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I think there is passion about writing code and passion about business, those overlap, and there is also the feeling of autonomy.

I remember stealing some candy from a cupboard and my mom asked me why I stole it instead of asking for it and I told her it tastes better when I steal it.

Making $10 in a job where you are mostly getting paid to deal with other people's mistakes gives much more pleasure than making $1 for yourself.
useful writeup including some interesting slides with lean links. thanks ft share!
This is awesome news for me. I currently live in the Oklahoma City area, and have for the past 11 years after moving here from the Bay Area, and am heavily invested in the local tech community (I founded http://okcjs.com and organize http://thunderplainsconf.com among other things). The tech community here is better than it has EVER been and awesome things are happening here, but of course it's all relative - it's still a small community if you're coming from the coasts.

While I can say with absolute certainty that the weather is not nearly as nice (nor the scenery as beautiful) here in OKC as it was in the Bay Area, the people here are awesome, and the opportunities abound. It's hard to put into words the forward momentum that exists here, but everyone here in the local community feels it.

Regarding salary, you may make slightly less here - depending on the job you take - but your living costs are going to be so low, you will end up having a much better, less stressful life. To give you an idea, I work remotely (telecommute) on a very well paying full-time contract, and my mortgage on a 3bd/1.5ba. 1100 sq.ft. house is $640/mth with insurance and taxes included - far below even 10% of what I make. I could easily buy a much larger brand new house, but choose not to for now in order to maximize my savings. I have more freedom in this situation than I would making even 50% more on the coasts.

Also, while I am sure there are other low-cost places to live in the U.S., I don't feel like there are many other places positioned like OKC is right now. The people of Oklahoma City have made significant public investments in the area that have attracted significantly MORE private investment. The [MAPS Projects](http://www.okc.gov/maps/) - and the [MAPS3 Project](http://www.okc.gov/maps3/) that is currently underway have completely transformed downtown OKC and are having ripple effects all throughout the greater metro area. These public projects have paid off for OKC in spades, and will continue to pay dividends for decades to come.

In the relatively short time I have lived in the OKC area, I have seen a complete turn-around and transformation of an entire metro area unlike any other I have ever seen or heard of in my life. It makes me excited for the future, and glad that I am playing a part in it, however small.
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Demand can be very bursty for nursing.

My wife works in postpartum care, and while she usually works 3 12.5 hr shifts per week, if the hospital is going through a busy time it can be more. In addition to her normal scheduled hours, she will have a few on-call shifts per month, and during feb-april (usually the busiest time of year around here) it's pretty much assumed that she'll get called in for these. In addition to the scheduled on-call shifts it's usually not hard to find other times that the hospital is in need.

Of course even at that, I don't think she's ever worked more than like, 60 hrs a week. I can't imagine anyone working 80 hr weeks consistently in nursing. It doesn't even seem safe - nursing is very physically and mentally demanding work, someone consistently overworked is much more likely to make mistakes.
I don't think Show HN titles should ever be changed. What was the original?
6.5% import duty then 20% VAT on top of Price + Duty for UK last time I investigated importing a cheap 27" monitor. I decided not to
PRI interfaces with hardware or software DSPs are the "new" banks of modems.
When Hollywood isn't still using 24fps film cameras they're certainly not using consumer-grade camera sensors.
ah sorry, I meant it more as in a non traditional GUI program.
It's not an arbitrary premise, it's studied:

“Over the years, I’ve done many follow up studies after we raise or lower a speed limit,” Megge tells us. “Almost every time, the 85th percentile speed doesn’t change, or if it does, it’s by about 2 or 3 mph.”
This seems to say that there is a "California/New York" culture, and on "everything else" culture.

To be fair, I used to think that way before I moved out of the Boston area into one of those "everything else" cities.
What advantages does this offer over tools like vfense & spacewalk?

How much time/effort do I save, vs deploying an in house solution using vfense (or go to an even lower level with mrepo and configuration management).

With the sysward agent, I still have to install the agent, configure & test it out, open firewall rules etc etc...but most importantly, I have to send security data over to 3rd parties (sysward), which means I have to hope that sysward is also secure.
I'm sure that you normally have intelligent things to add to the conversation and your comment above is just a one-off.
It definitely has to be 2x the desired maximum frequency if you don't want aliasing. They probably capture higher frequencies by making assumptions about the input signal, but this will inevitably lead to aliasing when these assumptions are violated. The article doesn't really go into depth about precisely how they go about this.
You couldn't call Twitter a failure… unless you compared it with Facebook
I also want OpenCart to "win": https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/1594
You're getting needlessly defensive.

There isn't that implicit assumption. It was simply speaking of the double standard of "humane" people have of land animals vs fish. And how that standard might not actually be justified - in other words a cultural myth.

It even said "For aquaculture, at least, we have some control, and I suspect the movement will begin there. I could envision having Atlantic salmon, say, from a farm, that has some sort of humane treatment approval — free-range, or whatever — for people who are willing to pay a little more for some animal that's been treated reasonably well."
Just so you know the omega-3 acids in fish and walnuts are different. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid, essentially plant oils contain only the ALA variant, while fish oil and some other animal products contain EPA and DHA. Humans can synthesize EPA and DHA from ALA but only with an efficiency of less than 5%. This and a few other facts led me to abandon a strictly vegetarian diet, as I would prefer to not monitor my nutrient intake too carefully .
High-speed camera or rolling shutter is required, (most) movies use neither.
This is very pretentious.
You have nothing to lose by developing your empathy and following your conscience toward greater compassion.
After living in the Bay Area for a year, I find myself frequently opening my laptop for "real estate porn": going to Realtor.com and looking at listings in the cities mentioned in this article, just sitting there and oogling the home prices outside of California. For the price of a crappy 1BR condo in SF you can buy a 6BR Tudor mansion in Detroit: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1002-Semino...
Thank you for the scientific backup.
It's not stolen property though, it's property purchased with (presumably) fraudulent credit card details. They can prove they're not the buyer, because the buyer has a completely different name.
They've unwittingly recreated a trick used in negative political ads.

Take a photo of your opponent, make it black and white, use a tight crop, and then slowly zoom.
Yes, according to that article. What I'm driving at is that making an arbitrary change based on how drivers react to an improper restriction may in fact lead to imposing another improper and arbitrary restriction.
A change of 5 mph either way won't change anything fundamental, and so a traffic study will report minimal changes.
This is really nice. I went ahead and made a survey (easy process!) but once I received my embed code I was surprised. The script generated when I made my survey is named in a very predictable, incrementing format. I looked at a few others' surveys by changing the #.js in my embed code.

There needs to be some kind of protection to at least keep people guessing numbers, because I don't want people embedding my survey on their site and interfering with my results.
Not this again.. article flagged for yet another boring gender politics article.
Parts of this resonate with me and yet I have a variable 40 hour a week ceiling where if I'm extremely lucky I top out at that. I can safely say I've had many of those thoughts and they didn't revolve around the amount of time I spent at work.

Some days just the act of leaving the house and coming home has me beat down. There's a serious lack of energy just spending 4 days in an office and working from home on Friday. I guess I'm saying the amount of time spent doesn't equate to the feelings of burnout. I'm fairly positive now many of my symptoms that you've expressed are likely due to some form of depression, however serious or mild it may be. I don't have anxiety attacks that I'm conscious of but that and thoughts of "wishing everything would end" are pretty clear indicators to me.

I'm glad you're on the right track and it looks like what you're doing is having some positive impact. Always stick with what works because it's clearly a push in a positive direction for you. Like me, however, you may wish to look into dealing with depression because I've exhibited many of these same symptomatic behaviors. That can affect us the same no matter if we're working 4 hours a week or 40 really, it all feels the same to me at least.
"and quite possibly more."

There's an understatement. This is a problem with recruitment to the coasts. I can't tolerate the hit in the quality of life that moving to Mountain View would require. They offered me like $50K more than I am currently getting, which sounds nice, but to live the same lifestyle with respect to house and school district would have taken at least $100K more per year probably more like $150K more as per my calculations. I just couldn't do that to my wife and kids and they aren't willing to pay enough and they responded with some ridiculous BS about the nobility of poverty which I wasn't buying.

There's also the cultural hit. Living where I am, I can afford to travel to and attend any cultural activity I want, even if the locals at my travel destination can't afford it. I went to Ireland a decade ago this year purely for the heck of it, because I can afford it, not living on the coasts. I can take a 90 minute train to downtown Chicago and afford anything there, especially stuff the locals can't afford. That really burns up an old school friend of mine who lives near-ish the stadium but can't ever afford to go given his mortgage payment vs mine. I'm not a big cultural activities guy I only go to symphony and museums like once a year, if that. But it would totally burn me up to move to a coast and be right next to something cool I'd never be able to afford to experience.

All I want is an acre of suburban land, a modest size house (not a mcmansion but not a shack), in a mostly crime free neighborhood, in a school district that regularly places highly at the nationals in the academic decathlon (I was on the team in '92 in the same district, and maybe my stupidity is why we only made 4th at state during my year LOL). And the city has 1080 acres of free city parks across about 6 square miles of city (mostly unbuildable river land, but still I googled to make sure). Then there are the county and state parks too. And the lakes with public access. What would a house like that cost in SV, maybe $5M or so? More? It cost me an eighth of a mil here before the housing bubble took off, and a paltry $50K/yr isn't going to make up the balance. I don't think my kids would be able to afford music lessons and tutoring in CA, thats for sure, we'd be lucky to afford a 2 bedroom rental at the income I was offered, despite it being about a 50% raise.

(edited to add, if it helps in comparison, my mortgage including prop tax and services is $1100/mo, so offering me an extra pre-tax $1K/week means it would be quite realistic for me to spend $2100/month in CA if I moved there.... I checked this padmapper site and that gets me a 1 bedroom apartment near Stanford? That's the best I can hope for? My whole family living in one bedroom and one bathroom? No thanks guys, I'm staying here on my "landed estate")

Jobs are hard to get around here, I admit. Most CS grads probably are pulling cable or at call centers. Pretty much everyone in WI is underemployed except the usual peter principle victims like politicians. But if you make it, you can do incredibly well, better than on the coasts.
Why was this even posted here?
This is not going to solve the pestering problem because there are far more homeless than the needs for fonts.
So, the problem is the workplace is too masculine because there are too many men in science and engineering.

Except if you do a search for "women leaving workforce" you'll find it's a trend for middle-aged women across all fields.
You missed the part where 60 frames per second only allowed to identify the speaker and the number of people in the room.

> Because of a quirk in the design of most cameras’ sensors, the researchers were able to infer information about high-frequency vibrations even from video recorded at a standard 60 frames per second. While this audio reconstruction wasn’t as faithful as it was with the high-speed camera, it may still be good enough to identify the gender of a speaker in a room; the number of speakers; and even, given accurate enough information about the acoustic properties of speakers’ voices, their identities.
> The USA's per capita automobile death rate is over twice as high as Germany's, in spite of speed limits in general being lower in Germany and there being far more and more generous roads in the USA. [...] Statistically speaking though, you would think that more driving on wider, bigger roads and in less densely populated areas would lead to less accidents and not more.

The relationship between forgiving roads and safety does not necessarily run in the direction you assume. People generally drive at a speed that feels safe, so a road that feels safe will have faster speeds. Faster speeds don't necessarily lead to more crashes, but they definitely lead to a higher rate of serious injuries and fatalities.

Given a difference in fatality rate between two developed countries, I'd definitely look at factors like traffic engineering before jumping to the conclusion that, say, Americans are just worse drivers than Germans.
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Get a lawyer to look at your past agreements. As others have mentioned, there should be nothing adversarial about hiring a lawyer to look at your agreeements and advise you of your rights and obligations. You need a lawyer to tell you when you can exercise stock. Don't get legal advice from a forum.

When you know your legal situation, keep an open mind about what is best for you rather than what is "fair". If investors want to dilute you more than other founders, going along with the investors may ultimately be the most lucrative option for you.
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Get a lawyer to look at your past agreements. As others have mentioned, there should be nothing adversarial about hiring a lawyer to look at your agreeements and advise you of your rights and obligations. You need a lawyer to tell you when you can exercise stock. Don't get legal advice from a forum.

When you know your legal situation, keep an open mind about what is best for you rather than what is "fair". If investors want to dilute you more than other founders, going along with wishes may ultimately be the most lucrative option for you.
This article ignores a lot of peer-reviewed literature from planning, public health / injury prevention, and civil engineering in favor of some folksy wisdom of a lieutenant cop. A good starting mental model is that vehicle speeds increase both the frequency and severity of crashes.

The article weakly, and quietly made an argument that I do agree with. Namely, roadway design needs to accompany speed limits to ensure people actually drive the desired speeds. Wide lanes, big setbacks, homogenous environments encourage speeding regardless of what is posted. But let's be clear, we should have our design follow our policy, not our policy follow bad designs that were put in place by roadway engineers of yesteryear.

That message seemed to be lost in the race to tell us something tantalizingly counterintuitive. I love "everything we know is wrong" storytelling as much as the next guy, but only when that's actually backed up with solid evidence. Take for example this gem from the article:

> “We all speed, yet months and months usually pass between us seeing a crash,” Lt. Megge tells us when we call to discuss speed limits. “That tells me that most of us are adequate, safe, reasonable drivers. Speeding and traffic safety have a small correlation.”

That would seem to be at odds with this peer reviewed article (sorry, paywall, but you can read the abstract):

> Respectively, they found evidence for an exponential function and a power function between speed and crash rate. Both types of studies found evidence that crash rate increases faster with an increase in speed on minor roads than on major roads. At a more detailed level, lane width, junction density, and traffic flow were found to interact with the speed–crash rate relation.

Link to article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457505...

Priceonomics's banner ad tells me it is selling a new book titled "Everything is Bullshit." Quite right.
Here's some support from a different direction.

Starting a couple of years ago, Virginia started bumping up the speed limit on the more rural sections of interstates from 65 to 70MPH. Part of the stated rationale was that a lot of people speed anyway, but a lot of other people drive the speed limit, and this disparity is dangerous. By bumping up the limit, you're in essence telling the law-abiding drivers "it's OK to keep up with traffic" and the gap in speeds will narrow.

In my experience, the opposite happened. It seems that the people who were driving 65 before don't want to go any faster. The people who were speeding before still constrained their speed to some factor above the speed limit, and now they go even faster still. Previously, the spread was around 65-75, now it's more like 65-80.

In contrast, the interstates around DC are all limited to 55, yet people regularly do 70 there as well.

It seems clear to me that, while speed limits don't impose an iron control on vehicle speeds, they do influence it.

A sibling poster mentions studies that say it changes little if at all. Perhaps what's "clear" to me isn't true. However, I wonder just how those studies were performed. How long did they wait after the changed limit to measure the change in speed? Most traffic on most roads consists of people who make the trip regularly, and it will take time for them to change their habits, up or down.
What's your measure of success?
Sounds like my situation exactly. Down to looking for other jobs (except I am a Django developer).
Yep. And it's more than just psychological: say I have to be somewhere that's 15 minutes away by bus, and 30 minutes away by foot (this is common for me). A random 20 minute delay in the bus arrival means that it's now more reliable for me to just allow the time to walk where I'm going.

I routinely find this to be true even for the underground lines on Market. It's absolutely pathetic that walking is more reliable than taking a subway, but that's the state of MUNI today.
That's why I use Dolphin and spoof my user agent string (often). I usually want the full site. Your mobile site sucks.
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Well, my wife got an offer from them last year. The only reason she's not working there is that she wasn't selected in the H-1B lottery.
It's property that has been sent without payment received. It's stolen.

>They can prove they're not the buyer, because the buyer has a completely different name.

It doesn't matter the fraudulently purchased goods were shipped to your house. You are in possession of them and you're the person most likely to have committed the credit card fraud. Either way you are out the property even if you don't get investigated for credit card fraud.

Do it a few times though and it will be difficult to explain away.
Yea, I also think its more about 'feeling of autonomy'. It feels more pleasurable to earn less from our own idea than working on regular job
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There should be disclosure rules for articles like this: show me the educational credentials of your staff, by level and date hired.

(Disclosure: no, I did not go to an elite school.)
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Well you can turn the feature off if you want. You can also set the "quality" of a given issuer. This means that you could apply a discount to the mtgox credit so it would swap out at a discount. But really it will probably just be turned off by default
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If it ever came to trial, there would be no proof that you'd been the one that committed the fraud. That's where the burden of proof lies, and there's simply no evidence.
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It isn't the end of the world if the person you date does not have a technical job. No one I've dated works in the IT field and I've still been able to have interesting conversations and decent relationships.
Congrats to them to for curing a major disease but some bits of the economics seem a bit odd - initial research cost about $14m paid partly by tax payers. Gilead spends "tens of millions" to put it through trials and then it gets sold, partly back to the same tax payers, for about $84k * 3 million = ~ $200bn.

( http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/05/31/costly-new-he... )
This is great — I was actually thinking about making an open-sourced version of this.

Do you have any plans of opening up the code?
Per-capita is a bad way of measuring auto-fatalities.

The US is very spread out and requires a lot of driving. For example, just driving from SF to LA requires more driving than Cologne to Berlin.

Per mile driven is much better, and it narrows the US gap with other countries substantially. (The US is slightly lower than Japan, slightly higher than France.)
It is a complication left over from ripple. It will most likely be turned off by default.
There is conflicting evidence on the matter. A local (Vancouver) video[1] circulating here had some strong arguments that our speed limits are kept needlessly low. If you're interested in such things, it's a well done video and worth the 15 minutes it takes to watch.

[1] http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/09/speed-does-not-kill-vanco...
Raising the speed limit to the 85%/15% ratio isn't necessarily the safest way to handle the driving. If there's a road where more than 15% of drivers are going faster than the speed limit, one option is to raise the speed limit, but the other option is to change the road so people won't drive so fast on it.