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Embedded is a pretty big field. You could try and learn a bit of hardware basics (like reading schematics and building small microcontroller based boards (easier than it sounds)). With that, you would also pick up some basic C and a bit of Assembler. That would allow you to work as a Junior in many places. Though be aware that Embedded and Systems programming is very different from Web programming. I find it more difficult, yet more rewarding.

One of the best ways to pick up some skills in the area is to start with hobby level robotics. As it has you working towards a tangible goal (the robot), and allows for results to be experienced in 3D (the real world). This place http://www.societyofrobots.com/ has some very good forums and tutorials to get you started.
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Dude, look, I stopped using Scala because it's gotten sooo much worse worse with each version; whatever coherence it had at first, it quickly shed away in a frenzy of misguided notions about what developers really need. I actually liked it in the early days. My claims are my view, as someone who's been developing software professionally for over two decades. I am well aware that there are those who disagree. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion. It could be the best damn language in the world for you, but it sucks for many, many others. I can tell you that some companies looked at Scala carefully and rejected it; some adopted it only to discard it a couple of years later. You should accept the undeniable fact that Scala does not appeal to some knowledgeable, experienced people, even after they consider it carefully. And it's OK - I like many things that other people don't like, and they have good reasons not to like them. I would concede that Clojure, too (and I really think Clojure is an exceptionally well designed language), does not have a very broad appeal; neither does Scala.

Use it in peace. If 5 years from now a significant portion of the software development community is using Scala, then you were right and I was wrong; if not, you'd better recheck your convictions. Maybe the language you like so much doesn't solve problems that hurt badly enough, or doesn't solve them well enough, for people to pay the price of its complexity and lack of coherence.

Either way, Scala has certainly taught us a few things and we can learn from its mistakes. Maybe some of the lessons will be used to create a language that works for me and those who see things my way, too.
Ask PG: Which companies did YC pass up on but became successful later?
In other words, name some companies which you should have invested in but miss judged.

Thanks!
I'm not sure about Cleveland specifically. But a similar industrial city, Pittsburgh, had a huge air pollution problem up thru the 1970s. See:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/06/...

(The Atlantic again!)

This qualifies as "the real thing". It's well-known local lore that local stonework was turned black by the soot. ("Black" is not an exaggeration.)
AoS was the name everyone used in Starcraft and Warcraft 3 custom maps, but as new games become popular, the genre just keeps switching to popular game in genre-like.
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The connotations associated with terrorism are simply too strong to associate with Mandela. People will take great offence at this, no matter what pedantic definition you want to use for it. Regardless, your definition still doesn't account for the fact that Nelson Mandela did not personally do any of these things, or intentionally target innocents.
This is cool but using Ghostery plugin on Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghostery/mlomiejdf...) reveals 16 different javascript trackers and advertising libraries used on this website. I know in the footer it states "Memo from Santa does not store e-mail addresses. We will not send you e-mails apart from the event e-mail, nor will we use your e-mail address for any other purpose." but as this being a free service it's kind of worrying. Should I be worried about giving the emails of all my relatives and friends?
It is now available to all boys aged 12-13 through a school based vaccination program in Australia. Same as girls.
Even today, South Africa is introducing quota systems into their rugby organisations to try and correct some of the imbalances in sport caused by apartheid:

http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/New-race-quotas-for-SA-rugby-...
Thanks for pointing out a lack of "thesis." I edited the post to try and highlight this.

To answer directly though - I currently lead to meetup.com groups, one for programmers and one for entrepreneurs. I had the idea that I can pull help from the programming one. They are all acquaintances, and as a newcomer to programming, I don't know any one else well enough (ie friends) that can be a cofounder with me. Making this "collective" would ideally let me have people work on issues little by little, on a "need-to-know" basis. Then if we get along, I'd bring them on FT (they are given equity even for the previous PT work.) I don't have any $ to be paying people either.

I see this as circumventing the reliability problem (they get equity for real work only, not hours - ie GitHub commits etc). As for dedication, we get to work with each other for mutual benefit, and see if we "get along."
You make a lot of blaming statements around here. It may be spammy, but you have no evidence it's underhanded.
Asking to be paid what you are promised is "greed"?
Yes, of course it is. The point is that different systems can break other systems.
The first link in the article (hyperlink text "gone crackerdog") takes you to the source: http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/
'1. Buy a MacBook Air'...

'MacBook Airs are really the standard for coders right now'

And that's all I read of that article. There is no world in which that is even remotely true, except maybe in the land of web development. Maybe.

Beyond that, it locks you out of .NET. Regardless of your opinion of .NET, it's accessible, it's high level, it's relatively simple, it's powerful, VS Express is totally servicable and it's everywhere. It's a pretty great language to pick up because you can do stuff with it.
Alicia Wise, from Elsevier, claims this is only final versions. That they never go after preprints on authors' own hosting.

This claim is, of course, false. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=4562...

I have asked her for an explanation; I'm sure it will be of interest.
Or, maybe, it amuses and targets people who love an intellectual challenge? Or who love discovery and mystery?

Think about it - you have an anonymous entity posting on an internet forum, leaving an elaborate string of clues involving multiple technologies and real world locations, solved collaboratively by a bunch of people all around the world. How is that not in the slightest bit intriguing? Evidently there are a lot of people "who give a shit about this crap".

Hacker News is known for its intelligent reader-base, but also for its critical tone. Whilst comments can often appear cycnical or pessimistic, they are usually also insightful and truthful. But I think people assume that its overall negative tone is the norm, and make negative comments without much thought or rationale behind them, and feel like they're "contributing". Your comment is a completely baseless claim, and contributes nothing but vitriol.
> In ArangoDB, a transaction is always a server-side operation, and is executed on the server in one go, without any client interaction.

It doesn't seem to support interactive transaction. That means only simple batch read & write, no complex transaction. It seems in between CAS and real generic transaction. Doesn't seem to be much useful.
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"lie by line basis" is a nice typo.
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This has also made the news:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/posting-your-latest-a...
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/12/06/1945224/elsevier-...

Those defending Elsevier need to keep in mind Elsevier’s fraudulent pseudojournals, blatant scientific fraud for marketing cash. Elsevier passed the “reasonable doubt” event horizon long ago. http://kmccready.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-shoots-it...
getting a live camera + weapons near a spot where a submarine is already positioned is probably a whole lot cheaper than the alternatives.

alternatives: satellite, long range bomber, surface fleet, seal squad...
The OP was already in 0 lines of js.
The largest low crime country in world history, using terrorism as a straw-man to destroy freedom of speech, with heavy pressure from the first country to properly enshrine freedom of speech into a constitution. What is the world coming to....

I'm not sure what all of this qualifies as, if not a wave of fascism enveloping the globe. Not so different from the authoritarian waves that occurred in the 20th century (lest anyone thought such things were somehow impossible just because a few decades had passed).
I agree. I never read these things but I read this entire page. Well done sir.
I would suggest that while the ends don't justify the means, sometimes the end does depend on the means.
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So what's life like without the ability to acknowledge art?
made a quick pull request to save you 83kb, silly to include jQuery just for document.ready.
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Well things need to be very social nowadays. If you thought of some clever way to make your app into a social network of sorts, that's way better.

Also, what problem does your app (or others too) solve? Are you making these apps because you CAN, or because they're USEFUL?

I'd recommend thinking of some good uses for your app currently on GPlay (that camera one.) I can't really right now, but that's YOUR job. Your Gplay page should be ALL about telling ppl why your app is USEFUL, and not a gimmick.

Once you've found some really clever uses for your app (assuming they exist), then you need to change your Gplay page, but also make those uses VIRAL. Then people can catch on.

And lastly, congrats on making an app in the first place. Hope this info is of some help.

-- _Just a thought. Something to do with two people making faces at each other, or kissing (ie "duck") faces for the camera app.
It's incredible how much of the law is just codifying standard practice. It's when you try to do something new that you run into trouble.

Regulation is so thick on the ground that operating in an unregulated industry is considered a business risk, because you know the regulation is coming, but you don't know what it will be. There are rules for everything.
The Albigensians would like a word with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade
> People love creativity, as evidenced by our love of the results of creativity.

I don't think this follows. Just because you like the result of a process, doesn't mean you like the process. For instance, just because people use the fruits of scientific and engineering processes, that doesn't mean they actually think, or want to think, like scientists or engineers.
How Elixir offer type check - compile time parameter validity check on each specialized types - or similar feature?

Is this type inferencing language?
Wow, that center-aligned text is hard to read!
Didn't see you post and posted the same thing! Yea, this fits pretty solidly...

http://1o57.wikispaces.com/DC20+Badge+Contest
Snowfallization!
In the case of web development, there is plenty of natural integration that you get in the browser that is simply not possible with a native tool...for instance the simple ability to integrate with other web components with little effort, in the case of our product we provide a WYSIWYG editor via the tinymce component, that took little effort because it was a web component integration. A browser IDE can integrate with in-browser developer tools such as those on Firefox and chrome.

Then there are the advantages of hassle-free remote access to application assets...this may not be a big deal to a dev who likes git, ssh..etc, but for many developers being able to access and work on their apps simply by loging into another web app is preferred.

Browser IDE products themselves are inherently easier to develop, I know I am happy to be building a web app instead of Java swing components, years ago I attempted to build a native IDE (http://bit.ly/IwZCEL), I am glad I am not doing that today:)

These are just some pluses, there are all sorts of ways that the browser,web and web-application development just fit together.
Ha ha you should write one liners for [insert special interest here].

The parent is espousing "greed" as a primary means of recruitment. The method of payment my point. People motivated by "greed" is not the type of people one wants in government. Especially If we have to pay them with a form of remuneration is at once both opaque and easily manipulated.

In otherwords, if these people (say teachers) are valuable, pay them proper salaries. Don't pay them poor salaries and then promise them a $2 or $5 million dollar pension pot if the "stick around" for 20-30 years. Just pay them fair and square a proper wage from the get-go. The poor pay + gold plated pension thing is just a form of dis-honest pay, where special interests manipulate the system for their own advantage.

So, don't negotiate cut-rate payment plans for cut-rate people. Seems simple enough. If you want good people, pay them properly and transparently.
If I accidentally drop a table RDS have automatic backups and automatic snapshots.

> i.e. setting up security groups - same solution, better gui. Someone still needs to understand what it's doing.

Yes, but like being able to install wordpress doesn't mean you know how to program, setting up beanstalk+rds is not on the same level of expertise as setting up N machines from the ground up. When I start an RDS/CloudSearch/DynamoDB instance the security groups are already setup in a sensible way.

Sure, there are plenty of cases in which what AWS offers is not good enough. Heck having an ops team is always better than not having it.

But I replied to AWS only getting rid of "someone who can physically access the box". That seems reductive.
"And while you're at it, your child abuse radar should be going crazy whenever you see an obese toddler."

What makes you think it doesn't?
I am not sure if it targets me either but one thing I like is the pretty website and docs... AND that is important to me when I am playing with something new.
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> I know you can setup a whitelist only, but why isn't this more of a standard, where I build a contact list with friends, and we can leave messages back and forth, receive proper confirmation they're received, read, etc. It would be nice if I could login to my e-mail, and see I have 20 friends, 10 sites that are able to message me, and then manage that list by adding or removing.

This actually is pretty much how Facebook messaging works.
Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles
Reminds me of the beginning of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" (or was it "Fountains of Paradise"? It's been decades since I've read them), where he explains how, even in a networked, high-speed trading world, the stock trading system can get overloaded by orders and lag will cause the system to spiral out of control and collapse, repeating, in essence, the Crash of Black Tuesday.

I found that interesting because it showed how, despite advances in technology which we'd expect to solve failures of previous systems, the same fundamental vulnerabilities remained, just at a different scale.
Reagan's real reason (as opposed to his explanation) was that during the cold war the USA would support any regime even really shitty ones like Pinochet in Chile or the National Party of South Africa that was openly anti-communist.
Well, Trillian can't do what Snapchat does, and no user is giving it any money, so this seems pretty irrelevant.
Correct link: http://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-f...
Agreed. Docs are fantastically important.
Where's the option to display the thoughts of voters and flaggers? I can't seem to find it in my settings.
No, it seems much more likely that some of the other crypto currencies will continue to rise and be a cheaper alternative to BTC rather than BTC splitting.
I'm certainly no lawyer, but for me the argument goes like this:

We all agree that math isn't patentable, so let's assume that. As math is not patentable, no mathematical theorem, proof, or function is patentable. All processes that exist entirely in software are representable as a series of mathematical operations. Therefore, software methods are math. As math isn't patentable and software is math, software must also not be patentable.
Literally stopped reading at .NET
Thanks for the link, it's very interesting!
The subtlety is the Safe converts into a shadow class of securities with rights similar to the next round of preferred stock that the company issues. So those securities are not yet issued, their terms will be negotiated when the company raises that round.

In that case of your ISOs, those would be tied to the existing common stock of the company. While the actual shares that you might exercise on aren't yet issued, the class of stock itself exists and the terms are set.
http://www.amazon.com/Titan-The-Life-John-Rockefeller/dp/140...
[Take pictures of] things people people want [to see].
interesting idea. cant wait to see what happens next
Disney Takes Over Rights to ‘Indiana Jones’ Franchise
Well you want to avoid those freelance sites anyway regardless if you're doing projects using php or not. Making a good living building stuff is not even about what language you use, it's all about networking and how good you're talking with clients.
>Whoever could imagine a world power trying to engage in empire-building, in 2013? Governments just aren't scary, any longer, in that fundamental sense.

why would you need a formal empire if you can make governments in different countries do your bidding? Any empire of the past had local governors/governments who would manage the daily routine of keeping flock in check and sewer flow. And current governments, especially in Western world, are doing it pretty effectively.

>And so their dual, revolutions, are also becoming increasingly rare.

people make revolution when they hit the wire and other means don't cut anymore. So if one manage to keep the population even just a small distance from the "wire", by providing minimal employment (or more precisely enough "bread and circuses"), policing without too much abuse, etc... - no revolution. Many countries have reached or coming close to this optimum, while some (i.e. Arabian Spring) hasn't mastered it yet.
Lots of comments on this thread about Branson being a single data-point, or unsuccessful people do this too.

Want a second data-point? Bill Gates. He did it time and time again. First with porting Basic to the Altair, then with selling DOS to IBM.

I hadn't thought of it before, but Gates is a very early adopter of making sure you're building the right product by selling it to the market first (do we have a name for that philosophy)?
This is silly.

"We really aren’t expecting to get anywhere near close to the largest primes ever discovered, but we do expect to find _many_ of the lost primes."

"many"? There are ≈ 1e16,999,992 primes less than 1e17,000,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem
>Sounds like a very elaborate hiring process for a global organization.

I agree. In addition, the amount of chance involved in actually solving one of the puzzles in the OP article reminds me of those stupid brain teasers big companies used to ask in interviews years ago.
> I'm not talking about social security

I didn't say you were, I merely pointed out that we already know people can't in general handle their own retirements.
I'm curious about the developer package. Do you segregate your leads by language?

As a Python dev, I wouldn't have any interest in JS, C, Ruby, PHP, Obj-C, etc jobs. If you just pump all jobs into the same stream, I could see a scenario where a Python dev could wait days before seeing even a single relevant job appear.
Pretty cool. Although my worry as a freelancer is not that I can't find leads or don't have time to find leads, but that I find it hard to close.
I'm sold on php because of symfony, composer, and really good documentation of the language as well as the third party libraries. Been using NodeJS for quite some time, although I like it, I still have trouble looking for good documentation very no and then.
Finally, a confirmed release date for Half Life 3.
No explanation of how those noises are generated?
What are better words to use?

Would it matter if the audience is international or if the audience mostly has English as a first language?

"70 Different Ways to Encode〈"?
I tried this earlier with three people. Two of them were told to give presents to the same person, and one person was left present-free.

Not sure if you've fixed that already, but it seems like an important feature to get right...
Yeah, I give a quick glance down the front page, and if nothing catches my interest, hit the subs.
Wait, you need an X server to run it? What's the point then?
So, BOSH [0], aka XMPP-over-HTTP ? Originally intended to allow XMPP in the browser, it turned out [1] to be solving a lot of other problems, including the frequent disconnections of a smartphone.

[0] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0206.html
[1] https://metajack.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/xmpp-is-better-wit...
I just ran the part that generates a function with a random string as the body and called the function that it generated, and counted the calls that didn't throw anything. As I threw it together in all of 5 minutes I'm sure there are flaws in the methodology

Also the defuckify code I posted is not exactly right, as it was sort of a joke but it's pretty easy to fix
Here is a write up about Elixir by Joe Armstrong (he had a little something to do with Erlang)

http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
Some providers filter flash etc. Torrents allow the site to offset some of the hosting load.
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Is another unicode classic
Persistent & esqueleto — querying databases in Haskell