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Congratulations! That is a great milestone to celebrate.

I was wondering about your numbers though, your post says :

> $3,000,000+ yearly revenue run rate (and growing fast)
>
> Grown the Team to 34 full-time people and hiring
> at least 10 more as soon as possible

Profitable with $3M run rate and 34 people? That is $88K fully loaded per person. Can you share some techniques for keeping your burn rate so economical?

[1] As an example, with a nice (but not lawyer nice) office and a healthcare plan we're paying > $30K per employee annually for just office space and medical benefits.
Despite its assertion to the contrary, that looks like a preprocessor to me.
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Not sure why this has been down-voted. I think you're obviously right about this case. We know for a fact that the author presents no great threat to society. So, in this case we can say that the officers that witnessed his conduct were correct in their assessment that he was no threat.

The problem is that the only people who seem to benefit from laws being enforced based on their spirit not their letter are white people. Minorities on the other hand don't seem to enjoy the same benefits.

And getting past the issue of faulty heuristics, the authors experience post-arrest was pretty ridiculous.

How is anyone or anything served by treating arrested people like that?

Keeping in mind that hypothetically you are innocent until proven guilty. You should not be punished until you've been convicted of something.
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exist not because the acts themselves are particularly heinous, but because they're proxies for things that are dangerous, namely gang activity.

How does that work exactly? Surely if you want to target violent gangs, you target the violence. Arresting them for painting seems to be about the most backward thing imaginable.
Not a book, but the essay "Conscience of a Hacker" has never been far from my mind.

In middle-school, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers started a fairly strong libertarian bend as well as a somewhat antiauthortarian

In high-school, Atlas Shrugged gave me a clear vision of how important it was to create things with the skills I'd learned, and how naked self-interest could shape a society.

In college, Pump Six illustrated the failings of "In the future, it's going to be even more awesome to be rich and white".

After college, The Jungle showed me both the importance of social safety nets and how easily people who say "I'll just work harder" get screwed by the system--any system. Makers gave me a better appreciation for taking care of my self and my body.

~

It's important, I think, to constantly be reading new things and taking in new ideas; had I stopped with Atlas Shrugged, for example, I'd probably be a lot different (and more naive) than I am today.
In Chrome I get an empty dark blue screen unless I tell Ghostery not to block the Google +1 tracker.
Sure, but punishments generally take into consideration what the crime means overall. For example if you sold cocaine to a friend once in your life then all logic says there's no need to prosecute you as a dealer (not that it wouldn't necessarily happen anyway), but if you were caught that one time the logic behind a serious punishment is the assumption that you're doing it more than once and thus affecting society. So even though they can't charge you with any more, the crime "selling cocaine" takes that into account with its sentencing already.
I've worked 9-5 type hours at three companies. At my current employer, the office is empty by 6pm.
"We are not inherently better than those people, we're just luckier about our surroundings."

It seems to me people choose their own actions. When enough choose badly, the society as a whole decays.
Yep, sure am! I really like CM as it's a "big ideas" type-of tech conference, compared to the other sorts we tend to have in the area, which are more geared towards flavor-of-the-month web framework demos and the like.
>>However, I think he ignores a really salient distinction: a lot of these "crimes" like the laws against graffiti, exist not because the acts themselves are particularly heinous, but because they're proxies for things that are dangerous, namely gang activity.

I hear Banksy is the head of a premier criminal gang in the UK.
I have always wondered whether an average Javascript programmer could generate ninja like javascript code using Dart ? If so, I would gladly invest the time to learn Dart.
Hmm... so you're just a disinterested observer asking for help in understanding the reasons for which the government classifies some things and not others as cosmetics for regulatory purposes? I'm afraid I can't help you there, and you're right, I'm not really interested.

My personal opinion is that products that are dangerous by their very nature, such as radium-containing makeup, lead paint, and formaldehyde-laden hair products, should be strictly regulated. Given that, I naturally support the existence of regulatory agencies to do the work, by force if necessary.

I don't know enough about triclosan to have a strong opinion about it. I'm a pragmatist by any measure, and I generally lean toward the conservative side in this area. But I'm not so rash that I would question the very existence of all regulations just because said agencies make a decision that I don't like.

Edit: My last sentence reads a bit harshly. I'm not calling you rash, but rather reflecting on my own thought process.
I admit it's a bit abstract but here goes.

Guy 2 (inventor) had to employ himself, other people, and capital in order to create the widget. He has to pay those people and the owners of the capital, and in turn they now have income which they do "stuff" with. Some of it's consumed (spent) and some is saved (invested), in each case having yet more downstream effects. Maybe Guy 2 realizes he can sell more widgets to more people but needs to employ more labor and capital in order to do so. Multiply this sort of ripple effect by a kajillion, every second of the day, and that's sort of how it works. It's never stagnant, and the more activity there is, generally speaking, the more wealth creation is taking place.

But in a capitalist world, nothing is stopping anyone from being Guy 2, which is kind of my original point.
Great at phone interviews, horrible at in-person interviews
I've been interviewing at various startups in NYC for the past 8 months and have yet to get an offer. I'm trying to figure out what exactly I'm doing wrong.

I generally get great feedback during interviews and technical screenings via the phone, but when it comes to meeting in-person I feel like I'm doing something majorly wrong.

I'm generally a very introverted person and I'm assuming my anxiety becomes apparent when I first meet people. Considering that culture fit is so important in the startup world, I'm worried that I won't be able to find a job in a startup because of it.

I've only worked in larger organizations before so culture fit wasn't as important. Does anyone have any advice or similar experiences?
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Application time is highly leveraged. Think about how many hours you'll spend at your job. It's worth putting in the time to pursue the right job.
Yes, you guessed part of our setup, it is Microsoft all the way, except for the integrated SAP systems.

We only do mixed vendor stacks, in our JVM projects.
>The police he encountered possibly weren't 'used' to the sort of behavior he was exhibiting

They aren't supposed to be used (e.g to crime being black).

They are supposed to use their eyes and investigate.

That's their work.
> When it comes to the inner city and gang activity, that's not so clear cut. What are you going to do, issue monetary fines?

You can still issue monetary fines. Often the judge will ascertain the defendant's ability to pay, and then arrange for monthly payments to be made toward the total. Failure to pay those fines could result in a few days of jail time.
>the part of humanity pushing advancement towards understanding the universe and creating entirely new paradigms every six months while

>half the world is still monkeys with sticks

These categories are not exclusive. Middle-class professionals are the authors of most of the horrors of the modern world. Just because you can do math and/or program for a smartphone doesn't mean that you don't have utterly irrational and/or repugnant views.

>the monkeys inevitably get advanced technologies without the wisdom or maturity required to use it responsibly

They "get" them because middle-class people sell them for profit, or give them away because they agree with what the "monkeys" are doing.
We have SQL Server tests but they were not included in this round. They were last in Round 7 and we'll include them again in Round 9. Here is SQL Server in Round 7:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...

Also, we have a JSON.NET test implementation thanks to community contribution. It's test #138 and named "aspnet-jsonnet" as seen on the following chart of C# tests:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7...
You could also try to spook investors though, and make the confidence evaporate, possibly without having to spend much yourself.
Not sure how you got the inside scoop into the judge's thought process, but yeah, I assume he was pissed for exactly the reasons I listed; his time wasted, police time wasted, money wasted. Who knows, maybe the judge is just a big jerk who is happy with the unfairness in the justice system, but you don't know that any more than I do and there are plenty of good judges and cops out there.

You also don't know how this guy interacted with the police and the judge. He may have been a jerk himself. No one knows, but I do know that the legal system is not run by robots, and if your intention is to piss people off who have the power to screw with your life then, well... prepare to be screwed.

This is in no way a commentary on the substance of the article, nor am I defending the judge's decision. There's plenty of unfairness in the legal system (I've been on the receiving end a couple of times in my youth) and it's not right.
I dunno, maybe because we read the article?
The proxy angle is interesting, but I don't think that's main factor here. What's walking through someone's lawn a proxy for? The cops see a kid who looks like trouble and who's technically breaking the law and they arrest him, whether the specific crime is a proxy for anything or not.

And then there's the question of what "the spirit of the law" means. The courts wouldn't allow a blanket prohibition on "gang activity," even if that may be what legislature had in mind.
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> Teenage boys are idiots. I was one, most of us were, if you never raised any hell then good for you, I guess.

Yes. The difference is that in the inner city, they're idiots without fathers, without authority figures, living in an environment where that power vacuum is replaced by gangs. Teenage idiocy amounts to a qualitatively different threat under those conditions. It's unfortunate that black or Hispanic kids are far more likely to find themselves in that situation than white kids, but does that mean we should treat gang-related graffiti intended to intimidate the same way we treat some dumb suburban kids playing a prank?

I'm not saying that our approach is the best one. I'm saying that there is more to the story than "zomg, the police are oppressing minorities!"

Look, I live in one of the most inner-city inner cities (Wilmington, DE). It's a place where the murder rate is comparable to Bogota, Colombia, and where there was a shooting this year on Main Street (rumor is more than one, and in one case the target was a public bus) just blocks from the central business district.[1] It's a really complicated situation. On one hand I feel bad for the kids without fathers, etc. I lament the de-facto segregation and oppression that continues to exist as a direct consequence of de jure segregation and oppression.

On the other hand, this shit isn't all theoretical and academic, and life isn't all about idealism. I have a wife and a kid and we live here and sometimes walk home from work late at night, and I'm not going to complain if the police crack some heads in the process of keeping the gang violence to a low simmer. I think this makes me less morally culpable than the other middle/upper class people, who have just abandoned the city altogether and live in homogenous enclaves in the suburbs, just driving in for work and quickly shuffling the distance from their office to the parking garage every day.

[1] Once, my dad and I were driving around trying to return a rental truck late at night and he suggested we try again in the morning because the place made him uncomfortable. This is a guy who was in Yemen in the 1990's when the civil war broke out, was in Afghanistan in the shadow of Tora Bora while the U.S. was fighting the Taliban, was in Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake...
Any more promo codes? looks like these are already used up =)
> Because you have to do something beyond having your telephone ready to use, like making a call - and the call associated Metadata is a given, location is somewhat inherent to a landline.

Concerning cellphones, that is a distinction that only you make. Network-based location service doesn't make it, nor do the authorities, nor do the telcos, nor does your phone. Network-location can be done even on dumb phones, and if they can capture your location from making a call, they can capture your location without you making a call.

Regarding handset-based GPS technology also does not depend on whether or not you're actively making a call or not. Obviously, this excludes dumb phones that don't have GPS, but location tracking is done anytime your phone is on and the GPS radio is active. if the GPS radio is inactive, network-based location still works. If your phone is on, your GPS radio is active, if someone is tracking you based on that information, it makes no difference to them whatsoever whether your phone is making a call or not -- you are just as trackable either way.

Beyond this, again, I fail to see the distinction anywhere. If we're just talking about what's in Smith v MD, which was decided in 1979, then we can exclude all cell phone data whatsoever, as they weren't in use then. If we're talking about just landlines, then the content of the calls would be excluded anyway. Either way, none of it is necessarily conclusive without the content of the call itself, because anybody could have made the call.

I'm just confused as to where you chose to draw the line specifically, as there really isn't a line there. You're of course welcome to make the distinction however you like, but if you're basing it on some precedent, I'm afraid there isn't any. If you're basing it on technological limitations, then again, there isn't any. If it's just your personal preference on how trackable you think you ought to be, then I'm worried you're dramatically underestimating the implication of what you're saying.
True for the desktop, when targeting certain browser versions, though.
Look at your bicycle. It does exactly that.
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Grouper founder here. Would love to get feedback on BitBar.
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Mockery of justice, that.

Enough to make one doubt the legitimacy of any verdict, much less that particular one.
Great post series. Definitely also check out the earlier posts.
Right, but your trivializing the problem. Only a clown "inserts negativity", because inserting <ambiguity> equally if nor moreso effective at undermining your authority as a manager.

Firing someone for <creating> "an ambiguous situation" might in fact be the simple, correct action.

But if you fired someone evertime you were just <in> an ambiguous situation? Not so much. Good luck with that, because your boss might probably fire you next=D.

Its also why you'll find a "good leader" is never surrounded by this crap. If you think about the "broken windows" theory of policing, where low-level crime creates an atmoshere conducive to "real crime", there is probably a decent analogy. Good leaders are adept at working through <uncertainty>, but distinguish this from <ambiguity> for this reason. IMHO.
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I used to do this back in early 2012. I stopped because the spread became lower than the cost of trading + forex fees and because I got nervous when MtGox took 4 weeks to wire me nearly $10,000 that I couldn't really afford to lose.

Counterparty risk is huge in the BTC world unfortunately.
Do you feel the reverse auction approach left money on the table? I know you got a bit of push back on the price from those looking for a "deal" but you have a potential sale at your top price.
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I agree, I'm not sure what postprocessor would even mean in this context.
I'm skeptical about the idea of Test Driven Development being a great method of production at a hackathon. Has anyone actually tried this at a hackathon and come out the better for it?
Supposedly an old post (but I can't find the date year on hte post). Are Treehouse still hiring?
I'm really surprised with ASP.NET/C# results :-S
If nations applied the same silly security theater to trains that they force upon aircraft, the train advantage would be cut to ~2hr trips.
Interesting observation regarding the differences between the EC2 and i7 results: the platforms at the top of the EC2 benchmarks are generally MongoDB+async io java, while the ones at the top of the i7 results are MySQL+heavily threaded (go, servlet, openresty). I think it's a pretty interesting result because it shows how much your choice of available hardware has on which platform would be best - and it's not a small difference either.

If you're going for an EC2/digital ocean setup with a lot of small instances, then you want to go with something like vert.x or node or whatever - while if you are deploying directly onto bare metal high core/ram servers, you'd be better off with something that is better at handling high thread counts - something like Golang.
I guess HN is sending too much traffic there. Getting 500s for 20 minutes now.
Intelligence Unit may include counter-terrorism duties, but they are also involved in surveillance of organized crime, robbery suspects, and witness protection, among other things. (Though these duties may differ from city to city).
You sound suitability convinced? Why inform other of the potential millions to be made. Go forth and earn said millions.
I'd wager this is ~90% of the problem with the modern day employment market. Monster et al made it too easy to apply for a job. Now every position gets 1000 applicants and every applicant applies for 100 jobs. The applicant thinks the more they apply, the better their chances. The employer thinks there is a cookie cutter, definition employee out there that will fit 110%, be overqualified, and willing to work for less because the applicant won't get any of the other 100 jobs they shotgunned. The employer passes on applicant after applicant and waits until they find the 10x employee. The applicants move on to their next 100 cover letters.
The time to transfer btc from one exchange to another is almost an hour. This makes arbitrage quite risky as the price is quite volatile over that time period.
Here are my results (using Mac Mini and iPhone):

1. Setup/pairing: Clear instructions, worked perfectly

2. Access to phone book: OK and can be denied and then requires manual dialling

3. Making calls: OK

4. Receiving calls: OK, gives a notification.

I like the app, it works great. Good job.
not making any claims about its conclusiveness, the poster to which I was replying made an argument to incredulity to which there is actually contradicting evidence.

Since chimpanzees are relatively sexually dimorphic perhaps they are not a good way to argue against human sex differences. Also since chimps and monkeys have less sophisticated use of objects it shouldn't be surprising that the evidence has some degree of muddling but we know that there are sex differences in play behavior, such as male juveniles monkeys preferring rough-and-tumble play, or females showing more interest in the infants in their group (which the studies I cited earlier reference).

If I were to make a more general case, however, this wouldn't be the only evidence that I would rely on.

You might look at studies of very young children, younger than it is believed they would be aware of their gender:

http://jbd.sagepub.com/content/25/1/7.abstract

If you're disinclined to belief update from that, you could still say they were still influenced by culture somehow.

Going further you could look at even eye-tracking studies of infants:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19016318

If you were still disinclined, you could say there's still social influence in there, maybe, it can't be ruled out...

But then look at evidence of prenatal hormone exposure, such as digit ratio (marker of androgen):

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886909...

Or those with hormonal disorders:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12414881

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/3/3/203.short

http://people.uncw.edu/hungerforda/Infancy/PDF/Prenatal%20ho...

If toy preferences are socially constructed, why would an obscure endocrine disorder predict toy preference according to the hormones that boys or girls were more typically exposed to? The latter study suggests that those with atypical hormone exposure face increased socialization pressure to conform, yet which apparently shows the least influence on their preference.
had the same reaction. in german citys police officers are quite a rare sight. usually only found near train stations, or the odd criminal hot-spot.
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It certainly is technology, just not new technology. ;-)
Certainly most of you have already read but next time you read "A Brief History of Time" focus more on how Stephen thinks and how he deals with uncertainty, it's like reading a new book.
To provide more context: in 1990, London and NYC were of a similar size (~8 million) though NYC was and is quite a bit more dense. London had 184 homicides. NYC had 2,262. This past year London was down to 86, versus NYC's 414.
It's a sign their profit is not just from the service they provide, which is really rather simple, but from a historically grown, entrenched system that is very hard to get rid of. They're basically a tax on society, and we'd be much better off if authors and their institutions made a clean break.
Yea, those are issues that were considered including regulations...but I think ultimately those by them self would not be a reason not to give it a shot. If the business picks up then you can address those concerns. All the new ride sharing services face similar liability issues.
" everyone was the same. It was all 20-25 year olds, glasses, beards, tshirts, jeans, all white males."

Culture is not just about ethnicity or how you look like or what hobbies do you have ? At work, culture is about how you work together with the team to accomplish the same goal that the company has. Whether it is making shitload of money for shareholders or building the most beautiful product, you should ideally believe in that culture. I care less if all co-workers around me are white or black or orange, what I do care about is how they treat me, their work, their company, their attitude. What kind of work environment does the company promote ? Open door ? Face to face conversations ? These are the examples of "culture".