess "general purpose" doesn't include embedded (robotics, medical devices, etc.), games, systems programming, telecoms, scientific computing and various other disciplines, FULLSTOP.
I'm not advocating the re-emergence of 12px text but the body text for Silvrback is 22px with 1.5 line-height. Medium is 1.45 and I believe 1.2 is normal. I feel like I'm reading a children's book with 2 sentences per page.
Cool to see you here Jules. I used Tracktion from around 2003-2008 and loved it. Always thought the UI was nice and I was excited when I found out about Juce. Whenever I get around to learning some DSP I'll use it to make plugins :)
I guess that explains the recent decline of HighCharts and Fusion Tables users...
And this, children, is why we take proper abstraction very seriously.
From my experience people that have been out of school that long and don't have a good GPA usually take a few graduate courses through the non-degree program, then get a recommendation from the professors when they apply to grad school. It probably will vary from school to school. Grades alone however usually grad school will want over a 3.0 GPA and 2-3 recommendations from professors.
And kind of like this map! http://www.startribune.com/177786361.html There's a government conspiracy to kill Republicans!

I'm not saying that exercise isn't the cause of shorter life-spans, and there is certainly data to support it, but comparing maps alone is kind of silly. There are a lot of maps that look like that.
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It's been that for quite some time now. They also dropped the "exit fee" a couple of years ago. It also includes lots of free Azure resources too.
In case anyone is curious, it seems you need to add full write access to the root install directory as the config.php file is added there.
Moving more responsibility to the client can let you be a lot smarter and more selective about the data you request from the server, though.

So yeah -- you might have more JS, which will eat some CPU cycles, but you can save yourself from having to request a lot of duplicate data. So, smaller request sizes and if you do it right, fewer requests. The less you can bother the radio, the better.
You two are going to get really confused at the net results of my treadmill being in front of the TV, just far enough back to not affect the use of the kinect. Although I acknowledge that's probably so weird it makes "standing desks" look mainstream. Do I want to watch Dr Phil today? Well, is it Really worth a 3 mile walk? It certainly cuts down on casual TV watching.

One datapoint that might help you both is minimum wage jobs are often physically exhausting. While I was a starving student I stacked 80 pound bags of water softener salt on pallets... four hours per day. Even for a big weightlifter dude thats pretty rough. When I went home to do homework I (correctly) felt no need for further exercise. But even a retail clerk drone is at least standing 8 hours per day, even if not lifting much. At another drone job I figured I walked (pretty fast) at 4 mph about half the 8 hour shift, that's 16 miles of walking every day.

There probably are minimum wage jobs where you sit all day, but stereotypically sitting around is a problem for highly paid workers. At this instant the only minimum wage / entry level job I can think of involving sitting all day is call center, and those are organized around churn and burn them to get an annual turnover ratio exceeding 1.0 to keep labor costs low (fire everyone before annual review day, and not only do you get to skip giving reviews, but you never have to pay over starting wage).
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I think sbt is the worst of all the jvm build tools I've used. I'm still learning the scala community but it puzzles me how such a strong community with great leadership and pretty nice tooling (scala-ide) can produce such an underwhelming tool.
heh. > It's unlikely that you're a brilliant student because you chose to study journalism. I made the same mistake.

i don't see the line of logic there, but oh well.

i just signed up with the course era python course, and i'll probably do a few more of those courses. So you think several of those in conjunction with full time programming will get me ready for a master's (or any other degree?) in a year or so?
If the OP was able to run his homework files just by monkeypatching a few classes, I think that shows requiring Matlab for the assignment was massive overkill. Unless you're using the toolboxes (which they weren't), what does Matlab give you that you can't get in free language?
In SR1 wasn't an additional feature of having the money go through a centralized party that neither party had access to the others BC wallet id? Would doing it this way negatively impact anonymity?
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Absolutely static typing helps you be a better programmer. No programmer is infallible, and static typing helps you catch a large class of your mistakes sooner -- at the moment you write or compile them, rather than at runtime or never.

The author's reasoning is quite poor. They don't even concretely define what it means to be a "sharp" programming tool.
As an aside, I hope that one day something like Octave/Gnuplot for Android will let us finally be rid of the anachronistic TI-84, which only still exists because of a dirty relationship with the educational establishment.
Nice idea IF we had such mirrors. Afaik the farthest away is on the moon.[0]
Also a one-time pad needs to be as large or larger than the data used to encrypt it.[1] So your plan cannot be used for the several gigabytes wikileaks insurance file. But perhaps you can "pad" the key used to encrypt it? Probably.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
honestly I think they all scale just as well and they will all have their own issues. I would say, use whatever you and your team is familiar with and don't forget about MS Bizspark, you get free software for a year, so you won't have to worry about licensing until you are making money.
I've often seen normal people come up with deeply nested directory structures with long descriptive names and they get bitten hard by the 260 character limit. For example names like this are very common in my experience:

C:\Documents and Settings\Joe Random User\My Documents\Some Cloud Software\Company\Projects\2013\156 Big Customer Inc\Locations\Someville Foostreet\Problem reports\2013-10-07 product not working\images\video of product not doing what it's supposed to do.avi

Also:

find . | python -c 'import sys; print max(sys.stdin.readlines(), key=len)'
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I think you're right that there's a quantity of data where using D3.js will start to be more productive than doing it manually in something like Illustrator. It's an instance of a trade off that we're all familiar with: at what point is it worth building a tool instead of doing the task manually? It's also worth bearing in mind that the point where it makes sense to use a tool is reached more quickly with proficiency in the tool - if you have Mike Bostock working for you I imagine most visualisations will be easier to produce with D3.js!

I think the other significant aspect is the speed of iteration. In my experience, producing good visualisations takes lots of iteration and those can take a lot of time if you have to alter each data item by hand. I've often reverted to paper and sketched out a revision that's way a few times before going back to the drawing program. I think it's likely that it's much quicker to iterate using D3.js (in the right hands).
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It is not a question of what technology is best. You can scale anything (im exaggerating a bit). It is more of a question about do you have people on your team who know how to scale things? If so, then use the technology that they are most familiar with.

If you have not hired anyone yet, then consider this; It is probably easier to find developers with skills in Java, Scala, PHP, Python, or Ruby that know how to scale websites than developers with .NET skills. It is probably easier to find DBA's with MySQL and its derivatives, or PostgreSQL that know how to scale websites than DBA's with MSSQL skills. I could go on, but you get the point.

I'm not saying at all that .NET or the Microsoft ecosystem is bad, just that you use what your team knows. And if you don't have a team yet, they will probably know more about a non-Microsoft solution.