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I run an education startup and respectfully disagree -- parent poster is correct that the industry is really not welcoming for entrepreneurs, at least for people who have ambitions for things like home ownership or healthcare or relationships.

The major problem is that people who need to learn something are by definition the least able to evaluate what they need. So the dominant incentive is for companies to produce crap and then market the hell out of it, or develop connections and feed off public credit ("you may qualify for state assistance!")... almost anything except for producing stuff people actually need and trying to sell it on its virtues. And then there is the lack of money, because student budgets are often directed elsewhere, such as to their expensive but ineffective accreditation programs and university classes.

This transforms meaningful work in the education space into an uphill struggle against funded businesses with predatory business practices, and while word-of-mouth can benefit you over them in the long-run, the viral loop goes slower in education than in other areas and it is very, very difficult to build effective placement in commercial sales channels like search engines.

More direct connections between education and employment would help, but the connection is often weaker than one would think from the political rhetoric thrown around, especially considering that education is often a proxy term for "credentials" or "signaling" in public rather than knowledge.
Bukkit no longer available for download. Hit with DMCA takedown.
Gruber's first (that I know of) public response to this:

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507305771265454080
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I believe they were just considered to be blemishes, and as such not part of the shape. (Perhaps just a coating picked up from being too close to the earthly realm?) The telescope, however, showed that there were shadows that changed as the sun and moon changed positions, making it clear that the craters and mountains were actual structures.
Wait, I have a RTK audio chip. I've always been annoyed by the front-panel override with no option to disable it.

BRB, raging out
CharityWater comes to mind. Interesting interview with the founder here: http://foundation.bz/17/
I would joke about adding a hyperloop between Reno and the Bay Area :-) Actually rail is pretty reliable through there, more so than the highway.
I'm a happy owner of an LG SmartTV and would recommend and buy again. In fact I'm disappointed they don't sell them in TV's less than 28 inches because I want a small one for the kitchen.

There is something very satisfying in having the Internet video services naturally integrated into the remote and just one button away.

Not to say that LG can't screw it up, but what they have today is a great product.
maybe i'm a clown(i certainly haven't written any libraries).

but with pthreads for example you you put the new()and free() into a wrapper around the function you want to call?

void wrapper()
{

new();

job();

free();

}

pthread_t thread;

int yes = 0;

pthread_create(&thread, NULL, wrapper, (void *) &yes);
Yes.

Those are subjective criteria, to decide if a country not only "efficiently" settles a matter, but it also does so "quickly".

Similarly, there's not a single country where we'd find there is literally "no corruption", which means it's just a subjectively strong form of "nearly nonexistent", or where we'd find there is "no expropriation" ever in its history, as opposed to it just being "highly unlikely" to happen to you.

These subjective differences account for the difference between a 90/100 and 100/100. So if your example was that only 10% of the score depends on the difference between a figurative "no corruption" and "nearly nonexistent" corruption, you've done a very poor job convincing me it's an objective test.
Because high salaries are expensiver. Or at least they look that way on paper. Companies don't like paying an experienced employee 2-3x in salary what they would have to pay a new hire to do the same tasks. The training cost and quality dropoff are less visible and more externalizeable costs, but you see the salary savings the very next pay cycle.
does it hurt not having a technical co-founder?
It applies to any operations over sets of data. Do you search or sort numeric or text data? Then this applies. You want to structure sets of things in contiguous blocks of memory to the extent possible.
Your logic is flawed: (1) Businesses and employees can split the benefits of lower income taxes and both be better off (both in theory and in practice it is never an all or nothing choice). (2) Hopefully employees are not so stupid to care about the "feel good" of greater pre-tax income they will never see. (3) Lastly, lower salarys because of lower state taxes will also mean lower federal taxes because of progressive design federal tax rates.
Go to github, fork something (anything you like really), add something cool to it (or fix a bug, whatever), then submit a pull request. Boom, you're a contributor!
An end to end Recruitment management services..

Fully automated and fully mobile.
Most jobs that would fit in this category, I think, represent a form of economic liquidity. It makes it easier to move money from one area of the economy to another by creating these new jobs.

It's harmful to businesses that don't care about it and beneficial to ones that do. The platform involved usually benefits from increased participation and weaknesses are discovered by benign rather than malevolent actors.
The point is, if you need months to become familiar with a code base, something is seriously wrong.

These 'here is some generic pointless advice; got some useful advice? Leave it in the comments!' posts are social media posturing and lazy writing.

Certainly not everyone dives into different code bases every day / every week; but everyone does it sooner or later; and being immediately productive is hard. This article could have been an interesting collection of tips on how to do that... but the author couldn't be bothered researching the subject.
> he currently has a reasonable claim to the trademark Markdown, as a term he coined and popularized for this use.

Coining and popularizing a term is not a basis for a reasonable claim to a trademark. Trademark rights stem from one source: bona fide use of the mark in the ordinary course of trade. If its not used as a mark identifying and distinguishing the source of a product in commercial transactions, its not a trademark.

> He's now forced to either try to push them off the name or effectively abandon the trademark to genericization.

If there was ever a good claim that it was a trademark (which I don't see the evidence for), I think there's a pretty strong claim that it has already been lost to genericization, given the long-standing established uses on a variety of unlicensed implementations with differing sources.
Wow, reading that kind of pissed me off.

Hopefully it gets more attention.
As a millennial in SoCal, I think it's safe to say we need cars. But we don't buy new cars because they have iPhone docks, we buy used cars because we can afford them.

Not sure how this article could not mention student loans once. We are disenchanted by the idea of more monthly payments and debt. This issue seems much more economic than a blanket 'cars aren't cool anymore' attitude.
Awesome, in what kind of work were you doing with Snabb?

I was thinking of creating a virtual network adapter (like eth0) in userspace to do some SDN experimentation.
Or all of them. Or more than all of them.
I used to work for a primarily-hardware company, writing software, and we suffered from much the same politics and software quality problems you describe. There are really two issues at play:

1) Hardware companies have to employ the waterfall model. Agile is not even a word in their vocabulary. This is because once a product is on the shelves or in the customers' hands, it is infinitely more expensive to recall and fix products. When all you have is the waterfall hammer, everything looks like a nail.

2) Culture plays a huge part. Senior management "knows best" despite your best efforts to convince them otherwise.

My boss once described it as "a huge ship that sails down the river. Once the ship is on its way, it is really hard to change direction or stop it".
What Dropbox did for storage, but for CPUs. The classic business example would be that you have to to process a large Excel doc and are willing to pay extra to speed it up. With fast internet connections and cheap online storage, it could be opened up to a growing number of tasks like video rendering.
How other than prose would you define it? I expect you know what you're talking about and I want to understand.
This is one of my favorite books: http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Great-Speeches-Fourth-Enlarged-...

Has roughly ~300 speeches in it and they're fairly well picked.
Science Fiction is not relevant here.

As for physics, you are mistaken. The only kind of "time travel" that has any basis in physics is the one using Closed Timelike Curves (which is what the article is about) and those are limited to the time the CTC was created in the past.

So, in fact, this is a very good reason to reject the argument of "If it is possible, where are the time travelers?".
Ask HN: What are alternatives to Bootstrap?
A lot of my web dev friends complain that the websites are all starting to look the same because of Bootstrap. I was curious if there are other tools people use for styling? I know you could do custom CSS but I'm looking for other plugins or stylesheets that are commonly used.
The uptick occured at 4:14pm ET, which is exactly when the news was first published at http://www.autonews.com/article/20140903/OEM05/140909950/tes... (Automotive News were the first ones to learn about it and published the article at 4:13pm).
Thanks for the answers. Honestly, one of the worst parts for me about credit repair is having to send the letters, find the templates, and all of that other hoopla. I've used services like Skyblue and they actually a fantastic job, but they would only debt validate.

Because I'm too lazy/technical/lazy to go out of my way to buy stamps and send registered letters I'm sure I'll be using your service.

I do really recommend breaking it down for more inexperienced and non-technical users, though. Clearly outline where and why I would use your service - your site feels like it was made by someone who wrote the backend and didn't really consider some random person stumbling on it after searching for "credit repair/harassment."

Hope this helps!
And American VPs are Executive Directors in the UK
I've really enjoyed reading http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/ . It runs right from the birth of their game engine right up to the recent acquisition by Autodesk. They are heavy proponents of data-centric design with flat layouts (no pointer graphs jumping all over memory). The result is a game engine where almost anything (from rendering pipelines to physics models to ai) can be changed, compiled and live-updated on a nearby console in under a second.

EDIT: http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2011/12/pragmatic-approach-to-p... is a particularly good overview
It's been about 6 months since I worked with Zookeeper, but here are a couple lessons I learned along the way...

1. Only use with Java (JVM). The C client library which most other languages wrap to work with zookeeper is very buggy. It had lots of corner cases which would crash the application using it.

2. If you are on AWS make sure your zookeeper instances have static IPs (use EIPs or EINs). We had a cluster in AWS classic with the cluster defined by domain names. At startup zookeeper would lookup the IP for the domain and cache it, never checking it again. This meant you could only loose 1 node in a 5 node cluster as you needed the other spare to handle the missing node during a rolling restart. It was a PITA.

Personally I recommend etcd now if you need functionality of this sort, particularly if you are not using Java.
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All the more reason to sharpen the good old resume... if there was not a typo in the OP numbers, this smells a lot like an intentional career killer.
Hopefully they're tying the incentive not
to the act of shipping, but the outcome
of shipping

I'd say this is true for someone who has ultimate P&L responsibility (a senior VP, for instance), but it's definitely not the case for someone multiple levels below them. If you're a software developer responsible for a single feature in a huge app with hundreds or thousands of developers, your boss isn't going to gauge your performance with how the app does in the marketplace. They're going to look at the relative "success" of your feature. No shipped feature, no success.

cf. Microsoft.
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Errata. Numbers should read as:
Facebook(webapp): ~3 * 10^7 LOC.
Linux Kernel: ~2 * 10^7 LOC.
Windows XP: ~5 * 10^7 LOC.
No astroturfy comments on Hacker News, please. Users invariably complain, and it ends up hurting your cause.
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Calibre converts mobi to epub for nothing. http://calibre-ebook.com/ Disclaimer: I love calibre :)
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Concerning zdnet’s use of the term ‘code monkeys’
I'm hoping that battery capacity improves enough by then that charging will be an afterthought, something we just do on weekends etc. So there wouldn't be such a focus on the charging mechanism (because using it would be such a rare event).
I don't really see the point of this. Being vague is one of the biggest strength of Markdown.

Markdown is being used by very different products to fulfill different requirements. Having no specification means you can inspire yourself from Markdown and just do your own thing, which is what is relevant.

Markdown is being used by comments systems, issue trackers, documentation programs. Those have very different needs, and having a liberal non-specification is what helped Markdown to be popular.

Coming with a new standard, not called "Standard Markdown" (which I think is very presumptuous, even for a big company) and providing new features (arranging/aligning images, variables, include, mathematic notation...) would have been much more productive.

I mean, who cares of those little differences? When I edit a comment or something, I just hit the preview button (or see the preview real time). I'm not going to learn a specification, and if markdown has to look different on stackoverflow or github or <insert doc system>, so be it.

Markdown is also mean for people who have no idea what a "syntax error" is, I know the specification is meant for implementations, good, but if I want to write an implementation, I want it to be fast and this kind of complicated spec is exactly what prevent me from writing something lighting fast.

I'm really sorry, I don't want to insult your work (which is great), but it looks like a waste of energy to me.
When viewing diffs in split view, they should remove the +/- indicators for additions/removals. The red/green highlight is enough.

(And for obj-c developers, it's annoying to see lines begin with `++ (void)...` or similar.)
Nope, just looked outside; no zombie apocalypse. Wednesday still operating normally.
A Verilog/VHDL killer.
For Windows, we throw out some of our principles...

I hope that they saw the Drawbridge announcement[0] and discussion[1].

[0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8257250
Since you mentioned "ideal cellphone", I was thinking of pocketable devices (< 5"), not many of those around which are baseband-free.
There are compensation consultants that many companies use to benchmark salaries. The same thing happened at my company, salaries went up quickly so they adjusted everyone. Before that new hires were getting higher salaries than people with more experience who had been there many years.
No, but it tells you exactly why Apple can sell products at a premium.
This was posted yesterday on a similar story. It really comes down to detecting cases where the IMSIcatcher operates differently than the normal towers. But a lot of those are lost in the noise of different carriers. One of the stronger signals is a forced downgrade to GSM, with no encryption.

http://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/...
Cool! Can't wait for it to appear in a standard CMS (e.g. WordPress, SquareSpace, Weebly). Seems like it's the perfect addition for professional editors a la Scoop (http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/scoop-a-glimpse-int...)?
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I've found that even in cases where a normal refresh won't restart the animations, a Ctrl-F5 will (forcing the images to be reloaded from the server, instead of cache). This is in Firefox on Arch.
I've always felt that term is neutral. It's used twice in the original article. I didn't get the sense that they really understood what they were talking about. Seems like a bit of a fluff piece that touched on a serious trend.

Are you the Erik who wrote the response to the ZDNet article? This does not represent my view of the software industry at all, and I'm surprised at what seems like frustration.
A task management app that organizes all your completed tasks into a resume.
Has Kiva gotten better about choosing their lending partner organizations? It was big news a few years ago that Kiva was partnering with in-country lenders charging extortionate interest rates.

http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php?topic=3403.190

This pretty recent article though makes it sound like it's still a big problem.

http://www.nextbillion.net/m/bp.aspx?b=3726

Kiva is a great idea in concept. They just need to take a firm stance against corrupt lending practices, especially since they present themselves as a charity and so no middleman should really be profiting incommensurately in the process.
Ever try to ship via courier? It's a miserable experience. Eats up an average of 30-60 minutes setting it up, then you have to be at home at a specific time.

I imagine it works great if you have an account, volume, and dedicated staff + shipping area. But for consumers, it's not tempting.

I've donated some items I could have sold due to the annoyance. (You might think that would be a better outcome, but most of the items were pretty specific, and unlikely to find a good home through donation)
The RPG idea is, in fact, part of a very dense space. However, I think Tabletop Simulator[0] is an interesting approach that comes at the problem from a very different angle: just simulate a table with physics.

Adding the support systems around this type of table, like tracking stats for various RPGs, could be a way to dominate the market. Most of the other solutions focus on the stat-tracking externals, and only have a very simple table or rigid grid, not in keeping with how real games go.

[0] http://www.berserk-games.com/ts/ - this link shows board games but there's a user-created library of game pieces[1] and some built-in RPG figurines.

[1] http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=286160
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I take BART regularly. This is oddly haunting. :P
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Ask HN: Parking gate that can talk to cloud
I am researching for a parking gate product which can talk to cloud / server.

Use Case: Parking gate should be able to scan barcode / QRCode and then talk to server / cloud and then open gate based of response from server

Does anyone know any company in USA that has a product that has this feature
I'm sure there are degrees of honesty as there are degrees in intelligence.
Your energy and willingness to learn mean quite a bit; your calendar age does not. A 20 year old with a couple kids, a wife to go home to, a mortgage and a ton of student loan debt might have serious concerns about the startup life.... while a 40 year old single woman with no dependents might find it suits her well.

Will startup life take a lot of your time and energy? Absolutely yes. But if you have that energy to give, then you're good. Just try not to be to starry eyed: The company is probably going to fail, you're probably going to be overworked and underpaid, and you'll probably get in more than a couple fights with your coworkers. But some people (like me) love that kinda stuff. Whatever works for you.
Except it sucks when I have to go to the docs for the 10 different flavors of markdown 10 different sites I go to use (assuming they have docs). I also have to spend time documenting my own site when I incorporate markdown.pl versus markdown.py versus some other markdown implementation.

Markdown has become popular enough that a complete, unambiguous spec is good for end-users. If you are building a little text entry thing for your mp3 catalog app, sure, it's nothing to worry about. But when you are github and stackoverflow and google, and end-users are authoring documents, knowing the behavior matters.
Shameless plug for a very simple tar-like CLI app done in Python:

https://github.com/mafrosis/sesame
Pseudolite is actually the standard term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolite
I love that you're based around the idea of arbitrage. It's one of the forces of our age, but few notice it explicitly.

I'm not sure Tim Ferriss ever used the word in the 4HWW, but it was the central idea I took from it. I'm not surprised he's an investor.
Rather than prose, the syntax for a machine-parsed data format is often defined as a formal grammar, using BNF or similar notation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form

For example, this is how CSS syntax is defined: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/grammar.html

or JSON: http://json.org/

or HTTP: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
What's bukkit?
You're assuming you would never want to use the same markdown on different sites. As soon as that happens you discover all sorts of weird cases and ambiguities.

I don't think this standardization is meant to stop sites from adding their own extensions, it is to make sure that the core markdown always looks the same, no matter which site/parser is being used.
A couple of years ago I proposed an idea for "AirBnB for self storage" on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Collaborative-Consumption/What-is-the-n...

Still seems like a massive opportunity. $24 billion market in the US. Inconvenient locations (for many people). People have (collectively) a massive amount of under-utilized space. Not without its challenges but neither was AirBnB when it started.
I posted this before:

Popcorn Time for quality children's programming - Bill Nye, Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Avatar. Shows that are entertaining AND educational, none of that advertising filled, sassy attitude, Disney Channel crap.
I travel between san francisco and new york all the time and tried both services.

Honestly, I liked that shipster gave me a price upfront for all shipping speeds and that I could track my shipments more intuitively from the app. That was way way better.

Shyp is obviously in the press all the time, but that doesnt mean its a better service.
Isn't what you're talking about really application-specific? You already have access to tons of CPUs with AWS.

The problem is that you need to reproduce the local Excel environment, or the local video rendering environment, in the cloud. That is either something you do on a per-vertical basis or perhaps with some very advanced system administration tricks.

Also, video is probably not a good candidate, because it's data heavy and relatively CPU light. The good candidates for cloud offloading are lots of computation on small data, which does not fit the class of things that most people do on their desktops these days.
SJWs are not beyond criticism, nor should they be:

http://studentaffairsfeature.com/ten-counterproductive-behav...
I don't think Aleynikov started his job at his subsequent employer, they rescinded his offer after the Goldman allegations.
A service for freelancers that automatically withdraws projected income tax and puts it into a safe money market fund so that they can make a little change on it (more in better times).