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Post re: passing of man who worked on Mozilla/Firefox Developer Tools
There was a blog post here a few weeks ago about the passing of a man who worked on Developer Tools at Mozilla/Firefox. I would like to read it again and share it with a friend. I've searched, but come up empty handed. IIRC he worked remotely, and was disabled. Do you remember the source? Thanks!
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From an employers standpoint,

First evaluate the competition. As an example on oDesk, there are almost unlimited PHP developers, a large percentage who are novices. The reverse is true to some degree when it comes to Python. Identify skills which have less competition and higher rates.

Next is focus on finding someone who hires for long term projects. If you are working for three people at once your quality will suffer and your output is going to be slower. If you are doing 3 hour projects a large percentage of your time is going to be spent trying to find work rather than being paid for work. You could look for how much the hirer has spent on total projects, for example. This is a guess, but you probably want someone with $10k+ spent.

When it comes to oDesk & Freelancer one of your biggest advantages will be English comprehension fluency. Something to consider for non-native speakers.

When I hire, I disregard the developer's profile history. I look at other things such as their English fluency. The first job is short and provides a fairly accurate indicator if they will work out.

oDesk is mined for skilled developer talent. There are companies just posting test projects to find these developers and hire/contract them out full time. In that regards the pool of skilled developers is artificially lower than it otherwise would be. In my experience the guys billing higher amounts are either on par or worse developers than the ones charging lower amounts. In that respect, the skill shifts from developing to sales. If a non-tech person is doing hiring they are at high risk of being strung along.

I would echo what others have commented in the thread -- it is much better to find a full time or part time dev position than chasing after mini projects. (And better yet, be paid in partially equity especially if your work is contributing to significant revenue growth for the employer.)
But, your example is the entire point about trademarks. It provides protection, from copycats or generic rip offs, this is a good thing.

For example, lovers of Cadbury chocolate know that any purple wrapped chocolate will be Cadbury. They can quickly spot their chocolate in the store and don't need to worry about ever buying a cheap imitation chocolate purple candy bar from CadMury. This is good for both consumers and businesses*

This works because there is nothing that intrinsically links purple to chocolate. Cadbury created that association, they invested in it, and through trademark's they are protected from knock offs confusing their brand.

*Though I don't understand why many businesses then destroy their own brand by including sub-brands of lower quality. E.g. A purple cadbury chocolate bar that is sugar free--I'm sure we've all unknowingly bought the wrong sub-brand like this at some point in time.
I had to contemplate my answer for a while.

I agree that there should be coding standards, but perhaps I should have been more clear: it is common for shops that care a great deal about code formatting, not to care - perhaps not to even know - about coding standards which can avoid bugs.

I had in mind specifically one shop that was very, very picky about its comments, but no one other than I had so much as heard of a C++ smart pointer.
Yes, this should have been prefixed with Show HN, it's a total product advertisement that has been pushed up the rankings.
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In raft how can a client know it is receiving stale, yet agreed upon, data? I'm talking about the edge case of having a network partition or some other condition like it.
general purpose SSD offers a good bang for your buck. The "best/most consistent" disk performance on amazon is still (unfortunately) ephemeral disks in a raid set. But if you turn that instance off (or Amazon decides to turn it off for you...) bye-bye to your local data. Not an acceptable risk for a database.

And still, after all these years, AWS won't replace a failed ephemeral disk in your instance. Is there a technical reason for this??

If one of the large cloud providers wants to become competitive in this space, all they need to do is offer instances with local storage that are in a hardware raid set with truly large volumes. Heavy disk-io applications are still much better suited on-prem where you have the flexibility to build these types of monsters. 5TB spinning disks are going for under $200 these days.

Or AWS could just start replacing disks on their m1 series machines...
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I was thinking the exact same thing. I would add that there is one more coincidence which is that the Earth is covered in water.
It is interesting to speculate why is it that religious groups fare better in this kind of arrangements.

I think it has to do with 2 things: The ability to shame individuals into compliance without resorting to violence, and the ability to shut off free-loaders.

That's the problem with intentional communities. Everybody (claim to) have the best intentions, until push comes to shove and you have to actually put your self interest on hold for the greater good of the community.
how would copyright work for these? They were never copyrighted, so they're not outside the copyright->public works window. could super evil publisher copyright them? maybe I should just google for copyright.
Seeing the very large amounts of alignment padding really makes me wonder if aligning data structures (and CPUs that require it) is an increasingly obolescent practice; it wastes space, making less useful data fit in the caches, and as far as I can tell was only necessary because some CPU designers wanted to save the - comparatively tiny relative to the cache - bit of logic to extract the right set of bytes from the cache line and bring in another one if the access spans two of them.

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2012/05/31/data-alignment-for...

I know that you can arrange structures in an attempt to minimise any padding, like what's been done here, but that doesn't always work out so perhaps it would've been better to pack everything together.
I didn't understand what he meant by you get 9 hours of interviews transcribed. Does it mean you're interviewing with the person via Skype and then you get a copy of what was said or you're watching a video of someone else's interview with what they said?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9448686
How could someone who grew up in a suburb where he could buy rockets from Bilbo Baggins, et al, not have a fun childhood? :) Seriously though, I hated the suburb I grew up in. Something happens around 12-13 where kids need a change from the early childhood setting, I think. It was a great place for that time period was was too small of a world after that.
Obamacare's 'risk' program may shake up insurance prices
open the firefox console, type:
console.mihai()
Or Apple Records: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

People forget that Jobs and Woz started a company in an already-vibrant economy, and there was another powerful "Apple" out there already.
Is this what you are looking for?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9448686
I don't understand why the default documentcload embedding doesn't have an easy way to link to the actual PDF. The page on the documentcloud site has a download link, however that can only be found by viewing the Guardian page's source, determining the documentcloud document-id, and going to /documents/<document-id>.html (where the document-id consists of a number folowed by a lowercase hyphenated title) on the documentcloud site itself. For convenience, here is the PDF itself for the Mark Twain story:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2072...
Building a Voight-Kampff Test with Bayes Factor
3 ways to respond when you get an unexpected new task at work
The US has a huge influence over other free nations, and has especially since WW2. They mimic the US, they take cues from the US in terms of what behavior is acceptable, they often expect the US to lead by example.

In the two centuries prior to WW2, Europe was dominated by dictators and monarchies. Afterward, the entire region was remodeled on American style government representation, modern central banking, market economies and so on.

Behaviorally for example, they followed the US into a global war on drugs that has been an epic failure, and fortunately they're going to follow the US back out of it too.

They followed the US into a global war on terrorism, that mostly consists of cracking down on domestic freedom in the false name of security.

The US isn't responsible for what France is doing, but the US is leading the so called free world down the wrong path.
Some of the computation is "trapped" inside of the bone box with no screens. Yet only that computation makes any complexity meaningful.
Freelancers: Don't get screwed by clients, make a contract
All documents have copyright, as I understand it, automatically. Although, I guess these were created before that was established, so perhaps you are right and they were never copyrighted...? IANAL and all that.
First SkyDrive, now Skype? What is this company's deal with attacking Microsoft and others over a very very generic word?

For what it's worth, Sky is only 60% of Skype, and Skype has 2 more letters.
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That would be Sky Deutschland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Deutschland
Can you just set up a custom search engine with the URL's of the sites for the industry? https://cse.google.com/cse/

Your effort would be just to paste in those URL's, no need to develop / maintain any site of your own.
I agree that using one technique for an infinite world is probably going to get boring pretty quickly, and you can probably get more leverage out of a finite world.

But even with an infinite landscape, I think you could improve the variety by using a generator at different scopes - if your landscape is just one constant type of terrain, like a field, things will get boring. You might have a wide variety of rivers and trees, but the basic idea is the same. But if you have another generator controlling the terrain type - going between plains, desert, mountains, etc., that would be really interesting. At the small scope, variation in trees and water is still the same level of change, but there is also a larger scope that changes the overall feel at a much larger radius.
In the end, if society doesn't collapse, farming will be automated.
They could just have rebranded themselves as "cheap" or "bottom" because that's what those platforms promote. I appreciate the efforts they've tried to improve the platform(s) but they're dealing with something no one was able to fix yet: solve the lack of scalability of work-people matching.
It's a shaky business model, making money off scraping webpages. Somebody updates their website, and boom, you're out of business.
Would it be possible to add RSS feeds for each category page? I currently read HN via an RSS reader and filter out any articles with less than 10 points. I would much rather filter out categories I don't care too much about.
> Syntax extensions are a cool feature (and Rust is the only language I know of that supports something like this) that allows you to modify the AST at compile time, so you can generate your own code or modify existing code.

Java has had this feature for about 10 years now. The standardized API (required by all conformant compilers) defines only reading a partial AST (just declaration) and generating new source files, but javac supports full AST transformations.

Two famous Java projects making use of javac AST transformations are the good-old Lombok project and Checker, Java 8's new pluggable type systems.
I grew up in the suburbs and I was fine with it. As an adult I prefer city life.

I probably would have hated SF as a kid. I've lived in SF for 7 years, and I can't think of anything that is more convenient that I would have cared about as a kid. I don't know if its just SF, but it seems very adult oriented.

That said, while growing up, the closest mini mall was about 1.5 miles away. Which we would go to because one of the shops had arcade games. I've never lived in a suburb (3 of them) that wasn't 1-1.5 miles from a mini mall. That is easily within biking distance.

We didn't spend most of our time there though. We spent most of our time in the hills around us (South San Jose), and on the Baseball fields/Basketball courts at the local elementary school. Or playing baseball with tennis balls in our cul-de-sac. Or digging forts in our backyard. Or riding our skateboards through the streets.
Sounds great. What's Foursquare?
It's mostly a zoning problem— for whatever reason, America treasures areas of purely single-family homes, probably because it creates an economic barrier that enforces a general demographic sameness in an area. That means that, even if you wanted to open a corner store in a neighborhood by building a storefront at the base of a house, as was traditional in the United States (e.g. http://www.moline.il.us/images/pages/N716/1403%207th%20Ave%2... ) it'd be illegal.

And Trader Joe's can and does operate in no-parking storefronts in sufficiently dense neighborhoods.
Americans are big optimizers. Our retail has gone big for logistical and economy of scale reasons. Paradoxically, this is how we are frugal while maintaining a nod to consumerism. For a complex set of reasons ( much of which involves how our tax system works ) , we tend to separate housing space from business space unless you're in a city where that grew up closer together.

Suburbs are unnatural and inorganic, and that's what people either hate or love about them.

This being said, there's frequently a "convenience store" that's sometimes closer than Big Mart. No veggies or actually even food, but they're there.
Why our BA thinks KANBAN should fall down a well
Love the Startups for the Rest of us Podcast, which is why I just bought the book. Look forward to getting some good stuff out of it.
You get access to pre-recorded videos, and text transcriptions of them (because reading is fast).
Async HttpClient for Java, from bayou.io
It wasn't even like Sky and Skype are directly competing with one another (VoIP/Chat/Video over Ip Vs. Satellite TV).

That's what I thought, too, until a co-worker corrected me. Sky does have phone service, though[1].

1. http://www.sky.com/products/broadband-talk/talk/features/
Raft implementations can choose to implement reads in various ways. In LogCabin reads are linearizable, meaning that the results are current as of sometime after the read request was initiated, and it doesn't rely on bounded clock drift to make this guarantee. That's about the best you can do in terms of freshness in a distributed system. Other implementations might offer weaker read semantics or give the client the option. Check out 6.3-6.4 in my dissertation for a ton more detail: https://github.com/ongardie/dissertation#readme
Kanye West – “Can't Hold My Liquor”
So I hate to whine, but how is it that somebody writing about color puts out gray-on-white text that's so hard to read? I'd expect them to know better...?
They are all at least a generation behind the US technologies.
Trademark is supposed to be as limited as you say, but if that were actually the case then Sky and Skype wouldn't be colliding.
The article doesn't really say why the decision came down the way it did. Without knowing the details I agree that it seems strange, as a TV channel and a phone platform don't seem easily confusable, however look at it this way:

Sky is a broadcaster for transmitting video and audio to many people. Skype is a communication platform for transmitting video and audio between groups of people.

With that description I can now see why Sky won the trademark case. I still don't agree with the decision, but at least now it doesn't seem so crazy.
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IANAL, but to keep your expenses low and get traction sooner, here's my advice:

Unless you're going against obvious warnings for each site, then scrape first, make it free, and ask questions later. IF you're successful quick enough, you will be a force in itself and your marketplace will be one where everyone wants to remain listed. Speed & adoption wins, stay under the radar as long as you can. you want people to love your product so it doesn't get pulled and/or makes people want it back. When you get notified, respond immediately. Very important: PROFIT LATER. Once you are taking payments, some could say you are making money off of their data, and they'll want a piece of that money. If it's a free service, less feathers to ruffle, less of a target. Cease & desist will stop you from pulling THEIR data. Getting sued for the money you brought in will ultimately stop you from pulling ANY data.

>a link would lead directly to the original website.

Track this heavily, this is the value you are adding to the data providers you are scraping from. If they see business growth coming from your space, they'll support you. Get allies early.

The innocent 'I wanted to build a tool to reduce headaches to help the community' is best defense here. (So don't post online anywhere stating otherwise...) Trying to get approval from a large enough 'chunk' of the data providers without some numbers behind you is a waste of precious time.

Good Luck!
"The US isn't responsible for what France is doing"

I hate this soft-pedalling. You should go all the way with anti-Americanism. Otherwise its just mealy mouthy.
France passes new surveillance law in wake of Charlie Hebdo attack
If you have a connection to upstate NY, and are interested in this stuff, you might want to visit the Ithaca EcoVillage: http://ecovillageithaca.org/live/
sorry it wasted your time. alas taleo is not my choice :(

you can just email a resume and cover letter to me and i will take care of it.
And yet, I live in Vancouver and am looking only for remote work from the US... precisely because Vancouver companies don't pay enough to support Vancouver cost of living. If a US company just offered me Vancouver rates, I'd turn them down in a heartbeat.
Funny example.

So, Wings3D is actually written in Erlang. It's a quite nice and minimalist 3D editing program, and it behaves exactly how you describe: some operations may cause a crash, and Wings lives and your model dies.

This is not a large consolation.
Ask HN: Boulder Startup Week, anyone?
Anyone going to be around for Boulder Startup Week next week? It'd be fun to meet other HN users.
Which came first though? Skype was on of the first VoIP providers out there, if Sky moved into Skype's market after-the-fact, aren't they the ones violating Skype's trademark
Building streets for humans rather than cars could help solve affordable housing
> In many ways, the human brain works using brute force too

I strongly disagree. It doesn't always do brute force. It mostly works on assumptions and testing the scenario against the assumptions made. Validating and refining the assumptions to closely model reality. This is also correlated with why superstitions were very much prevalent in primitive societies. They worked as a rule of thumb.

If it mostly worked by brute force, we would be extinct by now. I know that's a little far stretched to say, but i strongly feel that's how dangerous it could get if the brain always did brute force.
Shouldn't downvoting 2+2=5 be done for quoting it to Dostoyevsky instead of Orwell?
> Parachutes work better at sea than land; water becomes far softer as you reduce speeds.

Sorry, my comment was ambiguous. I meant "Why would parachutes work better than rockets at sea?" not "Why would parachutes work better at sea than land?"

> a powered landing on a 30 foot wave seems like a rather complex problem

This is only an issue if you're greatly decelerating in the last 30 feet, since then that window is shifting up and down with the ocean. However, I'd guess that all the major deceleration has already happened by this point, and the rockets are just maintaining a slow steady descent speed for the last 30 (or 100) feet. (Would greatly appreciate anyone who can tell me I'm wrong here.) In this case, they function just like a parachute.

> Worse, powered landings have little redundancy where a sea landing with 2/3 of your parachutes is not a major issue.

As simonh mentions, the capsule has redundant thrusters, which again seems very analogous to a parachute.
That's not all the US is doing in Deutschland. "[T]he slides show that the facilities at Ramstein perform an essential function in lethal drone strikes conducted by the CIA and the U.S. military in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa."[0]

So it is not just spying on the EU that is being enabled by Germany's government, it is the entirety of the US drone program that is being used across the Middle East and north Africa. This program, operating as it does outside of declared war zones, is very probably illegal under German law.

[0]https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/ramstein/
Time was when self-promotion was one of the major drivers of HN (formerly Startup News, before my time).
It doesn't matter how much you can buy it for. What matters is how much you'll pay for mortgage + property taxes + maintenance + insurance. A lesson that I admittedly learned the hard way when purchasing my home.
Don't get me wrong, Portland has excellent transit. However, a very large number of people who work in Portland actually live in Vancouver, WA. Those commuters strenuously object to running light rail over any proposed replacement bridges for the more than 100 year old trestles that currently handle all of that traffic. In addition, commuters to the south of the city limits also strenuously object to light rail running into their neighborhoods.
I think people can make lack of whiteboards work. The issue I have seen is when your team is partially co-located and partially remote -- the co-located people do the whiteboarding without bothering to involve the remote people, or the remote people do a lot more one-on-one discussions with other remote people. I think remote can work well, but the entire team needs to be remote to ensure communication.
I'm the opposite of anti-American, and I don't appreciate the insult.

What I said is factually correct.
Besides other flaws, premise of this article assumes that castles are better living quarters than apartments which I don't think is necessarily true.
It is like saying "Hat" is too similar to "Hate".
‘Capacity crunch’: Internet could collapse by 2023, researchers warn
Twitter gives control of its hapless marketing department to its CFO
Also MS "Metro" UI nowadays named "Modern UI": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_UI#Name_change

Metro Group, Germany's largest retailer, had something against it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG). Yet, it's an abbreviation of "metropolitan" and is used for many other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro