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> The fact that start-up payoff is even remotely equivalent to big company salaries tells me start-ups are a great choice if you value things like your happiness, sense of accomplishment, self-esteem, impact on the world, etc.

I can tell the CTO I'd like something to change and one of these things happens:

1) I'll get a pay raise and/or more PTO.

2) What I'm not happy about will change.

> The thing is though, no matter where you work, as a professional you'll spend 50+ hours a week working.

I work 40 hours a week. I get paid more than a startup would pay me.

> You could work at a large soul destroying company that MUST pay you more because you have to put up with their BS, or you could work at a small company where you can look the founder in the eye and tell him or her to change something you don't like.

That is true of small-to-medium sized businesses with a reasonable C-Suite. This has nothing to do with startups and pretending it does perpetuates the myth that startups are different in ways they are completely identical to other businesses.

> The fact that start-up payoff is even remotely equivalent to big company salaries tells me start-ups are a great choice if you value things like your happiness, sense of accomplishment, self-esteem, impact on the world, etc.

I've designed and built systems that I'm as happy with as I would be at literally any other business.

Really all of you've done is generalized a "bad employer" into "all large companies". This simply isn't true.
Well, many of these have prohibitive application fees that take a lot of work to get waved. I think that's a bigger immediate barrier than figuring out how you'd even pay for the schooling.

I know I didn't apply to several schools merely out of exhaustion of trying to figure out how to not have to pay the application fee.
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Obama Just Pledged $4B to Develop Autonomous Cars
A couple days late on this, but to answer your question:

"Celebrities" I follow might be better described as a mix of creatives (musicians, comedians, actors/actresses) and intellectuals (members of the tech, math, and science communities) all with varying degrees of fame and success.

Primarily I follow people I don't know personally on twitter for interesting content. Usually I initially follow them because I am a fan of their work in the medium they are known for.

Some of these people share articles, some hold deep conversations with others on topics I find intriguing, and some just chit chat with followers. There are plenty of people I admire for their work who I do not follow because they just don't post interesting content.

For me, it provides a nice balance on enlightenment and entertainment.
First hurricane to occur in January since 1938
I loved this calculator when they first issued it, (2012ish?) but now they've revamped it and it takes up too much space for whatever functionality they added.
I agree, and I have an anecdote to share. A few years back I wanted to lose weight and get fit. I tried many things, but I inevitably fell back into old patterns. Then I read a book by a bodybuilder in which basically 1/3 of it was a pep talk -- it was so persuasive that by the end of reading it I knew, and not just hoped, that I would get fit.

I lost 35 lbs and got in the best shape of my life through the constant work of 1.5 years-- I became so dedicated to this pursuit that I would constantly refuse short - term benefits to achieve my long term ones -- something that I a lot of trouble with.

In other words, it was easy once I convinced myself of what my values were.
I feel for the family that lost a loved one and it's unfortunate they don't have more information about this suspect.
Even with central management, I don't know that I want to have 2500 keys floating around even if I have a management stack in place. That seems like an attack vector all in its own. Changing a key every other day on a 90 day rotation with 50 boxes. And fifty boxes isn't even that much. That's like 2 racks.

Even with config management this won't scale past about 2 or 3 people and 10-20 boxes.

Central auth is an option I guess but I think the better way to go would be a 2 factor with the key and hotp.
Whenever I see a fixed navigation bar (e.g. http://fermatslibrary.com/s/a-new-proof-of-euclids-theorem, not like Hacker News' navigation bar), I feel like the page is constricted, and I just want it to go away. Not just visually but "physically," so it still bothers me that bars auto-hide on scroll-down and reappear on scroll-up. In fact, that feels even worse to me.
You know what they meant...
Hell, I torrented "The Man in the High Castle" even though I have Amazon Prime just because I didn't feel like installing Silverlight.

Doesn't Amazon use Flash?
Have Minimum Wage Increases Hurt the Restaurant Industry? The Evidence Says No
I'm not disputing that. I am arguing that given the choice of full Netflix library and the pirate streaming alternatives, there are more reasons to choose Netflix (or iTunes or Amazon) than just convenience.
Foursquare Gets $45M and a New CEO to Build Out Enterprise Business
Dummy cameras feel like 'Security Theater' to me.
That would never happen (costs aside). The publishers would be screwing themselves in the long-term because they would slowly erode the market into a monopsony, and eventually Netflix would be able to simply dictate lower licensing costs by being the only game in town.
That is a misconception. Once you do the math, a property manager is not economically feasible and a home warranty doesn't really help.

Typical property management fees are 10% of gross where most properties net much less than 10% over the first 10 years of ownership in cash flow.

A home warranty is usually only given for new homes as an incentive. New homes can appreciate, but if you are 'investing' you should be focused on buying at a good price, not buying at a retail price from a home builder.

The home warranty second market (i.e. 3rd party home warranties) can reduce risk, but do not typically cover small repairs like a toilet not working etc. Those need to be done by the home owner, because if you hire someone every time it will cost you too much.

Like I said, you will have a very, very bad time if you try to geographically diversify real estate holdings.
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I laughed!
I agree that piracy is theft, but on the flip side, if you're actively withholding content from my demographic (nationality) that you allow other demographics access to, then you're actively discriminating against me. Digital services here in Australia are particularly peculiar - entertainment generally gets here well after everywhere else (through official channels, that is), yet when it does, it's much more expensive and often of poorer quality.

Is that discrimination the worst thing in the world in the context of entertainment media? No. But then again, neither is the resultant piracy of the media in the first place. Swings and roundabouts, both sides are at fault here; there is no particular moral imbalance in favour of the distributors.
Mental fatigue impairs physical performance in humans (2009)
So the money never left his account? Interesting!
I doubt there is much out there to cite. This isn't a medical school anecdote, but it's a similar process.

My sister and someone she went to high school with both went to the same college to pursue physical therapy. When it came time to apply for the physical therapy program after undergrad, my sister was denied while the other girl was accepted. There were only two differences on paper: 1. My sister's GPA was somewhere around 0.3-0.4 points higher; and 2. The other girl is a minority.
Foursquare Gets a New CEO and More Funding
The thing about larger companies, some parts could be soul crushing and others can be quite amazing.

I've experienced such at the two larger companies I've worked at.
That's seems way low. Even for the Midwest. I assume you're looking at companies with comp packages and that figure is simply the salary, not the entire comp (which is generally above $100k)
And torrenting has gotten a lot more user friendly with stuff like Popcorn Time
Found it!
The advanced panel, the simple graphics, highlighting the parallel rolls of expected rate of Rent increase vs Home price appreciation and making it a slider! Much usability, minimal space.

-- http://web.archive.org/web/20120228050050/http://www.nytimes...

This is the exact reason I support Archive.org...well that and occasionally it helps with work stuff.
Good on you for supplying a citation. I might analyze it later if I have nothing better to do tonight than figure out how someone from AEI is deliberately being misleading about a study yet again.
There are a couple of things very obviously wrong with the text of this bill. It's not clear that it'd pass a legal review.

The text: http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2015/A8093

The most obvious one is that the bill fails to provide any definition of the key phrase "decrypt and unlock". I'm pretty certain that the bill wants "unlock" to mean "get past the lockscreen", but an equally common usage of "unlock" is in reference to phones which a carrier has prevented from being used with another carrier. It's not clear what the word "decrypt" refers to, either.
Would love more feedback on how to do this! (I co-wrote that blog post.)
I agree, I think they intentionally do the bare minimum to stop spoofing, because they really don't care. Just point your computer / device to a dns server. That's a joke. I'm sure all they'll do is blacklist know vpn IPs.
Popcorn Time has both an iPhone and Android port.
“Grandpa gang” guilty of biggest burglary in English history
It's not the rich that gets priced out.
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So if the current DOM APIs already solve those problems, what changes would you make? As I mentioned, renaming them just makes things harder.
find a project you enjoy, see if they have any bugs and try to fix them. Even writing documentation is a contribution to open source.
A few of my friends found multiple copies of ssh_config lying around, so I wrote this one-liner that looks at 3 separate known ssh_config files & patches any vulnerable ones that it finds.

$ for SSH_CONF in /etc/ssh/ssh_config /etc/ssh_config /private/etc/ssh_config; do [ -f $SSH_CONF ] && ! grep -q 'UseRoaming no' $SSH_CONF && echo "Patching $SSH_CONF" && echo -e '\nHost *\n UseRoaming no' | sudo tee -a $SSH_CONF > /dev/null; done
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Smaller companies also have better hiring. I look at the apps from some of the larger corporations in Sweden. It's like the digital version of faecal matter.

They pay 2x complete with benefits and insane pension, yet they seem to produce the worst shit they can get away with mostly because they have some sort of a monopoly or access.

The people in charge of both tech and hiring are not Engineers, thus only paper good will make it in. Some might be whiteboard good I guess if they do that.

Been reviewing apps from large Swedish corporations and quite frankly it's sad. I'm forced to use some of them like banking and phone.

Telia has an iOS app that is essentially a broken website in a WebView. They pay a ton of money for that either by consultants or in house.
We don't need much of anything other than some minimum amount of food, water and the ability to sleep somewhere. Roads, clothes, education, healthcare, music, etc are all optional.
There is a messaging saying "You need to update your browser's Java" which most likely means it is either disabled in the browser or just not installed.
I understand what you mean, but reading "demand [for ads]" in my head made me laugh.
They could region-lock based on where your credit card billing address is if they really wanted to. Pay with a Canadian card, get Canadian Netflix wherever you are. Bit of a can of worms, but if they really really cared about people spoofing their location...
That's weird. When I try, it says "I think you're trying to buy from Amazon.com" and redirects me away from the German site.

edit - Yeah I just tried and I get this message:

Wir konnten Ihren Einkauf nicht abschließen. Ihr Kindle-Konto ist auf Amazon.com angemeldet. Kindle-Titel, die für Ihr Land verfügbar sind, erhalten Sie auf Amazon.com.

Basically saying "your account is linked to Amazon.com, to see titles available in your country go to Amazon.com".

I actually signed up for a brand new account on Amazon.de, and when I go to the Kindle version of a book I want, instead of a purchase button, I get this message, which I understand the translation but I'm not sure what they're trying to communicate to me.

Kindle-Titel sind für Kunden in DE unter Amazon.de verfügbar.
Setzen Sie Ihren Einkauf im Kindle-Shop von Amazon.de fort.

Clicking the "im Kindle-Shop von Amazon.de fort" link redirects me to the same page with the same message.
Sense of purpose is a real sources of satisfaction and happiness. If you work on something that you believe will impact the world, you will be happier, regardless of the actual odds.
> If your keys are not protected by a passphrase

Looks like the private key can be leaked regardless of the use of a passphrase, but you'd get the encrypted form that would need to be cracked offline.
They were using Silverlight on the web. They had Flash at one time, but I think it's been a while; they've been using Silverlight for a few years. They've been pushing into HTML5 video, though I don't know the current state of that rollout

http://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-starts-rolling-out-html5...
It actually kinda shows in the new movie. I mean, I was happy to see the old cast back, but Ford didn't really seem to be feeling it a lot of the time.

But on the other hand, that might just be an oldish man not really feeling comfortable playing an immature character (that's part of Han's charm, really).

I'd wager his dislike of the Han Solo character had more to do with working with George Lucas.
The UK certainly subsidizes fossil fuels.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/12/uk-breaks...

'A spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: “We are committed to meeting our decarbonisation targets – we’ve made record investments in renewables and are focusing on lower-carbon secure energy sources, such as nuclear and shale gas. However this will not happen overnight - oil and gas will continue to play a role so we can ensure hardworking families and businesses have access to secure, affordable energy.”'
From my experience, I'd say the cap is around $150k in the bay area or so for standard senior positions regardless of degree. The degree is absolutely irrelevant and in many cases if you have an advanced degree, (Masters, PHD) it can work against you (if you don't actually know how to build things).

For reference, with the cost of living being where it is, I'd say anything < $200k in the bay area is not enough to live on and save comfortably, but that's just my opinion. As far as I know, there aren't any startups offering $200k or above (or even close) for engineering jobs in the bay area.
They're just doing what politicians do. Joe Biden experienced a personal tragedy. Instead of accepting defeat, they turn the tragedy around into a platform for promoting new policies.

It's similar to how most famous comedians struggle with crippling depression. The best humor isn't crafted from some precise 'funny formula.' It comes from disassociating and learning to laughing/joke about the same crazy shit in life that was driving you mad.

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Unfortunately, politicians don't actually do anything except write policies that enable others to do the work. They tend to have a skewed perspective on what is and isn't possible. Funding isn't the issue, science is.

I used to know somebody (ie SD is weird) who works directly on the bleeding edge cancer research. The next generation of treatments will target specific classes of cancers based on characteristics of the cancer cells; then, reprogram the immune system to attack those characteristics.

If chemo is the equivalent of dropping a nuke, medication the equivalent of dropping napalm, the new approach will be like building an army to overthrow a rebel uprising.

If a treatment works as expected, it will only work for a specific class of cancer. As another comment already pointed out, cancer is a class of diseases so there'll never be one cure.

Either way, science takes time. Unlike software where an order of magnitude improvement can sometimes be gained by using a better algorithm or better architecture. Scientific research requires brute force. Nobody is going to sprinkle unicorn dust (ie money) on the problem to make scientists magically discover a cure tomorrow. The biotech research industry is already flush with money and using the best technology that industry has to offer.

This article absolutely hits the nail on the head.
Is this because the investors will exert considerable pressure on management not to give away many percentage points? But the theory is that managers, even knowing that, might be willing to sneak them in just before it closes?

Won't this leave you with a huge tax bill, since the differential between the strike price and market price is so great? Options aren't worth anything if you can't afford to exercise them, so might a slightly smaller percentage after an A-round actually be preferable in practical terms?
to double down, touch events on mobile browsers are in a different order than mouse event in regards of onclicks, so that a touchend and mouseup fire at the opposite side of the click event on some mobile browser but not all.
There are a limited number of hours in the day, and the more time wasted on things you'd rather not be doing is less time you're doing things that make you (and quite possibly others) happy.

There's no moral imperative to not waste time, of course, but I'd argue that increasing happiness in the world is never as trivial as you make it out to be.

Sometimes that means something as large as giving dying kids a last wish, sometimes that means something as small as providing a better/faster way to do something we all already did. How many people wasted time and energy shitty homegrown workarounds for file syncing before Dropbox showed up? How many shitty, stressful, overpriced cab rides did people have before Uber came along? How many relationships wouldn't have formed without things like Tinder and Grindr?

All "trivial" web applications, but all increased happiness in the world, one way or another.

What's your motivation for making this comment? Is it to increase happiness, knowledge, understanding, or any positive aspect of any piece of humanity? Or is it to take cheap potshots at people who aren't working on what you've arbitrarily decided is the base level of importance?

(And lest you ask: My motivation for this comment is to increase understanding - hopefully I can change your mind)
I don't think they mean free, I think they mean paid for by someone else. Calling things free in the context of taxpayers money is propaganda.
That is certainly a choice you can make, but it seems extra ordinarily unlikely that more than a couple percentages will make that choice.
It won because it has a great API and excellent documentation.

jQuery is pretty much the only library or framework made 10+ years ago I can use and still feel like "this is actually well-designed". Frameworks generally obviate the need for it, but if a framework isn't an option and if I'm going to be writing more than 100 lines of code (otherwise I'd suck it up and use plain JS), I always still use jQuery.
ISPs punishing people for torrenting isn't a global thing. In several countries that's not an issue.
Foursquare Ushers in a New Era
Identity politics is toxic. Those who use it get what they deserve.
Positive Train Control Vulnerable to Attacks
Assuming some alternate monitor is equally good with colors and contrast/backlight. A simple raspberry pi should be able to do the rest of the computation needed for this.
That doesn't match my experience at all. I had all my application fees waived with a simple email.
> The two things are not related.

They're related in the underlying implication that it's best to treat applicants as groups and not individuals.

But you could be fair with certain minorities and unfair with others. There is not a direct cause and effect relationship there.
Companies destined to die when fully-autonomous cars arrive
Same principal we had for cameras in our school buses. Only some of them actually had cameras in them but we were scared of all of them. If the goal is to deter low-level crime like vandalism, I would think they probably worked, at least temporarily.

Although part of me can't imagine thinking someone is watching 4 cameras on every car on every train at all times.
Freedom is harrassment how?
That could be, but even if the battery is dead or leaking the thing trucks along and works fine.
That "someone else" would overwhelmingly be private donors who have endowed Harvard with almost 40 billion dollars, not taxpayers.
Fascinating, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking some individuals live in separate alternate histories.
Foursquare Raises $45M, Cutting Its Valuation Nearly in Half
Ask HN: In 10 years, what new services will drones allow for?
Assumption: Within 10 years, getting a physical good from Person A to Person B will be fully automated, and thus, dirt cheap.

How will this change the way we live our lives? What new services can arise within this new reality?
This is something that I run into a lot. It's just nicer being able to click a file and play in VLC that's more responsive, can fastforward/rewind, play at different speeds, etc.

Streaming through webpages just isn't that great for how I consume video.

EDIT: I always like to remind people that VLC can open youtube videos natively. CTRL+V and paste in url. Not perfect control but nicer than youtube player.
NASA selects Orbital ATK, SNC Space Systems and SpaceX to deliver ISS cargo
Plural of UNIX (or equivalent) system [1]

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/boxen.html
Not quite. With apologies to Missy Elliott:

It needs the client, to be served it.
It's Heartbleed if you flip it and reverse it.
[.ti esrever dna ti pilf uoy fi deelbtraeH s'tI]
[.ti esrever dna ti pilf uoy fi deelbtraeH s'tI]

If you SSH in, we can search it
And if you're roaming, steal your private key bits
[.ti esrever dna ti pilf uoy fi deelbtraeH s'tI]
[.ti esrever dna ti pilf uoy fi deelbtraeH s'tI]

B, B, on BSD
or any platform with a bad libc
[Why-thai,-thai-o-toy-o-thai-thai]
[Why-thai,-thai-o-toy-o-thai-thai]

'Cause, they, don't zero bits,
Not that anyone expected it.
'Aint no shame, Libc, do your thang,
OpenSSH's do-nothing feature here is to blame.
The Problem with Journalism Is You Need an Audience
JPC seems to have moved to GitHub:

https://github.com/ianopolous/JPC
I actually don't know why I got some downvotes... in my country I never had a single ISP who blocks torrents, I don't even think is legal for them to check what you are downloading (except if they have a police warrant).
You don't connect to the swarm using your ISP-supplied IP address.

You can use a VPN service and tunnel all your traffic through that.

You can use a seedbox, which is basically your torrent client running on a virtual machine or shared machine in a data centre. The P2P stuff doesn't come to or from your home IP. And it all happens at data centre speed.

If you use a private tracker, a seedbox is the way to go because you can leave it constantly seeding 24/7 at high speed so you build an amazing ratio.

You can pick up a seedbox with 700GB storage, 1Gb/s download, and 50Mb/s upload (both speed limited, but unlimited total) for less than a fancy coffee a week. Plex integration, OpenVPN connections included (so you can bypass any ISP-level filters), encrypted FTP etc.
That's how I do it as well. It's a personal code review.
In england you know they're really cameras because the feed displays on a screen and it flicks through all of them.

(I'll take some photos tomorrow.)