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We're hiring a Rails backend developer too, working on dome really fun and social games on the iPhone. I'm guessing you 're not from the bay area and we're located in Pittsburgh PA.
The thing is, minecraft is far, far more accessible than dwarf fortress will ever be without some major changes, and has a vastly greater potential audience.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+million+dollars+from+...

$ 33.73 million(2010 US dollars)
What ever happened to Apple's Ping? 
Anyone using it still?
Japan also said they found replacements but costs way more to reproduce... Here comes the trade war
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how about gear that protects you in a fall? On my motorcycle, I always wore enough leather and padding that getting off at any reasonable speed, assuming I didn't hit something or get run over was something I could walk away from with literally no pain. My big concern was always finding all the parts I scraped off the bike.

On a bike, okay, you wear a helmet, but it's not even as good as the open-face helmets you get on a motorcycle. I know I've fucked up my face pretty good getting off a bicycle. (the dentist did a pretty good job, but if you look closely, you can still tell that my front teeth are not, uh, factory.)

And then the rest of your body; I mean, I know you can't wear 20lbs of dead cow like I did on my motorcycle if you've gotta pedal, but it seems like some kevlar and some of those CE pads for the shoulders, hips, elbows and knees would work almost as well.

Now, I'm probably clumsier than most people, and I'm not a particularly good driver in general (though I'm also a fairly conservative driver, so my record is good enough that I get the 'safe driver' discount on my auto insurance.) but god damn, good safety gear makes a huge difference on a motorbike, why not on a bicycle?
Of course.. I applied so it's clear there is a perceived value.. But putting a little rubber to the road (which is a good exercise for any entrepreneur) and each piece of the YC package can be had a la carte.. We have advice, early users, legal counsel, and some "User Money" (worth 5x investor money in most cases)
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Yes a simple base is 100% safe, however if you spend 90% of your time exploring/mining caves (I do), you will find plenty of danger. That's really the point of the game--not building a base that's going to be attacked by mobs.
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I wouldn't really call CS degrees "high level theoretical work". Plus, I blame the professors.

I see Master's level students all the time who don't even know the basics of programming. That's just not acceptable and gives the university a bad rep.
I've reloaded this a few times, still not entirely sure it wasn't a parody of some sort. It even ends with angsty song lyrics, quoted in full. Can that really be serious? Maybe this is some kind of hybrid performance art, half a rebuttal of Arrington and simultaneously a parody of teenage LiveJournals?
I find educating the least talented coder I work with a mostly social problem that I can solve over lunch [1]. But yes, I've definitely felt the pain of monkey patching gone awry. :-p Working around a restriction enforced by your language is no picnic either though and it's not really something you can solve cleanly.

[1] Obviously large companies with massive Ruby code bases can't really do this. Not sure what to say there.
I don't really care. A strong startup has plenty of market power, especially in today's world.
I don't think this is that big of a deal. Pretty much every developer I know has learned about security through this exact process. Either a senior developer or user exposes the flaw and smart, but new, developers quickly realize the didn't understand the attack angles. Without concrete experience it's pretty hard to appreciate how exactly these attacks work. But after a few exploits you start getting paranoid, understand the basic problems, and are always thinking and reading about how your code might be missing something. These guys seem reasonably smart so I expect after a few months of exposure, they'll be fine.
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Do you have some inside knowledge of what Facebook's revenues are? What makes you think you know more about their valuation than investors who actually know these numbers?
In Shapado we use a safe_update methode like this so we always need to specify which attribute can be updated:

@question.safe_update(%w[title body language tags], params[:question])
Also, don't get stuck or feel pressured to stay with a sinking ship. Time is way more valuable
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Oh and they didn't donate.. They get access now and in some cases also a presale.. This more than anything proves user demand which is so important to flush out early.. It's funny you wrote that they donated.. One of the sparkfun commenters said he would not fund a for profit project.. I hope he has a farm because he wouldn't be able to buy much ;)
Note that this specific fix doesn't need you to open/monkey-patch ActiveRecord::Base, you can just do ActiveRecord::Base.send(:attr_accessible, nil) in an initializer.
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This looks great, though it's hard not to notice this is the same weekend as Startup Weekend which is at Bootup. Just a coincidence?
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mm interesting that this comes about knowing that movie about him was going to be released around this time of the year... and then you got all those nasty articles about him in the press lately...

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All this over the detention of a Chinese fishing vessel in disputed waters. Anyone who thinks the current situation re. Chinese mining monopoly and I would also include their manufacturing monopoly is a tenable/acceptable situation for the US or the rest of world is out of their minds. I often talk about this and other related issues here and often get some sort of "pro capitalist" retort along the lines of: That is how capitalism works, duh. They make stuff cheaper than we can so we buy it from them. Yay capitalism! And to that I say: Hey gang, I'm pro capitalist as well. Yet I would submit that, in fact, China is capitalist in the same way that Obamacare makes the US socialist[1].

Washington loves to regulate and it seems we are in a new golden age of regulation. Where are the laws that mater? The laws that say we need to have domestic, or at the very least allied, resources of production for critical industrial materials? This is a big country. We have lots of resources[2]. Someone is actually gonna tell me that with all our technology we can not dig holes in the ground cheaper than the Chinese? I realize they have unlimited near zero cost labor. But we supposedly have technology. Don't we? So it is ok we ultimately consume these rare earth ingredients brought to us on the backs of Chinese slave labor? There is so much wrong here it makes me ill.

What happens when the US gets into a real argument with China re. DPRK, Taiwan, Iran or any of a number of Chinese interests in Africa? All the toys that we love so much and much of the materiel we need to prosecute our interests overseas come from China. What kind of Super Power are we then? The paper tiger kind.

[1] It does not.

[2] Same goes for oil and gas. Make more here, buy less there. And If we don't have enough oil, make whatever you can run on gas. Oh, that costs money? So? We are spending a ton of it on "recovery" anyway, so lets do it right.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't shares in a publicly-traded company (e.g., Apple) be considered fairly liquid?
Thanks everyone for your supportive and helpful comments. I had interest from another company when I accepted from this company that rescinded the offer. I am following up with them to see if they're still interested.

I am also getting in touch with some of you who are hiring. The problem is I have very little time to go back and make amends at my existing job - just tomorrow.

This will be a long night...
Food for thought: When wading through 100s of resumes, I do use frequent spelling/grammar errors to help me cull...
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They have also been stockpiling. Which is a good buffer, but ultimately only that. This should be a wakeup call that you can not have sole source production of critical material under the control of what is nominally your enemy. Also, national security issues (which I view this as) should not be subject to cost constraints on the same scale as standard capitalist concerns.
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How exactly does one finance everything with loans against equity? What does that mean? How does he pay back the loans? With shares?
Despite the name, rare earths are actually fairly common; they are expensive and seldom mined elsewhere because the processing equipment to separate them from the ore is expensive and because rare earths almost always occur naturally in deposits mixed with radioactive thorium and uranium. Processing runs the risk of radiation leaks [...]

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It's unfortuante that far33d was voted down. It's a valid question.

elblanco is measuring a current valuation against a revenue estimate that's over a year old.

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Not really. Zero-zero ejection seats have been around for decades and function from zero altitude and airspeed to supersonic speeds and higher altitudes (50,000+ ft). These will work during crashes. The F-35 and AV-8B can operate at low enough speeds (hover, or hover transition) that the canopies are laced with explosive cord to shatter the glass (polycarbonate) out of the pilot's way (normally, the canopy would fly aftward from forward flightspeed). SR-71 pilots wore space suits so that they could endure such high altitude egresses, which would certainly protect at lower altitudes as well. We have ejection systems that work in most flight regimes. I don't see significant reasons why a crew escape capsule would not work for even higher altitudes and speeds. Not saying it would be easy, though.

For reentry safety, the best approach IMO is reducing reentry speeds via a lifting body fuselage. This is what SS1 uses. With drag bodies (e.g. Apollo capsule) there's all this worry over heatshields and reentry angle; with a lifting body, the vehicle glides into the atmosphere subsonically and heating is a nonissue. SS1 has minimal heat shielding, and no active cooling. A capsule is apparently simpler to design and easier to understand than something more airplane-like, but so is an ornithopter over a fixed-wing aircraft (kids ask how planes fly without moving their wings, because flapping flight is more obvious). One design requires delicate control and handling though, while the other is elegantly robust, more reliable, and safer.
Different approaches take different levels of time investment on your part; here are some options

your focus is on the data-structure for the index, whereas I'm thinking that unless the data itself that the index points to is also in RAM, its going to be hard to get msecs results anyway.

1) if you are repeatedly accessing the same subset of your data, rather than making continuous random reads across the whole data set, then caching that set can help:

1a) if you have some file or DB on each of your machines, then the kernel will automatically cache regularly read bits and it'll all end up quite fast. You could use any database of your choice for this, with 'sharding'.

1b) you could run memcached and the DBs on each of your machines; to be honest, letting the OS do the caching is likely a better idea.

2) if you want to continuously go all over the data set, then you are going to be IO bound.

2a) therefore, if you can compress your data set - find a space-efficient storage for it so it fits into 250GB of RAM instead of 5TB of disk, then you can avoid the disk and it'll fly. You could consider storing deltas and then arithmetic or huffman coding behind some low order predictor; ask on this compression forum http://encode.ru/ and you'll have to tell them much more about your data and perhaps describe a few lines of it. Compression can be on small blocks of data, so you only have to decompress a small amount to get the random value you want

2b) or you might find that you only need to generate some statistics from the data once, and then work with the derived data - presumably small enough to fit in your RAM - from then on

3) you could buy bigger machines, or bigger amounts of RAM
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Thanks for all the pointers. I now realize that all I want is a payment processor which will allow me to keep the user on my site while they enter their payment details. I don't believe that I can do this with paypal. Any ideas?
We're conflating a lot of different professions here. Phlebotomists only have trade school, but they're still going to be exposed to some pure science - at the least biology but likely chemistry as well - in high school.

Nurses and especially Doctors have years of pure science before they're ever allowed into their trade schools.

Likewise there are a variety of software careers, from sysadmin to developer to architect that require varied levels of education (though much like nurses developers can only benefit from better understanding of the principles behind their art.)
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Scale; law of diminishing returns.
does redis support more data than it has RAM?
I use www.site.com on all printed material, advertising, etc. It seems to be more recognisable for casual web users. Redirect (301) site.com to www.site.com. I think there is a RFC recommending this.
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Nice writing! can you continue with your analysis of twitter? I am listening!
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My take on charter schools vs. public schools is quite simple really. I firmly believe that all the hype surrounding better test scores (better outcomes) can be solely attributed to the fact that the population is self selecting. As it turns out, public schools are the lowest common denominator when it comes to education. In order to attend a charter school the parent must do something. The fact that the parent must do something in and of itself is testament to the fact that the parent is involved. Any educator, anywhere in the world, will tell you that an involved parent makes all the difference.
Did you ever get a job you didn't apply for?
No I don't mean solicitations.
Here is my situation.

I recently started at a new job in the same company that I have been working for 4 years now, where I have realized that the job I am doing (technical interface to clients) has nothing to do with the job that I was hired for (systems design is what I applied for and what the interview was about). I really like the company but can't come crawling back to my old job, nor can I find another position since it's at least 2 years before I am allowed to transfer, and I'm not really ready to move to another company...but it looks like I have no choice. The manager tells me we have a need for someone doing the interfacing then the design right now, but maybe in +1 year we can see whats the situation then. My gut feeling is telling me hes lying and I am stuck there. Oh yeah, there was no salary increase – common practice in the company when you move jobs unless its clearly a promotion.

1. What would you do if you were in my shoes ?
2. Have you ever seen this happen to you or others around you ?? I mean...thats the whole reason behind the job responsibility tasks...to clearly define it so that you know what you are getting into!!
Great idea. Kudos to the creator. I've heard about the game few weeks back, but assumed it is some sort of a viral copy of a Starcraft hack.
Also C64 graphics > New "photo realistic" games...
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The biggest problem I think, and I speak from experience, is that some of the best rails tutorials leave out a lot of important security issues entirely. Some of them might do a trivial paragraph on password encryption, but most of them leave out any mention of these kind of basic security flaws.

Even if the writers didn't explicitly write chapters dedicated to security, obviously even that wouldn't be enough, they should at least note which code is entirely unsafe in production, and where you can learn more about it.

Every rails book is filled with this sort of code that people learn, and then use.
1. How much of those schools' budgets are met through donations?
2. Could those schools actually operate at scale?

Much of those schools' success is really due to network effects. You throw a bunch of low-income kids into that setting, and they will crash and burn. Also, when you look at religious schools, the positions are truly considered callings, so compensation is less of an issue.
Introductions are everything.

A program like YCombinator or TechStars is a giant boost up for exactly that reason. But if you have to start at the bottom, the process is exactly the same... just longer.

It's like that guy who traded one red paperclip for something better (and better) over and over again until he had a house. Find the 10 smartest people you know, make friends, do something for them, and then ask them to do something for you: "Introduce me to two other smart people like you". Before you know it, you'll have some mentors. And if you keep it up, you'll get better and better mentors.
Could you show an example document?
Companies should not be making offers for positions they cannot afford, regardless of what's going on at the company. If the money is not in the bank they shouldn't be making the offer. This is serious stuff; they're playing with people's lives here.

The people at this company are incompetent, stupid, unethical, or some combination thereof. They should be exposed. It's not about holding a grudge; it's about letting other potential candidates know of the risks, and of making sure there's a penalty for this kind of behavior.

And yes, I've been in similar positions as a hiring manager in both small and large companies. Offers that cannot be guaranteed should not be made; once made, they should not be rescinded.
APIs - the popular ones - will lead to a ton of requests that they may be able to capitalize on.

However, for indie developers, it's much harder to profit off an API - especially when they can pull the plug any time they want.
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Did anyone ever?
Honestly, I think that even the search button needs to go. I think with Google Instant we may see this everywhere, soon.

I haven't seen anyone actually grab their mouse and hit the button; hitting enter is far faster.

And now that internet speeds are getting ridiculously fast (relative to what they were before) fetching requests on the fly a la Google Instant may get rid of the need for an enter button too!
wow, borrowing against stock, how risky is that (for both him and his shareholders)?

apparently he has been sued about it http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-01-31/news/17279373_1_oracle...
Talk to your boss. You can't just let this things sit and wait, be upfront about the issue and work it out together.
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wow! double denial in one sentence.
I'm aware of these concepts, but they don't defeat my objection. The question is still open whether Facebook is in that region or in the "grow by a factor of ten in the next year" region. Hard to predict the answer to that question.
Who cares?

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Life imitates fiction when fiction influences life, or when fiction just points out basic principles of life.
Jobs will still be liquid with or without Apple Shares. Remember he sold Pixar for $7.4 billion. And he still owns 7% of Disney.
I'm wondering what happened to the real mastermind, Guy Steele.
IIRC as long as it's half the wingspan from the surface yes
Wow, those are some pretty amateur mistakes. Just taking whatever data you got from the user with no checks? Really? And that's not something you fix later. That should stick out like a sore thumb the moment you write it, making you check that user == logged_in_user before you even move on. Wow.
Hire a coder from any of the outsourcing places. I hate to plug a specific link - really I do, but truth be told people can be found to do a job like that for $5.
Old iPod cables magically works with iPhones and iPad now.  Was it just me?
One of the things that pissed me off when I got my 3GS was that I couldn't reuse my old iPod cables so I had to rebuy new sets of cables for the car, office, etc.

Yesterday, I was about throw these old cables away but, out of sheer boredom, decided to plug them in to see if they would work. Voila! 3GS and iPad works with the old cables now.

Is this happening for others as well?
Good for Jeff. Regret minimization works for people who are low discounters - who are able to delay reward for long periods of time. Think people who have no problem putting their money in 3-year CD's earning two percent a year.

This framework isn't so useful for high discounters, or people who believe that they are living in a simulation. For them the short term benefit outweighs the regret they'll feel later on.
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Is Tarsnap good? (please say yes...)

In all seriousness, though, Tarsnap doesn't really come out of Vancouver. It happens to be located here, but that's just because I'm here; I certainly can't point to anything and say "if Tarsnap wasn't in Vancouver, I wouldn't have had access to X and it wouldn't have succeeded".

I hope we can develop more of a startup community here, but so far all I've seen is hordes of MBAs and a distinct lack of technical people.
How is that different from a glider, though? If the power comes from the car, I don't consider it very exciting.
> Further, more injuries occur to cyclists on sidewalks than on roads.

What type of injuries though? And is this in any way biased by the fact the young or inexperienced riders are more likely to be using the sidewalk. On the sidewalk you'd expect inexperienced riders who do not cover much distance to be having a lot of small scale accidents. On the road you'd expect experienced riders who cover a lot of distance to be having fewer accidents (per mile, hour, rider?) but are significantly more serious on average.

I'd personally want to see more evidence before overriding my natural instincts that many busy roads are often just not worth it. As much as I admire those 'road warriors' who are educating drivers this is one of those situations where I have to put me first.
Anyone know of a service where you can just stick in your city or zip, and get an email if anything's headed your way?

Don't know if you have that info in MyHurricane, voxxit, but if you do it'd be an awesome feature.