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If somebody is willing to put 10,000 hours in anything it requires dedication and the mental strength. If someone was extremely dedicated you can put in 40 hours a week it would still take 5 years to accomplish this. This guy has a decent chance to make if he does do this. My thoughts he probably won't finish.
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The downvoting needs one simple change. It should not drop comment's score below zero until it has been effectively voted down to -10 or thereabouts, in which case it can be safely assumed the comment is a true junk and grayed out.

I personally used to use downvoting to sink comments that are of no particular interest to me, and to promote other branches of the thread that I'd like more people to look at and comment on. So there's gotta be a mechanism that would allow for rearranging comments in a more popular order, but without punishing their authors unnecessarily.
I think most of us, if we were developing Dropbox, would have made the same decisions. De-duping at the cost of complete privacy, even in the face of law, is a sound technical and business decision for a service such as Dropbox.

When I think Dropbox, I think sharing, I think convenience, I don't think backup and security. For backup I need more space, for security I need to use my own private key (not a password that one can change/recover). Neither of these things is offered by Dropbox. And this is the reason why I never confused Dropbox with, say, CrashPlan. One is a way to share and collaborate, the other is a place to send my private key encrypted bits to.

My individual privacy is not compromised by somebody being able to say if a certain file is stored by the entirety of Dropbox user base. The other claim, that, given a court order, Dropbox can be forced to turn over your files or tell the court if you store a certain file _may_ be true, but I don't think Dropbox, the company, has ever promised that level of security.
I hope sometimes we take a minute to just understand that technology (the building of it, that is) just does not interest everyone. As a matter of fact I think it only interests a minority of people so it is really difficult for this small group to include a large subgroup of every ethnicity.

There are some things in life for which certain minorities just do not necessarily enjoy. It is not just about women or technology.

Example: I do not enjoy going camping in the wild, and apparently 99% of black people (whether they are African, African Americans, European do not really enjoy this).
It seems really difficult to offer a compelling software engineering program. Computer Science has a lot of history and theory that is well suited to classrooms and professors. A software engineering program would have to be constantly (at least each semester) evolving to explore all paths for designing good software. In fact, we offer a Software Engineering degree at San Jose State University, in Silicon Valley, we should have an unfair advantage in that field. As a CS/Math major I am required to take a few SE courses. All of them have been 10-15 years dated in both execution and their definition of good software and what constitutes solid design. I'm so sick of these SE classes that I'm tempted to drop out or transfer. Engineering (not just software) is mastery of a craft, it isn't something you can learn by passing classes and getting a degree. You need to get your hands dirty, something other engineering disciplines focus on highly. For an SE program to be effective there should be one class: Software Engineering 1, the curriculum should consist of working with your peers to build awesome software. You should have to take it at least six times. The instructor can mentor the veterans and the veterans can mentor the freshmen The masterclass is to start a project that you spin up into a publicly available piece of software, then watch how you're design scales and what needs to change. Anything else is history and lies.
One can also go rummage around different salary sites and do your research in a very targeted fashion - while we should all know our market value prior to negotiation, we can refine that number based on location, industry, offered title, etc.

Use the extra days to your benefit and come back with a realistic counter offer.

Remember, it does you no good to be that guy who extorted the company, but it does you no good to lowball yourself.
Everyone needs to make a profit off the exchange of services for cash.
Bottom line - you should assume that you cannot trust ANY cloud-based service to keep what you upload safe from hackers (if they're determined enough), and especially from governments. I'm not sure why anyone would be under the illusion that this is the case. Even assuming that hosting such a service would be legally possible today (not sure if it is, IANAL), it could be illegal tomorrow and the service may be compelled to hand over any data.

If you want something to stay secret you MUST either:

a. Not put it on the internet/cloud.

b. Encrypt it yourself before uploading. Yes, there are trust issues with commodity encryption software as well, but these may be mitigated somewhat.
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DVR households are going to tend to have higher income than non-DVR households, and so are more likely to be able to buy a $500-800 tablet, so you don't want to just write them off.

You are right that if someone were to make ads aimed specifically at time shifters, it would probably be pointless. The Apple ads are not aimed specifically at time shifters. They are simply intelligently done in a way that makes them more likely to work with time shifters, without harming their appeal to others.
But do you not think it possible that your perspective (as a golfer from a young age) is skewing the reality of your statement? I specifically state this because you talk in such absolutes.

One's brain will typically dismiss a "n00b" trying to become good at something that one is good at without the experience that one has. I believe this is possible because if they do succeed it will invalidate ones own experience which can be a reality our brain wishes to shelter us from.

To make this more relevant to our industry I occasionally bump into the same problem when applying for coding jobs due to my lack of degree and the possession of a degree by the person advertising for the position.
Is there a writeup on how to set up auth?
TRIP is primarily for cases of mistaken identity. DHS has identified the person they intended to identify in this case.
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I definitely think this is worth trying. I love computer science, but I think it is a fact that much (most?) of computer science is not very useful for most programmers.

Of course, much of computer science is not very useful for computer scientists either! Today if I want to study programming languages, I might need to take a qualifying exam in machine learning -- this particular combination of subjects surely is just a historical accident. I think CS as a whole might be better off by splintering a bit. Alan Kay observed [http://markmail.org/message/vsnhl7l6igpess65] that UCLA has 1 computer science department but 25 biology departments! CMU has one "school of computer science", which includes the department of computer science, institute for software research (SE), machine learning department, etc -- that seems really nice!

If degrees in Software Engineering do become more popular, I think many students who want to become programmers would still choose a Computer Science degree instead, because the two fields tend to stress different aspects of ideal software development: mathematical elegance versus well-managed teamwork. And there are still more ideas: see Richard Gabriel's proposal Master of Fine Arts in Software [http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/MFASoftware.pdf], which seeks to produce "master hackers" much like "master painters"...
From what I understand, the "Most Popular" shows on Hulu and the shows I normally watch off Hulu are mostly prime time network shows. These shows are all available for free in HD over the air. Why aren't cable companies blaming their diminishing subscriptions on this as well?

Cable is so incredibly overpriced that Hulu was almost a legal godsend of an alternative for many consumers, even the paid version. It's just how people watch TV. We watch shows. We watch 30/150 available channels. Occasionally we just watch "what's on". Cable companies realize this and though it is not necessarily costing them more to provide content, they're losing potential money from overpriced cable so now they're looking on hiking the prices of content available and soon Hulu will be just as expensive as cable and we'll have to resort to illegal watching until an alternative comes out again.
I use this frequently. Unfortunately it doesn't work with Photoshop.
Interesting how the media pundits call "$5/gallon" a few months back, and somehow we move towards that. I'd like more people to predict $2/gallon, and perhaps we'll move in that direction.

This seems more to do with the USD value than pure supply/demand/inventory. But I may be wrong.
What was the name of the music theory book? Seriously interested.
Is it just me or does it seem like getting into and launching a company through YC seem a little like american idol? Can't say that I like the way its going.
Depends. Can you work? Can you hustle? There's a lot of free money there if you're willing to get it: I will have paid, all told, less than $25,000 for my education, excluding housing because I elected to spend more than really necessary, via scholarships.

A lot of the rest was paid for by working during school--I had the lame little jobs during school, but I also participated in Google Summer of Code and had a pretty healthy consulting company that I started and operated, employing friends of mine when I had more work than I could handle. Like I said--less than $25,000 for the whole kit and kaboodle, thanks to what really amounted to not a lot of work to make that happen. (It also had the nice side effect of giving me a really nice resume.)
So, this is a good idea, but won't replace actual postcards for me

Well I have been doing this with the Postino iOS app for a couple of years now and it has replaced postcards for me (though obviously I don't expect it to do so for everyone).

The two killer features for Postino are (a) the convenience, for example you don't have to obtain stamps or find a postbox and (b) KIDS. Your parents are probably a lot more likely to want a picture of their grandkid in front of the Eiffel tower, rather than just the Eiffel tower itself.

I agree about the message being equally important though, the Postino app allows for a non-trivial amount of text and a hand-drawn "signature".
I think it is a bit nuanced; I wouldn't dismiss a candidate outright if they called themselves a rails developer.

Instead, can they show that they have the ability to chose the right tool for the job, be it a database, a language, or simply a plugin? Sometimes a job candidate will "brand" themselves in a way which doesn't fully express their skill set.
On a slightly related note, I first heard about Redis from Ezra -- probably ~2 years ago. I believe he deserves some similar type of credit for the early spread of Redis.

(His latest project cloudfoundry.com just launched today, so I think it's fairly relevant to give the guy some props right now :-)
If your niche was synchronous swimming albino eels, then you probably didn't need any SEO. IF your niche was Chicago real estate. You'd better get your SEO game on.
That is exactly right. See "Taxing Rewrites" on http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
Yes, most people who take CS probably mean to take something more like Software Engineering (SWE) (actually they probably mean to take something like Programming, but that's not generally a field of study, maybe I.T. or I.S. is closish to what most people want to take, but the prestige just isn't there)

CS and SWE are really quite different disciplines, as much as say Math is from Physics...perhaps a better analogy is Physics and Civil Engineering.
I'm not sure what you mean by "reliable stack trace", but I've been doing clojure full time for the past 6 months or so. Our program needs to stay up and it is heavily threaded. In this context I haven't had any problems with stack traces and my app fits your description of hours long run time and some crashes.
Actually, I can find 38% food cost believable right now. Buying, selling and running food service and similar businesses is a side interest of mine, and I've noticed that the reported food cost of businesses for sale in the LA area have been rising in the past couple years. What used to be as low as 25% or lower is now much closer to 38% than to 25% and businesses that report lower tend to be omitting their 2010/2011 invoices from the calculation (like someone's not going to notice?). Rent and wages and people not spending as much money aren't what's cutting into profit today, it's the food cost.

For example the other day, a family friend that runs a small burger/sandwich joint raised all her prices by $2 ($5 hot sandwich -> $7, combo meal $7 -> $9) because the meat she buys went from costing $40 a year ago to $100 today for the same amount of meat. That's just an extreme example, but the prices she pays for cases of lettuce and tomato and such have risen and every little bit ends up counting towards that percentage.
That's the idea, I'm taking this in mind while developing redis cluster, for instance a must is the ability to create and manage clusters by using redis-trib in scripts, so that it is possible to have one click provisioning of a Redis cluster of N nodes automatically. You can see that in the unstable branch there is already some initial version of redis-trib I'm developing in this days to allow this kind of things.
Between their development blog and github account, they appear to use both significantly. I'd like to know more about the proportions, but haven't seen any numbers about it online.
Signing up worked when I got back home to a modern browser... Maybe it was a bug or maybe it was IE6. Thanks.
From the YC application page: "We're more likely to fund people we know are smart from their submissions and comments on Hacker News."

With all due respect to PG, this sounds like an invitation for entrepreneurs to use HN, since one would think that YC is looking for entrepreneurs.
It should be the content of the posts that matter not the point total.
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Under what circumstances is storing static media in memcache and using a lighttpd/nginx module to serve them going to be faster than using the web servers' built-in sendfile support? Sendfile is a DMA operation, and as long as the disk cache is warm (same odds as having enough RAM for memcache to keep all media, I think), it won't hit the disk after the first time the media is requested. Is reading from memcache and then sending to the client ever really better than that?
I've got my results in January,

this is what it does so far:

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Age-related Macular Degeneration

Alcohol Dependence

Alopecia Areata

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Asthma

Atopic Dermatitis

Atrial Fibrillation: Preliminary Research

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Back Pain

Basal Cell Carcinoma

Behçet's Disease

Bipolar Disorder: Preliminary Research

Bladder Cancer

Brain Aneurysm

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Risk Modifiers

Celiac Disease: Preliminary Research

Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate

Cluster Headaches

Colorectal Cancer

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Crohn's Disease

Developmental Dyslexia

Endometriosis

Esophageal Cancer: Preliminary Research

Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (ESCC)

Essential Tremor

Exfoliation Glaucoma

Follicular Lymphoma

Gallstones

Generalized Vitiligo

Gestational Diabetes

Gestational Diabetes

Gout

Hashimoto's Thyroiditis

Heart Attack

High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Hodgkin Lymphoma

Hypertriglyceridemia

Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy

Keloid

Kidney Disease

Kidney Stones

Larynx Cancer

Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)

Lung Cancer

Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Male Infertility

Melanoma

Multiple Sclerosis

Narcolepsy

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Neural Tube Defects

Neuroblastoma

Nicotine Dependence

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Obesity

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Oral and Throat Cancer

Osteoarthritis

Otosclerosis

Paget's Disease of Bone

Parkinson's Disease

Peripheral Arterial Disease

Placental Abruption

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Preeclampsia

Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Prostate Cancer

Psoriasis

Restless Legs Syndrome

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Schizophrenia

Scleroderma (Limited Cutaneous Type)

Selective IgA Deficiency

Sjögren's Syndrome

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Stomach Cancer (Gastric Cardia Adenocarcinoma)

Stomach Cancer: Preliminary Research

Stroke

Tardive Dyskinesia

Thyroid Cancer

Tourette's Syndrome

Type 1 Diabetes

Type 2 Diabetes

Ulcerative Colitis

Uterine Fibroids

Venous Thromboembolism
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I doubt I can ever agree with Microsoft.

They have this nice campaign running about how people should upgrade from IE6 to the lastest version:

http://ie6countdown.com/

What does this mean ? IE8, because there is no IE6 on Vista or 7, so they are talking about Windows XP. And their is no IE9 for Windows XP.

Windows XP extended support is till 2014. Last year (2010) Windows XP was still being sold.

The market share of Windows XP has over 50% worldwide, Microsoft should not ignore those users and just release a IE9 for Windows XP already.

But who am I kidding, IE9 was a rush job, it doesn't even have a proper JIT javascript engine when you run IE9 64-bit.

On Windows 2000 IE6 is actually the lastest version, but I won't comment on that further. ;-)
I'll be out for one year in May. I've already made mine back, IMO.
Ask HN: What milestones do you use for vesting equity of minority co-founder?
I'm looking to bring a front-end developer on-board as a co-founder with equity compensation (5-10% total equity). I want the equity to vest 3-4 times based on achieving 3-4 milestones (i.e. 1% for achieving M1, 1% for M2, 1% for M3 and 2% for M4).

What milestones have you successfully used to tie the vesting to?

How have you structured the vesting for part-time participate (that will probably grow to full-time as the business can support it)?
Well, the point is that "minority" in this context (well, in any racially-related context in the US) is a PC euphemism for black/Hispanic.
The term "underrepresented minority" is misleading.

In any state where nonhispanic whites are a minority (e.g., CA), they are typically an underrepresented minority (only Asians tend to be truly overrepresented). I've never heard whites described as "minority" as a result of this.
Wow, I'm sorry that happened to you.

I actually use a small tweak: rather than "all are equally good so I'm choosing based on salary," I pick the company I want, then go to the others and say "another company has offered me X. Could you offer me a little more?" Once they do, I go back to the company I want and say "another company has offered me Y. I really want to work for you, so could you match Y?" Perhaps the "I really want to you," and only asking to match another offer, is more important than I thought?
There are tons of Minority women in Tech! I'd argue that there are more minority women by percentage of total women in tech than minority men. I've seen entire development shops with dozens of developers, 30-40% were women and of those >90% were minority women.

The better question is the age old, why aren't there more women in tech?
It's far from obvious that some crusading DA can pick files and force dropbox to tell him or her who has copies of that file.
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Candidate will work as a valued member of the web development team designing, implementing, and testing web-based software, and researching new technologies/solutions.

Candidate will be engaged in our process immediately, working closely with management and engineering throughout all stages of the product life cycle in a role that will help shape the usefulness, usability, and aesthetic design for new and existing applications.

Candidate will work in a team setting and use Microsoft-based technologies.

Qualifications:

Candidate must have Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, well organized, self-motivated, creative and team-oriented. Candidate will be highly analytical, with proven problem solving skills. Candidate should also possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, and possess the ability to multi-task, be able to communicate proactively to management, and be able to explain complex technical issues/concepts to non-technical personnel.

Candidate must have a strong understanding of Object Oriented Design Principles and Design Patterns.

Strong desire to follow best practices, trends and new technologies for early adoption

Desired Skills:

Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 and latest web development techniques such as: C#, ASP.Net, MVC, AJAX, Web Service, LINQ, Lambda Expression, Regular Expression, ADO.Net, T-SQL, DHTML(with jQuery), XML and more.

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This is assuming the 10-year / 10000-hour rule can both a: drop that first bit and b: is not dependent on critical periods of learning early in life.
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I'm just getting the 20 most relevant results.
Why would you downvote a well-intentioned but wrong comment? If something is wrong, explain why it is wrong. Downvotes, I think, should be reserved for comments that are
1) pointless ex:"agree" or "great post"
2) mean ex: "How could you be so ignorant!"
3) Way off topic.

Everything else should get ignored or warrants further discussion. In some cases it is even important to upvote "wrong" comments.
This seems more to do with the USD value than pure supply/demand/inventory. But I may be wrong.

I sold my Mustang back in January because I predicted gas would be $5/gallon within 18 months. At the time my reasons were based on the possibility that the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt would cause unrest in the Middle East. As it turns out, I was pretty accurate in that assessment. Additionally, the continued weakness in the US dollar isn't helping, and Japan's (and the rest of the worlds) inevitable short term shift away from nuclear power will only put more strain on the world's oil supply. $5 a gallon will be a reality sooner than we think. If anything, the US may ease pressure by releasing from the strategic oil reserves, but eventually we'll have to pay.