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Yep, I'm an excellent programmer but I still don't fit the mold for a lot of the postings I see (not that I'm looking since I run my own business).

They are either insanely broad or insanely specific, which I think is insanely short sighted since you will either get liars or narrow your search down to those with only the exact skills you are looking for while missing candidates with more generally applicable skills.

If/when I get around to hiring my job post is going to look something like (off the cuff),

"Web developer wanted, experience equal to a couple of years building production systems any of the following a plus SQL, JS (any framework), PHP (any framework), Python (any framework), broad understanding of how the internet/web works, Linux experience (any distro)"

I'm not going to exclude an incredible candidate because they don't have experience of FooJSFrameworkOfTheWeek.js v9.1.2.11.2, if I have to go through 5-10 times as many CV's so what, a little bit of my time now will save me a shitload of time down the line by hiring the wrong person.
In terms of Biomass Bacteria are the dominate life form on the earth. The average person has over 1lb of Bacteria living in there body and vastly more bacterial cells than human cells.
"The nudity that was once "bold" and "daring" is now commonplace: hardly a rom-com goes by without a sex scene. Sexually explicit films are released without the batting of a censorial eyelid."

And yet, in one of the seasons of US Hell's Kitchen, one of the chefs is in a T-Shirt and her breasts are covered by a blurring mask. I guess it's because you could see her nipples? In a show where Ramsey calls people "fuckface"? US censorship is really really weird.
>"“I know I am a creative person who can do many of these jobs, but I think employers have these expectations that an applicant must bring a mid-level professional’s work experience and technical skills — even though it’s only an entry-level job,”"

For someone to have this position, they have to explain what changed in the past few decades compared to the decades before those. What caused expectations of employers to become higher than the qualifications of the applicants? If anything, more applicants have more qualifications in terms of degrees than ever before, right?
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Part 2 is out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10596078
“Given that Netflix is a $60 billion company—and we don’t have to watch TV or movies every day, but we do all have to get dressed—the potential for Rent the Runway was 10 times bigger than I ever thought,”

This sound like a terrible investment thesis?

It is ignoring all the differences between how you consume clothing vs media. The fact that there is physical distribution required vs digital.

OR am I missing something key?
Education is irrelevant. It's not like entry level candidates of yesteryear were any more skilled in "written communications" or "critical thinking skills." Yet it was much easier to get an entry level job back then. This sort of focus on the content of education, as if that means anything, ignores what is fundamentally a supply and demand problem.
It's not hard to take a troubled, isolated young person, isolate them further, become their primary source of love and support, feed into grandiose fantasies about how killing is the right thing and turn them into a killer. It is literally how every military in the world operates. We have seen proven experimentally otherwise well adjusted (albeit white educated industrialized rich democratic college students mostly) will do horrible things if a person of authority simply tells them to. As far as I can tell from this account, that is more or less what happened here. A high-stakes version of the Milgrim experiment.

I think we need a new approach. I think in situations where it is applicable, authorities should attempt to positively intervene in a person's life when, for example, in this situation where they collect information about a highschool student who starts interacting with editors of extremist publications. That sort of things should shoot up red flags that someone needs help, rather than wait a few years and see if they can get them to try to kill people.
Seems victim blaming is in vogue. What then, is the excuse that they'll use for the victims of Islamists in Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Egypt, Phillipines, Indonesia, Lebanon, Turkey, Bosnia, Libya, Tunisia, Thailand, etc...?

There's always a 'but they did this...' that I hear coming from the apologists. When will the Sunni community actually admit that maybe, just maybe there's a problem if so many of their ranks resort to terrorism? There are plenty of peoples who are far more oppressed, that don't commit terrorist attacks...
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I believe it is that if you use more than 80% and someone else is using 60%, IF throttling occurs on the network, the person using 60% will have priority over you.
If Telegram is so terrible, why is there so much hubbub in the news about terrorists using it?

(Counterpoint: Maybe because since it's broken, allowing the media to perpetuate how secure Telegram is can only be beneficial. "Gosh darn those terrorists sure got us good with that Telegram app".)
If you want to learn more about computer science, you can also study on your own. I disliked college because the major I chose just got me lost and in the end, I ended up learning programming just by doing it.

Like this other guy says, financially it just does not make any sense. You could also end up with really bad professors who teach you squat whereas you could just pick up a high-quality textbook.
Nope, the problem is you need to identify the specific Bacteria that's causing a problem before you can use a bacteriophage to fight it. Antibiotics are much simpler to use.
I still can't wrap my head around renting dresses - some kind of specialized costume I can understand (like spiderman or predator), but dress? They seem to be doing some revenue so it does look like a workable idea.

What happens to RTR if the big name brands with multiple physical stores start renting dresses too (I don't know if they already do it or not)?
I'm baffled and somewhat suspicious that awk became unpopular enough that I didn't really understand it till now.
I thought Python integers were PyObject's? That should slow things down a lot.
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I don't feel attracted to sites like these, or even FourSquare, because they're so impersonal. It's like the yellow pages on a map widget.

You gather reviews and Michelin stars and stuff, which is probably good for you and some target audience, but I don't care about that stuff.

Michelin guide judges seem to belong to some other world of foodie snobs who order stuff I would never order and don't care about the aspects I do care about, like price, ease of access, humility, coziness, friend recommendations, etc.

When I'm out and about, or when I'm planning an evening, I'm not interested in seeing all possible options. In fact that just makes me more confused because now I have to look at 50 different fact boxes and try to decide on dinner based on a bunch of facts and stylized pictures.

The only similar site I've used and actually liked is SpottedByLocals, which is more labour intensive because it is made by locals and expats who go to places, take their own pictures, write their own reviews (with a bit of personality), etc.

So on SpottedByLocals I get an interesting "curated" subset of restaurants that I know have been visited by what I think of as "actual humans" and who provide actual on-the-ground information instead of generic overviews.

Thus, for me, the site would be way more interesting if it only had 12 restaurants that you have been to, with one or two Instagram pictures each, a little tip ("I loved the hummus"), and maybe something about what's in the neighborhood.

Metaphorically it's like if I were to ask a friend "hey, where should I have dinner in London?" I don't want 200 restaurants, I really only want one, as long as it's decent.

One random idea would be to Tinderify the user interface. Instead of making me hover over dozens of map pins, it would just ask "does this look good? y/n."

Or maybe a kind of 20 questions approach, so I would say: "Nah, too fancy. Nah, too meat-based. Nah, too far from Soho. Ah, yes, that place looks good."
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But what to believe and what to ignore? Because that documentary called "Star Trek" showed us the true potential of red mercury. They clearly tried to disguise it's true nature by calling it "Red Matter", but we can see through such obvious lies.
I think Hanselman does a lot of his recording outside of a dedicated studio these days. In studio recording of podcasts is a whole nother level of commitment and cost.
I did read the article and I personally know numerous LEOs (result of living in a small rural town), none of whom would begin firing into a locked door because of a reported burglary.

Your point about life-or-death situations is valid, likely on both the author's and the LEO's side, but it still doesn't help her argument that this was race related..which is really the most frustrating part for me.
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Most of the world also abuses OAuth — which is for authorizing access to information on your behalf, and is completely orthogonal to identity and authentication — for login.

If we step back a bit and look at the problem, the main thing that sites should care about is proof. That is, I'm essentially a number (an opaque, abstract identity), and all the site should want is for me to be able to prove that I am that number. We should forget about email addresses, user names and passwords. A site should be able to request real-world identity information such as your name and address, but there's no need to comingle that with login. A site that isn't an e-commerce app generally has no business getting at that data in the first place.

Such a system would be a boon to implementors, too. As a developer, I would greatly appreciate not having to implement another damn account/login system just so that I can remember my visitors.

But nothing is going to happen until browsers implement such identity management natively, and the only way to get there is for the browser developers to collaborate on the tech.
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Way to shake things up with the finding of the century there, guys.
> Also, this might just be me, but does anyone else miss the good old days when you'd start a business and your success was determined by how much money you actually made, not how much money you got a bunch of investors to give you, just to burn on fancy offices and expensive toys, then crash the company in a few years and retire to write a book?

Selling equity to investors is as much making money as selling products to consumers. And, to the Nth investor, your ability to sell to the N+1th investor may be as important -- or more important -- an aspect of your ability to make money as your ability to sell to consumers.
Thanks for the interesting comparison!
How not accurate?

The half about investment bankers and their friends being happy is guaranteed to be accurate because they bought low and now get to sell high.

As for the other half, it is theoretically the job of Wall St to figure out what main street will like. However Wall St makes money by being bad at that job. Is there any wonder that they are consistently terrible at it?
Please don't use "I guess you didn't read" as a rhetorical device. That sort of point-scoring only makes comments more abrasive and doesn't add information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, they are using a sort of auction structure, just not a pure one. The "pop" is by design to signal a successful offering. The criticism of "leaving money on the table" is bogus. You want to set yourself up for a secondary where you'll raise most of your money.
There are still quite a few folks who spending their time playing with the hobby who aren't fully grey yet ;)

/r/amateurradio is a good place for some of the newer generation hams to hang their hat.

AMPR is interesting, HSMM is basically taking the ham radio spectrum in normal Wifi ranges and using it.. 2.4 and 5.8ghz spectrum also has ham allocations, so your old Linksys or some of the newer Ubiquity devices can be used under your ham license as well at high speed for backhaul connections (All unencrypted, but.. )
It's a bit crazy how internet services are being blamed.

Why not the smartphone maker?

Or even better why not the weapons manufacturers, or bullet makers or bomb making material manufacturers?

I mean really, how many bullets are going to end up in the hands of "good guys" vs "bad guys" (this is sarcasm relating to how people use apps being abused for wrong purposes).
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I wonder why we can conclude that? It seems to just be a ruling stating that American companies that go into space and mine celestial bodies are allowed to return those extracted resources to Earth. It doesn't seem to say anything about other countries or companies based in other countries.

I'm not exactly keen on unfettered exploitation of these resources or the unforeseen consequences of unregulated extraction but I'm not sure how you can draw your conclusion?
Yes if you've been cultivating that user name with sharing it in mind from the get go. Otherwise no, there might be an incriminating little nugget of poop in there somewhere.
Timeline for deprecating everything that isn't using the new WebExtensions API is 12 to 18 months:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...
I was first licensed as a ham originally back in 2009 at 22 years old. As a "young ham" the vast majority of elmers (the old folks) generally looked at me with disdain because they all seemed to think that I didn't "earn" my qualification and am somehow not worthy of being part of the hobby, despite being in a physics PhD program at the time.

In other words, at least in my anecdotal case, it was difficult to break in to ham radio as a youngster because the old folks were actively trying to push me out, and yet these are the same people who claim the hobby is dying. Luckily I stuck with it and got more respect among the older folks after getting my Extra and learning CW (even though it's no longer a requirement).
> T-Shirt and her breasts are covered by a blurring mask

Perhaps there was a logo on the t-shirt? It's pretty common in reality TV shows to blur out logos.
We're working on solving a few of these SSH issues at Userify[1] (SSH key management) but I think you're right. Something like this could be even harder to spur adoption than SSL client certs, which browsers already support. (Here's an article[2] from 1998... almost two decades ago!)

1. https://userify.com

2. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-SSL_clien...
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Good point. I did make it up.

Let's take something like using the (now removed) + operator in Google search.

http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your...

> However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly.

1 in 600 searches used it correctly, another 2 in 600 used it incorrectly.

Stuff like that.

Or have a look through /r/tipofmytongue for people looking for help to identify songs, tv shows, and films. You'd think they'd include details of roughly when they saw the film, or who any of the actors were (or even what other film they'd been in), and then the plot (with some details), or the name of some of the characters, any music, the genre of movie. But you frequently see people who give very vague information. I won't give examples, but it's really easy to find them.

But I do need to remember not to be a judgemental dick about it, and if I was I apologise.
Just in case anyone here doesn't know who Brian Kernighan is:

- He co-created AWK (he's the K) and AMPL

- He literally wrote the book on C with Dennis Ritchie (the book with the big blue "C" on it)

- He authored some of the first UNIX programs (cron, for example) when he was working at Bell Labs

- He made "Hello World!" a trope and named UNIX

He's also quite possibly the nicest person ever.
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Amazon is a retailer. Soylent is a manufacturer. It has plenty of capital to not have to worry about inventory turns. Manufacturers need to worry about making a good product and getting into customer hands first and foremost. Financial shenanigans are a distraction for a budding manufacturer.
Yes. It meant that DEC got taken over before Sun, but neither company survived the squeeze....
No. The article was definitely about condemning Telegram. Otherwise it would have mentioned that other people producing stuff (for example: Cars, Open Source Software etc.) used by terrorists also sleep fine.
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How long does this temporary phase last, exactly?
As far as I know, Telegram channels are a one-way broadcasting tool. Only channel moderators can post on them. It's separate from groups, where everyone can chime in.
Is this the inspiration for the planet-imploding "red matter" from Star Trek (2009 film)?
That was just another project he worked on.
None of Square’s existing investors sold stock in the IPO, with the float representing just 8% of the company’s outstanding shares. [1]

Very small float. Seems like they structured the IPO to have minimal exit risk and to be a PR success rather than going for a higher starting price and capitalization. The "Don't worry we know there's a bubble but we're being realistic and the stock is a good buy" strategy.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/11/18/square-prices-ipo/
Answer: "Is the problem that employers have unrealistic expectations or that universities and students are failing to develop critical skills? A little of both, most workplace experts say."
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Prom dress rental is already fairly common.

Another designer dress rental. http://frockshopchicago.com/

Though doing this online when you can't verify something fit's seems risky. Unless, you have a very common body shape.
I don't agree with the author's characterization. Little of the sex scenes in Hollywood films are "bold" or "daring" in the slightest. They're timid, lifeless and quite often completely pointless. They're put in there more to appease some informal filmmaking convention rather than to drive the film itself. A few are explicit, most are comical and still suffer from puritan tropes (like the infamous "his-and-hers bed sheets").

Lars von Trier is certainly controversial, too. Antichrist received quite a bit of opposition from ratings and censorship boards. Then, in the USA, even if your film isn't censored, the NC-17 is a de facto death penalty.
Terrible wordplay, if this is actually the case. The play exactly contradicts the thesis.
Don't forget the thousands of years humanity spent naked. Thankfully, startups are now here to solve that problem.
France has helped the US to create a terrorism accelerator and training camp out of most of the middle east.
The whole problem here (as with many other things) is that actions which are "madness" when looking at the big picture come from perfectly rational actions by individuals.
> "No willingness to train people to spec"

Absolutely 100% this. There has been an unsettling trend for employers not wanting to invest in their employees. This includes training as well as compensation. Now employers in general expect colleges / university to adapt their degrees into job preparation programs and do all the training for them.

In some ways I can understand that employers are much more reluctant to spend money on developing employees as programs such as pensions that used to create a long term relationship between the employee and employer no longer tend to exist.
The learning curve is not terribly steep, compared to Haskell. There are a lot of good resources, and many friendly people on the mailing list to help you if you decide to learn Elm!
What is the trend for all Hispanics?
No, you're spot on. It's a wildly incorrect premise.

Example: Apple is a $670 billion company. We don't all have to own smart phones. We all have to sleep at night, therefore Beds 'R Us must be worth ten times what Apple is.

You'd be hard pressed to invent a more comical economic premise than the one used to compare Rent the Runway to Netflix. It's in the same fantasy league as proclaiming: if I can only capture 1% of the oil industry, my company will be huge!

Or put another: why aren't lettuce farms worth 100 times what the NY Yankees are?!? Surely lettuce is higher on the needs table than baseball much less one MLB baseball team!
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It doesn't matter how beefy your server is when I trade that Bitcoin for a different cryptocurrency using an exchange via Tor, and back again. Factor in a few exchanges and unless you're running all of them, good luck.

Bitcoin is indeed untraceable, with care.
Are you really selecting for cancer when you do that, or are you merely no longer selecting against cancer?
I just tried to sell my resume on SeatGeek, and it was rejected as not being related to an event. So seems to be working well :)
I think their job is to be entertaining and sell advertisements.
There was an interesting radiolab episode recently[1] about this. The information in this discussion is somewhat contradictory to it, but it paints both an interesting history of antibiotics, and has an interesting story about the possible future.

1: http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/
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Only if the CMTS is also over 80% utilization for over 15 minutes, and you are using your connection at >80% for over 15 minutes.
Alternatively, it's meta-consumerism. We buy things we don't need, while people with big money buy big things they don't need. Except big money movements make waves and backfire on everyone.
> like finally understanding Alanis Morisette's "Ironic"

Would you mind explaining the deeper meaning of Morissette's song?
So I think you're mixing up my two points. A reverse split destroys the stock object, reducing the total number of shares but the proportional value remains the same. We both agree on this (per my previous comment).

Destroy can be used in both ways because language is context sensitive and the definition is somewhat broad. You can destroy value through dilution by getting less than you give. Example: If my company is fairly worth $100 and I own two shares and you own one, you own $33 worth of value. I can then issue my friend bob another share because he gave me a great lunch recommendation and I thought it was a big morale boost, something I can do because you don't have a covenant in place. My company is still worth $100, you now own one of 4 shares and only $25 worth of value. I have now destroyed $8 worth of your value. It's an ownership shift relative to the company, but a value destruction relative to you.