skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple years ago I unsuccessfully tried to extract the keys from the AppleTV version of OS X (which provides the same functionality).

The binaries were heavily obfuscated, and I couldn't get the IDA Pro remote to run on the AppleTV, nor could I port the binaries to run on normal OS X. Gave up after a week or so. I figured that some pro reverser would get the keys eventually that way, but I never expected that anyone would find success cracking open an Airport Express!
But this doesn't answer why aren't the minor leagues a bigger deal? I'd argue that most basketball players, even those that are really strong, feel that college offers two things that the minor/farm leagues don't:

1) The best colleagues. The best US ballers not in the NBA play NCAA ball. Not the NBA farm league. Colleges, from the Ivies to the UCs, are where the best students are. The benefit of going to college is you're around the best CS students AND the best physics, bio, literature, econ, and math students.

2) It's a hedge. While college degrees aren't on the forefront of the minds of college players, especially D1 players, it is something that is in the equation. There is a belief that they can be spotted for the NBA by playing college ball, and if it doesn't work out, they still get a college degree (unless they go to USC).

The only thing that twists this up is athletes get a full ride scholarship. And many here complain that college costs too much. But recall that the best students will have their college paid for them (and in some countries college is free). Cost ends up being inversely proportional to perceived potential (with need factored in too).

This ends up being almost exactly the scenario that Thiel is advocating. Top students get lots of funding. Less good students get a little. Average students get none, and rich students with average potential fund things out of their own pocket. Those who are poor with average potential are just screwed. Welcome to college in 2011.
While I accept that it might not be so bad once you get used to it, I really can't imagine any reason that it could be a good thing.

The government could also compulsorily publish photos of everybody's genitals every year. Again, you'd probably get used to it, and it probably wouldn't be as bad as it sounds, but I can't see any upside to it.
So the prime example of what not to do is the sidebar/h3 example. Then the example for what to do is a simple example from Facebook.

How about showing us how to actually solve the first problem?

For anyone wanting to know more about this presentation, check out her Object Oriented CSS: https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss
Some slides towards the end, i.e. 5 1 8 unique numbers one match with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6sAm7CLoCQ
The article states, "Income earned or kept abroad, or otherwise in some sort of tax shelter, is not included."

I would assume that both Ullmann and Waitz earned most of their income outside of Norway.
I did, in fact, make the site. :-)

I made the site to be fun and useful, and it was just a side project for me. I understand what you're saying, and I'm going to be making a SFW version - like Cee Lo did. Other people have mentioned that too.

I hope you enjoy it, and thanks for the feedback! :-)
followup thoughts: the novelty of something new in the workplace (like a new desk, new chair, new location, or new computer) always wears off, diminishing some of the positive effects it's had. standing and moving around for 8-12 hours a day might introduce new problems or ailments, but there's no way those problems will be worse than sitting, curled up in a chair-jail for 8-12 hours a day.

here's my setup:

anti-fatigue mat
http://www.amazon.com/Sublime-Imprint-Anti-Fatigue-Comfort-N...

monitor wall mounts
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DKMO0A

adaptor to run extra externals from my macbook pro
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002GHBW4S
MIX11 (Future of the Web) Day One Keynote
If that was the case I assume they would have put a link to Chromium rather than Google Chrome.
The original release of Flock was amazing back in the era when blogs were new, but sadly they seemed to unfocus after a bit of time.
How come I don't wear a wrist watch? And I can wait to get rid of my plastic credit cards.

Device convergence sometimes actually happens - and is good.

Sour grapes, in my opinion.
Zynga is a web development company. They have no love for browser fragmentation; it means multiple environments they have to develop and test for.
Time On Site & Bounce Rate: Get the real numbers in Google Analytics
Are there parts of the world where it's customary for salaries to be known?
Ask yourself what your priorities are with going to college. Let’s say you do get a job for a start-up, will you set yourself a time limit of say a year before you go to college. You will find it harder and harder to give up a job and go to college the longer you continue to work. As others have mentioned you can always apply for internships while you are at college. You might find better opportunities and more doors open if you do go to college.
You can always leave collage if along the line you find a start-up that suits you.
TEDxPresidio - Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez [great entrepreneurship story]
For me, what I can't stand is when an incompetent has more power and influence than I do. That will have be quitting on the spot. If he's making slightly more money than I am, but no one takes him seriously and his shitty ideas aren't being imposed on me or the rest of the team, then why do I care? He's not in an enviable position. As a highly-paid incompetent, he'll be the first one let go when there's a need to lay people off.
Sure, send me an email, it's in my bio.
"If you are paranoid about privacy, then you are probably doing something wrong."

That's a pretty slippery slope to presume that a desire for privacy is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Why would you presume that simply because I have information I want to keep secret, I must be doing something wrong?

Conversely, is it ok if we install webcams throughout your house, since apparently you have nothing you'd like to keep private for non-criminal reasons?
Scholarships are pretty hard to come by for an above-average, white, middle class guy.

College isn't as affordable for most as it was for you.
Maybe, but the inconsistency is still dangerous because when you click on a window in the background, you can never be completely sure that the click will be swallowed (i.e. not seen by the application) or interpreted by the application. If the latter, you need to be careful where you click when you want to bring a window up.

Having to find out whether the background window is in a disabled state or not "makes me think", and a lot of applications never bother disabling themselves too.
I find Hulu kind of ridiculous... They make me watch (a lot of) ads after I pay them money. And they go out of their way to limit how I stream my Hulu content. There is an expectation that if you pay for something online it will be ad-free.
i don't mean to be pessimistic, but I think you have a bit to learn before you get into Facebook login functionality. If your skillset is HTML and CSS, then you should start learning how to make a basic web app without a database. Personally, I'd check out Sinatra or PHP. Rails can be overwhelming to start with. First, get a basic app to send some data to a browser, then do some stuff, then look at connecting a database to it.

To phrase this as a metaphor, you're asking how to install lightning rods for a tower you're about to build, but all you've ever done is paint a house.
Yes. Actually, the public information is not the income or value of property, but the amount of tax paid on these, which means that the numbers splashed all over the internet are estimates (for instance, people with zero-income dependants are taxed at a lower rate).
Who Needs An iPad 2? Everybody According To The Auburn School District
Maybe you should mention Grails, after all, VMware does own it.
Interesting: he doesn't identify the biggest problem with offering Software Engineering as a separate major. I have my suspicions as to why.

Here's the big problem. Incoming students usually pick majors as freshmen or sophomores. These students do not understand the difference between software engineering and computer science: they naturally assume that by signing up for a software engineering major they'd be preparing themselves for the exciting world of coding. After all that's what you're doing, right? Electrical engineering students learn to build actual circuits. Why shouldn't software engineering students learn to build actual programs? Totally reasonable.

Much of this problem is due to software engineering's misappropriation of the term "software engineering": but to students that term is largely synonymous with "software development" (and students aren't alone -- this is a common association in the industry as well). Unless software engineering faculty do a better job of explaining the difference, this will continue to be a major bugaboo.

The problem is that it's not in the interest of software engineering faculty to make this distinction to students, because to nearly all students, building a computer game is much cooler than defining its UML layout on paper. Departmental budgets are driven by butts in seats... why make it clear that a student who wants to code that he's in the wrong major because of an unfortunate terminological distinction coined in the late 1960s?
A revolution will still happen, Comcast and Co will just lose out on it. Whenever people want something bad enough, they will find a way to get around the bars that stop them, and get it.
Cool things one can do with Facebook likes
I am a white, middle-class guy. I don't know if I'm above-average or not, but I busted my ass to get ahead.
Before I saw this I had naively figured that the green highlight was supposed to represent something positive, like YC alumni accounts or something.
You really think a world-class actor and directory is going to make serious money in a market of 4.8 million people? I think Ullman's business abroad is motivated by other things.
I would pay for RockMelt. Simply love it.
مشاهده مباره ريال مدريد و توتنهام هوتسبر بث مباشر
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http://hasryat.com/forums/showthread.php?p=83316
http://hasryat.com/forums/showthread.php?p=83316
Absolutely agree. I made the switch to more minimalist footwear shortly after reading a relevant article two years ago.[1]

If it were socially acceptable to wear Vibram fivefingers where I work, that's what I'd do.

Since that's not really an option, I wear Puma sneakers (the 'replicat' line doesn't have a huge heel cushion) without an insert. And then at home I work standing up, barefoot.

If you're looking for new footwear options, a few places are now selling, ironically, 'barefoot' sneakers. [2, 3]

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1170253/The-...

[2] http://www.vivobarefoot.com/

[3] http://www.merrell.com/US/en/Barefoot
I like the idea of diversifying, but CS borders a lot of disciplines, some of which it's either gradually annexing or gradually being annexed by (sometimes it's not clear which is which ;-)). I'm not sure it's possible to fit everything into 4 years, at least as all mandatory components, unless someone decides by fiat where the boundaries of CS are.

For example, as someone interested in going into AI research, the main things I wanted to add onto a PLs/theory/algorithms CS core when I was an undergrad were statistics and philosophy, plus a bit of (computational) linguistics and cognitive science. A rigorous grounding in advanced statistics, in particular, is becoming indispensable in some areas, especially as portions of the statistics field are actually migrating into CS departments (machine-learning and data-mining type stuff).

Within the confines of a 4-year program, I took basically no software engineering, and relatively little low-level systems/compilers/architecture stuff, to free up room for that other stuff. Other people chose differently, but I don't see any reasonable way to fit in all the relevant stuff in 4 years (for example, the people who took all the architecture/OS/systems classes typically didn't take more than one intro statistics course).
This is a very good point. It's absurdly easy to learn, even if you're still learning programming. It must be a doddle if you're already extremely experienced.

(This is not meant as a slight against rails. On the contrary.)
I did a pretty successful project with Facebook likes a few weeks ago http://likelog.yury.name (it was on HN frontpage for a few hours). Shortly after that I left Yahoo! Labs to start my own company in unrelated space. But there are a lot of great things one can do with social signals (like and retweet counts). So I compiled the list of possible next steps. I hope some of you can do the follow-up project ))

I've got a lot of inquiries from media industry (WSJ, BBC, TIME Magazine, etc). So if you can do something cool, I will forward it to all these folks ))
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Bravo to the whole team. Nginx is the AK-47 of webservers: when you absolutely positively have to serve every single request, accept no alternative.

Beyond that, I've found both the built in modules and the addons to be excellent quality. I've instantaneously improved performance an order of magnitude for some applications just by dropping in nginx and a little bit of configuration. I've also created a global cdn that served hundreds of millions of video streams a month on a few commodity machines with nginx, all without a hitch.

Truly excellent software.
"Notice that none of the deans said stay in school because of the things you'll learn in the classroom."

The second-to-last paragraph of Jim Plummer's response seems to say so. Example: "A university education gives the large majority the tools to become innovators and entrepreneurs throughout their lives." He then goes onto extol the benefits of an engineering education even for careers outside engineering.
I don't really see how he makes that point, though, by holding up a big carrot and then cherry-picking a few for extra-special treatment. It makes me think "you can be successful if someone throws money at you and gives you special attention", but I'd be tempted to think that those who go for the prize would be less likely to be independently successful than someone who persevered through and finished what they started, in spite of how good dropping out looked.

It'd be a whole lot more meaningful to test an alternative education program - maybe get people learning online or doing apprenticeships, something people could actually do without massive sponsorship - and create a credentialing system that's actually selective and credible, so those people aren't at a disadvantage in the job market. Something like that would actually take aim at the prestige of higher education.
"And I'll tell all my friends" is unlikely to happen. If I were to signup, it would benefit me for your service to remain obscure (and thus I have a higher chance of "winning" apps).
I don't know exactly what the stuff was, we had it at uni. You inhaled the smoke and you instantly started coughing, it was bad...
I would pay 100+$ a month to watch Hulu without commercials and an extra 100+$ a month to add the missing cable content.

You'd pay more than two hundred bucks a month just to watch TV? That seems like a lot.
Site looks nice. What's the advantages/ differences versus something like agile zen or pivotal?
Selection Trumps Motivation (Solving Google’s Social Problem)
Elena Kagan's Judicial Style
Why is the Fed forking over $220m to Morgan Stanley bigwigs' wives?
I was approached about building a very similar postcard service last year. They biggest issue I saw was this. We don't keep track of people's mailing addresses any more. Do a thought experiment - how many of your friends or family's addresses can you remember? How many do you have in your computer address book? How many on Facebook? Very very few.

The first approach we came up with was exactly this - email the person explaining we have a postcard for them and requesting their address. It's probably the best solution.

One drawback is it kills the delight in a surprise postcard, though that is offset somewhat by anticipation.
This is better because it determines the average but not distribution. Imagine what would happen if there were five $70k salaries and one $165k salary for six people doing the same work. People would suddenly get very uncomfortable.

One technical gripe: you forgot that the arithmetic needs to be modular to guarantee anonymity. Let's just say the large random number is chosen between 0 and 9,999,999. (You need a range because there's no such thing as a "random uniform" integer.) Now let's say that Person 1's salary is 100,000 and that large random number is 9,999,935. Now Person 2 gets handed 10,099,935 and knows that Person 1 makes at least $99,936, because the "large random number" couldn't have been any higher than 9,999,999. If modular arithmetic is used, with the modulus being the upper bound on the "large random number", then nothing like this is ever given away. Person 2 gets handed 99,935... which could be 9,999,935 + 100,000, or 4,935 + 95,000, or 9,099,935 + 1,000,000, or 99,934 + 1. (Of course, the modulus needs to be big enough that there's no doubt that it's going to be larger than the sum of the salaries.)
Depends on your situation. I got my first job at a mid-late stage startup in DC when I was 18 and that was about $35k as a strictly-frontend developer, which was definitely good enough for me.
How is this different from sinking 6 years of your life into a startup? Are the skills you acquire from running a startup more transferable to other businesses, and therefore makes it okay even if you fail and learn that you're not that good at running your own gig?
I think the point is that creating a collision when data + fileSize is hashed is much harder than just creating a collision when hashing data alone. Raymond explains it well: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/19/13493...
Its an interesting argument hugh3, that the learning is insufficient payoff for 6 years of your life, but the cynic in my says the same could be said of going to college and coming out with a masters degree is Celtic Literature of the medieval period. (6 years, little employment in the field, not a Phd so you probably can't get a teaching job, etc etc).

Lets say he does make it into the PGA, and plays for four years and doesn't win a single tournament but finishes in the money in all of them. (note that generally the top 70 or so players all get some money [1]) Depending on his walk through that distribution he has a good shot at making a million dollars over four years ($250K/yr). Which would be the equivalent of having made 100K/yr for 10yrs.

The payment schedule is another area where the PGA differs greatly from other sports which appear to have a much shallower 'money' pool. (I'm familiar with Golf, less so with say Nascar racing or Tennis for example).

The other assumption in your response is this one "but... hey, I learned that I'm actually not all that good at golf." which is at the heart of the whole Expertise/Outliers debate.

The hypothesis is that there is a 'base level' of expertise which anyone can achieve with 10,000 hrs of focused practice. And once you have invested that time the difference between your performance and that of someone who was 'gifted from birth' will normalize out, or more precisely winning or losing becomes more statistical rather than expertise related.

No doubt he's getting some sponsorship money from Nike and others who are betting that he will generate enough publicity like this to put their brand in front of others who are attracted by his story, so earning potential isn't exactly 'wasted' so much as 'different.' It wasn't clear from the original article to me what sort of pay scale he might expect 'working for the man' as it were. So its hard to evaluate the opportunity cost of that path.

So if the hypothesis is correct, and he's rigorous in his training/practice, then he will make back much more than his 'earning potential' over those 6 years. Much like an investor listening to a start-up pitch which will take 6 years to disrupt the market. Give the guy credit for going 'all in'.

[1] http://frankosport.us/golf/Purse/index.html
The "quickly" argument is a strawman, if you plan on having a working relationship that lasts longer than 3 months or so. If you just need someone to upgrade your current Rails 2.3.8 project to 3.0.6 and then move along, by all means get someone with Rails experience.

But if you intend to employ that person longer, the specific experience is of diminishing importance.
My comments apply to small and large firms. They especially apply to ambitious law firms and lawyers. I imagine DLA Piper satisfies those. This is about money; DLA Piper isn't doing this out of a sense of justice.
Here's what I though you were going to say:

You're hiring up an engineering team. You have five slots. Four are filled at market salaries. The four people range in productivity from marginal to good-at-stuff-no-one-else-likes, but none of them are that great. You almost have to keep the four folks, because they're entrenched in deliverables and plus, they've shown their dedication to the company.

In walks a candidate who's got the skills to single handedly deliver a major component of a product you have committed to make. You don't have but 50-60K left in the salary budget and the hires you've made so far don't exactly make you look like a genius.

The kid has no idea what he's worth, which is north of $130K, and asks for $55K. What do you do?

Ask the board for more money to give him what he's worth?

Fire someone else to give him what he's worth?

Or, hire him for $55K?
I like many people here am a tech geek, as such if Hulu started charging a whole lot more than they currently do, or if shows start being delayed, I have no trouble going back to an RSS feed from eztv.it.

Commercials don't sway me in any way shape or form, I don't buy a product because I saw a commercial, I tend to go for bargain brands anyway, so ultimately nothing is lost by me downloading something over bittorrent rather than watching it on TV or on Hulu.
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I hate asking to be spoon-fed, but I find it exceptionally difficult to glean anything from context-free slide decks posted to SlideShare. This deck was clearly intended to augment a presentation -- where is that archived?
Personally, I've got pretty good at avoiding ads when I watch hulu. As soon as one comes on I note how many seconds I need to wait, mute the sound, and switch to another tab. Bingo, no ads.

I suppose I could do the same thing with TV if I had a DVR.
Let your community grow alongside you: Ship unfinished apps.
To be fair, the shortcut should really read "cmd+?". Much easier to remember!