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I finished my first website and would like your opinion
Hi,

I made this website over the past few weeks and would like to know what you guys think. It's a simple counter you can use at work that tells you, in real-time, how much you made during the day. It takes in account non-paid breaks too.

The URL is mymoneysofar.com

Thank you for your time and feedback!

Edit: The URL is mymoneysofar.com, sorry for the inconvenience!
Yes, PRNGs should be good enough, and PRNGs that are supposed to be cryptographically secure should definitely be good enough. (A PRNG that is not cryptographically secure still could be good enough for simulations.) Any method to distinguish a PRNG from true randomness would be the basis of a cryptographic attack on the PRNG. In fact, PRNGs are better for simulations because it allows the results to be reproduced exactly from a small seed.
"Y Combinator’s growth scientists..."

Seriously? Can we stop fucking calling people who do things that aren't actually science "scientists"?
Duly noted! It's been relatively hard to discover so we're working on that for the next version of DDG. Really appreciate the feedback in-favor!
> "Holographic Recording ... remains irrelevant to consumers until we have convenient holographic displays to match."

I'm not sure why Lytro hasn't touted this side of the technology... the first consumer holographic display (oculus rift) is due relatively soon.
Simulate the scenario with water in a pool with a tiny pipe opening at the bottom if the pool leading down. The water will shoot out with a high velocity this means the pressure in the pipe will be higher than pressure in the pool. If you apply this analogy to people and exits, it means that the people directly in the exit hallway( the pipe ) will experience a high change in speed, and since people aren't fluid, friction, thus making their escape more difficult.
Make it http://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-did-Quora-join-the-20... so you don't have to log in to read that answer.
According to the article over half of it ($80 million) was only raised last month, so hopefully little of that went anywhere yet.
Like we've stopped doing for hackers, engineers, artists, rockstars, etc?
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Nice project, and will probably work great for short-term studies, but you'll want to improve the battery life and work hard on weatherproofing if it's to be used in the field for anything other than temporary projects.

I used to work for a company (http://www.trafx.net/) that specialized in making a device just like this, but using a passive infrared sensor instead of the ultrasonic sensor. The number one field problem is moisture damage to the electronics. Condensation, UV failure of seals, ice expansion through seals, etc. The list goes on. Based on the moss on the trees in the photo, it looks like a pretty wet environment, so you'll want to double-triple-quadruple seal that case and sensors before you think about leaving it outside for more than a month or two.

For comparison, we had some customers that had had our units in continuous use for nearly 10 years. Battery life on 3xAA alkaline was about 60 months using the IR sensor. The Arduino+ultrasonic sensor is a pretty power hungry combination for a battery-operated unit that might need to operate for extended periods. 5 days is a pretty short study period, a lot of the useful statistics that land management organizations want to see will span multiple years.
I think theres something to be said in favor of it. Not all programming languages have js execution model. Does js even support true concurrency already? Not last i checked: there goes a whole class of potentially useful applications. We really do want support for these things. It is good for creativity, therefore innovation, because we have more tools to work with.
As I read the topic over and over again, this heavily depends on how long one has stayed in the industry. Most of the people claiming they're "burned out" are people with as little as up to three years of experience. To me it seems they just don't like being programmers.
hey offspace, the webpage seems to be down.
Restart it and give us a shout :)
Valve did the same thing last year, but too see how much more successful it is this year see the graph at the bottom of this page, its staggering.

http://dota2.cyborgmatt.com/prizetracker/international2014
That Quora (or any company for that fact) wants to join YC is pretty obvious. For me, the non-obvious thing is why YC would like anything to do with Quora. Maybe I'm missing something but with the bad things going on at Quora, I can't see what's in it for YC. Sure, a high-profile company that you now have a small piece in but I didn't think YC would go for companies with a reputation already. I thought YC was for helping companies starting up and gaining reputation. I don't really believe "Altman wants a piece of every billion dollar company".
Nope, looks like they raised 18M total over 2 rounds.

Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange
What has been spent has mostly been spent on salaries. I suspect they're keeping a much larger buffer than a lot of companies, for two reasons: because they can raise money cheaply, and because they don't have a clear monetization path yet, so it might be years before they have meaningful revenue, even if they discovered the strategy today.

I'd just estimate 250k/person/year loaded cost for their expenses, and it would probably be accurate -- they're not making big media buys or other non-personnel expenses. 125k salary ends up being about 250k once all other direct and indirect costs are factored in.
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Not true.

"Announcing the Stack Overflow Series A Financing" (2010):
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/announcing-our-series-...

"Stack Overflow Raises $12 Million" (2011):
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-09/stack-overflow-rais...

and also http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/a-new-name-for-stack-o...
This best explains why Quora joined YC. They surely need some advice when they are going down the way of the Experts exchange.
Stack Exchange has raised two rounds totaling $18M from USV, Spark, Index and angels: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-exchange

Also from your link:

"When I put all these things together the conclusion is that StackOverflow is one of those rare companies for which VC can really work."
Thanks for the heads up! We're going to update this page soon--IMDBAPI uses a variety of sources, one of them (iirc) is OMDBAPI.com and it looks like the error is stemming from there: http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Shawshank%20Redemption
That is true if you read "comment" as "description". That is the weird connection in a lot of bad comment.

But in real life, what is truly a comment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comment)? Is like in sports: A commenter talk about the game and add context to enrich the narrative of that game: "Mr. Jhon score a avg of NNN/MMM in this season"

A comment that is a description of what the code is doing, is redundant (if the language is not obscure). But as a "commentary" of the circumstances around that code, is useful:

"This code is a workaround of the BUG (url). TODO: Remove when it get solved".
Why not? I see the same stuff every day, could do with some interesting content
Hmm, strange. Sometimes I have trouble on Chrome with it. Try mymoneysofar.com/index.html
I'm pretty sure all of the purchases result in the same 75-25 split so that part of the math isn't wrong. It's just that fewer total people have donated that amount.
> Most chains tend to serve coffee around 160-170 F / 71-77 C.

Coffee at 160F can quite easily cause third degree burns. It can cause third degree burns in less than one second.

http://www.burnfoundation.org/programs/resource.cfm?c=1&a=3
I suppose it really depends on the poll. Answering ‘What is your age?’ would be frustrating if all the options were scrambled. But anything subjective like ‘What’s your favourite programming language?’ would certainly benefit from random ordering.
A whole series of articles introducing UNIX:

http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/bstj-vol57-issue06...
Sounds like that still requires that we trust DDG to be actually using the code in its git repo.
I think it's fixed, try mymoneysofar.com. Sorry about that!
I'm not sure what the financial benefit is for Y Combinator XX, LP, but there's definitely some value to all the other YC companies in having dangelo as a YC founder and part of the network.

(I'd have preferred Elon Musk for sure, but I suspect that wasn't on the table...)
Isn't Go's purpose to be a high-performance language that improves worker productivity?
Has anyone made a browser plugin for automatically appending that yet?
> You still seem to imply that there is a maximum height potential, and getting closer to it, is better.

Oh please. I spent that entire post explaining that that is not my intention. The problem is probably my use of the word "potential", which has positive connotations, generally. I intend it to mean just possibility. Clearly, there are a lot of cases where this potential can manifest themselves as opposite extremes, and where there is no clear objective goodness of falling on either end of the extremes. In other cases, it may be totally subjective. In other cases, yet, it may not matter. I think, given extreme circumstances, people in general have the potential in them for great evil. But clearly, that is not good or desirable. I should have clarified from the beginning my use of the word desirable. But it is you who chose to cling to it (if I'm right in that being the problematic word).

Stop projecting the issues# you have with the tallness-worship of our/some cultures onto me!

#by which I mean protests, intellectual arguments against the practice, etc. I don't mean to imply that you have some emotional issue with this kind of thing. See? I ran out of accurate words so I had to resort to a word with too much semantic baggage.
I'd start with going over the points of this article (assuming you haven't done just that:) -- https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serv...
The rift is not really holographic, it's 'just' stereoscopic. Nvidia is working on light field glasses though, and I believe this might be the future, because it allows for much sleeker eyepieces, at a higher computational cost. https://research.nvidia.com/publication/near-eye-light-field...
As far as I'm concerned, PostgreSQL should be the standard for any new free software projects. It's just too bad so many older projects (Wordpress, etc.) are tied to MySQL.
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> According to British cultural critic Norman Lebrecht, a violinist in 1960 could expect to pay about $1,600 for “a fine 19th-century instrument,” or roughly double his annual salary.

Emphasis mine.

That seems unlikely to me, $800 over the course of a year?
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You are missing the point completely.

No one is trying to tell you you can't use Word to your heart's content on your own machine. When you send email to another person, though, you can't assume that they're going to have it. Especially not now.

"In fact, I'd hazard a guess that you are in actual fact a minority."

Smartphones that do have email and don't have Microsoft Word are a minority?

How do you figure that? Neither iOS nor Android comes with the ability to view Word documents.
I found the following interesting:

" ... but a source tells us “Altman wants a piece of every billion dollar company, every unicorn.” "

Just thinking aloud here so bear with me. In time, no-one will remember how much of the company YC took. Just that YC was an investor. If this plays out, then YC gains access to the people that built those companies and has them taking part in the sessions where others are just starting out. In other words, this kind of play might just be a long term investment.

Overall, if there's a company that gets very successful outside the YC umbrella, this is a way to bring them into the fold (assuming the founders can be persuaded to give up the time).
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oh boy, another GPL debate! phk was right, seems we never get tired of this stupid shit.

It didn't make itself "deliberately incompatible" with all free licenses before it, for example MIT/X11 is definitely compatible. Why is the original BSD license singled out?

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

Many people besides you believe proprietary software is harmful enough to enact defense mechanisms when proprietary software vendors harm the user and lock down free software into their products.
I don't like the registration-required thing either, but as a Quora user from 2010, the users really fall into two major use cases:

1) People who are active users of the site, for whom registration isn't an issue. There really is a lot of value being signed in if you're actively using the site, with notifications, drafts, credits, voting preferences weighting what you see, etc.

2) People who come to Quora for a specific answer to something via SERP. They generally want one answer, and it's probably reasonable to ask them to log in if they're going to use the rest of the site. If 50% more bounce due to reg-requested than not, it still doesn't hurt things too much.

The case where registration links suck are when you're writing something and send a link yourself to other people. They added the "share this elsewhere" functionality, but I hate it when I write something, post it on FB/twitter/etc., and then people can't read it due to registration wall.

There's probably a much better way to do registration-requested than what they're doing now; all inbound links are open, but some kind of lightweight account created, and then a prompt to register including your existing browsing history, upvotes, etc. (otherwise they're trashed) after you navigate. Maybe make it a brief status area thing to start, then an interstitial, then a modal, etc. Give the user a clear benefit for registering even after 3-4 pages, rather than making it a binary wall.
Exactly. To me, even a comment expressing intent is usually a code smell unless it is in a function header. If the block of code is non-obvious enough that it needs an explanation, it should be its own named function, and the function name should describe its purpose.

Of course these are all SHOULDs and not MUSTs. There are always exceptions. But the general rule is definitely that comments are signals that something is broken.
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That would be a good argument if the OP were about HTML email, but it it isn't. It's about sending Microsoft Word attachments.
Yes, like Om. Cursor is a read/write view of a subtree of an immutable tree.

https://github.com/wingspan/wingspan-cursor/blob/master/js/C...
The article didn't make clear though, whether having more engaging conversations actually causes team success. If a team is successful, that may boosts morale and lead to increased levels of conversation.
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You should make it into a kind of wizard that asks the user a few questions about their "invention" and then spits out an application ready to file like Turbotax.
Is that something common at Hacker News? I find it worrisome that someone can be banned from a community and not even be aware of it. What's the point of punishing wrong behavior if the one making it isn't aware that it was wrong?

I'm trying to grasp how moderation and banning works around here, but it's difficult since neither the FAQ nor the posting guidelines have an explanation about it.
I don't think you have read my post completely. I didn't imply anything from the usage of the word potential.

You still seem to miss the fact that someone can be taller as the direct result of unhealthy elements. Even illness.

Maybe by making this post shorter you won't miss that particular point.
> I'm looking through the source I have for DTrace, and there is code written by folks other than Oracle,

That is irrelevant if DTrace used copyright assignment to ensure that there was always one copyright holder, regardless of the number or affiliations of contributors. I honestly don't know if they did or not, but from what I've heard in this thread it sounds like they did.
Hilarious... I liked this one linked from the article which created a patent out of the Communist Manifesto:

...

Figure 1 is an isometric view of the progressive historical development of the proletariat.

...

The present invention is itself the product of a long course. The present invention finds its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. The present invention creates a world after its own image. The present invention endangers the existence of bourgeois property. The present invention becomes an appendage of the machine.

This is great.

[1] http://saaaam.s3.amazonaws.com/communist.pdf
Okay, I am in complete agreement with this sentiment. Where I disagree is with the notion that jurors and voters are equivalent and/or using the two terms as if they are interchangeable. I think it would be interesting to compare the demographics of juries vs voters.[^1] I have a sneaking suspicion that the two populations are dramatically different.

[^1]: I posted a question at the SX for politics but I have never had much luck there. http://politics.stackexchange.com/q/3218/1926
It basically reduces deadlock chance.

When you have one exit and it's blocked due to many people attempting to fit at once, the entire queue is congested.

That barrier turns one exit into two exits (even if it's backed by only one real exit). If one is congested, people can still flow through the other one, and vice versa.

This explains why the evacuation rate is roughly twice faster.

If the barrier is designed to even more virtual exits, it'll be even faster.

And there's an even faster way, that requires no architectural changes, but people will have to be trained in it so well, that they'd follow it even in panic.

And this would be some heuristic which orders people in an unambiguous way, so only one person is attempting to exit at a given moment.

I don't know, left to right order, split in rows, people holding hands... Some creative solution is required to decide what that heuristic would be.

Queues have no congestion, so they'll represent the fastest possible rate of evacuation through a single exit.
It's not unrealistic --- keep in mind that the collective earnings of an orchestra are not large to begin with. There are great operational expenses, and once those have been taken care of, the remaining money is divided among the members of the orchestra. Keep in mind that playing in an orchestra is not a full-time job, adjust for inflation, and then an annual salary of $800 may even seem generous...
> It is too bad that my nice understandable synopsis could not be included.

I suspect the issue here may be the same as the one that besets people who want to - for example - include a nice human readable version of a EULA alongside the legal version.

It introduces the opportunity for conflicts between the two version. Which is the actual legally binding version?

Your nice understandable synopsis should be used by the PR department for the press release that goes out explaining the newly awarded patent (if the PR department does such things).
If this functionality really must be supported, then why isn't it just offered via an extension? Those Firefox users who want this functionality have the option of installing that extension. Otherwise, it doesn't interfere with other users who do not desire its presence.
Yea, that works better. I like it, simple and to the point. Would be nice to have the hourly wage and work hours bigger - make the bits you want people to fill in stand out a bit more.
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That is not ironic, that is the point of the page: identify broken clients.
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It's unfortunate that the patent language is mired in obtuse legalese rather than understandability by actual programmers.

For example, take a Shazam-like song id algorithm.

Technical blog post explaining the technology: http://laplacian.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/how-shazam-works/

Patent covering such an algo(is it the same? I can't even tell!): http://www.google.com/patents/US6941275?dq=.+6,941,275

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law

The word patent even means 'in the open'. When was the last time someone linked to a software patent to share knowledge or enlightenment?
I agree. I don't think anyone actually considers actual temperatures, etc. before they handle a cup of coffee in the same way, they just treat all coffee pretty much the same - i.e. 'a cup of coffee is hot, and will hurt me if I spill it on myself, but it won't be serious / cause permanent damage'. It's for this very reason that I think either coffee shouldn't be served at such dangerous temperatures, or it should be served in such a different manner as to make people think - e.g. with some kind of warning attached. But I agree that you shouldn't take this too far; it's why I probably would choose the latter case of action over the former.
They didn't need to take his investment to get that advice. I think they need to pivot much more than just doing the obvious, and thats probably why they are there. The current Quora "business model" is worthless, zero revenue, no prospect of any.
What is systemd doing in terms of inter-Unix portability? Unix is not only Linux. Also; standardisation means not to be used all over. It means to be bound from below and above so that there is an interface that can be trusted to exist in all the adherents of that standard. For example, Linux may have send_sher_shcön(7) exposed exclusively, but we can be sure that there is send(2), for portability concerns.

edit: man numbers.
Um.

You're right that code doesn't compile itself, though. That's the job of the computer operator, who takes the code I write in my notebook and flips the corresponding switches on the computer. If the computer operator isn't doing their job, they probably shouldn't be working on a project with other people.

People are fallible. People make mistakes. People get bored. That's why we write tools to do our work for us. The way we avoid making mistakes is by making the mistakes impossible in the first place. This is why typing exists, because without static type checking, people will mix up their types. Yes, it's the job of the programmer to keep their types straight. The compiler doesn't care about types. So what? The whole point of tools is to make the life of the programmer easier, not by magically transforming them into perfect programmers who never make mistakes, but to have tools that avoid, check, verify and catch those mistakes.

Comments circumvent any such tools. Suddenly, you are back to banging rocks together.
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