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> Given the low overall enrollment, it wouldn't surprise me if the ones who "bother" to join the CS program are more driven and intrinsically motivated than the average.

But that's true about the guys too. People who don't like programming get weeded out pretty quickly from CS.
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I wrote an ebook on how to make games in HTML5 with the Phaser framework. It's been out for a month now, and it has made me over $16,000 in sales. I keep making a couple hundred dollars per day with it.

Link to the book: http://www.discoverphaser.com

More sales number: http://blog.lessmilk.com/ebook-sales/
I see the overall point you're making, but it's not true programming applications is always (or even often) like building with Lego pieces. It's just that many of us have to write mindless web apps which mostly consist of CRUDs. Those definitely are like working with Lego.

CS, algorithms, pointers, recursion, numerical stability, etc, etc, are all alive and well in the world of applications programming. Just not in the world of run-of-the-mill CRUDs.
People feel radically different things depending on framing and perspective. I agree that there is limited benefit to yelling "you should feel X," but I also think that everyone yelling "you should feel scared" has contributed to the problem.
Can you give a couple of examples? What are the risks with preferred stocks?
networks seem invulnerable, but they are just as vulnerable than anything else. A network cannot keep growing, and it also cannot bleed users or it will lose stability. so inevitably it ends up in a position that it has to keep buying out competitors
I seem to recall hearing that, back in the 1960s, the US at least offered to the USSR that we would teach them how to improve their nuclear command and control. The thinking was that, yes, in event of war this would improve their ability to fight, but it was more important to reduce the possibility of accidentally starting such a war.
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Yep, there are plenty of useful (and actionable) insights to be gained just by the data you can get in a standard analytics dashboard. If you know how many people did what, and who came back, you can already learn so much about how people are using your app and what you should focus on.
While the title is technically true, it could easily be interpreted to mean anyone could buy or build a driverless car and drive it on UK roads starting in January.
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How can there be 71 comments and not one mention of G. K. Chesterton? Go out, right now, and check out The Everlasting Man and Orthodoxy from your local library.

I would also throw out there Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford, as something to inspire makers & engineers without being a technical book. If you like history, David McCullough's biography John Adams is a masterpiece (also see 1776 by the same author).

I can't think of anything else that hasn't already been mentioned.
> The problem is they did it with only a few (16?) "great engineers". That's the premise of the article -- our world today might need 100,000 great engineers to solve great problems. Tomorrow 1000 might be enough.

The premise of the article seems to be that we no longer need great engineers at all. Or that they only need to work at infrastructure companies (not application companies like WhatsApp). The very example he chose shows that's empirically untrue.

The fact that a small team of amazing engineers can accomplish huge things (given some ops support) is not new. The original Macintosh team was also tiny.

There's no evidence that we will ever stop needing great engineers, particularly as more and more applications require huge scale while maintaining agility.
Clearly not representative. Seems like attempt for someone to start a recruiting service. Bias on schools to CMU Cornell and UPenn. Not other majors present.
This doesn't strike me as the best example. I don't really see the network benefits of the final offering. And practice management software is notoriously sticky.
I know two of the people on this list and just spoke with them. They themselves disagree with this portrayal of their abilities.
That's why this is a nice parable. The moral of the story is different depending on how you look at it.
OK, but making irrational policy based on how people feel leads to bad policy. Let people feel what they feel. But don't make long-term policy based on peoples' emotional reactions to events.
I would say there are several reasons for that:

* While the median wage is a 1000 euro there are a lot of people that make a lot less than that ( < 500) and also quite a few that make a lot more.

* Expensive cars are the number one status symbol in Bucharest and Romania. People will often still live with their parents or in a run down apartment, as long as they can drive through the streets with an expensive car, so their budgeting priorities are a bit different from what you expect.

* There is a lot of unreported income and tax evasion in Romania as well as criminal activity, so on top of the high income inequality mentioned above, there are also a lot of people with high incomes that never figure into statistics and such but can afford luxurious cars.
Why would it only attract hobbyists? I know a couple of software companies that develop "kiosk" type apps and can benefit from a Linux tablet. Currently they work with a barebone Win2K installation on an under-powered x86 mini pc + extra costs for connecting it to a touch-capable screen.
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Private healthcare outcomes likely comparable, at a fraction of the price.

That's probably true for most major cities outside of the US.
Plus, Fedora is exactly what you would want in a dev kit if you intend to target RHEL down the road.
Almost too incredible. They must dump the coins on the market right away to less volatility risk.

Did they check the exchange rate for buying on Coinbase or selling. Coinbase might be playing with the exchange rate too.
Red Hat tests new things in Fedora before they move into RHEL/CentOS. This makes Fedora a fantastic development platform as well as a "preview" of what may be coming in the future RHEL/CentOS releases.
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As a Tunisian I feel obliged to put my 2 cents.

The cost of life is pretty cheap around here ($500/month is the average salary for a teacher, the minimum income is around $200/m), and its getting cheaper with the decline of the tunisian dinar Vs $ & €

I live near the cities of Sousse & Monastir, and i can share few thoughts:

- rent for a decent apartement is about $300/m in the city and less than $200 outside

- food is relatively cheap around here, with a wide variety of fresh fish

- Monastir is a beatiful city, good climate, excellent beaches, the travel to the aeroport cost less than15 min and 50 cent , with weekly/biweekly flights to major european cities.

- Tunisia is actually very safe and stable, major touristic destinations(hammamat, sousse, monastir, djerba (which btw is a very decent destination) are given more attention by the Interior minister.

- internet quality is not on par with the 1st world, 8Mb cost around $40/ m

- french is widely spoken, english is understood especially by youth

- wikitravel have some good ( and accurate) articles about tunisia & tunisian cities
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> First of all, not sure I would call depression mental illness. In fact, I am offended by the word. It’s like saying that having a fever when you get a cold is having a muscle illness. I think the majority of people out there are depressed at some point and have no idea because society deems depression as a “mental illness” and therefore as something foreign and strange that only mentally ill people have. Key to addressing this ever growing phenomenon, especially in today’s social networking age that the tech community has helped bring about, is to accept it as a natural consequence of life and address it as such.

Founder 2 is dangerously wrong. This person shows the fundamental misunderstanding of mental illness and turns it into a shameful thing -- mental illness is for crazy people!. Brain:body :: mental illness:physical illness.

Further, he dismisses depression as "a natural consequence of life," which is one step from saying "everyone feels sad sometimes, get over it."

People find it so difficult to get treatment for depression, which is absurd to me. If your arm gets broken, you don't "suck it up" and say "that's life", you go to a doctor and get treated. It's no different when your brain gets broken.
Visited Bangalore on business. Loved it.
I work in a pharmacy, the quality of the software we use is so low that it's depressing. From the GUI to the non-existent automation, everything is pathetic. You have to manually issue THE SAME data over and over again.

Not to mention that every-single software company keeps it's data in obscure formats in order to avoid third parties accessing the data. It's like if the 2000-2010 changes that took place in the field didn't touch the Greek pharmacy/medical software and most of them keep operating in the 90s closed source principle.

There are some new SaaS about medical offices around. But they are so ugly that it's scary... Small market I suppose.
We are actually developing an ad A/B platform based on these concepts. Our MVP is a week from completion and we already have investors courting us. Will likely be an interesting ride.
Sure. And to be clear, I in no way think applications is easier. In fact, applications, as they're closer to end-users, have to deal with all kinds of socially-imposed whimsy like people with four names, tax rules, interest rate calculations, and 100 other things that make my head hurt to consider.
it's to be expected. most of my users come from tumblr, where those sorts of longwinded posts and that style of humor is pretty common. i don't think it is a problem - i'd rather have a happy medium, though. things like this: http://space.galaxybuster.net/shv.php?id=NTIw or http://space.galaxybuster.net/shv.php?id=MzAwMTg=
Ya. I worry about this too.
I asked Github and Sass and CoffeeScript support will apparently also work for regular (non-Jekyll) pages on the `gh-pages` branch if you put dashes at the top of the file you want to be processed.

Source: https://twitter.com/benbalter/status/494533173699543041

Documentation: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/assets/
"but these letters paid off"

What was the benefit to having no electronic record? Was he a lawyer for the mob?
It matters. Automatically exchanging large amounts of BTC for USD creates a downward pressure on the BTC exchange rate.

Organizations which truly support Bitcoin would choose to keep it.
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Have there been any issues with availability? Any maintenance overheads once it has been setup?
They said in their recent AMA that they have no plans of accepting altcoins.
Sorry if it's a dumb question. But how does this workflow work?

Are the html/js/css generated on my local pc, or on the github server? I don't get it.

(I have no experience with Jekyll. I have some static pages on github pages.)
I built a Heroku add-on that handles the purchase and installation much more quickly and safely than they could do manually (about 80% of our customers get SSL installed on their sites in less than 5 minutes).

https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl

It's been more challenging to get going than I anticipated as it's a significant upfront cash investment to get good cert reseller terms.
You are brilliant. Thank you so much.
What type of queries do you run on elasticsearch to pull into D3? I'm doing a very similar project (elasticsearch + web data vis) so I'm legitimately curious.
You compare two people who have different skills. Presumably either one could learn the skills of the other. Why choose the one with the easiest skills to learn?
How is Omaha more expensive than Tokyo?
I am sorry but please do not call this list "The best or among the best in the world". This is a list of students from only 3 schools.
Also the first students in the list are all from Corn, giving to them a significant advantage for no apparent reason. They do not score higher in skills and the list is not alphabetically listed, it seems very biased.

Good luck to all the kids, most of them are already heading to awesome and fulfilling careers :)
Perhaps another way if looking at it is that he was replaced, multiple times, by his next version of his software.

Perhaps that is the real lesson of DentalSoft and Dent.io and dental.com - disrupt yourself before someone else does.
hrm. i think you're right and that's a pretty good whack at it.

they've got a pretty solid environment artist, so it looks nice. concept is interesting. great potential. sophomore-seeming execution. beyond that, the mixed metacritic [1] reviews + the $10 price + the non-sharability are probably why it's not going anywhere.

for what it's worth, my advice for the devs if they happen to see this: add in multiplayer where you can play as the snail or the inventor. get some more content in there even if you have to sell it as iap because two hours of gameplay isn't enough for long-term sustainability. drop the price to between $2.99 and $4.99 and make it an impulse buy.

[1] http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/chronology
Nitpick: Getting started with flying drones would be a better title.

If you are starting with flying drones (quadcopters, airplanes) a visit to an R/C forum will be helpful. There you can learn about many things related to maintaining and operating such machine. Stuff that is usually missing from blog posts because they are old tips & tricks.
One way to measure the impact of a death from illness vs. a deliberate attack is the impact on society. Since the goal of terrorism is to destabilize a society and instill fear, the ramifications reach far beyond the individual who died. Take a look at what happened to the stock market after 9/11. The resulting fear was widespread and very disruptive. The ramifications of doing nothing when someone dies of a heart attack are minor, doing nothing when an external force kills a citizen can be far reaching.

The second reason is justice. A person dying from a heart attack is a "natural" death, nobody (except possibly the victim themselves) contributed to the death.

Using the logic of the grandparent, the world should have said "Let's ignore the Rwandan genocide because more babies die of diarrheal diseases."
Interesting, except this is "head to head" with AMD. It is part of the reason Intel has been making massive investments across their portfolio to fend off ARM incursions.

AMD showed with the original AMD64 architecture that they could "out compete" Intel, it was fascinating at the time to see Enterprise level folks having to choose AMD over Intel because Intel was insisting that if you wanted 64 bits you went with Itanium. But it also showed how futile it is to try to compete with them using an ISA and eco-system where they have all the advantages. Chip sets and front side busses and a million other ways that Intel keeps a lock on their bread and butter.

ARM from AMD, means that to compete with them Intel either has to cut margins on their server chips to ARM levels, or make x86-64 server chips competitive. For a lot of places CPUs per cubic foot of rack space is an important number as the cost per month of a rack in a Colo (can be) fixed, the more stuff you can run in it while running at 80% power the lower your monthly cost per instance, and higher profit per instance. Getting a penny per core extra per hour per day can be a huge difference.

So this is an opening salvo in the next battle. I am predicting it will be just as interesting as the time AMD showed the world you could do 64 bits in a 'commodity' processor.
There are some more costs. We did a full remodel which was expensive since most things on the island are more expensive (although Overstock and Amazon Prime's free shipping were amazing for buying furniture and things like that). There is also general upkeep, supplies, and vrbo fees. For instance, right now we are replacing the sliding glass doors which is going to be between 10 and 15k.

Hawaii passed law in the past couple years that says you must have someone on the island representing your unit incase something is goes wrong or your tenants need assistance, so we do pay someone to be on call for that.
I believe the files are generated on Github's servers. You can install Jekyll locally to get the same workflow locally.
You can test and develop Mojolicious in a terminal.com container. Check my snapshot at https://terminal.com/tiny/8TRpbtVffh
Ask HN: What passive income attempts have lost you money?
I want failure stories. Passive income is a popular topic around here, and I've never heard people talk about what crashed and burned for them. What are things that you've set up and spent time on that have failed to even achieve beer money levels of income?
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I live at Sao Paulo (damn expensive) but it is not that dangerous - like many other big cities, there are places you should avoid to walk alone at night.
I'm not seeing how a 32 KB download is impractical in browser use do to size (assuming the above statement about 32KB is true). Is there something else to it?
Driverless cars are a risky unproven technology, and done wrong could easily kill people.

It'd be like taking "FDA approves new drug for human testing" and making the headline "FDA to allow human use of new untested drug."

Both are technically true, but the latter makes it sound like a widespread thing being done regardless of poorly understood risks. And that's misleading, since it's being done in very limited scope to help us understand and reduce those risks.
So, that's not why I deleted it. I deleted it because I had the wrong interpretation of dogfooding it. Now that you brought it up, I'll edit my original post.

I'm not familiar with any HN mantra that you're referring to.
I'm not a founder, just a techie with mild depressive tendencies. I think the advice to talk to someone when you feel it coming on is the best - if you talk to someone about the specific things bothering you, it can help avoid the scenario where the things loom so large in your mind that you can't get past them. Talking about problems somehow brings them back down to human scale and can help you realize how much you've built them up in your head. It's remarkable the number of times in my life that I have dreaded something that ended up being totally not that big a deal.
why not? 25 isn't all that hot.
I've heard if you bought it within 30 days you are at least entitled to a $50 credit.
Yeah, but quite a relative issue depending on the exchange. The first thing you learn is that you can't sell at market prices, you just have to place some orders and wait. To be honest I made a few mistakes related to this when I was starting and lost some money. On Btc-e my orders aren't that large so there's nothing to worry about when placing them. It felt more risky on Bitstamp, and Kraken specially due to low volume, but I rarely have to trade there.
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Since there are a total of zero commercially available driverless cars, was that distinction really required?

Nowhere in the world has permitted non-test driverless cars because non-test driverless cars aren't a thing yet.

The whole "rest of the world" remark seems like smug condescension. Which is a little odd as only a small handful of places even allow test-cars to be run on public roads. Plus isn't this a welcome addition? The UK's roads are quite a different test bed to many West coast US cities where there is no grid pattern, roads are smaller, and curvey.
Yes, such as Dragon Innovation: http://www.dragoninnovation.com/services/manufacturing

But you can also find a few US or EU based contract manufacturers who have very good partners in Asia such that you start low volume runs and work out the issues close to home and then transition to Asia for the low cost labor once all your manufacturing is working well and has good yields. But this is also not free in cost or time and some companies cannot afford to bear it.
You could use some yourself. And maybe some altruism to go with it...
As tlrobinson says, I was trying to clarify the content of the article, as the title could easily be mis-interpreted to mean that there were no restrictions.

In addition, I suspect that the cars will be 'self-driving' cars rather than 'driverless' (the distinction being that the former has a human behind the wheel, which can take the wheel at a moments notice).

As for the rest of the world, from the article:

The US States of California, Nevada and Florida have all approved tests of the vehicles. In California alone, Google's driverless car has done more than 300,000 miles on the open road.

In 2013, Nissan carried out Japan's first public road test of an autonomous vehicle on a highway.

And in Europe, the Swedish city of Gothenburg has given Volvo permission to test 100 driverless cars - although that trial is not scheduled to occur until 2017.
Here's another real story: http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/25ycuo/ama_i_q...

Guy had 7 dentists in his family. Built a website for his dad's practice, started successfully selling it to other dentists.
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Hmm, sorting by region and then sorting by temperature seems to put 89 degree New York above 90 degree Omaha. I also second the suggestion that the temperature info include some info about min/max and average temp for seasons.
Part me wants to agree the picture painted here, but bits like the one below make the whole thing out to be an veiled appeal for more naive investment targets without the myriad complications of engineers.

Basically, they'd like a lazy Susan of people who've done a bunch of leg work on a 'lego' app or website and are ready to accept $50K for 60%, Shark Tank style.

>'As software becomes a high-impact, low-skill trade, we decouple the technical ability and experience needed to write tricky software from the ability to solve problems for people.'

Not exactly.

In keeping with the analogies to traditional infrastructure and trades.

This sort of commoditization of labor allows a certain class of problems to be solved - repeatable, fairly well-understood ones for which there are ready instructions and appropriate 'legos' available.

Providers of these services race to the bottom and have to be kept in check with codes and consumer paid inspections to ensure that their snap-together builds meet barest minimums of safety and sensible design.

In this race to the bottom, implementers don't care and won't pay for better components, just cheaper ones that meet the minimum spec.

There's good reason people loathe calling a plumber or HVAC repairman as much as they love certain tech companies known for their design and engineering.

This is probably fine for money men, but neutral to bad for nearly everybody else.
Addition: I use Dokuwiki as a blogging system, which was accompanied by a varnish cache. The combination of both was able to cope with the load (and additional load from mass media taking up the story) very well on a standard hosting server.
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Similar experience here, when building a mobile app that did OCR + translations.. As long as the source image was in decent shape, ABBYY did very well. It's also incredibly expensive.
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