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'Techie' term draws derision from tech workers
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Im from India. I will have to go on an H1B, even if I apply for a green card (EB2), it will take me 5 years with the current queue.
Confirmed in their section 'Wait, I thought Spotify paid per stream?' as "Every time somebody listens to a song on Spotify it generates payments".
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The Pope used to be a club bouncer in Buenos Aires
I wonder why the big delivery companies (UPS, FedEx) have not bothered with a service like this (I am aware that you can schedule delivery windows and the like, but we can assume that no current delivery company offers this exact, concierge like service). I can only come up with 2 possible points that would render offering this service not worth their time.

First, On initial glance, this appears to be a niche luxury service that skews towards a relatively young demographic. That user base may just be too small to make it worth the big delivery companies time. Also, This business model probably only works in a metro area (I can't imagine the price points needed to make this company viable Batavia Ohio being very palatable to the average consumer).

There may also be other concerns, but these are the ones that I would first worry about as an investor. Either way, it will be interesting to see how this pans out. It really is a solution to one of those problem that in retrospect, was so damn obvious.
Is't this relaties to sheep market?
> If parents raise children who lack the basic skills required to function in civil society the burden can't and shouldn't fall on schools.

It manifestly can and does, whether or not it should.

And if we build a society which demands, in practice, that even in two-parent families, both parents work outside of the home full-time to provide the necessities of life, we probably shouldn't be surprised that suboptimal parenting often occurs.
> It's a joke among engineers that you need to graduate from college so that you can start learning. My college experience (non-technical bachelors) was just a joke, period - high school 2.0. Still, I wouldn't have the good job I do now if I hadn't completed my degree.

Yes and yes I wasted the first two years in college learning High School 2.0 and the last 2 learning technical concepts that people used 5-10 years ago. XHTML, CGI and using tables for layouts to name a few.
Much of this is great advice and I really like the idea of the pre-mortem.

The only issue I have with this article is the point about not going to the C suite. I think that can be true of many services, especially ones that are free or low cost so that the users are actually building the momentum and can adopt the product at their level.

Where it falls short is when you need a strategic partner or if you are looking for a big enterprise sale. The middle and lower levels provide the execs with the validation and market fit but don't have the authority to make those kinds of purchases, so you are largely wasting your time if the executives are not in the room.
Pavlina is not exactly a reputable source. His ex-wife and business partner is a telephone psychic, and he takes her 'job' seriously in many blog posts.

They're either both cranks, or scammers. In either case you shouldn't take him seriously.
an iPod touch may be even cheaper.
I feel there's a gray area between "actively objecting" and "actively approving". Sometimes people disagree with the status quo, but they can't/won't change it.
And 0.0000000000001 of a dollar is still money. Yet it's meaningless to do anything about getting it...
Do you like sleeping, or do you like feeling well rested? Most people when they say they like sleeping mean the second, and the point of polyphasic sleep is to get to that without wasting 8-10 hours a day.
You actually can flag comments -- you just need to click on the "link" to the comment and the "flag" shows up (if you have some appropriate karma level).
Yes, the Winklevoss twins are (supposedly) putting one together.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/11/12/winklev...

Edit: Jeebus, hellbanned already, and in only 3 comments. Guess one of my prior comments may have struck a nerve?
fun to play. is it more or did it seem like there wasn't too much variety in repos?
Christina Hoff Sommers is one of the leading feminists who has helped focus some attention on the situation of boys, and making sure that boys are not getting left behind as there is a surge of effort to make sure things are "equal" for girls and women.
I don't mean to be a downer, but stuff like this bums me out. There are so few people working on important things yet half the town is working on delivering food and packages to tech workers who can afford what is genuinely a pretty insane price to pay for these services. I know that this is a pretty awesome convenience, but its just so meh. This is what we're doing with all these resources? Building online delivery service number 45248923942?
I agree with what you're saying, but 100% of my experience with small business owners is arrogance. They could care less about changing their way of doing things. This is the biggest challenge to get past. With the inability to see the root problem as the real problem, solutions are useless.
If you ship the packages directly to them, there is no reason to even think about the UPS facility.

You're suggesting as a last-minute choice to use luna? That may be harder as UPS checks IDs.
A friend and I are working on a project that not only does what you just described but also allows to go from any programming language to any spoken language (not just shell to english).
We will accomplish much of it with the help of the community who can both add natural language representations of code and also help write programs that will enable more programming languages to be explained.
It should be released in the coming weeks...(hopefully)
Gotchya.

As to the statement: life ain't fair.

There's a question of whether it's better to let some survive and/or thrive, and others not. It goes back a long ways. One of the more recent debates emerged when Garrett Hardin published his "Lifeboat Ethics" essay in 1974, which prompted fierce debate for several decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_ethics

http://web.ntpu.edu.tw/~ckliu/course/research/lifeboat.pdf
It's great to listen legally, but keep in mind that the support artists receive is very small (all but the most popular musicians receive less than 40 hours of minimum wage from Spotify). If you like a few groups consider buying merchandise or making a donation.
I did polyphasic sleep for three months. It is possible and it does work, but what is overlooked is how perfect your sleep schedule needs to be. When you're hitting all of your naps perfectly, you're really not ever tired and you wake up without an alarm usually.

But... if you miss one nap, life is very difficult for a good 24-48 hours. Miss another nap in that timeframe and the problem compounds. Maybe this mask will help with that, or maybe not-- I have no idea. For me the problem was being near a good sleep location every four hours. I'd try to sleep in my car, but a third of the time or so I wouldn't be able to sleep and I'd be screwed.

Anyway-- I'm glad to see people working on this. I've thought about getting back on it, but the completely hellish 5 day transition period and rigidity have held me back.
This type of bullshit seems to be widely believed on HN.

I work in the engineering department of a software company and I'm closely involved with recruitment and interviews. I'll tell you this: the vast majority of people (over 95%) we turn down are unqualified, period. Meaning, we wouldn't hire them even at half the salary level advertised for the position. It has nothing whatsoever to do with what we're willing to pay - our salaries are actually very generous and we aren't afraid to pay someone what they are actually worth. The problem is we can't actually find people like that. So yes, from our perspective (250+ person tech company in SoCal), the talent shortage is very, very real.
Not sure if related to my comment [1] or not, but thanks Github! :)

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6833785

edit: def related
It is the former that matters to us. Essentially our code receives an HTTP request with payload, does sanity checks and formatting, and then a datastore put. This is not CPU bound - it is idle wait for the datastore to finish.

When you run out of datastore capacity, appengine will start more instances because it sees the lengthening processing times, but that just makes things worse. That you cannot stop.

Our load comes from mobile clients and no humans are involved. If they get an error they try again later. They don't care how long the server side takes to respond.

It is insane that you can't limit the number of instances. appengine would create hundreds at some points, which was very lucrative for Google (our daily fees went from ~$15 to $380 at one point).
My armchair speculation:

- tightloop() does nothing useful and is not realistic assembly code, so modern CPU optimisations aren't targeted for it

- loop_with_extra_call() does nothing useful either, but might look like a more realistic instruction sequence - the call could modify 'counter', making it appear to be a realistic sequence which the CPU optimisations are targeted for.

End result: the CPU is better designed for handling cases like loop_with_extra_call(). In the real world this makes realistic code faster, and this benchmark is just a weird quirk.

Disclaimer: I am not qualified enough to say I know what I'm talking about.
Why do you have to? In either case, the story will or will not be consistent, which is all that matters?
Ask HN: I'm setting up a biohacker space. What equipment should I buy?
I'm a 4th year student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. We are creating a brand new hackerspace and I am in charge of purchasing some equipment for working with biology, splicing and analyzing genes, etc etc. I'd like to mostly gear the space toward synthetic biology. I have about $3000 to spend. What do you suggest I buy to get started?

I'm looking for recommended equipment types (incubators, centrifuges, etc) as well as brands and distributors that I can by from and are reputable.

Disclaimer: I'm self-taught in biology and have taken only a couple labs in microbiology. I know more about analyzing genomes using Perl and R than splicing genomes with electrophoresis. So, I'm asking the experts that can help me. Thanks in advance.
Maybe he just did it in Dart for fun.
Rubygems doesn't have the luxury of providing that kind of system, though, because of how 'require' works in Ruby. AMD/RequireJS allows requires to be scoped, while Ruby requires dump directly into the global namespace.
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I'd also note that it saves you from those dreaded days when a new iPhone or similarly expensive device is going to be left sitting on your doorstep while you're at work...
Made my day, Thanks! :)
UPS can't because of union agreements. FedEx can't because of contractor agreements. This is a service targeted towards busy professionals. We're definitely urban focused right now
Would you ever consider putting the text of these pieces of literature into the repo? There is always the chance that links break and all that.
College-for-all accomplishes two things: commoditization and (failed) attempts at one-size-fits-all education.

Simply put, not everybody is equipped to handle an academic education (in fact, a small minority truly are). At the same time, the vast majority of work being done today in the US in almost any field (including the majority of software development) really ought not be considered "academic" work--it's essentially vocational already. One doesn't need--and shouldn't be required to have--a college degree to be employable in a web app shop or for most development (or other) roles.

The following may be an unpopular sentiment, but I truly believe that the focus on "college-for-all" just frustrates people who are talented in ways that are not academically inclined and, frankly, consumes resources unfairly for those who are. All parties are worse off for it.

What we need is less focus on conflating "academic education" with "education", and the result of that is less focus on "college-for-all."
"What is it you perceive your job as?"

Learn from others, help them learn from me, and together approach truth in our understandings of the world. When people feel attacked, they shut down. Associating arguments with attacks does poor things to human wetware.
In other news, Andrew Breitbart is still dead.
2FA is susceptible to spear phishing if all the attacker needs is a one time login.

Remember that credentials and tokens can be relayed.
> I could imagine the FBI simply deleting the wallets but does anyone know their actual policy?

In the US, law enforcement gets to keep a portion of whatever they seize. You can bet your ass they will not destroy millions worth of assets -- entire departments will get bonuses for years for this.

Law requires them to liquidate the assets through auctions, they cannot simply sell them at an exchange, or set a price for them and sell them at that price. There are plenty of companies that specialize in organizing such events.
You guys are right. Most of the "unjust" complaints have been against the media vs the government: From Twitter:
@elonmusk
What makes this incredibly unjust is that the Model S to date has the best safety record of any car on the road (no injuries or deaths ever)
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@elonmusk
Why does a Tesla fire w no injury get more media headlines than 100,000 gas car fires that kill 100s of people per year?
This is great. Online shopping is so much less convenient because I can't have packages delivered to my apartment. Instead I must ship packages to my office, and either muscle them on MUNI or get a cab (which costs more than $7).
Out of curiosity, why does this skew towards a young demographic? Wouldn't it be anyone working during the day? Say, ages 22-55?
I'm not sure why companies ever got away from the idea that they could avoid training employees? In Silicon Valley you see the same pool of startups competing for the same pool of Rails/Backbone.js developers all because they'd rather perceive to get a complete package up front.

The apprenticeship model should be re-embraced.
Uploading a folder to s3 recursively using Ruby
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Bottles are usually a lot clearer than this article paragraph.

> For some reason, the snakes are almost uniquely sensitive to acetaminophen, the active ingredient in the ubiquitous over-the-counter painkiller. If you can get a tree snake to eat just 80 milligrams, you can kill it. That's only about one-sixth of a standard pill — pigs, dogs and other similarly sized animals would have to eat about 500 of them to get into any trouble.

Most people are going to read that as 500 pills, not 500 doses of one sixth of a standard pill.
I'm not sure there's any universal answer to the questions you pose in your first paragraph. The problem is that sometimes you do care (sometimes a library is actually an interface into some kind of stateful machine) and sometimes you don't (when it's just objects that hold their own state). To some extent javascript gets a bit of a free ride on this question because most libraries are designed around there being only one global state machine (the event loop), but ruby doesn't impose an execution model on you.
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I've also spent time examining Notch's coding habits.

He is a terrible, terrible coder. Minecraft was (and still is) an unoptimized, poorly designed piece of crap when he handed it off to the rest of Mojang. The DCPU-16 he designed had many flaws and his assembler for it threw out assembly convention. He makes very basic mistakes very frequently and his core designs are flawed.

I say this as someone who has spent a considerable amount of my life [1][2][3] figuring out this terrible crap and working around it. Notch is a very bad programmer, and people only revere him because he made Minecraft.

To reply to you all at once: regardless of his ability to create or ship a game, which is not in question, his ability to write good code should not be idolized. His failures have tangible reprecussions that have long plagued the Minecraft hacking community and Mojang itself.

[1] https://github.com/SirCmpwn/Craft.Net

[2] https://github.com/SirCmpwn/Tomato

[3] https://github.com/SirCmpwn/organic
We have crony capitalistic college education, where easy access to government loans causes prices to skyrocket.
I can empathize, but unless you're growing your own food and meat, you're not in much of a position to complain. Offloading the logistics of resource delivery to allow us to do other things is a massively important part of any advanced society. Do we really need to take it to this level? Probably not. But it's not right to dismiss "unimportant" things like this out of hand either.
"No such app"
The phone company already knows your location history, so I'm like why not.

The annoyance with Google Now is the fickleness of what it decides to give you. "This would be the perfect time for card X" means it will probably be the one time it doesn't show up.

"It's 2am, he's leaving a concert somewhere strange in Los Angeles... let's show him the "Drive to Work" card."
apple is for a long time ridding the frivolous upgrade market. I bet if it wasn't so easy to sell your phone on the grey market (for it to be consumed on the grey market overseas) nobody would be justifying upgrading to the latest number or "s" every year.

That is a fragile market as the market nokia had before. which everyone assumes to be "nearly impossible to disrupt" as you put it.
Just for example, the right to an attorney in a criminal case...that is not enumerated in the Constitution but comes from case law, Gideon v. Wainwright (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_v._Wainwright), interpreting the 14th Amendment. (Although a Constitutional Right there is additional case law that carves out certain criminal cases where an indigent would not be entitled to an attorney).

Or how about Brown v. Board, you can read the Constitution all day and not find a single thing about the Constitutionality of de jure racial segregation in schools, yet when you read the case law that interprets the 14th Amendment, you will find in Brown 9-0 the Justices held such laws are Unconsitutional and violate the 14th Amendment. Further, it was just a few years earlier SCOTUS held separate but equal did not violate the 14th Amendment. So put less stock into the plain reading of the Constitution and more into the interpretation, which historically has been subject to change.
So why not train them yourselves? Why do they have to be the complete package upfront?

You get the liberty of guiding their education in a way that most benefits your company and they get to extend their skillsets. Sounds like a win-win.
I found NeHe's tutorials to be easy to follow especially since code that's ready to compile is provided at the end of each lesson:
http://nehe.gamedev.net/

Most of them focus on OpenGL for windows.

I just searched and found this WebGL tutorial which says it's based on NeHe's so it's hopefully good:
http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=28

Disclaimer: I'm not a game developer and I barely dabble in the 3D world, so take my links with a huge grain of salt :)
All emails are stored individually as EML files which is just text. It can also export all your emails into the standard maildir or mbox format so you can easily import them elsewhere.
Show HN: Control your 3D printers via Raspberry Pi from the web
That's what gmail search is for. I see if the headhunter has E-Mailed me before. If never, I give him the benefit of the doubt, and reply. If several times or he's a spammer, I ignore him. I have a list of headhunters I refuse to contact.
Dart syntax is very similar to Java in many respects, but simpler, so is it really any surprise that Notch would try out Dart, given his history with Java?

People like what's familiar. One of the reasons Java took off is because of it's similarity to other ALGOL type languages. C/C++ programmers could learn Java quickly for example.
In typical cases, money is sent to the U.S Marshalls, and then disposed of according to a judge's instructions. In this case, the FBI can't easily redeem the seized BTC for USD, so it will likely stay in evidence.
We solve that by delivering to our office. Works like a charm.
Like other seized assets they will get repurposed for other investigations. When the feds seize a boat, car, or home they either sell them or use them for operations, undercover and the like.[0]

I imagine the btc will be saved until the case is closed then try to be used for other investigations, I don't think the feds would try converting and selling it.

[0] http://www.justice.gov/jmd/afp/02fundreport/02_2.html
I really, really want to see Carmack's Haskell. That would be a super fun read.
Can this system be gamed for profit?

1. Setup a short track on one of the linked providers.
2. Setup a bot to play the track over and over.

Do they pay out equally for tracks from paid vs. unpaid spotify accounts? If so, you could setup a bunch of anonymous accounts to increase stream plays.
Thanks! Give it a try!
I think by "college for all" they mean a model where everyone needs a college degree to have a chance in the job market. I didn't read it as "everyone goes to college" but rather "everyone must go to college."
It's hard for me to take this article seriously with so many falsehoods. Shortage of STEM workers? Debunked:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...

College costs out of control? Only because states are cutting subsidies for higher education and forcing students to pay more.

That said, towards the end there are some good points. It could be argued that there's a public interest in promoting higher education because its necessary for a functional democracy. But if the public abandons this goal and higher education is only for job preparation, then why should the state be involved at all? In that case, state tuition subsidies are really corporate welfare.

Although on-the-job training and apprenticeships are more effective for many jobs, that would mean employers have to shoulder the cost rather than the state.
Well, the title has the words "German probe" in it. What nature of site did you expect?
we know about this request and understand it's importance. however it can't be done quickly as there are some things to change in the core of the editor. i hope to see it in 14 or even early nobody can tell in advance. will keep posted. i'm sure it will be implemented
But then you have to lug it home or it sits at your desk. Also totally depends on the package. Give Luna a try, we think you'll like it
please find my comment above
I really want a 3D printer- I am hoping to make that happen in 2014- so cool. Maybe they will get a little cheaper and then I am IN
Labor shortages have this habit of producing wage spikes for the in-demand employees. Absent such spikes, I'm not sure I would take self-reporting as anything more than gossip or political speech.

I would like to see asked, of these people who can't find employees, is how much they've had to increase their salary offers to fill positions.

Because my anecdotal experience is that the people who can't fill positions are essentially looking for the higher-quality, more-modest-salary 'deals' that were more common in 2008/2009. And they're simply not in any hurry to hire anyone at all, so the disappearance of such deals results in continually-open-positions, rather than increased offers or decreased requirements.
I guess most used part would be an integrated tomcat server that I could start and stop within IDE, other web development features would be to work well with popular frameworks like spring...