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Netflix
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The culture deck, still thriving and relevant: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
Battery status API to identify internet users
The problem being that people are going to have to perform both their current job AND their future job, for the same pay they have now.
How does this square with Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_incompleteness_theor...)?
My dream notes app (2011)
I don't know if it is good or bad that I don't have an environment I rely on that much
I don't disagree with the guy on the "clock watchers" point but he should appreciate that in some cases people's circumstances push them to become "clock watchers". If they commit and produce excellent work during the time they are there then they should last.

Also, yeah, that doesn't make sense at all! It suggests they didn't a) read the job spec or b) believe in the company's values or c) perhaps the phrase was really "We value [when you] work [your] life [out of] balance" ;)
TL;DR it's the same "godmode" hack that works in Win7. So if you just kept the modified shortcut in a random folder somewhere, it should still work.
I really didn't like the tone of this article, it was super abrasive and the guy sounded personally offended over what the Soylent CEO was doing.

"When the clean water starts to run out, the world crumbles, and our tech is no longer there to act as a crutch, the out-of-touch tech elite will be the first against the wall."

From the title, I think this is the boiled down point he's trying to make? I find this ridiculous considering the 'tech elite' are actively trying to solve these global issues along with engineers and all matter of scientists across the globe.

All that being said, I don't think anyone needs to take too much offense at his tone. Take a look at his other 'articles' and you can tell that he's just another blogger.
RIG Exploit Kit 3.0 Used to Infect Over 1.3M Computers Worldwide
Right click -> Add -> Text file, then type the 3 lines. Definitely needed to RTFM for that!
"What difference is their in your 1 year training period suggestion and simply promoting then firing or demoting in 1 year if things don't work out?"

You don't have to pay them the higher pay for the year.
Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet
Why AWS Marketplace Is Changing the Software Industry
Plot twist: the engineer is the CTO.
Not really sure there is much to see here. When the market goes straight up anyone who borrows money to put into it will look like a genius.

> Last year, the volume of egg futures traded increased 1,703.3 percent from 2013, making it the 9th largest futures market in the world by volume, according to figures from the Futures Industry Association.

If there is that much money plowing into it, then you just buy and hold.

That's why people point to atleast a 5 year track record as the first rule to follow if you are looking to invest your money in an actively managed product.

The other thing to notice is that the results are unaudited. I too can claim any results I want if I have no investors.
65 Businesses You Can Start While Working a Full-Time Job
Makerbase is the tiny new website that could give LinkedIn a run for its money
Well you should have stated that clearly in the initial prompt, I'm not in the business of making assumptions.
Useful reading: http://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html

The post you're responding to is making the argument "Claiming that you aren't unbiased does not make you unbiased. Trying to be unbiased does not necessarily make you unbiased."

That's certainly not ad hominem at all.
I've started to dislike this phrase. Extraordinary is subjective.

Obviously you can trot out edge cases. The claim that extraterrestrials run the US government is quite extraordinary. But edge cases aren't that interesting. Most claims fall somewhere in the middle, and in that case can be called extraordinary or not based on the personal biases of the claimant. Thus "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" becomes a goal-post-moving fallacy in practice.

Personally I don't consider claims about governments wanting to surveil people, economic systems tending to concentrate wealth, or the dystopian potential of supra-national corporate governance to be particularly extraordinary. YMMV.
Interestingly, this also works in Windows 7, so it must be a pretty old feature. But it doesn't give you any god-like powers, just a lot of functions from various control panels assembled in one place. And any function that requires admin privileges (like "create an account") brings up the usual prompt for the admin password.
do freelancing. offer to build MVPs. Build some websites and try selling them
I think this is a straw man, because whether the internet is centralised or decentraised doesn't depend on how knowledgeable its users are.

We have a decentralised transport system, and modern vehicles are very sophisticated, but that doesn't mean that every driver needs to be an expert mechanic or embedded systems engineer.
Cameron Purdy Fired from Oracle
Before mocking me pay attention that those are samples. Music I listen to has nothing to do with it. I'm not here to tell people what I'm listening to.
god I love this series. was a kid during the 90s and just love looking at the retro UI
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angel.co/nayahealth

iOS lead: Our app doesn't just control our pump, but aggregates lifestyle information and informs our users about pumping best practices and gives support where needed.
This role needs to take lead on app, and be able to think with our end users in mind. Needs to have a good design sense and familiar with data visualizations. Preferred to have experience with bluetooth (BLE/SMART). Email me if you'd like to know more, or to try out the pump and app!

We are also looking for firmware engineers!

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Millennials Favor Walkable Communities, Says New NAR Poll
This really seals the point for me:

"Female voices are perceived as less logical and less persuasive than male voices. Women are perceived negatively for being too assertive. If tech culture is going to change, everyone needs to change, especially men and most especially leaders."

This makes it sound like it's bigger than an employment problem, bigger than a tech problem. This quote makes it sound like the problem is how humans perceive males and females in general. How do we change that? Is it culturally rooted in gender roles?

Is it a problem in Western societies only? What's the ratio of males to females in Indian tech and Chinese tech and Kenyan tech? Do they have the same attrition rates?
This might be more obvious than I thought, but could you explain how you scraped all of GitHub keys throughout the entire user-base?
Please don't editorialise the titles of submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"100 Photos Inside North Korea – Part 1" is sufficient to get the jist of the content.
The Voice for Real Estate – Home Prices Peak
As a flyer of things over multiple decades, I would like to point out something that has been learned, over and over, by generations of people who have been flying things - remotely and otherwise - countless times: Don't fly in a way that it bothers people. Use flight responsibly, because you - or, indeed, others - can perish from the attempt. It has been learned, again and again, that those who claim the right to fly, must be responsible for the possibility of death, or otherwise, all the way .. down.

Flying things under human control are unusual. They are not acts of nature, they are acts of Human-kind.

At the very least: if you are going to fly, and bother people, expect a bothering response.
Ask HN: Fair evaluation of equity for buyback?
I hold 3% sweat equity in a service-oriented startup, and the founder is offering to buy it back since I am no longer involved with them. Based on his forecast $600k in revenue and a market-sector average of 6% profit, he estimates $36k profit this year, and thus a valuation of $72k, making my 3% worth $2160. Is this a fair way to compute the value of my equity? What questions should I be asking?
Because individual speakers draw crowds; individual orchestra members do not. Could you see Linus Torvalds' speaker application getting denied because it was a blind proposal from "some hothead"?

Edit: missed the meaning of "blind".
PHP is easy but now a days I think NodeJS is better, I'm 100% in for NodeJS. All my new projects are in NodeJS and AWS Lambda.

Best Regards,
It's a cool awareness experiment. Ultimately, public keys are public and people shouldn't be afraid of sharing them.

Agent forwarding sharing is a big one though. Getting people to stop doing that automatically takes a lot of education. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Guidelines/OpenSSH#SSH_age...
Force Touch on iPhone
My goal is not to insult. My goal is to share. When people are insulted then they are not receptive to new information. Maybe I should have phrased it differently. Thank you for pointing it out. It's something I am actively working on.
This is the 3rd time at least that this thing is submitted. The second time in 24 hours. Maybe it's time to let it go.
Probably the main difference is that you rarely really need "many" versions of python -- and hopefully one won't really need "many" versions of ruby (as much) any more either.

So the problem bundler/venv solves becomes a solution to 95% of the entire problem, rather than just 50%.
I deeply urge everyone interested in go to try to play it in person. Nothing beats a live face-to-face game against someone and then being able to review it on a board afterwards. You'll also find that the people who go to go clubs are very friendly and generally love to teach beginners.

There are a surprising number of local go club around the country: http://www.usgo.org/where-play-go

Especially, if you're in the SF Bay Area (my area): http://bayareago.org/#local-clubs
Well, it may have been 200ft at the time of impact, but .. so what? Where was it, say, 0.25 second before that? We shall see, perhaps ..
"And that was it" .. so far. I think they're getting a little ahead of themselves to assume they're in the clear simply because they haven't heard anything.

Unless they did hear something extremely definitive and simply decided not to share that with us in the way they did the command letter.
> Expensive "web programmers" shouldn't be needed for web design, just as "print programmers" aren't needed for print design.

You don't need web programmers for web design. You can export from a WISYWIG to HTML, or design a big ol' GIF and post it on Wordpress. Lots of restaurants do that sort of thing.

But you probably want something that interacts with the user, changes layouts based on screen size, provides information to disabled users, validates and submits information, allows commenting and moderation of comments, etc. Eg, a program. And you do need programmers for that.
Since fMRIs are likely the future for this type of thing, this is probably the most disturbing job posting I've ever seen:

http://www.acfei.com/forensic_services/jobsearch/job-236170....

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Title: PhD COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGISTS

Date Posted: 05/03/2012 [...]

[...] seeking contract physiologists to provide technical expertise in central nervous system (CNS) studies related to credibility assessment. [...]

Candidates will provide expertise in the use of CNS technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), [...]

A Top Secret security clearance is highly desirable. Candidates without a security clearance who possess superior qualifications may be processed for the required USG security clearance before commencing work.
basically all the people who made their money are getting out and now the mass is getting into it.

Reminds me of the story a hedgefund wrote where his grandma started telling him to buy stocks, he immediately drove home, and closed all his positions.
Hi Steve, this is Eric, one of the cofounders; to answer your question, it's about combining a few ideas together that make MemSQL a database that delivers on its promises. They are:

- Data resides in memory with lock-free data structures

- Full SQL, both operational and analytic

- Distributes on commodity hardware, distributed query optimizer

On its own, putting data in memory isn't enough. As you mentioned, MSSQL does it, as many other vendors. The gap though is that they are still single-box DBs. With a distributed database, not only do you get more storage, you also (and most importantly) get more compute power.

Once the data is in-memory, using SQL to manipulate it and query it is the way to go. But again, once you escape a single box, you have to build a distributed query optimizer, which is hard stuff to say the least.

Customers use MemSQL because they no longer need multi-million dollar Big Iron Appliances from the monolithic vendors. Customers want a cost-effective architecture that uses commodity web servers. We can prove the technology works by our customers who vouch for its efficacy.

And, since we launched the Community Edition, please feel free to take MemSQL for a spin and even use it however you'd like. It's unlimited in both scale and capacity and has all the SQL features in the enterprise edition.
IMHO, there is only a little bit of separation between Docker and Nix/Guix.

I wonder if the Linux desktops of tomorrow will be a thin hypervisor (or something like CoreOS), running a immutable VM on top.
<plug> since you asked :) A bunch of posts on this topic I wrote a while back - http://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/python-internals
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What is the effect of ForwardAgent ?
The difference is, the city has the authority to crack down on it. I was just in NYC, and cabs are running a video in the back seat informing passengers that it's illegal for cabs not to pick you up for race/disability. The city doesn't legally have that kind of leverage over Uber.
I actually could, if only for the fact that Linus Torvalds strikes quite a nerve in many people. Not that I myself consider him anywhere close to the nastiest hothead in free software.
Ask HN: My Startup is in talks with the first customer. How do I charge them?
I have been working on an SAAS system over the last months. I put the demo online, and now I am in talks with the first company who ist interested in using it. I am not sure how I should charge them. I am in Europe and they are in the USA. I heard bad things about PayPal, so I guess it's not a good idea to tell them to send the money to my PayPal account? Should I just give them my IBAN and SWIFT code and tell them to wire the money via bank-2-bank transfer?
Trying to guilt-trip people into paying your absolute costs after you've already given them everything for free is a losing strategy. You either need to charge for complements yourself (support, dual licensing, something) or you need to get money-hatted by someone else who can do those things, like Red Hat.
Thanks David. This is pretty good.

I'll start recommending this service to students in our interview prep bootcamp (http://interviewkickstart.com), who want more practice. We also do intense practice and mock interviews, but they are with seasoned interviewers working at Google etc, and hence there is a cost to it.
Perhaps the best looking tutorial I've ever seen. People tend to think of code as incapable of having any aesthetic beauty, so they tend to think the stuff you put around it should be ugly too. Nice to see this bucking that trend. Great job.
> "RSA BSAFE had support for Extended Random." Support!? Uh no, it used it as the default generator.

? Extended Random is not a random number generator.
Um... I stand corrected. Thanks !
If applications were blind they wouldn't have gender & race/ethnicity. That's the point of blind orchestra auditions.
> Zhang trades on his own account...

> "The goal is to have the hedge fund with the highest return in the world, with capital of around 100 billion yuan," he said.

I hope this is a translation issue, because otherwise it would seem that the subject doesn't even know the difference between a prop trader and hedge fund.
There is a URL for the keys of a user. And phillipo used the dataset benjojo published a few month ago when he scraped all the keys: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys
Thanks for the note, I will try it out.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995141
Perhaps some transparency behind such decisions when they happen again would help maintain a relationship of good faith between GitLab and its users.
Just an anecdote: Since I started using Slackware Linux, I have never had any problem with my system.

I like the idea of functional package managers, Guix especially. But for me personally the problem they are trying to solve does not exist.
Why Kotlin is my next programming language
weird idea: server that hosts open source git repos, but won't let you ssh in to clone unless your GitHub account has contributed to an open source project this year.
Negotiate for a signing bonus, this used to be very common and $5k is not unreasonable, though you may need to increase that to account for your tax situation.
Emacs X Window Manager
NTP's Fate Hinges on 'Father Time'
Stripe. It's super quick to implement.
My bad, I didn't make it that far. Dude spent the first half of the article bitching about his Debian box, and I skimmed the rest (apparently not very well).
I learned go (igo) a number of years ago while living in Japan, and when I returned to the US had trouble finding people to play with.

Ever since online-go.com started I have been getting back into it. I love being able to play asynchronously.

My username on that site is "rob.doherty.127" I'm happy to play anyone beginner to advanced (I am an intermediate level player).
When say you chose people solely on relevance and quality, but you only have men as speakers.. Then it's laughable that your system for choosing speakers isn't biased.

Percentages shouldn't be the reason why you hire or don't hire someone but they should be a measure of how much bias is in your system for choosing persons of varying classes. If your percent of xyz participants in the majority class is way higher than the distribution in the possible applicants then there is some sort of class bias(economic, race, socio) in either how you choose applicants, or in how you get applicants.
- The key might be to new for the dataset.
This App Lets Anyone 3-D Print 'Do-Not-Duplicate' Keys
If it were a blind proposal, you wouldn't know it was from "yet another white male".

Individual speakers draw crowds, yes. But conferences are also a way for people to share their ideas and establish their names in the first place. A conference that optimizes for crowd draw is enforcing a preexisting hierarchy to the detriment of the community.

A solution is to use the keynote address and invited speakers to draw crowds, while taking blind proposals for most of the actual content.

"What is the goal of X?" is a good question to ask in any social endeavor.
...it's like saying "if you aren't poor, you don't know how poor are treated and how unfair life is". The position of privilege one lies in makes it difficult for them to see biases happening against others, and they believe those biases don't exist.
Sometimes they are. I really like it. I was selected to speak at a Ruby conference with a blind submission process. I remember feeling pretty good when one of the people who was a frequent speaker at Ruby conferences was whining on Twitter that their talk wasn't selected.
Maybe of a very weak sort, if you define anarchy as "lawlessness." Maybe they're two sides of the same coin.

But to me, you can't have a police state without a state, or laws to enforce, or a way for the state to coerce involuntary obedience to those laws (which is what police are theoretically for.) All of these things seem fundamentally non-anarchist in principle.
What do you guys/girls think about it?
How to Use Dropbox as a Web Server (front-end only)
How to Get Early Sales at Your Startup
It is most definitely a "mindset" talk more than a "concrete solutions" talk. That said, bear in mind this talk is from 2009 -- "JavaScript: The Good Parts" came out in 2008. So while what he says about web might seem entirely redundant today, with the focus on single-page apps that misses (at least) two things: it wasn't quite that obvious across the field in 2009, and perhaps more importantly, one of the concrete things he does link to, lively kernel[1] was already a real (though new, and not 1.0 stable), working system -- with persistence via WebDAV and the possibility to solve real problems.

[1] http://www.lively-kernel.org/
Right, however none of that has to do with perfect/imperfect information.

To quote Wikipedia: "In game theory, an extensive-form game has perfect information if each player, when making any decision, is perfectly informed of all the events that have previously occurred."

This is a technical designation, it has nothing to do with the future, only the past and current state.

Yes, to be a good chess player you need to be able to evaluate your opponent and make subjective determinations. Yes, your strategy is probably imperfect. But the fact remains that you can see the entirety of the game board and you can write down the history of moves, so you have perfect information.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
The post you're responding to is making the argument "Claiming that you aren't unbiased does not make you unbiased. Trying to be unbiased does not necessarily make you unbiased."

No, it goes farther and very clearly says it actually mskes you more biased.
Ha, good point. Edited.
I didn't think you were disagreeing with me - I think you were agreeing with something I didn't say. I was just speaking to definitions.

Whether unbounded exponential "economic growth" is possible in a finite universe is actually a significantly more involved question. It's obviously not possible if "economic value" is bounded, but in principle could be "possible" with finite stuff in continuous space (obviously, economic value depends significantly on configurations of stuff and not just amounts).

All of this is interesting, but I honestly don't expect any reasoning involving hard theoretic bounds to be of any use in determining what's likely over my lifetime, or those of my children.
ILM and Pixar are routinely rejected from the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, while 30 second shorts from students often make it.

Noone cares that your computer graphics made a billion dollars, people care that they are cool.

SIGGRAPH also had, last I checked, the best gender balance of any tech community. One year our Wiki was vandalized claiming that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was canceling a reception we were having on their property because the organization was supportive of the LGBT community and had strong LGBT membership.

So, yeah, Linus freakin' Torvalds can get rejected once in a while. I think his ego would survive. ;)
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