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You're assuming that they'd a few struggling bacteria - and that all of mankind wants to quit earth and spread as far and wide as possible. Both of which is basically bullshit. If anything - our population is heading towards its peak - which will follow with a sinking population. A majority of the developed world is greying - these are people who would have access to plenty of space and resources for their offspring - choosing not to have more. So I guess since you've taken on the role of the spokesperson for the "rest of mankind" - you might want to check in and see if humans are really that eager to go live on every rock in the solar system - or are fine where they are.
LOL. I posted the message, then saw the request to submit inquiries via email. At that point, I realized that it wasn't worth it. I'd pay, probably, list price, maybe list price + a small markup... but I didn't want to set myself up for a 5 figure inquiry, even if it would be super easy to walk away from.
Doesn't fix the problem. Actually makes it harder: I shouldn't have this level of management forced on me. Perhaps the repo owner (or whoever manages pull requests) should receive an amount? Obviously this could be abused too.
Likewise, a beep and a statement of fact on a screen ("target has been missed") is a far cry from screaming.

If the work can fundamentally be measured on 15 second intervals, what is the rational basis for not doing so? If your issue is with giving the picker instant feedback on how they are doing with respect to their performance goals, what interval would be more satisfactory, and why?

I understand that, emotionally, it is preferable to receive negative feedback less frequently than more frequently if given the choice, but I can't help but feel that a lot of the unease with the scanners on HN is the result of projecting best practices in one's own field (software development or some other form of creative knowledge work) onto another. We can all agree that beeping at a software developer if they don't type X characters every 15 seconds would be absurd, but we don't scoff at test-driven development, spell-checkers, and other instant performance feedback mechanisms. Most of us don't interpret a red squiggly line in Word as emotional abuse; what makes the scanner beep so much worse?
jj is great, I also use ; as : to save a key press on a very common command
This is the most beautiful 'website' I've seen in a long while.

Are the forecasts updated periodically?
Just because something is in a contract (or indeed a terms of service) doesn't mean it is enforceable - especially in a completely different country.

If Google were a US only corporation then this would be a moot point, but as the aren't they are subject to the laws and courts of the countries where they operate. Given that they are actually in court someone clearly thinks there is a stateable case - it'll be interesting to see what the court decides.

Edit: Here is an update from the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10520755/Briton...
5 minutes to the first downvote. why you so slow today?

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Libertarians typically neglect the forces imposed by the lower tiers of Maslow's hierarchy (and by those controlling access to whatever is necessary to meet such needs) because once you start paying attention to those forces the claim that free-market capitalism maximizes individual freedom becomes significantly harder to prove.

EDIT: changed "laughable" to "significantly harder to prove" because I'm not in the mood for a fight today.
This reminds me of something (much less substantive and important) that I have been realizing after buying my first Apple computer recently (I held out for a long time). Things like the trackpad and cable wrapping system are so amazingly intuitive, once you figure them out. However, I am so accustomed to sub optimal design, that I had to be shown how to use them both. This may be a case where sub optimal design is a net win, but ensuring that the pilots must stay engaged to at least a minimal degree.
I'm actually working on a new product (for a fairly small B2B niche) and planning to do a soft launch to work out all the kinks before I publicize it more widely. I'm thinking that'll allow me to work out any issues before I risk my reputation with people who might dismiss the product out of hand if they run into major issues. If you have more experience with it, does that make sense or should I forgo that first step?
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to put it succinctly and in gamer terms: would you rather have a giant sword that does 16 points of damage with a 10% chance to hit? or a dagger that does 4 points of damage, but with an 80% chance to hit?

it's all about the dps, baby.

note: that metaphor obviously assumes "A little over 12% of the money-making developers" means that it's 8x easier to actually make money in the consumer space. not that 80% of consumer plays make money. not to mention it's way, way easier to build a company with 10 people than 45.
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The YCVC investments are a fire-and-forget portfolio investment; VC's usually don't follow the companies directly unless they put in additional money.
> If this works for Google, I imagine I can have a business based in Uruguay that sells weed to the world, and I only have to face court in Uruguay when people claim it's illegal in their country?

I'd imagine this would be perfectly legal if Uruguay has legal provisions that state that shipping weed to other countries is legal. I'd also imagine that if they didn't have such a clause, they'd soon run afoul on various international trade treaties. So good luck... :)
In the line of worst case scenario that seems to permeate today's world, GitHub can now become a tool for money laundering. All you need is a few scripts creating puppet users and repos, and automate shill commits and pull requests.
So, if I have 30 nodes and my data is sharded between them, how is that better than having app/client side join, where I have more control what to fetch and what not? I could potentially cache results.

I mean, you realize if data is distributed at large scale, it may take a while till it gets from all nodes the data and joins it...
What a great answer! Thank you for responding :)

I see it a little differently, though I agree with your basic point about not being able to work out the whole truth from only partial information.

The reasons I'm happy to give Greenwald's NSA reporting a (qualified) pass on this are:

1) He (and a few others) are the only source of information we have on the level of surveillance we're all exposed to. Greenwald is a commentator speaking up to power, and the justification I see is that there is a basic asymmetry in that power. Without these stories, no-one would be challenging the surveillance.

Note that I'm not giving him a pass because the stories are unsupported. I'm giving him a (temporary) pass because so many have later been confirmed to be true. In essence, we need a debate on the level of surveillance a democracy will have, and without this as a catalyst, it would not be happening.

2) I suspect that a lot of these documents are highly sensitive. As much as I'd like a debate, I don't want to risk people's lives. Hence, if Greenwald produces the minimum documentation that still sparks reform, I think he's done us all a service.
I think your assumptions are incorrect.
What do you mean? You are the repo owner and you set up issues with a specific value, then whoever submits a pull request (merged) for those issues automatically gets paid.

Or maybe I didn't properly understand how it works?
What are the pros or cons of using RethinkDB versus say Cassandra?
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Domain expertise is definitely a challenge, but it depends very much on the type of application you're trying to build.

Building something to help manage clinical trials of drugs? Heck, you better have a ton of specialized expertise in the drug research vertical in one way or another.

Building a generalized platform that allows you to store legal records or other sensitive data in a secure and standardized fashion? Well, you might want to build custom sales plays based on individual verticals, but then you just hire a domain expert consultant to put the words in the right order and structure for that vertical.

One of the other benefits of the enterprise is that if you get the right enterprise, they will work with you to build your application. You have to find the right champion at the customer, someone with enough balls to take a risk, but basically you work out a deal:

- they will give you money for a product that barely works/barely exists today

- You will become their roadmap bitch for 12 months

- They will pay a comparatively cheap price for the software

There's a ton of risk associated there too - enterprises sometimes make irrational decisions that you're now bound to abide by, and it can make your product more of something custom as opposed to a general purpose application you want to sell.

However, it is a way to get an MVP out the door and get some money.
The idea of the log goes well beyond just real-time data (as the blog post describes, although the title does not). I think it might well turn out to be one of core building blocks of _all_ stateful systems. Amazon's Kinesis has for the first time exposed a reliable Log-aaS on the cloud; I think we'll start to see more systems built around it.

My personal "24 commits for December" project is to build a set of open-source cloud data-stores, all backed by a distributed log using Raft, "blogging all the way". I'm half-way through, and I've implemented a simple key-value store, put a Redis front-end on it, used that to implement a Git server, and am currently working on building a document store with SQL querying. All with the same architecture: the log provides fault-tolerance and consistency, we have a data structure specific to the particular service (e.g. message queue or key-value store), we periodically take state snapshots so that we don't have to reply the whole log after every failure.

Feel free to follow along / provide feedback: http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/categories/cloudata/
> The fact that he can't and won't speaks volumes about his character and his intentions.

Ellisberg (the gentleman who leaked the Pentagon Papers) strongly disagrees with you. Please do carefully read this op-ed by Eillisberg himself:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-07/opinions/40427...

For reference, the Pentagon Papers revealed a systematic effort by multiple Administrations to lie to Congress and the public about the reasons for initiation of the Vietnam war, and the covert expansion of the same.
Jarek (the author) fixed the link and his (very clean) code is available again at: http://www.lshift.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ve.c
We've been a beneficiary of several bundles, and so far Humble Bundle users have contributed a total of $1.5M to Watsi.
I guess we should just give up on everything Mozilla does, then.
Wow, those three dot points sound like dream-land compared to my current company.

I think when people say "get rid of managers", they are not referring to the setup you mention, but to the old-world where managers are clueless about the work actually being done, take all the credit, and make much more money.
Also, being "promoted" to management means leaving tech forever.
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> What war are you talking about?

Presumably the one that was either (a) initiated by the 9/11 attacks and formally recognized as already existing by Congress in Public Law 107-40, or (b) was provoked by the 9/11 attacks and declared by Congress in Public Law 107-40, depending on how you choose to look at it.

> What is the objective?

"to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by" "those nations, organizations, or persons [the President determines] planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001".

> What would have to happen for this 'war' to end?

Given the rather fluid definition in PL 107-40, it is not clear that it could formally and completely end absent a subsequent resolution of Congress terminating it.
You should feel lucky they even told you the truth. I've had customers lie to me directly over the phone about how they used our product and found it unsatisfactory, and when it was returned we found the CD-ROM was still sealed in its original plastic.

Selling to businesses (and governments, too) involves a lot of dealing with bullshit. Many times we've told someone we couldn't do the "absolutely must have" feature, and they still bought it. (Once the critical feature was to disable the copy protection, after which they would buy one. And when we refused they bought three.)
While I love to get documentation updates, the comma thing and semi-colon thing is ridiculous, and in the comma case is less correct in this context. The doc re-org isn't a bad thing, though.

But, I also suspect that once there are lots of projects that have this feature, and the maintainers establish that they won't merge non-useful commits, like grammar nitpickery (though good grammar has value, and we merge stuff that fixes grammar in our docs, and I wouldn't mind having people get paid for it) this would become less common. And, reputation still matters. I wouldn't want to be "that guy" (and I wouldn't want to hire that guy for substantial work) that takes advantage of a simplistic system to get paid.
One thing I see as a problem here is that anonymity enforces very careful code reviews focusing on security imlications of the changes.
Not only because is very hard to a sale, you also become a kind-of-employee where your work for them, and have less freedom. And the requeriments change all the time. And the development can (and WILL) take years.

Plus, the corruption. Without "sales comissions" you can't even get the foot in. And you need to know people, and give them vines, go to a fancy restaurant, etc.

IF exist a enterprise somewhere that just do this: I need x, you can do it, let's do it, then I love to get in. I'm not afraid of "boring" CRUDs apps and that stuff.

But without the social connections and bribes,is a not start for me.
> So nobody forced them to accept those jobs, yet their only other option is unemployment

Also, not sure about Germany but it's not uncommon for employment offices to start withholding benefits if you refuse jobs "you're fit for". That would likely include warehouse grunt.
I went to the Mozilla Festival in London this year and was amazed at just how much does Mozilla does. They're very far from just a browser manufacturer.
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I'm really surprised that the FollowPie concept doesn't exist as as a service.

I've noticed on my twitter account that strangers seem to be following me based on my use of hashtags.
The part with update check is interesting.

Java! My current stack is spring mvc 3, spring-data-mongodb. It's not perfect, but at least I don't have to hack my way into basic db ops...
Our hypothesis with this project is that any commit, even a "fluff commit," is better than no commit, and that the overhead of trying to build a more complex accounting model is higher than the cost of paying out 2% for "fluff." Basically, worse is better.

But, we could be wrong! We'll see.
I was thinking more along of the lines of sferik's situation, where someone other than the repo owner funded the rewards. I certainly am not interested in paying anyone to improve any of my projects, but if any were valuable, a third party might.
Rephrase the question and answer it. Is it possible to write code and develop softwares without a degree?
Maybe somewhere in-between? I could present my ideas without labeling them and once people have listened to me I drop the bomb "Oh, by the way, this is what anarchism is all about". Could it work?
I actually have been running into this a lot with my documents in my project. Thinking about making the switch to Rethink. The only thing I'm bummed about is having to migrate all my Mongo code over. Anyone here end up doing something similar?
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> U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found that the program appears to run afoul of the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. He also said the Justice Department had failed to demonstrate that collecting the so-called metadata had helped to head off terrorist attacks.

This is good but the second sentence is worrying. Either we have the constitutional right or the government can suspend it when convenient. The implication here is that if the NSA can demonstrate that collecting metadata is effective in fighting terrorists then abrogating the fourth amendment is okay. The NSA has to abide by the constitution just like everyone else regardless of any supposed advantages it might gain by abrogating the highest law of the land.
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How much code had you written with Mongo before? What were your major pain points in switching?
Check out Lawdingo (YC W13). It's a good place to start.
Care to point out which part of argument you find logically wrong ? I mean I find it correct and I find your hint actually hinting that you are not getting it.
"Taking advantage" does not mean "getting an economic benefit out of a transaction with someone." It's a moral judgment, defined in terms of conformance with social norms and expectations.
"Transformation of data" makes a lot of sense if you're accustomed to "pipes and filters" architectures. It's anything your program might actually do with data that passes through it. Doesn't matter what it is – it's a black box!

Why should handlers and actions be separated? Because they're different things! This is already standard in web architectures: the router is a collection of handlers and the functions that the router calls out to are actions. I like that actions are separated out from the monolithic "controller".
Any links to other blogs/sites where the hacker talks through their thought process like this?

There are plenty of online databases which list exploits but I feel like you can learn a lot more from the process they used to come up with the exploit, as given here.
"Any industry that is built on addressing problems that people naturally have is going to generate lots of revenue."

And in the meantime, if they can make people think they have those problems, that would be even more revenue.

Like the pharmaceutical industry that sell you drugs for diseases you didn't even know existed. Or cigarettes manufacturers that want to solve your problem of not being addicted to nicotine...
Yeah totally agree. I focused on real-time data because offline data processing is often able to be less principled about the usage of time and doesn't need an explicit log (e.g. many ETL pipelines work this way).
You could say something similar about sleep. Yet our bodies and minds need sleep to recharge. I could say something similar about meditation, but it's something you must experience. If you're curious, try it and see what happens, an experiment, as it were.
Thanks for the kind words! The feedback is much apprecaited too. It's currently used largely as a learning tracking tool by our beta community (we intend to launch the open beta early Q1 2014!). We started to focus on the employer side a lot earlier than we had planned due to user feedback and encouragement from startup employers (we wanted to avoid the chicken/egg situation, which is why we focused on building up the consumer side as a learning tracking platform first). Keeping people's data searchable, filterable and readable is certainly top of our minds as we flesh this side out and this is indeed one of our bigger challenges at the moment. We are still working out the best way to tackle this without sacrificing too much flexibility, but at the moment (with a smallish user base) a system of tagging your cards and narratives with skills and then backing that up with a combination of attached evidence and references (using LinkedIn profiles to verify referee identity) for credibility seems to be working pretty well.
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I agree, I think the sentiment for better browsers resonates with web developers. I'm personally more excited by Firefox OS.
Here is a very short summary.

RethinkDB is much easier to set up and operate, has a much more powerful query language, and is much friendlier for application developers.

Cassandra supports high write availability in case of network partitions. RethinkDB does not. The flipside of that is that you (as an app developer) have to deal with conflicts in Cassandra which makes writing applications much more difficult.

If you need high write availability in case of network partitioning, go with Cassandra or Riak. If you don't, go with RethinkDB or MongoDB.
The report makes it sound like Milner is out of investing in YC? Or just the seed stage?
I also asked this questions over on programmers.stackexchange.com "
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I'd welcome support for outline.
I have no such reservations about the NPM/CPAN style, but your assertion that the only other choice is "NIH" isn't quite true. With Python for instance, you can choose SQLAlchemy for your ORM. It has no depencencies. In JavaScript, Mongoose (a good comparison) depends on "hooks, mongodb, ms, sliced, muri, mpromise, mpath, regexp-clone, mquery". Who knows what those in turn depend on. In a strict place, you need to get every one of those things approved, and each represents a moving target if you want to upgrade Mongoose later. Those shops begrudgingly let open source in as it is, so it's a tough sell.
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> What is the replacement for that employee safeguard then?

Interestingly, as in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland don't have minimum wages either), collective bargaining agreements consensually worked on by labor unions, employers and local governments. There tends to be base sector-, industry- or trade-specific agreements. Other comments[0] indicate Amazon apparently does not care for any of these.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916415
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Yeah, I think this has the intractable problem of effectively useless commits.

One might argue that initially those problems would fix themselves as people would grab for the lowly hanging fruit, and that's fine, but I could see someone refactoring segments of code for no realistic reason, but "selling" it as an improvement, for the explicit goal of collecting the money.

Having a gatekeeper prevents this somewhat, but this company seems more interested in some kind of idealistic anarchy.
One may note also that one of the main driving forces of technology has been a relatively high cost of labor--it is theorized that one of the reasons Europeans had such an advantage against the Chinese and Indians in the 1800s, for example, was that they had developed systems not requiring large numbers of people.
Consider the version where Monty does not know what door the car is behind. He randomly opens one of the other two doors, and (per the rules) if he reveals a car, game over too bad. This time, he happened to reveal a goat. Why is the question not "did you guess right originally?"?

I'm quite convinced that it is different if the host knows versus if he does not, but I've never quite been able to put my finger on why in an intuitive way.
I'm sure this happens in all industries and sectors..

The takeaway I feel here is that if you are considering working at an enterprise-focused company (or especially startup), try to get a feeling for how well connected the leadership is, because that will make or break a lot of deals.
> He never learned to code, or design, or market

sounds to me like he was never taught how to code, design or market. he sure did learn it though.