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I believe this too. I wasn't expecting for there to be so many applicants, given that the application was open for only one week; I certainly learned my lesson. I read on another article that they only accepted 20 teams out of the 6500 pool. I can only imagine that they came across these teams early on and didn't pay a lot of attention to the rest of the pool, especially one's like mine where, now that I look back on it, my application was not ready for submission. When I read what I wrote, I used way to many "weasel words", as PG would say, and didn't state clearly anything in my application.

So to anyone reading this, if you apply to YC, make sure you do these two things:
1) Have a clear, well-written application that states your idea and your background clearly.
2) Start your application early and submit it early. This is one of those things that can only help you.
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I wonder how she would feel if she was addicted to narcotics, went to NarcAnon and then had her name published when someone leaked/hacked their database because "those people shouldn't have done drugs in the first place". Or replace NA with AA.
Definition of "tone-deaf": I don't factually disagree with anything you said, but your mood affiliation goes the wrong way.

In any case, I only hire people who demonstrate the ability to think logically rather than emotionally - it's vital in software roles.
Considering all the bits and pieces of plastic we have manufactured will be around on this planet until well after we are gone I would take a guess at saying plastic film would be best.
Personally I wouldn't want to know.

We have an actual agreement on this, me and my wife: try not to cheat, but if it happens, do everything to keep the other from knowing.

What you don't know can't hurt you -- or at least that's the basis for our arrangement for monogamy between fallible humans. I've heard many arguments for and against it -- the point is that it's OUR arrangement, and YOU have nothing to do with it.
In the original story http://fusion.net/story/181901/we-took-a-tour-of-the-abandon... there are people defending Second Life and its educational usage. I didn't see any students offering their perspective, though. I wonder if students who take these courses actually find them useful.
That might sound crazy but on a software engineering salary, you can retire before 50 if you get used to spending little on food, transportation and shelter. My most favorite online resource on how to live frugally is this: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/how-i-became-financially-i....
One of my cow-orkers is an ex Amazonian. Not damaged, though he rather disliked the culture. Amazon lost a good egg when we hired him.

He says that the only thing you can expense without a manager's permission is a pager. Which, if true, tells you a lot about Amazon.
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Sure, they tick off more of the feature list, but it is buggy! Often there is no way of getting around the bug other than doing browser detection and turning off that feature for Safari!

Two examples come to my mind: Indexeddb and suddenly changing the behaviour of taps on homescreen apps but NOT in Safari.

It is one thing not having support for a feature, and it is another shipping a broken implementation. Also, there is ZERO communication on if/when a bug will be fixed.
If this video helps you, more power to you. Personally I think her talk reflects just her own struggle and how she somehow managed to come to terms with it. For one thing, claiming that the kind of decisions discussed in the video are on par is moot. Sure, for practical reason it might be helpful to assume it. But just because we don't know a way to compute a preference doesn't mean there isn't a way we can do it somewhere in the distant future.
But that's rather a minor nitpick. My main problem with her talk is that she assumes that we all can be pro active individuals as opposed to drifters who float around aimlessly. If you want to be proactive you need a goal and setting a goal is itself a hard decision. Now according to her, comparing goals is not going to lead to success as goals can be on par. So we need something else that makes us finally do something. Maybe this "something else" is not part of the rational world but we got to have it. As far as I can tell she doesn't explain how initial motivation comes up and what to do if it is missing. How do you become a pink socks wearing, donuts eating person? Maybe by just drifting around?

Assuming that we possess some degree of free will I think it is best to prevent hard choices to turn up in the first place. That probably doesn't always work out but maybe you can shift the odds in your favor. For example, if you start programming very early and become really good at it by the time you have to decide for a career then your choice is (rather likely) to be easy. You already have a marketable skill and motivation to do more (otherwise you would have given up earlier). No vague "Let's do an MBA and see where that leads me" feelings that ultimately lead to hard choices: Should I do Marketing? Accounting? Something not related to my degree?
The point is not to bash MBAs here but the problem that this is one of the many paths where you can get far without any "real" motivation. But eventually you reach a point where motivation is key (the choice) and if you lack it the choice is going to be hard. From a practical point of view your decision doesn't really matter (so I sort of agree with her) but again I think that preventing hard choices leads to better outcomes ( a happier life) than any option you may decide for when making a hard choice (most of the time)

Anyhow, the wisest universal advice is "Don't panic!", though. In a way, everything is ok the way it is.
The specific numbers were shared during a keynote at Mozilla's June 2015 all-hands, but I can't seem to find a public recording or data from that session. My apologies.

Mozilla employees and vouched volunteers can view the recording at https://air.mozilla.org/gregg-lind/.
Haha, no worries, I just wanted to try out this cool tool, and had never used something like it before, so I thought it was me!
I just wanted to agree with this. I turned down a job a number of years ago that offered me great thing eventually but you'll be 'just helping push an existing project over the line for a few weeks'. Complete red flag.

There will be other IT security jobs. If you really want one, you should just turn down both offers and wait for one you really want. Good programmers are rare and you can probably wait around for something you like better.

Edit: Also, don't believe promises regarding payrises after 6 months, shares in the company, healthcare, etc. If it's not on the table when you negotiate the contract, be sure you'll be happy when the promises fail to materialise.
What is her opinion about stoning people to death for adultery?
Because for some involved, I imagine, it would be more desireable outcome than the one they will be facing now.
Well, go to job, come home, have a beer, talk shit about other people. Save money and dream of buying house one day. Have a kid.

Not too exciting...
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> a few years back

Have you even looked at it recently? Just curious.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtKBzwKfP8E
Works well for code projects too! Is it the same code base, even if all the lines are rewritten?
It seems to me, as an outsider that has rebuffed them several times, that they've found this subculture of abuse takers that will just sort of deal with it.

I know their pay isn't stratospheric, certainly not a shattering lifestyle change to leave. Many seem drawn to the allure of the name, it's a well known tech company.. Are these types capable of forming a union? by the time they are willing to stick their neck out to do something like form a union, it's just so easy to turn the page and leave.

I worked for a satellite TV provider years and years back, it was similar, very abusive, very demanding. I did my project and left, it just wasn't a good fit. In retrospect, the people that stayed all seem to be somehow damaged. It was just unhealthy, emotionally, I don't remember anyone that was actually happy in life being there. Also very similar to Amazon, they sell to the lowest common denominator, Amazon is effectively going toe to toe with Walmart, more so than google or apple.
And let's not forget that Washington does not forbid non-compete agreements.
If it's a million an hour you should have people permanently available running 3 shift 24/7 and probably with onsite Engineers.
There are lots of conference centers for small conferences. In the medical field, some of the conferences can only be held in 5-6 centers within the U.S.

I've seen conferences charge really high prices for data at a convention center, namely because so many people attended, that it would have overwhelmed the convention center's (likely underpowered) network. Price kept usage low.

This is one reason I've began to like the smaller conferences more. More variety in venues and free data. Plus it's easier to be known among a smaller group of people.
I'm using an iPhone 5S bought almost two years ago, with no battery issues whatsoever (plug in overnight, use all day, don't worry about battery unless an app goes haywire and the phone is running hot for a few hours). My wife is still using her 4S - she also has no issues with the battery. #counter-anecdotes
People should have also checked submittable after receiving the email as a validation check - without relying on the email alone. Email is not very safe/reliable (as we see in this case). With the usual caveats, a secure website is usually safer.
This is a big reason why people hang around. The stress of interviewing, not to mention the absurdities of how you are "measured", and you may just be leaping from the frying pan into the fire. It's easy, if not wise, to just stick where you are and grind through it. It'll get better, right? You'll always hear promises about how things are changing, how your concerns are being taken seriously, etc. Then you'll look up from your keyboard, 3 years have passed, and all that has happened is it got worse.
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How would the threat have worked? If they had source control, they could just get your code before you made the threat?
Unless you really have no other option to support yourself, you really need to change jobs (or departments, etc.) if your job is requiring you to get anywhere close to needing therapy. Having learned this the hard way, I just don't think it's worth trying to hold on for it to get better. Be willing to move on. You'll likely find another job and make the same amount. Plus job hopping often is helpful in your career. And when your job is going well, save up some money so that when (yes, "when", not "if") it goes bad you have some funds to drawn on so that leaving isn't a financial burden and you can support yourself when you are between jobs. After 20 years in the field, I've just come to recognize that just how it is. Plan for it. And there's no reason to put yourself through undue mental or family anguish because you are afraid of making less (when you probably wouldn't anyway).
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O(2^(n/2)) actually, due to the birthday attack.
Agreed - at the end of the day, the decision to divorce comes from within the marriage. I'm not casting blame here - just curious about whether any scenario would lead him to feel culpable about spreading leaked information. IMHO it's a philosophically interesting topic with lots of gray areas.
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It's not about LIBOR and UK banks!
Because it was hyped, and was chosen for some project on the hype alone, without anybody bothering to check what is all about and how the future with it will look like.
I've never felt just because it's legal--it's fine. In fact, some of the worst/slimiest people I know make their money in a legal fashion. Some of the best people I know, have broken societal laws.

When I heard Ashley Madion was hacked, I knew laws were broken, but I really didn't care. I don't like sites/places that make the spread of disease too easy. Kinda like when they closed/modified the rules to the bath houses.

I know we need laws in a civilized society. Did these hackers break the law--yes. Do I care--no! Not in this particular case.

What really bothers me is Ashley Madion didn't stand behind their members. Ashley Madison left their database open. I don't know how, but they were hacked. They were given an opportunity to protect the identity of their members, but they didn't agree to the Hacker's demands. I don't know if the Hackers would have kept their word? But if I owned Ashley Madison, I would have shut down the site immediately-- without discussion. I would have figured, I screwed up; I owe it to the people that trusted me to do the right thing.
Companies need to protect customers personal information--even if it means shutting down.

We all know why they didn't shut the site down. They didn't have a lot of high moral reasons to keep it open. The Hackers had this company completely exposed. Ashley Madison lost the war. The only reason they are still open, and their personal customer data was released is because of one reason--Money!

(I don't know how many people this company employed. If it was a large number, that might be valid reason to keep it open? I just doubt they have a lot of employees? They haven't even gone public yet? I heard they were scheduled for a big IPO?)
I read Ulysses S. Grant was depressed and frequently drank a lot of alcohol when he was not on active duty. He was brilliant in the field, but quickly fell apart without cannons firing all around. Pretty interesting...
#define i++ i--

Or even better

#define i++ ++i
Now what if you wanted to bring in another button - a very similar one - with slightly different styles?
Do you have 30k CHF pocket money?
It's not as crazy as you think. "volatile" means that something else other than us can change the value, somehow. "const" means that we aren't allowed to write to it.

So what is that? It's any kind of input. Like memory mapped GPIO.
Sounds like one of those new git conventions that becomes hot every little while. Scripts are written that automate a 10 line git process which along the way gets mangled or copy-pasted wrong and you end up there.
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You're not wrong, but you're not right either.

Disregarding the (slow) advancements of E-Mail encryption (DANE), and the fact that's desireable that no one company has your data. The big point is that it's fair to assume that everybody has access to your mails while in transit, but using gmail Google has access to all your mails at rest.
It's the correct advice, but I'm sure 99% of people reading this are seeing it as simply a joke. For the other 1% see above.
Speaking of Tableau (which was founded on the concept of VizQL), how is this different? Doesn't tableau basically enable knowledge workers to create data-centric web applications?
I don't think anyone is seriously advocating people do these to company assets. This is just stuff that would be funny in a hypothetical scenario rather than a suggestion.
I think PHP already comes with enough of this kind of stuff built-in.
I can see vinyl sticker sites having a dash template very soon.
If those developers target Visual Studio exclusively, they are actually correct: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/12a04hfd.aspx
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Sum of products is surprisingly hard to do for something like ammonium nitrate.

Among other things, there are actually multiple distinct breakdowns:

NH4NO3 ----> HNO3 + NH3
5 NH4NO3 ----> 2 HNO3 + 9 H2O + 4 N2
2 NH4NO3 ----> O2 + 4 H2O + 2 N2
NH4O3 ----> N2O + 2 H2O

I suspect you could do fairly well by assuming that it follows reaction 3, though. Like with assuming complete combustion.
You extend the styles now you perhaps have:

.mybutton
/* all styles for Normal */
.mybutton.skewed
/* overrides for Skewed */
.mybutton.disabled
/* overrides for Disabled */

class="mybutton skewed disabled"

The suggestion in the OP would be that each one of those classes contain all of the styles for the button. That isn't necessary. Plus it requires, what I count, a minimum of two additional language abstractions in order to do it.
No, although as it happens, I did also write a blog post about my experience with it:

http://masonmark.com/dash-board-revisited
It's a sound idea, and a genuine problem. I'm not 100% sure I'd be comfortable with those spreadsheets sitting on someone else's servers though - even if well encrypted. You presumably have the key too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHGmj_fqPLE
is this post from the future? Aug 21, 2015
btw good read
Author here. This should hopefully be pretty self explanatory. If you're interested in how Edge shows DV certificates, see https://certsimple.com/images/blog/edge-vs-ie-ev-vs-dv-ssl.p...
The true intent: "In a long manifesto posted alongside the stolen ALM data, The Impact Team said it decided to publish the information in response to alleged lies ALM told its customers about a service that allows members to completely erase their profile information for a $19 fee."

So to show the people who use ALM's services that ALM lies about their policies, the users need to be exposed?

Well it's an effective strategy, I'll give them that. But I can't shake the feeling there's a hidden fuck-you in there somewhere to the people they're outing. Just be honest, this is a complex issue with so many permutations it's hard to take any moral position. A lot of cheaters will be outed, a lot of innocent people may have their lives destroyed. What has been achieved?
The UK immigration rules are borderline bizarre at this point. I do not envy anyone not from the EU trying to immigrate into the UK. You need to earn really well and they can boot you from the country on so many grounds now, that I can see this being a challenge for many.
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It's okay to be a sociopath to people so long as others have it worse?

No, sorry. Nothing requires Amazon to behave this way, and it is foolish besides - if you burn through people you are are basically training people up who then walk away and work for your competition. By having them work 80+ hours you are getting less actual work out of them then 40 hours. You are spending more on health care because this sort of environment causes stress. Etc.

We ain't going to shut up and take it just because there are worse things out there.
I don't think '+' is valid in a C preprocessor macro name.
Ask HN: Front end, components and browser support
A few years ago I started as a front-end developer using stuff like jQuery UI. I learned a lot about the stack but quickly switched to back-end where I work right now.

Now I need to make an admin panel, I'm already pretty ok with things again but noticed the same problems from years ago.

How the hell we still don't have basic crossbrowser components like http://caniuse.com/#search=datetime? Am I looking at the wrong places?

Here's how it went: spent the whole day looking for good datetimepicker on GitHub (ORDER BY stars DESC). All of the top 3 components have major issues (e.g. missing localization on a few bits, problems on mobile, closed issues with no reply and no fix). Now I need a better <select> so I go with select2 (I like this one!) but the bootstrap 3 theme is not really maintained.

Why are we making new JS frameworks if it's so hard to work with the basics? There are problems still unsolved. I mean the base UI components that shouldn't go to the garbage when Angular "replaces" jQuery and when React "replaces" Angular. When bootstrap releases version 4 most of the components will move and/or stop being maintained. It's like we can make awesome specialized libraries but when you need a component that "just works" you're screwed.

I'm sure most of them works fine on the latest Chrome and I'm not asking for IE8 support but man, most of the stuff I test is somehow broken on Firefox for Linux.

How do I solve this problem? I need base components that I can trust will work fine on most modern things. Datetimepicker, something like select2, a modal that doesn't piss it self to deliver ajax (B3 modal events are not reliable and IIRC it's deprecated now), etc. Should I just go with a UX library like FuelUX? Any recommendations?

ps: Yes I'm using bootstrap 3, ES6, npm and all the shiny things. Yes I know how open-source works, I've been the maintainer of a popular (back-end) repo for years.
> I was on call for five years. It nearly broke me - but this article is just whining

You admit you worked a job for five years that "nearly broke you". You do understand that life is not supposed to be about how much punishment you can endure in exchange for money, right? There are ways to pay your bills that don't involve inducing physical and mental health issues?
"#undef FLT_MIN #define FLT_MIN (-FLT_MAX)"

i've seen FLT_MIN used as if it is -FLT_MAX enough times that i'm skeptical this would cause bugs rather than fix them. XD
PHP actually allows much less mischief here than C or, say, Python does. It doesn't let you redefine or delete functions, classes or constants, unlike C where macros can be abused for this, and Python where you can delete anything.

But you could hide all errors if you want to screw with people:

error_reporting(0);
set_ini('display_errors', '0');
set_error_handler(function () { return TRUE; }, E_ALL | E_STRICT);
set_exeception_handler(function ($ex) { });
Did you even click the link?
I can tell you exactly what a person like that's response would be: "I would never do drugs."
this is why we have code. reviews. haha. Yeah...I'd file a criminal lawsuit on his ass though.
MUDs and the like were my first thought as well. I guess they don't have the immediate visual effect of the later graphical worlds but over the years I occasionally log back on to some of the old MUDs I used to frequent if they're still up and running. Always weird to see a place that used to be filled with at least 20-40 people now only populated by maybe the sysop's character idling for months in the public channel.
Or it will teach the company to use some kind of VCS.
The whole "this feedback is nonsense, I won't listen to it; oh, and please give me feedback, I take it seriously" thing was pretty absurd. Plus, he essentially blamed the people for being in this situation. I'd be splitting blood if I worked there and got that letter.
a very tidy set of tools :)
'View source' shows the HTML source, not the DOM, in both Firefox and Chrome. Maybe you're thinking of the developer console, or the Firefox 'View selection source' feature?
Marking DV certificates as "neutral" would be in line with marking non-encrypted traffic (plain HTTP) as "insecure", as proposed by the Chrome Security Team: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/marking-http...
@danvesma thanks! We appreciate the kind words.

We definitely don't want people thinking about sickness in relation to our app. Great feedback. We will investigate further.