skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing wrong with a year or three in industry. You'll be a much better coder, get exposed to problem domains outside the typical purview of twenty-something white and Asian males, build contacts, and improve your soft skills such as how to wear a suit and talk to people older than you outside of the teacher/student relationship. These things are enormously valuable.

If you're worried about getting spoiled by the huge paychecks, I recommend being a Japanese salaryman. We would never dream of inconveniencing you in that fashion. grins Seriously though, if you put $4k a month towards your student loans (or a savings account you solemnly promise not to touch) your $80k salary will feel like, what, $20k or so after the tax differential?
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I enjoy RWR, but it's a bit sensationalist to use "seize" in that headline when what they really mean is "access" and by access they mean "access after explicit permission has been granted."

I do think there are issues to be addressed, and the article mentions apps which can send premium text messages, an exploit vector which is more concerning.
It's not a safety deposit box where you own the contents, it's a online social site that you chose to use and provide some data in order to be able to use it.

But the natural way people think about their personal information is that they own it. This needs to be codified into law. Perhaps activism along these lines is one of the most important things we should be doing as citizens of a digital age?
Shockingly, one time a few friends and I managed to play soccer in the park without any refs at all!! Crazy right? It was like a completely different game!

/sarcasm

The low-tech argument is not valid. People play football, baseball, basketball in the park all the time. There is no love-lost due to lack of replays, shot clocks, etc.
Build something. If no one will give you a project then give yourself one. If you want a rails job then:

1. build a rails website and put it out there. It doesnt need users just great functionality with no bugs. Thats impressive.

2. contribute to open source. These guys wont let you commit till you get good enough and when they do its the best resume you can get for a coding job.

Just get off your ass and build something.
THe MSP430 is a fairly popular microprocessor for lots of small applications (that don't have to run an OS).
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This seems to be a PR piece written by SMobile Systems ("enabling Secure mobility") promoting their "new behavior-based detection methodology", leveraging "heuristic-style technology".

One of their conclusions appears to be that "one must look at the permissions it has requested to determine what the application's true capabilities might be". Very heuristic.

Quotes from http://threatcenter.smobilesystems.com/wp-content/uploads/20... (PDF)
I'm assuming you've seen this, but if you haven't: http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
I think first and foremost it was incredibly inappropriate for the ref to be talking about the play with the player. But here's a description of what I saw:

-Ref inquisitively looks at Fabiano, pointing to his arm
-Fabiano jokingy shakes his head, smiling, waving his hands in front of himself
-Ref laughs, points to his chest incredulously as if indicating that is in fact what made contact with the ball

For me, given the deliberate pointing, this interchange was pretty clear. Even if he did mean something along the lines of what you said, it's terribly inappropriate to do something that could even be interpreted that way.
A 2-1 score is VERY different than a 3-1 game, and nobody would deny that the Ivory Coast was attacking strongly through the finish. I know if I were on CIV, I'd be livid the ref was fraternizing with the other team, perhaps because they're brazilian superstars.
My [husband] works for Electronic Arts, I'm ... a disgruntled spouse. (2004)
http://www.thestartupspouse.com

^Clickable.
Nice idea :)

A friend once gave me this advice:

"I work all the time. Day, night, weekends, all the time. Sometimes my wife will want some time with me, just to talk. But since I’m always busy, I’m usually at my computer when we have our conversations. What she’s noticed is, I only half-listen when I’m doing that. I’m splitting my attention between her and my laptop.

"This hasn’t been good. I could tell it was affecting our marriage. So I resolved to shut the lid of my laptop whenver she wanted to speak. And I’ve been doing that. It hasn’t been easy, let me tell you. But I’ve been trying."

I'm getting married soon and have been conscious of this issue as well. I've also found Meg Cadoux Hirshberg's column in Inc. Magazine to be insightful:

http://www.inc.com/author/meg-cadoux-hirshberg

Good luck!
Having just played Dantes Inferno (Which to be honest I was surprised that if got through the OFLC here in Aus) -- I can state that there are definately games that deserve their Mature Rating (and an R Rating if we could get one here)
I love the pedigree of open source apps. Facebook made cassandra, thrift, and scribe. Twitter uses all three.

It makes the competition less about technical know-how and more about product. Awesome.
It's a whitepaper by a security firm. Using my HouseAbsolute behavior-based detection methodology, I have used various heuristics to detect that this study is possibly BS. Some key factors in this detection, with exclamation points showing how concerning an individual flaw is (! is the least, !!! is the most. Note that all these points are regarding the researchers' whitepaper itself.):

!!! The article makes a big deal out of a specific spyware application. This wouldn't be very much of a problem if the application weren't openly described by its authors as one whose sole purpose is spying on the phone's user. So why make a big deal out of it!?

!! The article makes a big deal of the fact that some applications have requested the same set of permission that some spyware apps have. I can think of no conceivable specific combination of permissions that alone would give much information at all about whether or not an app is spyware. It also makes a big deal of how nine applications can brick the phone without going into any detail about the nominal purpose of these apps (i.e. does it make sense that such an app behaving as described in the market entry for this app should need to brick the phone).

! This article seems to imply that one would need any of these permissions to harm the user. From my understanding of Android development, I believe that any application can raise an intent to open a webpage in the browser, and the url of that page could easily be used to transmit sensitive information even with no permission at all. (I could be wrong on this one.)

!!! Any app that requests two of the permissions they label as sensitive is marked as suspicious. This means that any app wanting to both access the internet and do any of the following is considered suspicious according to this study:

- Access coarse location.

- Write to the external storage.

- Send an SMS.

! The company behind this paper is trying to sell something that you would be more likely to buy if you believed its results.
Reminds me of Marbury v. Madison...
Twitter calls them "hashflags":

http://help.twitter.com/entries/186934-what-s-happening-with...
Actually, yes: "For those who are not eligible for an early upgrade or who wish to buy iPhone as a gift, the prices are $499 (8GB), $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB)."
from lower on the same page.
To be fair, it makes sense to offer five distinct feature sets as five different JS files; just pick the ones you need and concatenate them in production.

I favor the Sass route as well, but that's not going to give me, say, rounded corners in IE8. I'd need to use JS to accomplish that. When you say the examples look different in the latest non-beta versions of major browsers, what do you mean specifically?
google around for what makes for a good book review, and use that as an approximation for my answer :)

to give one particular example, I subscribe to Strategy & Tactics magazine, and in each issue they give pretty decent book reviews.
From their press email:

"We went to extreme lengths to acquire the iPhone 4. Kyle flew to Japan, expecting to take advantage of the 16-hour time difference. He had his camping gear all ready to wait in line outside the Ginza Apple Store tonight.

But then, in a last-minute twist that should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the ongoing iPhone 4 release drama, FedEx delivered some iPhone 4 units to customers two days early.

One of those customers, an engineer at a Silicon Valley startup, provided us his phone. And we are taking it apart. I present to you the first legal teardown of the iPhone 4:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4-Teardown/3130/1

We have confirmed that the iPhone's A4 processor has 512 MB RAM, unlike the iPad's more limited 256 MB. This decision may have been made fairly late in Apple's development cycle, because early leaked prototype phones only had 256 MB.

The teardown is in progress, and we will send you a summary of our findings once we complete our initial analysis.

Here is a high resolution photo:
http://s1.guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/y1RInG6BsFCuADov.huge

We will also be performing an ultra in-depth silicon analysis of the A4 and the new gyroscope, but the results will not be available for a few days."
I'm not sure if others agree, but I personally think some of the highly-rated reviews on Amazon tend to be valuable. I thought the first review listed here was thoughtful:

http://www.amazon.com/Rework-Jason-Fried/dp/0307463745/
Ireland cheated too against Georgia during the qualifications (just like France) by getting an undeserved penalty against Georgia, everybody agreed after the fact that it was ridiculous but still there's no recourse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQQiaAtKFcs

Of course, Ireland not going to the world cup was some respite.
Minor correction. "Speaking" sounded like Germanic to me, sprechen/spreken, and Merriam Webster confirmed it. The latin roots gave us "orate", "dictate", and "eloquence".
I'm not sure why ignoring robots.txt or an IP block would violate criminal statutes. I'm not even sure why circumvention would violate civil statutes. Obeying robots.txt is common courtesy. For IP blocks /and/ people that ignore robots.txt, I have years of logs I'd like to turn over to the proper authorities.
The book Fooled by Randomness on the other hand argues that the picture painted by The Millionaire Next Door is skewed by a double survivorship bias: it describes people who not only saved more than they spent, invested, etc. but also

(a) Happened to pick the stocks that outperformed the market, and
(b) Invested during one of the strongest bull markets in history.

(Not to say who's right or wrong, just wanted to bring up an interesting counterpoint.)
And another: PUT is conceptually closer to 'replace' than 'update'. To me, 'update' implies a delta, as in SQL.
It seems that if you have AT&T Internet you get free ESPN 3 (formally ESPN 360.com). The game should be on there, but I don't trust it. Can anyone else confirm this?
Want to be first in line for an iPhone? Rent a tent.
I'd read somewhere a few months back that FIFA had asked its refs to ask players if they see a possible handball but aren't personally sure, spurred by Thierry's uncalled handball against Ireland (the one that caused all of the outrage a while ago because it kept Ireland out of the World Cup), which Thierry freely admitted to. I think the hope was that most players would be honest in that situation (since it's pretty clear-cut to them and upon replays).
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My co-founder and I are both married with small children. We were both full time developers before founding our company. We started working on a side project at night for a few months and then heard about a local Utah version of YCombinator called http://www.BoomStartup.com (We're IActionable.com). We were accepted, but there were many late night discussions with my wife as we tried to figure out a plan to survive on the little investment money we would get. (compared to the nice comfortable salary I once had!)

Our wives are very supportive. It does take a special and patient person to support someone starting a company. But I do think my wife is somewhat excited to see me actually follow through and finish a project for once :)

I showed her your blog and maybe she'll comment with some experiences or thoughts sometime. She went through the list of roles you had and agreed that she plays many of those.

Good luck with the blog!
I've always found that for some reason with OSX (which is perhaps somewhat comparable), I get the best results with a fresh install. I think Apple sometimes doesn't do the best housekeeping.
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One glaring inconsistency with the 'scale' argument: substitutions. Have you ever met youth leave (competitive or otherwise) that didn't allow free substitution? Hell, do you think that in their quintessential (and cliche) example - the street/field/dirt of a developing country - they wouldn't sub out to let others play?

The reason this frustrates me so much is that it encourages diving. If you are tripped, step on the group poorly, lose your breath, get the wind knocked out of you, etc., it behooves you to dive and try to convince the ref to stop the game (often convincing the other team to kick the ball out). While you wouldn't be able to sub immediately either, players try to make their injuries seem more severe to get more recovery time, knowing they'll have to perform in full form when they get up.
Open substitution would make it so the players would have to accurately convey to their coaches whether or not they should be substituted. Feigned injury severity would result in miscues as to strategic advantage by substitution.
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Not sure its as simple as they think, but wouldn't it be sweet if it were?

I suspect that if the main leak were plugged, some other weak area would start leaking.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I just meant that Firefox 3.6.4 has less process separation than Chrome, since we only separate plugins while Chrome also has separate processes for content.
Cool. I hope I didn't come across as being overly negative. I actually think what you're doing is awesome! I was just pointing out that a job isn't the only "trap" you can fall into. I know someone who acquired a million dollars in his mid-20's, but I can't say he's really living his dreams because of it. I don't think you'll have too much of a problem, looking at your track record, but it does appear you have to be careful to ensure that "I can do whatever I want" doesn't turn in to "I don't do much of anything."
I was going to suggest the Mims books as well. He had quite a few of them.

I have several (or did at one point); the basic electronics is a decent intro, and then there are good ones on op-amps and the 555 timer. If you are totally new to hardware hacking it might not be a waste of your time to play around a little with some of those circuits just so you can learn how to wire up an IC on a breadboard.

Plus even if you only think you're going to do embedded systems stuff, eventually you're going to want to interface with the rest of the world without going through a PC, and knowing a little about analog circuits or old-school TTL will come in handy.

They were great books and it's a sad commentary on Radio Shack if they no longer carry them.
I'll never forget reading the EA spouse stuff for the first time. It's like the emblem for "Never, EVER, treat your staff like this".
Right. In addition, we attempt to socialize young men that violence is supposed to be a technique of last resort and permitted in only a narrow range of situations. (This will not endear me to some teachers of mine, but I'll say it anyhow: in those situations, it is often morally praiseworthy.)

Grand Theft Auto and company, on the other hand, depict violence as riotously good fun which is self-justifying and an appropriate response to, e.g., boredom.
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There are two examples listed: http://ecsstender.org/ and http://ecsstender.org/demos/spoon/.

On Firefox 3.6, they both hang (for several seconds) as the JS loads/comes into effect (and the "stop unresponsive script" box comes up). After it does finally load, the first looks fine, but the second doesn't animate smoothly on hover, and a scrollbar appears when you hover over the box, which really shouldn't happen.

On Chrome, they both work fine, but are missing drop shadows.

On IE8, the first loads fine, but not of the special effects (rounded corners, drop shadows) actually works. The second...well, I think that's best described with a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ZjPNs.jpg (there's no hover effect at all).

All browsers are fully up-to-date. Unless I'm missing something, this really isn't even at all functional.
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Why anyone would stay at a job like that is beyond me. 12 hour days 7 days a week? That's just stupid. Much rather program mind-numbingly boring business apps and go home at 5.
Not to mention that in a lot of situations this is exactly the point. Twitter can access contact data so it can add a person's twitter account into their contact information. You might use a solution to synchronize your contacts with a CRM so that you can follow up on potential leads. That's "seizing" you're data, but that exactly what you want it to do in that case. This is pure sensationalism and is exactly why journalism shouldn't be the pratice of copying press releases for the sake of some hits.
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Nitpick. The Quran is not "set in official formal Arabic". No. The language of the Quran was standardized to become Formal Arabic, by the Umawid and Abassid empires. Prophet Muhamad (PBUH) himself acknowledged that the Quran could be read in "7 tongues", or regional pronunciations.

I will translate for non-Arabic speakers, but here is the original source:

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamO...

The caliph Umar once heard a man read a sura in his prayer and he noticed clear mispronunciation of the verses in the man's recitation. When the man finished his prayer, Umar pulled him aside and asked him who taught him the Sura. "The Prophet" said the man, "Liar!" said Umar, "By God, I have heard this Sura from the prophet and didn't recite it in your manner", and he took the man to the prophet. The man was ordered to read the sura again, and he did so, still with his peculiar pronunciation. The prophet acknowledge the correctness of the meaning of the Sura, then added, "the Quran was sent to you in 7 letters, so read it in the manner easiest for you".

:-)
In most jurisdictions, I think in even when a sign like that's posted, you do at least have to ask the offender to leave before you can call the cops. If they walk into your restaurant without a shirt, you ask them to leave, and they refuse, then they're guilty of trespassing. But if they do leave when asked, you can't go ahead and press charges.

I believe an exception is if you've posted "NO TRESPASSING" signs, making it clear that it's private property to which all entry is prohibited. But if you've invited the general public in subject to conditions, and someone violates a condition, they haven't yet committed a crime, unless they also refuse to leave when you try to eject them.

In Facebook's case, I'd say they've invited the general public to use their service, subject to some conditions, and so no law should be involved unless they've specifically asked the person involved to stop using their service and the person continues anyway.
SIPSorcery looks useful, based on what i've pieced together so far. The web site could use a little less (or more) emphasis on the Silverlight UI (depending on the vision for the project).
edit: i need to read the sipsorcery docs. it's not clear to me how sipsorcery helps in placing the call from a wifi-only android device, for example.
"...someone of such low caliber..."? Was that really necessary?
Run the output through a hash function, and also get another 80 bits of entropy before you get to the critical n where your generator repeats.
If you follow that course, you'll never quit. Because nothing stops you figuring out what you really want to do with your life like being continually busy, chasing someone else's dream.

Time flies when you're busy.

I have to concur with that. My latest project ending early is probably the best thing that ever happened. I have quite a bit saved up as "runway" but now the clock is ticking. Before, the best time to start was always "later."
No, that's a long "s", not an "f": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
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Two things:

1. This does exist. See Hunter Thompson's letter collections (the first one is called The Proud Highway) from 10 years before he was ever famous. It's interesting, if very unfocused.

2. If enough people started doing this, people would still cry survivor bias about those who made it. What about all the ones who didn't, but had similar ideas?
And yet for making phone calls there still isn't "an app for that."

What intrigues me is that there have been zero rumors (from any of the sites I frequent) about Apple investing in or starting its own wireless carrier. Since they're not well known for giving up control over user experience it only makes sense that something along these lines has to have at least been considered.

The telecom space is so ripe for competition in the US. It's a shame that the amount of capital required is so monumental. Can you imagine a wireless carrier that had good coverage, customer service, and billing practices?
The weird thing about that is there are probably more millionaires in the bay area than South Florida... but culture is culture, I guess.
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I should add that having Rich review every single commit is very appropriate for some parts of Clojure: I wouldn't want people committing to the STM mechanism or to the implementation of clojure.lang.PersistentVector without his approval. And for a long time Clojure almost entirely consisted of this kind of code--stuff that's really hard to get right.

But now it's had more more pedestrian nuts-and-bolts kind of libraries added like clojure.test and clojure.main. These are included out of necessity, but they are very easy to understand and fairly easy to patch and improve as well. It would be reasonable if the original authors were allowed to improve them and accept patches from the community for them even after they've been promoted from contrib.
I don't think that "no longer has to worry about money" is the common definition at all. If it was, every CEO of a mid-level or higher company would probably qualify.

Perhaps something more along the lines of, "doesn't need money, and wants to settle down and move to Florida" ;)
I'm kind of shocked at how casually you say 'They can default on their debt'. What a fcked up attitude.
What do you think the minimum investment for buying Facebook's stock at the IPO will be?
The constant chasing after traffic is not a good thing for the new media ecosystem, it leads to sites that glory in lots of low quality attention, and a boring sameness to the novelties on parade. We need to find a way to compensate creators based on the quality of their audience, rather than mere quantity.

The only functional forces pushing in that direction at present are patronage amd pride. Patronage from the audience and pride from the performers.