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State pays, there is an upper limit which to my recollection is somewhere between two and three times the average salary in Estonia.
Great question. I think it's on more people's minds than you think. I have friends that have brought this feeling up with me. HN brings a lot of great minds together, including your own. It can create feelings of inadequacy in many readers, but it shouldn't. Everyone is always growing. You can write well too.

As with any skill, there are specific quick hacks you can apply to get a lot of gain really fast, and there are well-worn paths that you should travel to maximize gains and minimize time spent. Regardless, the best way to learn any skill is through sheer practice.

My methodology for posting comments on HN or any social news site is based on my values. I value production over consumption, and so to curb my consumption and increase my production I created a rule for myself: If I read a post on social media(HN, reddit, etc), I have to leave a comment on it. No ifs ands or buts. I almost never actually want to comment, but by the time I'm done commenting I'm always glad I did.

This is amazing for becoming a better writer and researcher, and forces you to dive into things that you normally would only attain a surface-level understanding of.

Every time I decide to go to a social media site, I have to be very conscious of the titles I click on to read. I understand that the moment I begin reading an article, I am committed to adding something of value to the discussion. Sometimes I wind up clicking on an article that is way out of my domain-knowledge, and so I have to read WAY more about it before I can even try to add to the discussion. I end up learning far more and also upping my ability to explain and present myself in situations where I'm uncomfortable with the domain.

So while I encourage you to practice your writing, I also encourage you to limit your consumption, strongly link your consumption with your practice, and most importantly, step out of your domain knowledge and never be afraid to learn something new.
Most people are reluctant to give up their email addresses without having a good sense of what they will get out of it.

A little more social proof could really help this landing page.

- Maybe share an example of one of the questions so I can get a sense of what the contents are?

- Who are the "java experts" who have contributed to these questions?

- Do you have any testimonials from people who have been able to get a job with the help of these questions?
> There's nothing wrong with what [Brendan] did given that he didn't let that view (in the abstract) color his personal interactions.

Strom Thurmond filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes. After that he continued to serve in the US Senate until 2003.

Yes, his actions were a lawful expression of his power. But I think there is something deeply wrong with using your power, even lawfully, to deny the rights of people who are less powerful than you. Even if you are nice to those same people in personal interactions.
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> Calling this the fastest switch in the world and then printing 5ns is misleading.

The claim in the (original) story title is 110ns layer 2+ switching. I'm sitting in the summit right now, no details on what 2+ means, but, the target market is market data distribution (and this was discussed in the slides) so I would assume that they've thought about this.

5ns is additional functionality available in previous products (http://exablaze.com/exalink-50) which is also in this product.

From the sides, the idea is that they can set up multiple broadcast groups with the 5ns device to distribute market data, and then aggregate responses together with with 110ns (or in some cases 100ns) device, all in one box.
The overarching plan, as I expect it, will be to have a number of ways to interact with the system. So there'll be this Pinterest-like visual browsing, more "lists" oriented, and maybe other versions, like research-oriented and so on. For now, there's visual and lists.
Doesnt the GPL allow that
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Hello Netizens! I wanted to get the word out about something never before done: IMU data (3D XYZ position and movement tracking) with temp and barometer readings, over Bluetooth Low Energy!
(3V @ 16MHz)

I've been building the earlier prototypes by hand, and in conjunction with the Femtoduino boards, I've hand built about 2,000 boards to date. (Parts are smaller than poppy seeds)

I simply could not keep staying awake till 6am every day to ship stuff out fast enough, ...so I've launched this Kickstarter to get IMUduino fabricated locally, and shipped quickly.

If you want to build Drones, map stuff without GPS, build Smart Home devices, or wearable...using PhoneGap and Arduino, then I invite you to have a look. I've added sample code as well.

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Is it really so hard to believe that he might just be religious?

Jesus Christ, atheists are the worst (as can be seen here in this thread). And I say that as an atheist …
It seems to me that wave particle collapse and the second law of thermodynamics have something in common.

The latter can be explained by simple statistics. There are far far less ordered states than unordered so it's much more likely that a system would eventually go into an unordered state.

In fact I consider life to be an interesting counteraction to the second law of thermodynamics!

Now, something like that could happen to probability when you simply go up to macro scales. When you have a huge number of particles all interacting together then the variance is reduced to such an extent that it is as if the wavefunction collapsed.

After all there is a chance I could go through a wall in quantum mechanics, just astronomically small because that would need to happen with all the particles at once.
I think you mean to say, "Got 50% bump by faking a counter offer".
>The level of discourse on HN is step beyond any other site I frequent.

I agree. HN has recently (in the past 6 months) re-gained a lot of the high-level discourse that drew me in I first started lurking 4-5 years ago.

Well-done, dang et al.! Not that it was in a hole, but you've succeeded in bringing the site's discourse up a level.
The witch hunt against Brendan was just terrible. He made a minor donation years ago and it's something people blew out of proportion.

Here was his statement about inclusiveness after his donation became an issue https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/ To me it looks like he was committed to keeping Mozilla inclusive and would have been a great CEO.
I don't entirely agree with this.

I don't use my own mailer currently. I DO, however, use postfix to queue and relay email to rackspace, who actually sends my email.

I don't think the API method is appropriate because then you need to run some other queue system so your app has an instant response time for the user. Their action would create a queue entry (with whatever data) that will eventually be fired off as an API call to whoever you're using to send email via an API.

Or, you just set up an SMTP relay and use sendmail/postfix/whatever locally to handle that part of it.

I often see these startups using the API calls as part of the customer facing flow (website or otherwise) and the increased latency waiting on that API call to return really, really sucks.
This notion gradually descended my team into hell back when I was on a project using Spring.NET, which actually does have a Turing-complete config DSL. But that wasn't the main problem, the main problem was how much configuration was needed to do absolutely anything. Mountains of it.

Create a component, then tell the framework how to instantiate it, then tell the framework to instantiate one and give it a name, then pass that name into anything that needs one.... blech.
That's a pretty novel legal argument, that you acquire ownership of someone else's computer account - that you have entered into a legal contract with someone who isn't aware you exist - merely because they typoed their email address.

It is so novel, in fact, that it doesn't exist.

Don't make up bullshit and write it in legal threads. You might deceive someone into thinking your bullshit is accurate.
Yes, presuming the above was not meant to include "... that other people cannot charge for".
Excellent news. For someone who has often been described as very private and opaque, I feel like I understand him a lot better now. Not to mention the positive social impact this will probably have.
Well done! :-)
https://mailinabox.email/ on a 1gb DigitalOcean droplet. Will cost $10/mo and you get full control / unlimited accounts and aliases.
I think the dev team would be surprised to hear that getting to see the new site is a security vulnerability!
Do you think there's anything wrong with Houston's lesbian mayor subpoena-ing pastor's sermons? How about peaceful non-cooperation with the law based on one's protected rights of speech and freedom of religion by refusing to participate in a gay wedding as a photographer or a caterer? How about a militant lesbian activist/"journalist" (Masha Gessen) who admits the true purpose of the "gay rights movement" is not access to marriage, but a redefinition and the eventual elimination? I can continue, but I think you get the point - don't delude yourself by thinking the LGBT folks are here to assert their rights - if it were only that, the above wouldn't be happening. No, they are out to recruit you into agreeing with them.

And that, my friend, IS a problem.
> Wow. I feel so sorry for you that you live in a supposedly civilized country

You might have missed the part where he said he lives in Texas.
You are being quite naive if you don't understand why it's there.

When is the last time someone introduced themeselves to you as: "hi, i am xx and i am pregnant"? It makes no sense whatsoever.
really cool, but tbh I was a little frustrated with the navigation interface. Was there supposed to be only 2 degrees of freedom? I would love to turn my head without clicking the mouse.
The SAT has a cheating problem in Asia
"Islam he says kill your enemies and apostates"

Your interpretation of Islam is flat-out wrong.
Exablaze also sells NICs with an FPGA as does SolarFlare. You can get an FPGA in an Arista switch as well. Very cool stuff indeed.
This is sad. I was under the impression whole reform was supposed to turn healthcare from business into utility.
I wonder if the root of the issue could be addressed by making a requirement that valid stock transactions can only happen every 10 seconds. Transactions could be initiated any time, but the price of the stock would be finalized on transaction every N seconds. The intent to purchase (beginning of the transaction) could specify how many stocks to purchase and what is the maximum amount of money that could be spent for the transaction. A single service would need to be the authority of all transactions.

I do not know much about how the stock market works, but I'd think that addressing the unfairness of computerized trading would not be an impossible thing to address.
He voted for limiting their rights. He actively acted against people rights. The fact that it wasn't successful doesn't make it right.

Even if the majority of people decide that jews need to be killed, I will still believe it's wrong.
Keep it short. Nobody wants to read a book.

Structure the content visually and conceptually. Short paragraphs work well.

Don't hesitate to post your initial thoughts and then clean it up during the period when you are allowed to edit the comment.
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Why should the work product of an individual be restricted only to people who agree with his choices? If someone doesn't buy Apple products because the CEO is gay, they're saying they don't want to send money to people promoting a homosexual lifestyle, not that they can't respect his work and not that they don't appreciate it.

Do you agree with all of the life choices made by every innovator throughout the centuries, many of whom were very religious and almost assuredly would've been anti-gay had such a movement existed in their time? It may make sense to deprive these people of money now if you disagree with them, but it doesn't make sense to discharge all the output of their life's work once there's no more threat of them actually receiving direct monetary aid from your purchases, and it doesn't make sense to denigrate the product on its own basis, independent from the behavior or ideals of the original creator. We should recognize good wherever we can find it.
I actually wrote an article on the topic, funnily enough...

http://swombat.com/2010/12/6/get-better-at-writing
Deciding that you can in fact out other people in some circumstances confirms that the enlightened claims of individual ownership of sexual identity are a political fiction. If it's deemed a person is "hypocritical" then you feel free to socially assign a label to that person's sexuality. "Outing" is only possible if society decides someone is "gay," not the person.
If some people don't want to buy Apple products because of this, that would be a foolish choice. What may be worse than that would be some people trying to color everything Apple makes with this background and attempting to denigrate the products with "jokes" that aren't.
Complex joining of multiple data sets with filters and conditions utilizing a query language that has been utilized to great effect for longer than SNMP has existed.
CHARTED: US has some of the worst child poverty rates in the developed world
XHRs appear under the "Resources" tab of my web inspector, so I guess by that right they're resources on the page :) But you're right -- the latency histograms for static resources are very different than for dynamic resources.

So while the probabilities do suggest that most users will encounter at least one 99th percentile latency, it's very different if that latency is for a static resource vs a dynamic one. Thanks for pointing it out.
There is the concept of an informational interview -- meeting over coffee to ask about a person's job/industry/company -- but that is distinct from meeting a hiring manager. It may be as effective in the job hunt, although it is not as direct. Consider it, though, as it may be more informative to talk to someone who does a job you'd like to do at a company you're interested in. If that person then recommends you to the hiring manager, you're in a nice position.
Another thing that makes it even worse is having health insurance that is tied to your employment. So if you get cancer and can't manage to keep your time off to less than 12 weeks plus your accrued sick days then you can be fired and lose not only your income, but your health insurance as well. It is an unbelievably awful system.
Is there a good site to see how much one "should" be making?
You can believe the christianity idea of "God" but not in the bible as its "word" at the same time. In fact, you can believe in anything at all and still talk about "God". An it would be still valid.
May it be coding, writing or another skill, there is one thing that matters most when learning and perfecting it:

* practice

* observe how others do

* practice

* practice even more

Obviously, you won't be good at first, but that's the whole point of learning, isn't it?

So every time you encounter a defect in your skill, make a mental note for next time. Don't try to make it right the first time, just make it. That way, you will get feedback, and know what the actual defects are.
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I agree there is a high amount of speculation in this article, and he's not the first person to suggest that this item is the patch from her aircraft. (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/27/photos-could-prove...)

Either way, I'm curious if they will find anything with an ROV. Coral reefs in the middle of the ocean don't provide the necessary protection to preserve an artifact like her aircraft. Which would explain why a single piece was found washed up on an island.
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> When I arrive in my office each morning, I’m greeted by framed photos of Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy.

Personally, I was struck as much or more by this statement. This certainly does not follow the standard political & business script that we are force feed in the USA. I look forward to hearing more from Cook speaking to social issues.
A casual examination of nature would demonstrate your statement to be false. Your statements are both extreme and unfounded, which is a curious state to start from when you have very little objective information about a topic.
> by using underpaid overworked labor

Underpaid in what way? Are there many other jobs those people could be doing which pay them better? They're not paid much by US standards but the alternative is subsistence level farming. Is anyone who puts their production into China (and let's remember that's basically everyone in hardware before we single out Apple) being nasty by offering people a better income than they can get anywhere else?

It's the market rate, something incidentally most people in tech in the West are pretty happy about when it's driving massively above average salaries for programmers and the like.

In terms of overworked - Foxcon workers recently went on strike because the amount of overtime they were being offered had been reduced. If they're overworked it would be very odd behaviour to strike to demand more.

Essentially Foxcon workers get to choose between two things - a shitty life working at Foxcon and a really shitty life not working there. That's unfortunate, but it's not Tim Cook's fault, it's in part the fault of the Chinese government, in part the result of them having been dealt a shitty hand and a consequence of global capitalism which most of us are in some way complicit in.

To place this at the door of Cook is pretty naive.
I'm going to give some advice that I think is essential to improving your writing, but I haven't yet seen in the comments here:

Work with an editor.

Almost every great writer you can think of in recent history has had a good editor, at the beginning of a career, or in many cases throughout their entire career.

If you were a professional writer, you'd have a professional editor. Since it sounds like you're not, you'll need to find your editor some other way. Here are some ideas.

- Take a writing class, ideally in person. Your editors will be the class instructor, and depending on the class structure, your fellow students. One advantage of this approach is that you are given assignments to write about.

- Find a writing tutor. This will require either you or your tutor to invent assignments to review and work on. One possible way to do this would be to review your comments on HN, and read the rest of the comments in that thread. Work with your tutor to find the comments you think are better, and think about why that is, and how you could improve your own writing.

- Find a writing club or group or workshop. These are typically groups of people who get together informally on a regular basis to review and edit each others' writing. They are often focused on specific formats--a group of poets, for example, or a people who enjoy writing short stories.
Thanks for the awesome feedback.

We've fixed the search issue, thanks for pointing this out.

Currently we do not offer the ability to sort by tags, this is coming but you can search tags on the search page.

https://www.codehive.io/search

Thanks again for all the awesome feedback!
Compared to countries with free health care, yes.
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Thank you for your kind message. I think my problem is I don't know how to ''share'' feeling with people around me. In my whole life I have been the only one person my family can rely on both mentally and physically. I only know to be stronger and never give up and I never show feeling with people around me. I just let go and focus on positive thing that I can make it happen.
Someone upthread suggested that all that's going on is "acknowledging existence" of homosexuals, and that one must engage in mental gymnastics to use phrases like "pushing homosexuality on everyone".

I don't have a problem with pressure. I have a problem with people saying that nobody is pushing when some people actually are. Thank you for being honest about trying to pressure and compel religious groups to change. (I, too, often pressure my own religion for change -- though I prefer compelling arguments to financial threats.)
Somebody, I think it was Stephen King, once said something like "the best way to get better at writing is to write a lot, and read a lot". I seem to recall this sentiment being expressed in King's book On Writing, but I may be mis-remembering. Anyway, it rings true with me. Read, write, read some more, write some more, lather, rinse, repeat.

If you need something to help encourage you to write, consider participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)[1][2].

Also, there are TONS of resources available for people who are working on getting better at writing. Just go down to any Barnes & Noble store and find the section with the writing books, and you'll find shelves full of books on "how to be a better writer". Some are aimed at fiction, some non-fiction, some specifically for writers of memoirs, magazine articles, etc.

It's sort of cliched to say, but The Elements of Style by Strunk and White is excellent, as is Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

I have been trying to improve my English a little but not having anybody to write to or any need to use English makes me believe that I will be stagnated in a low level profile, and that I will never will achieve the level of mastery and proficiency they show so well in their writing.

Maybe consider starting a blog in English, and just write about whatever interests you. It doesn't even really matter if you get any readers/followers or not, the important thing is just to write as much as you can.

All of this advice is predicated on the idea that you're more interested in getting better at written English. If you want to be a better public speaker the best thing to do is, wait for it... do a lot of speaking!

One good way to get yourself some practice speaking is to join a group like Toastmasters[3], if you have a chapter nearby. If not, there may be a similar group, but you may have to dig a little. Another option would be to find any local techie user-groups (Linux User's Group, Ruby Meetup, Java Meetup, whatever it might be) and offer to present there. These groups often struggle to find enough speakers to fill their calendars, and any volunteers of usually (in my experience) warmly welcomed.

Edit: I just remembered, there is another book, which I found recommended here on HN a while back, and just recently acquired, which I consider excellent. It's called The Pyramid Principle[4], by Barbara Minto. This book is less about language, and more about structure and organization, in terms of how you present your ideas. I recommend this one very highly.

[1]: http://nanowrimo.org/

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Novel_Writing_Month

[3]: http://www.toastmasters.org/

[4]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Pyramid-Principle-Writing-Thinking...
Donating money to support a campaign on a proposition supported by 52% of voters is not 'hurting people', and saying so is hyperbolic and ridiculous.

The reality is that the gay rights movement did not have the unprecedented swiftness it did by alienating those who feel differently about homosexuality. It traditionally has been a movement predicated on the idea that people who didn't support gay rights could be converted if they could only be reached in the proper context. The effectiveness of this approach speaks for itself.

It's a shame and an embarrassment that people think it's appropriate or rational behavior to do what was done to Eich. If that type of behavior was the common reaction to someone who, privately I might add, had opinions counter to the movement then we would have been set back decades.