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For my company's server infra automation I evaluated Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Fabric. The deciding factors for me were a stable software with a good ecosystem. I found that Puppet is much better than the rest when it comes to having an active community, but I like the scriptability, hackability and simplicity of Fabric. Chef was nice too but found it cumbersome to setup and write recipes compared to Puppet's module.

I wanted a masterless setup where there would be no central master so I use Puppet as a git repo with Fabric, where Fabric takes care of parallel ssh keys management with Gitlab (git hosting software, used internally) and deployments. I've added custom python modules to manage continuous deployment of code as well, I really like the basic command and programmable interfaces it offers, roles and just programming in Python. The whole setup thus uses a masterless Puppet (git) + Fabric, works on an exclusive private network across datacenters.
DOSBox and Wine make Linux quite perfect for gaming.

Interestingly, for some games, running the Windows version in Wine works better than running a native Linux version they've made of the game. E.g. the native Linux version will complain that some library .so is not the correct version, or that it cannot connect to X, etc...
"Since 1998, the Program for International Student Assessment, or Pisa, has ranked 15-year-old kids around the world"

Every American 15 year old kid? Probably darn close. Every Vietnamese 15 year old kid? LOL.

For a heavily class based country, the USA has quite a blind spot to how other countries organize more heavily by class starting at a rather young age.
What's the point when you can't unlock them anymore
I don't have an opinion on either, I am just presenting what most people talk about when they speak about the rising prison population of the United States.

It can be a snowball effect as well, putting people in prison early for say, drug use at a young age, creates a prison culture, where the person keeps going back to prison. If that person didn't go to prison in the first place they might not be put in a position to keep breaking the law. This is all really a guess on my part, but I feel that it might be the case.
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"The central thesis is that organizations have three types of employees: Sociopaths at the top. Clueless in the middle. Losers on the bottom."

How about types of employers based on their attitude to employees? It's a two-way relation after all.
Meaning you wasted a shit ton of time trying to prove something obvious :)
- Adobe Updater (yes i will kill this shit)
- SizeUp
- Dropbox
People should vote with their wallets if they believe that
What does this get us? Okay, so we can more accurately calculate sample sizes, but what about power relative to the "power" of using a Beta prior in the Bayesian framework?

I use Bayesian methods simply to restrict the test space. It's also relatively simple (computer is doing the math, essentially).
Robots will also be pretty useful to quell any and all unrest, so I'm sure it'll all balance out..
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Please take a look at our trailer for a short we submitted for sundance film festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GEiLF8TaA0
Wow. Although I was vaguely aware that Clang is tool friendly, I had no idea about libclang, let alone its Python bindings. A search for "python clang module" turned up a mention of pycparser. Any idea how it compares? I guess its main advantage is that it's pure Python.
Any advice for someone in the early idea phase? What steps would one do before applying to this?
Assuming the people running the kickstarter campaigns are running a business, they only need to pay taxes on net income. I imagine most kickstarter campaigns go through the money fairly quickly so that's probably not typically a problem.
That would imply that immediately before the civil war the south was a boomtown and the slaveless north was a rustbelt.
I'm familiar with the distinction between document and data. I'm talking about a site like a blog, where the document is the data. That was the original context of this conversation, IIRC.

HTML is emphatically not a poor document format, but it satisfies different requirements than PDF and RTF do. The weak connection between structure and what you call "style" (what I would call presentation) is a feature; it allows clients to modify the presentation to suit their needs. If I want a bigger font or higher contrast or a smaller column width, I'm able to do that because of the separation between structure and style.

But (as you rightly pointed out) this is a lot harder than it should be (and harder than it used to be). As a result, when an HTML document doesn't work for someone (due to its presentation) they have to complain to document creators instead of merely configuring their client (once) to suit their needs. This sucks.
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I just increase the number of iterations (i.e. key-stretching), so that I can use a shorter password. It'll takes a second or two to actually log in, but that way I don't have to type so much.
Personally, i'd be okay pair programming on a base. But there's no way I'd do it for a WHOLE DAY. If i'm unemployed... maybe, but if i'm just looking for something different. I'd never have the time to spend a day at an interview. These guys aren't sharing the risk evenly here. There are 3 scenarios. We both like each other, i get hired. I don't like them or they don't like me and I don't get hired. 2 out of the 3 scenarios end in a no hire. They may loose a small amount of productivity, but I loose a day.
"it's not terribly different from a random attack in the street or a shopping mall"
You are right. However, the one difference is the reaction to an attack. It is fairly straightforward (these days) to get responders on the scene in a mall. A shooting or knife fight in an airplane is much harder to contain or react to.

Overall though, I agree with Schneier about the need for intelligence replacing TSA check points.
This seems precisely like an argument for a smaller turbine-based design INSTEAD of huge and (relatively) heavy blades. Turbines for car turbochargers and airplane engines can regularly (if I remember correctly) operate in the regime of ~100k RPM.

And like other commenters say: I think it would be much easier to restrict flow in the "funnel" part and most things I can imagine for a freestanding wind machine.
Seems lots of people are calling the terms terrible, but for an early stage investment it seems pretty reasonable to me. Plenty of things are in the 1M valuation and under range. If you are shooting for something 8 figures or higher, in the long run this won't kill you, and in the short run it lets you get started and gives you a good bit of runway for say 2 founders.

I'm not looking for funding at the moment, but the speed would be a huge bonus for me. There is a huge amount of value in being able to focus on making your business succeed instead of focusing on getting funding so that you can continue trying.
What do you mean? You're talking about 2 differents things.
How is Googles self driving car a ploy for more ads?
You read my post in the ~5 secs widow where it had the word "take." It was the wrong word because in the case I was talking about it would not have deprived Prezi access to their source code.
It doesn't convert at that valuation. It converts in a future equity round, usually the series A, valuations for which are on average over $10 million lately.
Especially with younger kids, when they are asked a question by someone with authority, there is a reasonable presumption that it can be answered. I'm all for teaching them to challenge that presumption, but I think you'd get a more fair result if the question was, "Can you figure out the age of the shepherd if you know how many dogs and sheep he has in his flock?"
Probably more important an issue than the resource hogginess and slowness of evernote, which has already been mentioned here, it seems self-hosted alternatives (I see someone mentioned WebDav) are very important.

We used to have the luxury to think any notes we took were not interesting to third parties and couldn't be used against us or our contacts and our service providers might not be backdoor-ed. But we can't deny the facts any more.

I suppose maybe the reason there isn't already a popular open source, maybe AGPL project for an evernote-like system (yes I know there is a OSS jambi/java client to use with evernotes proprietary servers) is because the tools already exist and the glue tying them all together with a friendly UI isn't as fun a challenge?
This is incredibly interesting to me, and points to a problem in our schools.

We traditionally teach children to solve problems that have solutions. In particular, eighth grade teaches pre-algebra and algebra, so the way students approach problems is directly connected to how the student decodes the language of a "word problem".

We need to change our conceptual understanding of what learning actually requires, and give students a situation in which they must write the problem themselves. Instead of "decoding" a predefined word problem, the student then must explore the situation and interpret the available information.

A good way to handle this problem is to allow students to write word problems for other students based on a set of data, and subsequently create the "answer key" that includes the mathematical proofs. Proofs should be taught from a much earlier age.
The most realistic way for you to get there is this:

1. Have the tech skills to launch a complete web application or project that can either easily be acquired or generate revenue. If the former, aim for something viral and exciting. Think Threewords.me, which supposedly sold for 6 figures days after Mark Bao launched it. If the latter, price high and build a product for businesses or high-net-worth individuals. Assuming 30k of yearly living expenses, and not factoring in taxes (too complicated to calculate this right now), you'll need about 1,060,000 dollars. 1000 customers each paying 49 each per month over 2 years is $1,176,000.

2. Get paid at a salaried job / freelancing using said skills. Assuming you've got enough experience to do (1), you should be able to pull at least 100k. Live frugally and you can save 50k-100k from this job alone after two years.

3. Work on various iterations of (1) in your off-time from (2). Don't be afraid to sell a site on Flippa for a middling price if it doesn't seem to be growing huge. 10 sites at 5k each is still 50k.
Another article being penalized. On the third page now. I love you, HN algorithm :)
The scenario is something I try very hard to avoid via workflow, but sometimes it still happens. Somebody merges something and pushes it to the master branch of the repo before it's ready. Now you want to pretend that never happened. You can't just revert it. If anyone can post instructions for easily getting the master branch back to how it was before the merge let me know.
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This would never happen if there was a laptop in every classroom. (EDIT: Sarcasm alert -- see my response below before you downvote me)

EDIT: Just watched the video. Scary.
I strongly disagree.

US schools are pretty bad on fundamentals. Period. Talking to parents who are here from Asia (for business, grad school), they are shocked how behind the grades are compared to their home countries.

And about the underachieving students supposedly not trying harder because they see college educated people applying for fast food jobs, I think that's just not true. And if they really do think that way, I'm sorry but they deserve the poverty they are stuck with.

I have history of an entire nation to to prove that people don't stop (and should not stop) studying in school because they see other college grads stuck with low paying or no jobs.

S Korea at end of the Korean War (1950-53) was a complete disaster. There were college educated kids in 50's, 60's and 70's but no jobs for them. The country was still largely surviving on foreign aid.

The job market was bad enough that when S Korean govt recruited people to go to West Germany to work as 'miners' (mainly to earn foreign currency) in 1963, 2894 men applied. Out of 2894 men, 375 got the job. Basically 1 was selected out of 7. The competition was so fierce that names of who got in were published on national newspaper. Over 60% had completed high school or tertiary education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Germany
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0708/giyoon/giyoon1.html

So did the south Korean kids in school stop studying because they saw how college grads were so desperate for jobs that they were willing to go abroad to work as coal miners? Of course not.

If the American kids really are afraid of ending up like the other college grads being stuck without jobs, they should study harder, be it in college or vocational training etc.
I agree, for some reason Evernote always rubbed me the wrong way.

An alternative I really like is Springpad. You can write notes or Todos, put in notebooks with tags, or take a picture. It recognizes what a "movie" is and gives you extra information. Multiple people can collaborate on a notebook. Plugins are for Firefox and Chrome; I mostly use the Android client. I found it easy and fun to worth with!

https://springpad.com/blog/
I released the lease for two, three days and I now have a /60. Yay!
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I'm a web developer and designer (4+ years), and work out of my own shop, Heta (http://heta.co). I primarily develop, design, and customize WordPress themes, or convert PSD designs or HTML/CSS/jQuery to WordPress. I'm also building an app and run my own server as a hobby, so I'm closer to a full-stack developer.

I've worked on complex sites for digital agnecies (30+ templates, 25+ plugins), as well as on smaller sites for small businesses/individuals (10 templates, 10 plugins).

Technologies I use: PHP, HTML, CSS/LESS/SASS, jQuery, CodeIgniter, WordPress, mySQL, ZURB Foundation (3/4/5), Bootstrap, SVN or Git for version control, Fogbugz or Sifter for issue tracking, HipChat to stay in touch. Self-taught and resourceful.

Reach out to me at: hn [at] heta [dot] co (not com). I can send you links to live sites I've developed, sites I've converted to WP, etc.
This article is actually quite similar to Steven Berlin Johnson's 2005 piece on how to get the most out of Devonthink Pro (DTP): http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... .

DTP is OS X (and iOS, I think, though I don't use that) only, however. Nonetheless, I've been using DTP the way Johnson describes for years and have found it very useful.

DTP appears a little more "research-y" than Evernote. I suspect one challenge with any of these mind-mapping programs is that by the time you develop enough expertise and experience with one, you become reluctant to go through the same process with another, given the long time investment.
Biofeedback-based horror game challenges players to deal with fear
Because you'll consume media while your car drives you around.
This is very nice. I had to pick an MVC framework for a project early this year, and was compelled to spend untold amounts of time to do the same research this author just posted.

Another good resource for choosing a framework is TodoMVC (http://todomvc.com/). It doesn't give you the philosophy and history behind each framework, but it does show you an end-to-end example (however constrained) of what it's like to use the framework in day-to-day work.
Find a niche that you can offer something that people will want or better yet, pay for. It's better to start small or find a way to enter a market that you can easily differentiate yourself and go from there. Also, you shouldn't try to hide your idea, most ideas aren't unique, it's how you execute them off that can make or break them. So don't be afraid to tell friends and acquaintances and have them give you feedback. There is no easy way to a million but with the internet there are now more ways then ever.
If you look at early stage investments in Europe, the terms are pretty good. Eg. compared to accelerators, seed round investors etc.
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While it is two different things, the way it is worded is slightly confusing and I can see how someone might be confused.
A lot of people I hear say they don't choose backbone because of the amount of stuff you have to write to get started, but they never mention backbone+marionette, which imo fixes a lot of the boilerplate code you have to write.
Ahh, at the time I thought err4nt was referring to the public posted login credentials and was making the analogy off of that.
Reflexive nitpicking and ankle-biting is completely orthogonal to, and can even obscure, the valuable discussions on the actual topic that you're referring to. It's a Signal:Noise problem, you're referring to Signal, me to Noise.
These terms are far from terrible. Outside of a few selected places like Silicon Valley, you can dream of getting $150K for 15% as an early stage startup with no sales.

It could be argued that YC brings a lot of added value to the table, but if we are simply looking at the terms, their ~$20K for ~6% is far worse than $150K for 15%.
Start a company get 5 million dollar valuation and investment by making people think your in it for the long haul. Retain 20% that can't be diluted and has no strings attached. Get fired. sell said precentage once new CEO takes over.
GSD (Get Shit Done) and get some traction. Without traction, you're just a guy with an idea in a queue of thousands...
Agreed. I think this is also an issue with the way we teach; we should teach students to have the confidence to deny the solvability or soundness of a problem on their own (rather than forcing irrational thought in order to arrive at a solution).

This is the equivalent of teaching a programmer to "shut up and code", even though they may have objections to the proposed solution.
That sounds reasonable, thanks for the reply.
Maybe you could some arguments that Obama became President through dishonesty, but corruption and nepotism, nonsense.
The cost of having a team member hand-hold a new person through the code is almost certainly greater than any value the newcomer would add in a day, so if the OP's argument had any merit, he should have been the one paying them.
The darker red is definitely better, but generally red is a bad color to use excessively. Plenty of studies have shown that red can invoke the fight or flight response and increase stress.
20 american joe publics vs. any small number of arabs, maybe even just one?

I didn't know having an arabian background turned you into some kind of superhuman ninja. Or are you just slightly confused and a bit bigoted?
New red is much better. Red wine instead of ketchup.
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That was my thinking too. Who sits down and writes a lengthy blog post about a piece of software that they like to use? How boring! It's like someone sitting down to write a blog post about why they like Pepsi instead of Coke.
I appreciate and use Wine quite a bit, but it's far from perfect. A lot of things just plain crash from the get go.

Also, I wish that Steam on Linux would attempt to install and run Windows games via Wine. If I want to play, for instance, Spelunky, I need to close Linux Steam (can't log in in multiple clients, last time I checked) and open Windows Steam in Wine. Maybe there's a way to get Wine games to run in Linux Steam, I don't know. It would just be cool if it did it by default.
Except for every iOS app that integrates with Dropbox.
Hey , today it happened as I wrote title and and link but didn't click submit button, by the time it was dead. I clicked "back" in the browser and submitted again , it was dead for 3-4 times and 5th time it got posted.
I think when you want to post new story you should not wait too long (>10 minutes) to click submit button or else it will be dead
Jeremie,
I don't know if that is part of an agreement you have with your LPs that you need to have a lawyer doing due diligence for you and that require you to spend 2.5k-4k but allow me to propose a perspective of a founder who finished fundraising and one of the thing that I did was to ensure to keep my lawyer out of the equation when it was not needed.

1. Checking if the company exists - meaning looking over incorporation documents, validating the bank details and other information to make sure you're funding who you think you're funding - could be done with someone with some common sense and not a lawyer - probably hiring a person who does administration and work full time for you (the high volume of seed deals you're making make me think you already have that person).

2. Checking that the IP is owned by the company is usually done by doing a TAA (Technology assignment agreement) and in that case this could be a standard doc that you let the founders sign on. I would believe that someone on your behalf could also check that the validity of the signatures.

3. Use a service like RightSignature to collect signature, IPs, timestamps and even Identification cards picture or something of the sort in order to check the legitimacy of the person signing on the docs - this will allow you to remove the lawyer from the equation as well.

4. Last but not least - try documenting the things you need from the company beforehand and post it somewhere on the site - knowing in advance what are the things you are requesting usually eliminate the unneeded ping-ping with lawyer.

On a personal note - I streamlined the fundraising process by creating a few templates (with wire details) and having forms on Rightsignature. I had all of my investors go through that process and closed very fast - including countersigning and dating the documents once the wire reach our account. I think every process could and should be streamlined especially if you deal with 200 companies. Lawyer like to interject in between deals because they can bill and in our case we were able to save around ~$10k in legal fees because we didn't let our lawyers talk with our investors and negotiate for us - and we used a standard note provided by our lawyers.

I'm not saying you could do that but if there's room to reduce the $4k to something like $500 or even nothing - that mean an extra $400k that can be re-invested into ~3 companies - imagine that!

EDIT: I know you have way more experience closing deals than me - I just wanted to offer a founder experience and perspective on that process.
Still difficult for me to read.
Rubin is brilliant, and was absolutely the right guy to kick the carriers' asses and conquer the handset OEM world. I suppose that's all the more reason to keep him "inside the tent." I just think of it as horses for courses.
Apple even respects T-Mobile's wishes on the matter.

I put a SIM connected to one of T-Mobile's $30/5GB prepaid accounts in my iPhone 5. When I try to turn the tethering function on, I get a prompt telling me to go to a T-Mobile website to get on a plan that supports tethering.
As a candidate what will teach you more about the company, the product and the role - working on the real code base on a real change or working on an OSS project?

It seems at least as likely you'll learn something material as I'd get working code out of you that the lead dev couldn't have written on his own given his better understanding of the problem domain.