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I don't think completely abolishing civilians guns is the right answer. However, they should be VERY tightly regulated, and open carry should be abolished for sure. I'm okay with having a low caliber rifle in your house, locked away for intrusion/intimidation purposes in case of robbery.

Right now it's pretty crazy though. My American uncle has so many fucking guns that could blow holes in your chest, and I think that's wrong.

> is dead people my only gripe? Surely you cannot be serious.

Drop your attitude. If you have a point, make it. Nobody here is a mind reader.
Yea, I like how you glossed over the shot of the woman in the bikini looking out to the ocean.
A lot of their best people have jumped ship over the past year. I can't help but wonder if this situation wouldn't have been as serious (or not happened at all) if they hadn't lost so much of their best tech ops talent.
This is pretty bad ass! #bookmarked
Yeah, there's no way a woman would go out to the beach unless a man forced her to.
I sort of use SAS sometimes. There are definite downsides, like the UI/IDE is an abomination from the 1980s. And anything except the most straight forward of code is impossible to read (and many other things). However, in terms of being fast and being and all-in-one language+data solution (meaning no calls to a seperate database solution) it has something to say for it.

But yeah, I sort of hate it. If it had modern syntax and data structures and UI it might not be bad.
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I found The Hawkeye Initiative to be a pretty hilarious response to this issue (more geared towards representation in comics), not sure many people know about it. http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/
I don't think that Mono gives you much more in terms of cross-platform compatibility out of the box than say qt or wx do.. It comes to planning, and practice. What it does give you is a really nice language (C#) and platform (Base Class Library) and more for software development. The platform makes it very easy to reference/utilize system libraries (even cross platform ones) to build apps faster on any targeted platform. Being able to utilize code cross platform is a bonus.
@chadly That's a great question. The device allows for up to 6 users and a really cool feature is that the light ring is personalized for each profile. So when you turn it on, you will be able to immediately tell who's profile it's set to (e.g. blue for you, violet for your wife) and you can easily select a different user with the side buttons. You'll each have separate profiles so you can track your progress and get tailored advice.
I went through this very recently (heading to Sunnyvale rather than Mountain View), and the only improvement I can offer for a first timer is to keep an eye out for Caltrain pamphlets that list all the schedules, fares, zones, and whether each train will be an express train or not.

Of course said pamphlet will not be available on the Caltrain platform, but I found one in a rack at the top of the staircase at Millbrae.
SnapChat's product is not worthless, it just doesn't comprise much of the value of the company. People don't use SnapChat because of the product itself, they use it because of the brand and popularity among their friends.

Think about what an exact clone of SnapChat with no users or brand equity would be worth. Probably negative value to most of us, without distribution resources. It would be of some value to Facebook, but getting people to change behavior and gel around a new product is hard, even for Facebook.

So yes, the value of SnapChat, and most consumer companies, is not in the product itself.
Therin lies the problem. That is the fundamental conflict between the diversified vc and the concentrated entrepreneur. It is not a secret, in fact a lot of good VCs want entrepreneurs to have a very clear understanding of what the end goal is.

Mendelson touches on this in a post: http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2013/06/the-vc-bar...
It looks like it's not quite 30%, but still high enough to make an opt-out worthwhile [1]. As someone who is afflicted, I can say that it would be a deal-breaker.

[1] http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/cilantro-love-hate-...
Great comment. I've been looking for such a niche for some time. I'll start scanning freelance sites now.
It becomes less trivial when you have 100 computers to throw it on at once before it works.

If you read my comments carefully, you will see this is a merge time issue. Many different people do merges. Some reintegration merges will be performed by people who don't do web stuff. There may be trivial web changes on a feature branch but people have absolutely no idea about Sass or associated tooling. They can cope with css fine.

Our product has about 5000 lines of css and about 3 million lines of other languages. Web is a tiny part of our applications.
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And, you forgot the best part, which is just as the train is approaching the platform, you are trying to buy the ticket in the machine, but, lo and behold, cal train Credit Card payment is unlike any credit card payment system you've ever used - you do not rapidly push your card in/out, no, it is uniquely designed to require you to push the card in, pause, pause, and then only when it informs you it is safe to proceed, do you then rapidly pull your card out.

It took me several weeks to master that move.
Why do you think they chose the shot of her from behind?
Ask HN: I'm confused, bigger or smaller resumes?
I was browsing HN and I found one of the biggest complaints I see is the tremendous amount of time and effort it takes to interview prospective job candidates. There's only so much interview time and a bad hire can destroy a team.

One obvious solution to this is send more information about what kind of person I am beforehand. Basically, a bigger resume package. A package which shows off what kind of person I am.

Then another thread appeared where a lot of people were complaining about these long resumes candidates were sending them. They mentioned how much time it took to read them.

I'm confused, what are we suppose to do as candidates to give the hiring company a better idea of what we are so we don't waste time during the interviewing process? What are we suppose to send?
This looks amazing! Combine this with StackDock and it would be a totally killer combination.

When you look at something like what eBay is doing with Docker (http://www.slideshare.net/dotCloud/docker-open-stack-austin-...) this kind of service makes total sense. Kudos!
Only the first photo really comes across as sexualized (Messages by Ramotion) -- I think a different photo should have been picked. The other two designs just have photos of pretty women smiling.

Also, the UIfaces service seems to be almost entirely pictures of men. Should we only have pictures of men in our mockups?
Am I the only one who gets very irked that something as stupid and useless as Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, etc. get valued so highly, while actual useful products by comparison are worth exactly nothing? It seems like you can spend years carefully building something useful, that actually improves people's lives and maybe cash out for peanuts, or you can do something that is borderline abusive, or just a time waster, and become an instant billionaire. </rant>
Awesome. Is there an iPhone version?
It seems like it would fit Tesla much better to make a competitor for the Ford Connect[1] or Ford Transit Connect than the Ford F-150. The commercial trucks fit a lot nicer with the recharge time needed / range of an electric vehicle than the F-150 which has a much more unpredictable schedule.

1) http://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/transit/
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Ease of purchase was definitely an issue. When it was $1/coin there was a guy selling them through PayPal, maximum order size of 20 bitcoins. So I bought 20 because it was easy and it reminded me of some cool Neal Stephenson stories. Shortly after, PayPal shut him down and I didn't immediately see any other easy way to buy more, so I didn't buy more. It's hard to be pissed off about turning $20 into $8k, but fuck me.
Oh dear this is the tech equivalent of retired colonels writing to the times or the telegraph bemoaning the fact that fine old English word "gay" now has other meanings.

Just live with the fact that "hacker" has multiple meanings.
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It's not an entirely unreasonable heuristic. The supply of startup pitches is vastly greater than the demand for them. Investors have to filter somehow.
Getting a first meeting with any VC is pretty easy, even for someone with no connections whatsoever. There are hundreds of possible paths you can take to get that intro.
It's not a big stretch to assume that any entrepreneur with a good chance of success should be able to clear that low hurdle.

Building a successful startup is 1,000 times harder than hustling your way into a VC meeting. If you can't do the latter, it's pretty likely you won't be able to do the former.
I've heard the opposite - internet connectivity is quite suspect in Costa Rica. Where exactly are you and what kind of connectivity package/price do you have?
Why? Isn't it equivalent or worse than the N4?
http://www.mediashepherd.com/2013/09/seo-is-dead-long-live-o... is more usefull :)
Why would Congress pass legislation saying that it's not allowed to amend trade agreements? Why don't they just not amend trade agreements?
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"In this issue we're celebrating the crowdfunding revolution.
We asked our contributors what project they'd like to see
on Indiegogo or Kickstarter...

- Linux Format Xmas 2013"

"A. Gregory: For consistency I'm going to say a Linux port of Elite Dangerous"

"M. Saunders: After writing my own x86 operating system, I'd like to fund a new version written in Forth"

"B. Everard: Having written a wooden scooter across Africa, I'd simply ask for an off-road map"

:-)
Awesome. It would be rad if you shared it or upvoted it.
117.24B according to Google.
This feels very culture-specific.

Purely anecdotally, I started freelancing a few months ago, and my experiences are very different. I live in the Netherlands. Here, relatively few programmers decide to freelance, and most who do clearly present themselves as a one-man company, not just as "a guy". It's also impractical to freelance without being registered as a business, so maybe the registration process helps some starting freelancers "flip the switch".

Also, I've never experienced anything like pity, as the OP describes. Much rather, people appreciate that I dare taking the comparatively high risk involved (I don't think it's a high risk at all, but many people used to a European-style safe job contract feel differently).
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Note that this is still very much an alpha-release. It has a long way to go before being a real product/service, but I'm curious to hear what people think.

It should work on computers, tablets, and phones, but the phone is a little small to control 45+ keys. :)

Any thoughts or suggestions about what's most important to make this work as a startup would be much appreciated. For example, should it be a single instrument that is hyper focused? Or would it be better to keep it super broad and reconfigurable?
P.S. There's a pretty good chance that Java will see an uptick again when JDK 1.8 finally lands. The lack of a concise format for closures is crippling Java in the midst of the current surge of functional programming idioms.
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They seem to be targeting games, so I bet DirectX support is one big reason for using Windows.
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If you have 1:1 threads in a language, can't you implement M:N threading as a library? Looking at projects like Akka[1] makes me think this is the case. Is there reason this can't be done that I am missing? Why would you want M:N threads baked in to the runtime?

[1] http://akka.io/
Yeah, I should make that more clear. We built it for the Techcrunch Disrupt hackathon (and won a free trip to Paris as a result). It's on Heroku and I pay about $40/mo to keep the site up and running for people to use for free. SMS is currently disabled to keep costs low.
SNI is useful for hosting, but I don't think it helps embedded devices. Is any CA willing to issue me a cert for 192.168.0.1? Wait, don't answer that.
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Also, I'm in chemistry and biology (don't get me started about biophysics, which is populated by dilettantes who couldn't hack it in physics thinking that biophysics is "physics" - it's not. It's chemistry)... So what it means to me to be multidisciplinary may be different from what it means to you.

People seriously just take standard deviations and then plug it into the formula to spit out p values. Without thinking about things like: "should the values be normally distributed? or log-normal?" "How does error propagate through this formula I'm using?" "Is the major source of error in the replicates that I'm using (versus something I might be normalizing to, like a mass measurement)?" "Am I in the linear range of my calibration standards?" "Is using these data quantitatively (versus qualitatively) an honest thing to do?"
Just an anectote about app/game streaming: I've recently played Orcs Must Die 2 on OnLive, a game-streaming service, and was very much surprised by the responsiveness! I think that probably a lot of apps/games will work just fine.
I could buy a new laptop every year compared to the $75/month fee.
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My girlfriends brother lives in Costa Rica and from visiting him and listening to their conversations I can say the internet infrastructure is not that good. There are normal days and very bad days that may last for a day-week-month.

Costa Rica's internet is better than Nicaragua though!
That 'Contour Crafting' project seems neat, but it's not that groundbreaking. With a crane, you could pour concrete slabs, cure them, then lift them into place after the concrete cured enough. My dad did that kind of work in the 70's in Iran. They had frequent dust storms so they didn't make the concrete outside, but built a shed to make the concrete slabs in and then trucked them to the site. I doubt the 'printer' would be much more efficient than that. You'd likely still need a crane on-site anyway, and there's the problem of not being able to build windows and doorways with it, which if you poured the slab on the ground you most certainly would be able to do.

The rest of the stuff has pretty much been in real world use for the past 20 years, so nothing really that would be "world changing". Still, I guess this is a good round-up of existing technologies.
> Your IT department isn't everyone's IT department.

Quite true but having interacted with a number of IT shops from startups to Fortune 100 / .gov scale it's quite disturbing to think about the percentage which could accurately be described as impediments and how few even realize this.

I imagine this is similar to what it felt like to work at a US auto maker shortly before the Japanese manufacturers started rolling.
you know you've stepped into the woods when you stop hearing "this is obvious" in math classes...
1: there is a finite upper bound to the payoff, fixed at the amount the casino has, so calling the ev infinite ignores real constraints.

2: infinity is a valid concept on Mathematics, but not in economics. If there were infinity in economics there would be no constraints and no reason for the field of economics to exist.

3: by my definition, playing the st petersburg lottery is an investment up to the amount of of money the casino has on hand. I'd argue that it is further prudent to play if you're guaranteed a sufficient N and $x price such that your available disposable cash = ($x * N) leads to a positive value at least 50% of the time.
- Personally, I think resumes should be shorter but links (whether Apps/GitHub-Code/Websites) should be longer. I tend to focus more on people's work than what they tend to brag about themselves.
We had to make the same choice a couple months ago with my startup. After some feedback from native & phonegap developers and building a quick prototype with Phonegap we went with native.

Basically Phonegap is cool if you want something for both platforms pretty fast and the UI is not too complex (works well for showroom apps for example). However, performance might be an issue (especially since iOS throttles Webkit outsides of safari), and I've heard that you'd more or less need to use pure JS since existing frameworks (e.g. Sencha) would be too slow. Last thing is that you'd generally still need to write 5-15% of native code for your app, depending on its complexity (again, haven't been far enough but got it from devs who use Phonegap for most of their apps).
This would be a great option for the many individuals who use their computers for nothing but productivity and browsing. You wouldn't need to buy Office and a new computer up front, and theoretically you can stay up-to-date without buying an entirely new laptop.

You'd just need to buy a lightweight device (similar to a Chromebook) with a screen. Of course they don't even support Chrome right now (IE and FF only), but the idea would be solid for almost anyone who doesn't game or need low-latency computing.
I just want vested stock options to not expire soon after leaving the company, with no company call options on said stock. Those simple properties alone would help a lot.

It removes a lot of tax brain damage and risk for the employee when they are dealing with non-liquid company stock that they can't sell to anybody. Companies don't like it, since it doesn't let them take back a lot of stock left on the floor by many leaving employees, but so be it, they already have vested by one year at that point.
I've known people do that when their small business was sold to a larger one, and they did not want to stay at the larger company for longer than the hand-over period. Though they have eventually grown back to having a new small business with employees, so haven't stayed as singleton freelancer so they might not count for what you are asking.
"there's only a finite amount of money in the economy"

I'm not sure of your definition of money here- the Government prints currency all the time. If you mean goods and services, why can't we produce more? Are you saying that our current economic output is at it's maximum capacity?
For the proper definition of "analytic framework",

"shut the fuck up and write some fucking code"

This is explicitly an assertion that there won't be anything important that can be added to the debate that cannot be expressed in code.

On the flip side, he absolutely doesn't assert that the particular model is the end-all in terms of anything - he expresses desire to see improvements.
Wow...that's a really good analogy.
I can’t stand this video. Watching toned men parade around with their junk sticking out makes me feel very uncomfortable.

Obviously the author is not a fan of men in glittery pants, but I suspect that the video may not make quite the point intended.
Sometimes people just want to climb up on their soap box. In this case apparently based upon one single example (although even that one is arguable if you live in a progressive society).

The others look like my Facebook feed. Are we to believe that smiling women = sexualized? That is simply ridiculous, and rather than seeing this post as a reasoned petition for equality, it seems to almost turn women into need-to-be-protected caricatures, and sounds remarkably like something you would expect to hear in Saudi Arabia.
> Two things here. First, 90% confidence isn't great, I look for 99% confidence in running tests.

Why? Why are you so worried about controlling false positives that you're willing to eat a whole bunch of false negatives?*

You're not administering expensive drugs to cancer patients, you're designing a website! If you mistakenly think that green buttons perform better than blue buttons when the actual truth is the null hypothesis that they perform the same, that's not the end of the world.

* and I do mean a whole bunch; in that scenario, moving from alpha=10% to alpha=1% means you increase your false negatives by something like 3x. The power calculations:

R> power.prop.test(n=20, p1=0.5, p2=0.25, sig.level=0.10)
...
power = 0.4951
...
R>
R> power.prop.test(n=20, p1=0.5, p2=0.25, sig.level=0.01)
...
power = 0.1646
...
R>
R> 0.4951/0.1646
[1] 3.008
Then "this guy" you mention is ignorant of how technology and piracy work and any rational person should push back.

DRM is not "necessary" by any possible meaning of the word. It's forced upon people by the ignorant.
American puritanism combined with political correctness culture is a formula to create mountains out of molehills.
I own a pair of these. They are excellent for phone calls in the car though I think they are technically illegal for car use in Massachusetts. I recall seeing some sign about "one ear only." I find using both ears for phone calls is subjectively much better for comprehension.

But they are quite mediocre compared to even the cheapest Sennheiser wired headphones for listening to music. Sennheiser has some Bluetooth products, but they are expensive and only the most expensive model has ear cups that enclose the ear. Parrot makes some that are similarly expensive. So does Monster.

These AKGs are not ear-enclosing but they are reasonably priced if they deliver AKG quality: http://www.amazon.com/AKG-K830BT-High-End-Wireless-Bluetooth...

These Sony's do nfc and speakerphone for a very reasonable price: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Drbtn200b-Bluetooth-Headset-Black...

I use Meelectronics IEMs as my airplane isolation earphones. Very good, and cheap enough I wouldn't get pissed if I lost them, and they do make Bluetooth headphones, too: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA09M0N034...
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Thanks cardmagic! We're engaged in discussions with them :)
Just highlighting a small, but common miscomprehension (that on one project, caused a PM to mail everyone at 2am about a HUGE nonexistent memory leak)..

Thread stacks are virtual memory like everywhere else, so in reality an "8mb" stack means "8mb maximum size". Sure, they won't shrink once pages are faulted in to back them, but in the average application, especially on 64bit, this should never be a problem

If for the lifetime of your thread, its stack only ever grew to 32kb, then the OS will only have allocated 32kb of memory to back it.
Right now, I'm in a restaurant on the beach. Internet is pretty good here (and everywhere else I've been -- way better than the average coffee shop / hotel / etc internet in the US). I use StrongVPN and haven't had any problems yet. I Skype and watch Netflix all the time with no issues at all.

Here's a speed test (while off my VPN and at a restaurant rather than my house): http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3099024113
I have two websites, one for my "freelance profile" (dave78.com) and one for my "business" (redskyforge.com). The thing is, I hardly ever send anyone my "business" site, because I don't think it sells me/my business as well as the freelance site. I would also love to see other peoples' sites!
Actually, the client for accessing these desktops is a standalone app, that requires Windows, OSX, Android (incl. Kindle Fire) or iPad.
Couldn't you make the same argument about them taking a shot from the front?