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So correct me if I'm misunderstanding you, but if a website misrenders when using alternative font sizes, the developers are "hipster douchebags"?
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> One utility in general that’s provided us with an easy way to slice up and investigate our AWS spending is the awesome Asgard.

The tool they're actually referring to is Ice (also by netflix) [1]. Asgard is another AWS-based tool for managing deployments and auto-scaling.

[1] https://github.com/Netflix/ice
Yes, it will be fun to watch, but no VC money. Not our thing. We have all the money we need to do everything and anything we want to do.
Private Schooling In India: Results from a Randomized Trial:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/02/pri...
I think what he is implying is, Nadella had a good chance of becoming CEO of TCS and not mere coder as the picture the article is trying to paint.

Afterall current CEO of TCS is from NIT Tricy who was hired straight from campus and rose all the way to CEO position.
>"Moving from OSX to Windows I have noticed a large lack of ease of use and good UX flows in a lot of third party apps."

I would say that is because you were really used to OSX. I was the other way around and really dislike the whole OSX UI experience.

I think it is just a bias based on our previous experience. Right now after moving freely between OSX, Ubuntu and Windows at different jobs for the last 5 years, I still prefer the UI experience of Windows (I only wish Windows would have a command line similar to Linux's one and it would be perfect)
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Thanks. Glad it came through as clear in the end.
Now mentioned in the article.
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Sounds more plausible than this tripe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth

Some idiots still believe it.
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> the mayor forcibly removing the elected city officials and installing emergency city managers

The Detroit emergency financial manager was appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Scott against the loud and outspoken wishes of the citizens and elected officials of the City of Detroit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/us/michigan-appoints-emerg...
Wholeheartedly agree, something up-to-date to bridge the gap between the Django tutorial and Two Scoops would be fantastic!
Of course, the organisation ended up buying it anyway because some twit in another part of the organisation had signed a site license :-(
Campfire and Highrise are not failures at all. They generate millions a year in profits. They just aren't our focus anymore. We want to focus all of our energy on one thing, not multiple things. Nothing more than that. No hidden agendas or hidden news.
The issue is claiming credit for being "Indian" when it has been the US system that should be credited for the same. Sure, you can feel proud that an ordinary run of the mill guy from your country has reached this position but that's that.
Great post. I've been in the same boat. I've seen Sublime used but felt it was a file editor, and not an IDE. I've used Sublimie, vim, cloud9, Eclipse. Cloud9 is definitely the easiest of those, but I don't like always having a cloud based ide. I'm looking into webstorm based on your review.
Obamacare compliant polices tend to have extremely narrow networks of doctors and hospitals

This is a good point.

The narrower networks can, I think, be expected to result in more time off work. I'll have to drive a farther distance to see my doctor, or I'll have to settle for an appointment in the middle of the day. Either way, it's a hit to my time that wouldn't exist under "traditional" schemes.

it is entirely unproven that Obamacare, which focuses on health insurance, is going to result in better health care.

So the fact that you're insured doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get better faster. The doctor can't do anything for you if you've got a cold or the flu; you've just got to ride it out. I suspect that it's cases like this that make up the lion's share of health-related lost productivity.

And even when healthcare can have an impact on your health, I don't believe that the positive effects on worker productivity could be that great. Most employers already provide healthcare insurance, so there's no improvement to the situation there. The only positive effect will be toward those who are already employed but without health insurance, which is a minority.
>They make good products

Do they? That isn't my experience.

>treat […] their […] customers well

Do they? That isn't my experience.
I'd love to visit Iran. From what I've been able to discern, it is a beautiful country with a fascinating culture. There are lots of wonderful things for a student of history to discover in Iran, and I'm very confident that I would establish a long-lasting relationship with the place, were I allowed to visit.

But, it seems that none of this is relevant to the powers that be. Its a darn shame that we have such people in the world, who think their culture is 'better' than anothers, and I yearn for the day when all people abandon their cultural stigma and Just .. Learn .. To .. Share.
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https://recurly.com/‎ is a good billing service for monthly payement.
Respect Indians, however clean up the stupid cast system.
You're meeting the wrong linux users then...
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How many off the books $30,000 jobs do you think there are?

Given the audience of this site, web design would be the obvious choice. But here are some more:

http://livesafely.org/financial-freedom/67-jobs-that-pay-und...
> It is not all that hard to get into an IIM these days actually.

Last year 1,73,735 candidates took the CAT admission test through which the IIMs admit 3,335 MBA students. That's a 1:52 ratio.

Now you could argue that not everyone who takes the CAT is an IIM applicant. So let's take IIM Ahmedabad's (slightly dated) data for 2006-08 admission [1]. Of the 1,44,027 who applied to the institute, 273 secured an admission. That's a 1:527 ratio.

Harvard Business School's admissions:applications ratio is 1:12 [2]

I'm sure you have an explanation of why a 1:527 ratio is "not that hard".

[0] http://www.business-standard.com/article/management/boys-rul...
[1] http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/institute/about/key-facts/institu...
[2] http://www.hbs.edu/about/facts-and-figures/Pages/mba-statist...
I, for one, believe that Harvard/MIT/Stanford have a habit of "picking winners" not in line with egalitarian meritocracy (promoting those willing and able to learn), a system for "converting privilege to credentials" as is said -- witness the bias in tech company hiring practices, and the classic "management consulting" culture, where CEOs and government leaders higher newly-minted Ivy grads to rubber-stamp the leader's choices and provide cover for their decisions.
Oh sure, they are not magic smoke indeed. Still, how do you explain that Use after free bugs are marked Critical in Firefox but High on Chrome? Seems like Chrome is doing a little bit better in security department.

https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firef...

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ch/search/label/Stable%...
IME it's not the "20-something hipster douchebags" (nice stereotype you've got going there) who make websites like this. It's the experienced print designers, who are too set in their ways to work any other way than "I want the site to look exactly like this picture". I doubt it was some proud hipster web designer who made the text at Bloomberg stay small; more likely it was a frustrated developer who has no choice but to follow the orders of their Senior Designer who doesn't understand this newfangled web business (but thinks they do).
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"nationalistic desire" implies an inward looking reason, right?

As I read it, it was part of the fight for the hearts and minds of the 3rd world, the "Western" 1st World's approach to things vs. the Communist's 2nd World approach. Eisenhower let the Soviets orbit the first satellite to de facto establish his Open Skies policy, which the Soviets were mightily objecting to (the principle that outer space overflights were beyond territorial claims like those for airspace) ... but that the usual internal infighting led to our being visibly behind the Soviets in the most visible form of high technology. Which severely weakened our sales proposition to the 3rd World....

One explicit objective that developed, especially after LBJ took over, was uplifting the South with high tech. The opportunity of spending an extra billion in Texas is why we didn't build any infrastructure in space....
You missed a key point: Israel HAS the bomb, and threatens EVERYONE with it - even its so-called allies.

So thats why Iran - in stating it has no intentions of pursuing the bomb - is so infuriating to the fascist Israeli government. Because everyone knows, the most instable people in the world to have the bomb, already have it.
Can anyone name a trust-worthy competitors? I've done some searching and most competitors seem to be still branded with "Web 2.0" bubbles and the apps left rotting in its own feces the last 5 years.

I'm genuinely looking for competitors to Basecamp for small businesses. Zoho?
This is why I think streaming is a broken model: it spikes usage at the same time every day. BitTorrent (or just off-line downloading) is so much better because you can amortize the download over the whole day and take advantage of off-peak bandwidth. We just need to convince copyright holders that its in their best interest to deliver a superior product.
I was reading Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking [0] a few years ago and it was really fascinating to see how easy it is to get the user to give us data versus unlocking an AES256 encrypted value on a computer I'm not allowed to touch.

Since I do a lot of work in PCI (Ecommerce / Orders / Credit Cards) I've learned that the most secure systems never allow the human user to access decrypted data. That things like tokenization work, and it's far better to give an abstraction of a credit card for tech support and developers to work with than the actual card even though on the surface it seems like it's not a big deal.

If you are designing a system and at any point think, "This data is okay for the user to access because they can't (share/steal/walk out of the building with) it." You should seriously read the book I mentioned above. It really is impossible for you to imagine all of the very logical scenarios that would lead a janitor to keep a door unlocked. In fact, I can already think of a handful of reason why, if I were a janitor, I would keep that door unlocked because of a sticky note.

[0]http://www.amazon.com/Social-Engineering-The-Human-Hacking/d...
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I'm the article author, and yes, we're using or evaluating both services. I find myself swapping the two all the time in conversation. Pretty silly typo on my part :)
Umm wait, isn't such a dispute exactly what we call net-neutrality? Consumers pay ISPs for internet access, and now ISPs also want money from websites that provide a service to the consumers. But filtering those websites until they pay the ISP to be let through is the opposite of net neutrality. If what you're saying is true and ISPs are asking Netflix (or subsidiaries) to pay them to be let through unthrottled, then this is indeed the net neutrality problem as the OP reports.
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If you liked Cloudkick I think you should also check out https://mist.io. In fact we started mist.io when Cloudkick was about to close down. We like to think of it as mobile friendly Cloudkick with a twist.
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Some newer HTML5 elements (Shadow DOM) are supported and some still have a ways to go. A coworker of mine wrote a great writeup about the state of the accessibility of the Shadow DOM in modern browsers. http://substantial.com/blog/2014/02/05/accessibility-and-the...
A follow-up question for interviewers lurking here on HN:

What are your thoughts about candidates who code correct solutions in a language not in use at your workplace?

I have a nagging feeling that some positions in my group have gone unfilled due to tech stack mismatches in candidates who were probably perfectly capable (or better) coders, but were most recently working in other tech stacks. Considering these types of candidates seems to be challenging in my workplace.
By that logic you should should really love the hospital you were born in. After all, it was more involved in bringing you into the world than the ground it was built upon.

The whole notion of "my country" is really interesting... If you were swiss, but born and raised in India, does India become "your country" or not?

The media in Subcontinent area feeds loads of BS about nationalism to the point that you start to believe it and start to thing it's true. Even the Indian national anthem's first verse is India is better than the whole world. Perhaps upon leaving India people realize common threads of humanity that bind communities together.

With the advent of the internet hopefully more people are learning this without having to leave a country as people work in multi national teams remotely. The people I interact with are very every day are in India, UK, Bosnia etc. We work on the same thing together. There are accents and cultural differences, but a lot of what we assume about people we haven't met dissolve in the face of realities which challenge your biased views.

The internet in some way has helped dilute the power of national boundaries. You find clusters like HN where people of all background come together and interacts based on commonalities that transcend mere physical attributes of our existence. While I agree that the physical attributes are still important, nationalism is not a physical attribute, it one imposed by some a-hole who wanted to draw lines and have power.

Love your mother, your family and the hospital that you were born in. (If you were born in a barn, said love should go to barn). Destroy those to dare assert superiority over those who were born in your particular hospital/field/barn etc. If that sounds ridiculous, please thing about how some other arbitrary inanimate object in place of hospital/field/barn makes more sense.
Why did 37Signal's Jason Fried decide to narrow the company's focus?
Ah yes, when they believed Rails would eat the world.
I too have Verizon FIOS and have no issues to speak of, other than the cost. But I don't assume that everyone else has had similar experiences. Typically it works out that areas with choices tend to get better service while the experience degrades as customers have fewer choices.

Personally, I wish they'd quit trying to convince me to increase my bill by a significant amount by including TV, of which I've made it quite clear I do not want.
Are you sure you don't mean GB instead of MB? Because 200MB is like one youtube video with some decent quality.
Embarrassingly dumb. Especially considering the fact that they changed their name today: http://37signals.com/.
I'd like to plug DuetApp.
Ask HN: What are pressing issues that will affect humanity this decade?
50 years? 100 years? This year?
>"Adobe and Autodesk all have multiple apps on iOS"

They don't really compare well, iOS versions lack a lot of important features in comparison with the windows ones.

>" How many Metro apps have they released? "

I believe the point is they don't need to, they desktop software runs just fine.

>"All the software you're talking about only really works in desktop/laptop mode with a mouse"

Not really, all those apps actually benefits from the use of a stylus (actually artist prefer that more than using a mouse) and that's something that you can't really do with an iPad (I own an Ipad2 and I had really tried hard to do anything productive on it without luck)
We (European) need to have a unified taxation system for this kind of business. Nationalizing a tax on internet companies sounds like a lots of headache trying to figure out who own what to whom. Either this or a tax on internet (financial) transaction; something like 1-1,5% of the amount transferred.
That was fun. If you like this sort of thing, "Heavy Planet"[1] is a good hard scifi book set on Mesklin, a fictional super-Earth which spins fast enough to make gravity significantly less at the equator. It's also a good adventure story, if you like 1950s scifi.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesklin
In "the trades", e.g. electrical and plumbing work, LOTS. Don't know about you, but my family pays in cash for that sort of work without asking any questions....

Elsewhere, well, look at e.g. Italy where I've read that the people don't view the central government as legitimate and evading taxes is said to be the national pastime. Read up on the tax police stopping cars in the industrial north and checking trunks.

Our current tax system is truly voluntary in a certain sense, and would seriously break down if we widely adopted such attitudes for whatever reasons.
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You're right of course, but the tactics they used (especially against oss/linux and the web) pissed off a lot of people.

If destroying meant: making yet a better product and marginalizing the competition (with the product or through marketing) it would be business as usual, but it seems microsoft didn't understand that their embrace-extend-extinguish method would backfire in the internet age.
Oh definitely MB. It was miserable having to reset the phone every few minutes.
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If you're going to stand by your judgment, you should do so on both sides.

Actors within government are generally aware that their actions have some negative consequences. They have a lot of smart people who tell them about problems that can (and will) occur, along with some likelihoods of the magnitude and frequencies of those problems. So under your classification scheme, there really aren't many unintended downsides of governmental action.

You seem to be conflating the public marketing of a policy (it will be sunshine and rainbows) with the internal understanding of a policy (it will solve a few problems, create a few different problems, and hopefully net positive).
I like the idea of the product and your pricing is fine. But you just have to figure out a way to hit your target market. In this case, your target market is probably freelance developers.

I know that I've evaluated http://letsfreckle.com/ and other similar options in the past. Their copy appeals to me and it easily lets me know what it is they do and how it is valuable to me. But it isn't what I was looking for.

If you can explain yourself similarly, I suspect you'll have success.
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thanks - the concern is legit, it might be throttled like the article said. OR the guy on the phone is inept and has no idea what he is talking about. Either way the threat is real possibility but whether it is actually happening is hard to verify.

Lack of competition though is a hard barrier to climb. If there are only say 2 ISPs in your area it seems like you are pretty much SOL. And that is where government intervention needs to happen.
This might be exactly what I'm looking for. looks really great.
Maybe I misread originally, but I didn't expect to have to buy a new ebook to go from 1.5 -> 1.6.

I understand why the authors have decided to produce a new* book, but I don't think they've thought about the emotional impact from a customer's perspective.

*new for existing owners, who have to buy it all over again
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The Prime Directive only works if you assume that these hypothetical species are much more altruistic than we ourselves are. I find it highly unrealistic that any species, however highly evolved, would be 100% altruistic, with no rebels/thieves/slavers/prospectors that would desire to interfere with or destroy us humans.

And that's not to mention that realistically it would be almost impossible for a civilization to completely hide its presence. For example as humans our radio footprint from TV and radio and satellite broadcasts is spreading out of our solar system. That's going to keep on traveling and I don't see any way that we'd be able to just "erase" that so that no one else would notice it.
Is the .tex file typically easier to read/understand? Or is there a way to compile .tex into something that's easy to read and understand?
Not quite. What I want is to be able to easily find a new job on the strength of my skills and aptitude rather than my social connections, without having to move my entire household. Again. I want to be able to work with both younger people and older people, with managers that used to do what I do, even if they weren't as good at it. And I want a 40-hour work week or less.

That isn't exactly a tall order. It is possible to find companies that do treat employees like people with lives outside the office. Larger and more dysfunctional companies apparently like to swallow them whole, digest them, and crap out the useless cost centers. It would be nice to not have to uproot and relocate every time that happens.
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"When we meet people, and they ask us what we do, we say we work for 37signals. If they aren't in the tech world, they'll squint and say "what's that?". When we say "we're the folks who make Basecamp", their eyes light up and open wide. "Basecamp! Oh I love Basecamp!..."

I haven't seen someone so proud of their mediocre-at-best product. Basecamp leaves A LOT to be desired. We switched to Jira and couldn't be happier.
Nationality can be chosen by people like Nobel Laureates who can move anywhere, for most people they're more or less stuck where they started unless they get lucky in a lottery
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>“We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.”

Well, this is obviously wrong.

Birth is not just a random momentary thing. It involves your parents. And they already had a nationality too. You couldn't have been born by any two random other people and still be the same person (DNA, childhood raising, education, food, native language, et al).

Second, you is not your birth only. It's also your upbringing, the culture you grew up in, the state/legal/etc environment you were raise, the language you spoke, the cuisine you were raised with, heck, even the national TV channels you were watching while growing up.

Would anybody dare to say the same thing to a black person? Nah, your culture and stuff is nothing, you could just as well be white? He'd be totally right to tell you to fuck off, for he has lived his culture (including bad treatment by white folks) all his life -- he knows that he being black wasn't just some "accident of birth", but an identity. Even a kid grewing up in Brooklyn by European Jews owes a lot to both Brooklyn and to him descending from European Jews (just ask Woody Allen).

It's also a potentially harmful way to see things. It's basically just an excuse to feel independent and non-connected and owning solidarity to anyone. Home country in danger? "Fuck it, I'll just flee. After all, it's only me, me, me that matters".

(You can feel solidarity for other nationalities and countries while also feeling pride and solidarity for your own people. Feeling solidarity for other people when you don't even care about your own is a little more difficult, despite those people paying lip service to "we're all one").