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LinkedIn should let me tick a box that says I'm not interested in talking to any company that refuses to interview the unemployed.

EDIT: I'm employed and get pinged on LinkedIn on a pretty regular basis.
the spread of startup accelerators in the style of y combinator suggests that the entrepreneurship-as-education model is growing. not going to scale to everyone, but that's not the point. the point thiel's making is that entrepreneurs fare well without school, perhaps better, because when they're not in school taking instruction, they're in the world building things. if that's true, what's silly about it? if it's true that we're hampering entrepreneurship by keeping a special breed of human being tied up on class during 4 of their prime years, when we could accelerate entrepreneurship by giving them money to start things, then that's actually quite a profound mistake. so if thiel's project succeeds to the point where more such accelerators pop up, siphoning entrepreneurs out of school to achieve success without a degree, then he's made a profound point.
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Support is overrated. My experience with big bucks companies is that even if you do have support, it's very hard to actually get your money's worth out of it. If your problem isn't in an FAQ, you can get stuck in an endless cycle of "we'll get back to you on that".

Unless you have ironclad service-level agreements, good luck getting a big vendor to solve emergency problems for you.
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This is the second time now you've "refuted" the argument that OS X is "more secure", which is interesting because nobody made that argument

A Food & Liquor on Chicago's West Side is more secure than a 7-11 in suburban Kennilworth. You have to pass your money through a little slot in a bulletproof glass window!

The 7-11 is safer. Nobody ever sticks it up.

This is not a complicated point.

I'm glad you're happy with Windows security. I'm pretty impressed with it too. But I'm biased, having worked with them professionally on it in the past.
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So if I take a copyrighted article and translate it with Google Translate I can freely publish said machine translated article on my website? That doesn’t seem right.
Yes, but simply saying there are infinitely many solutions is not enough. There are infinitely many solutions, but there is more you can say.

It's a shame this will sink without making it to the front page - I'd really like to get the HN input before writing the blog post.
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None of these really look like compelling business ideas to me. It seems as thought at best, the idea Thiel has is that if some angel out there can fund bright young people, they can develop business understanding and enrich their skills in areas they're interested in to a point where someday they can do great things. But I just don't see those great things being the ventures that they're currently incubating.

Sure, it would be excellent if a billionaire swooped down from the sky and paid me a fortune to learn by doing rather than going to school. But more often than not these days, young people go to school because student loans are easy to acquire. Furthermore, the jobs they're likely to start off with straight out of high school pay about as much as the cost of living portion of student loans taken over the course of a full year. I agree the university system is pretty flawed right now. It doesn't do a good job preparing young people for careers -- particularly in the liberal arts. But I don't think that plying smart kids with money is an effective way to provide a well-rounded foundation for any career path. That pretty much says that so long as you impress someone enough for them to become your patron, you're set for life and there's no expectation that you succeed. And that's the current problem with the university system, too -- all kids pandering to professors, and no actual expectations that what you learn be used in whatever constitutes your career after college. We shouldn't be setting up young people to think that their self worth is derived from impressing people in their minuscule niche, but rather from the satisfaction of their personal accomplishments (as well as the paycheck at the end of the day).
It doesn't limit it to that, it defaults to that.

You can use a longer alphanumeric pass code if you'd rather, it's an option in settings.

As with all security convenience is played off against security. For most people (who in reality aren't likely to be targeted by such an attack and aren't storing much in the way of critical data on their phones) a four digit pass doesn't seem completely unreasonable.
Aha! I think I've identified where our primary contention lies. First, as to the author overstating the case, I agree. If he really meant nobody is 100% certain of any given decision I can see where he is coming from, although I still wouldn't entirely agree. People who get off the freeway and drive home are not winging it. They are quite certain of the way (even if never guaranteed to survive the trip). This is just one of many instances which clearly does not agree with "none of us knows what we're doing". We clearly do a lot of the time.

Now, the place where I believe we are in discord is those instances when we are less certain we are making the right choice. If I walk up to a roulette table and choose black rather than red, and happen to win, I am certainly winging it and agree with you and the author entirely. However, I say the best chess player in the world would be able to tell you exactly why he (or she) made every move. They won't know with 100% certainty whether any given move is best, but they do know the logical mental progression taken to arrive at their choice, since they know strategy and likely outcomes. Similarly, Nobel Prize winning economists or physicists in large part know exactly what they are doing, for example, when driving home, and when working mathematical calculations. Our disagreement is over those rarer occasions when they are less certain of the correct choice. You seem to say it's the same as a 50% coin toss in these cases, and they are winging it. I firmly disagree. While they can't know with 100% certainty which choice is correct, they can know what is more likely correct (and why they believe so), and that is what separates them -- and Warren Buffet, and chess masters -- from everyone else.
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The explanation is really pretty innocuous. We had an unaccounted-for edge case that cached paulphusion.de's pages under our root domain, posterous.com.

Like many software bugs, it was an edge case that we didn't foresee, but that happened extremely rarely. We've been running Varnish for the better part of a year, millions upon millions of requests and this was the first time something like this has ever happened.

Of course, none of that wipes the egg off of our face. ;)
Furthermore, it does happen somewhat already with the "job hopper" label. You've only been at bigco for 18 months and you're already interviewing someplace else? You'll have no loyalty to our company!
If your business really works that well, start hiring people to replicate versions of it in their local area. Most people say they want to start a business, but very few are actually risk-tolerant enough to do it. So expand by hiring employees, rather than selling the dream.
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Not to offer any actionable advice, but $100 on adwords won't cut it for marketing campaigns and I suspect the same goes for Yahoo and Facebook.

If you can, I'd up your marketing budget.

Also, ebooks and the like really only work if you already have a reputation, either through blog followers, newsletters etc. There is a sea of how to make money on the internet type ebooks, so it's that much more difficult to market.
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In this case, I believe that there's enough novel stuff to make it a conference paper, but not the time to make it through peer review.

> Perhaps consider writing it up from a generic point of view, adding references where necessary, and post a link on HN and security mailing lists? Or submit a paper to arXiv?

I'll think about it, thanks.
Imagine you were visiting a free art exhibition and someone was constantly shouting "BUY THIS PURSE BUY IT NOW!" into your ears. Probably a bad analogy but maybe you get my mindset.

If you cannot sell your product, well, maybe it is not worth running after profit. If you do not feel like sharing it for free, maybe someone else will.

I do not consider anything with advertisements (or "submit your mail adresse to get the download link") to be free. The ad publisher is getting my attention, personal data or whatever, it is not free of drawbacks for me.

Disabling parts of an application can hardly be considered piracy.
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The reason I was asking was to see if there are any unique sites or online communities you could target yourself, but I'm still not sure which ones those would be. That type of advertisement costs money as well, but maybe there would be a higher click and buy rate.

Is there any way you could create a brand and make it a franchise? Then you could list it at franchise listing websites and maybe take a small royalty with a fixed payment.

If there any way you could structure your balloon selling expertise as a quasi employment/entrepreneurship opportunity, you could post job ads, which can be free (for example, my university job board is free). If this business is not very time consuming, maybe you could target college kids looking for good side money.
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Generally, the etiquette on HN is to use the upvote button to register that you like something, rather than to post a comment.
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Although international law doesn't spell it out verbatim, the generally accepted principle is that sovereignty does not extend to the altitude where satellites fly. As such, it's impossible to prevent anyone from taking pictures of any country from space.
How are your security defenses different from those in OWASP's ESAPI project, or (even simpler) in Rails?

Where you should publish depends on how interesting your contribution is.

Your contribution would need to be very interesting indeed to make it through peer review. Given the odds, I probably wouldn't spend the time writing a formal paper.
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How do you make your money? If it's through listing fees then it should be free (as you have a stronger story with more users). If it's because you're paid by the person using the webpage/app then .99 is reasonable.
Publishing decompiled source code (of copyrighted works) is a clear violation of copyright law. The problem is not the reverse engineering or decompiling, the problem is also not the name (that might be illegal, too, but it wasn’t complained about), the problem is that copyrighted works were published.

Copyright law doesn’t really care about what you do with copyrighted works as long as you don’t make what you did public.
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I think perhaps you were downvoted because your posts were mainly attacking a straw man. I don't think anyone has been supporting the idea of basing policy solely on the beliefs of young people.

(FWIW I did not downvote you)
Good to see the older users raising the level of discourse here.
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I used to work for adCenter support and you can always call them up to help you with some basics of PPC and running a good advertising campaign. Google now has a phone number so I hear, so they also might be of some assistance. Also, if your monthly budget is $500 or more you can get an 'optimization specialist' (buzzwords I never cared for) to work with you for up to 45 days on getting a campaign up and running (it's a free service).

Unfortunately all that won't help you much with finding an SEM, but if need be it'll allow you to effectively self-manage.
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As someone who has just moved to the US from Australia, all I can say is: about time. Back home I'm used to being able to transfer money to anyones bank account with no fees, and with the funds arriving the next day. Coming to the US has seen every check I cash "held" for days, and $25 fees for having the gall to transfer money out of my account without using a check. Paying rent takes at least a week, as the "online transfer" in internet banking is a check sent by the bank! I understand now why PayPal was such a big deal when it came out.

(Disclaimer: I bank with Bank of America, and am waiting with baited breath for BankSimple)
i always thought of email as a way to get you to get a username, which is just a "gateway drug" into other services the company offers. For example, all of a sudden it's easy to find yourself on the Picasa site, and upload pictures doesn't require ANOTHER username/password because you're already logged in (cookie)
Leaves me even more curious for what the future of their hardware is.
I really liked the feedback given by PG to startup #2 - allow companies to sell their extra leads (company was a video interview website for unskilled labour - target is big retailers).

Event is going on right now btw. You can see the livestream. And they will likely post a video subsequently.

Update 1: They're on the fourth person now. The common theme seems to be "how will people benefit from this product". Person #4 came with a solution with potentially interesting technology. However, from right off the bat, the conversation went towards use cases! The questions and comments are happening at a rapid pace. One definitely needs to be able to think of their feet!

Update 2: Person # 5 seems to be describing the same thing as Sonar (a startup that presented on Day 1 - link: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/sonar-finds-you-the-most-re...), but specific to the airport.
I agree, a few months ago I tried to argue that more people would be making malware for Macs since it's a wide open market, so to speak... tptacek laughed at the idea.

Still, I feel almost as safe on my Mac as with Linux, but not quite. Malware producers are starting to notice the Mac.
Once in a while non-technical friends come to me and ask me to help them implement ideas they've come up with. Often enough, I think the idea is bad for one reason or another.

That puts me in an awkward situation. I don't want to work on an idea that I don't like, so I have to explain my concerns, whether or not they're objectively justified (or "bullshit").

Last time it happened (a couple weeks ago), I tried to give some suggestions for an alternative solution. He took it personally and asked point-blank if I would help him or not. Overall, it didn't go over well.
People do love snakes. And TV shows. And Sports teams. They've also had social networks for decades -- known as "Fan Clubs." Fanpop took that idea online, and according to a Mixergy interview, they're making $1 MM in profits.

http://www.fanpop.com/

This is where the "advise on process" would have come in. Programmatically, there's little difference between a social network and a fan club. But changing the definition and labeling is extremely powerful.
The same question came up on Reddit (in the agressive know-it-all tone typical of Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ufl1/gray_code...) when I first posted this blog article. So I asked the pediatrician, and the answer (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ufl1/gray_code...) was surprising:

>I was back at the office today and I asked one of the senior doctors about it. She said that the manual stadiometers were always giving inaccurate readings and that they constantly had to have the service guys in to recalibrate them. The electronic stadiometer, she said, is much more reliable.

>"But it's a really expensive stadiometer," I said.

>"The service calls on the manual stadiometers were costing us a fortune."

>The radio connection to the portable readout is a red herring. They had the display mounted on the wall right next to the stadiometer. I asked if they ever took it down and moved it around; the doctor said they never did.

>So there's your answer. It's nothing clever, but it's totally reasonable, and it's nothing you could deduce from your armchair. This is why it's important to suspend judgment of someone's actions when you don't have any direct knowledge of their situation.

Hope this helps.
Or two clicks for your corporate sysadmin to force it :-)
Let me play devil's advocate here for a moment.

You say that you don't "consider anything with advertisements (or "submit your mail adresse to get the download link") to be free", so you consider your agreeing to these things to be your payment for the software/service/whatever, right? If so, by not viewing the ads, giving your email, etc, you're not paying the price for the product and are thus pirating it.

You use a service that charges your credit card when you use it, but you realize that you can block the call to the server that does the charging and use it just fine. Is that acceptable? It's technologically equivalent to ad blocking in reverse and blocks payment; the only difference is that the currency is USD or EUR rather than eyeballs.
This is perfect!

Eclipse has its lines of text set-solid which is seven brands of evil, so the "M" version of Meslo is a godsend.
Why? As an employer, I'm certainly going to give more preference to the kid that was hacking away at his side project trying to build something exciting than I am to the guy who was on vacation for the last two years.
Wouldn't that actually be giving free rides to colleges? They are free to charge whatever they want because it's the scholorship that pays for it anyway. Like insurance...
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"General purpose" in this case means that the computer can run general purpose code & not highly optimized hardware specific code. The Opteron is an x86 cpu, so you can run x86 immediately. The Teslas from nVidia will probably operate using nVidias Cg or OpenCL programming languages.

If OpenCL takes off, the idea is that ones entire application could be programmed in OpenCL & then run on either x86 or on a GPU. I am guessing, for now, the Opterons will be in charge of running non-GPU optimal code & feeding data to the Teslas massively parralel stream processors.

The "general purpose" tag I think is more marketing because if you want to eek out the last drop of performance from this computer you'll probably need to write code that takes advantage of knowing the physical underlying architecture, making your code less portable.
The problem of programming a game based on :hover states is that you can cheat the game by using a context menu to pass through the walls.
> setting the iPhone to shred its crypto key after 10 consecutive password failures

This seems to do decryption on its own, so this setting wouldn't have an effect. If you have the data sitting there and have the encrypted key, there's nothing stopping you from directly decrypting the key with every possible passcode and checking it for validity.
The problem is the SW is a very small cost for BI. When I consulted I worked alongside a medium sized BI project and the costs went something like:

$40k for SW

$500k for development (they brought in a BI shop to get their warehouses setup)

$120k/year for a BI developer

So the delta for making the SW go to $0 just isn't very motivating. Getting the best BI tool is far more important than the cheapest one.
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PHP, Java, Cobol? It's all relative I suppose.
I don't see any problem with someone expressing verbally that they like something instead of just up voting. Though, I do see a problem when someone tells people how to express themselves.
Contracts and making sure you have fully prepared the client go a long way here.

If they consistently believe/say/whatever the low end, you have not done your job in preparing them. Every single time they mention the low number, you mention the high number.

If they expect freebies or feel as if they are paying 'extra', you have failed in setting expectations.
Correct. Here is exact quote on ING's P2P payment screen "To send a P2P Payment, you'll need the recipient's email address and account information."
This was what I was wondering, too. But how deep down does the heat actually go? Unless these structures are just a few inches below the ground, it seems the difference would be very small. Just empirically, you don't have to dig down more than a few inches until even desert sand is cold.
I tried hiring people and even paid them well but couldn't find reliable people with decent customer service skills and this is the type of business where a small mistake can cause you to lose your client.
Remember this TechCrunch?

http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/12/ill-never-let-canada-live-t...

Yeah, so do I.
I'm still laughing at the idea. People write malware to make money. Your premise is that the return on investment for Mac malware is comparable to that of Windows, which still absolutely dominates the market for personal computers. It's not.

The most successful malware packages do not, as a general rule, lock all other malware out of their victims, so it's not as if there's a meaningful competitive hurdle for malware authors. Why would they choose the tiny market?

The way the market is going, in a couple years, I can see an outside chance that OS X will be so popular that it'll be a useful target.
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There's the thing with good developers. We tend to fit into the INTP range of things, but many flop over to the INFJ and INFP realms as well. Meaningful work, as it were, is incredibly important to the latter two. That's not to say the INTPs don't need the same thing, but to the INF* crowd, its a basic building block for success. Without it, we (INFJ here) burnout incredibly quickly and cease to be as productive as we could be. Anytime I see that "meaningful" this or that in someone's declaration of burnout, I can't help but smile. Not out of schadenfreude, but out of joy that the self regulation of that person's life kicked in. Its a great feeling when you get out of that slump, and recognizing that you're in it is the first step.
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Interesting - around Idaho there is a orange spike. Wonder where and what exactly that is.
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Also this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ufl1/gray_code...
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You can make any pinwheel-type shape with four wheels and can vary the line from center to edge in any path. This includes a bunch of spirally-looking things.

(Also you can just cut it in half similarly instead of in four.)

Picture:

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Yeah, it's stuff you know you'll need money for that won't be an emergency. Just like saving for anything else (like a new laptop).