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Ask them "What if in 2 yrs I become so vital that if I leave the company falls apart?" Let 'em know that early back-end engineers have an enormous impact, and you walking could cost them the company, and why wouldn't you, you'd just be an employee with pennies in stake. Then suggest you're open to being a 30% equity stakeholder (co-founder). ;)
This could be awesome.

I'm not sure I like the idea of lessons being electronic in a systemic way. (When I worked on Elgg, originally an elearning app, I declared that I'd stop immediately if I thought people would use it to replace face-to-face lessons.) Nonetheless, this is going to have a lot of very positive real-world applications. Kudos also for a very simple, friendly design.

Here's what I don't like: the use of the word Open for a centralized service that presumably has a commercial business model. Open education is a generic term for a kind of learning where barriers to entry are reduced as much as possible. Think OpenCourseWare, the Open University, etc. The name for this service feels like it's trying to co-opt and take advantage of that movement, even if that isn't actually a motive here. Education is a very emotive area, and a public good, so a lot of people feel it's best suited for free and open source software. Your work is cut out for you to justify yourselves being a commercial enterprise that stores lesson content from teachers, and I'd suggest that calling yourselves Open is not a good first step.

Finally, this became a running joke with Elgg, so I gotta ask you: are you SCORM compliant?
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It is meant to be public and available to anyone who tries to access it. It has nothing to do with privacy.

Don't do your paper just to do it. Go and find more real/serious stuff.
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We're exploring other names and we certainly understand the issues associated with 'Open'.
'Open Learning' is one idea we've been playing around with
Think about it this way, if you ballbark their maximum exit at $30M, and you own 1%, you end up with $300,000. But the chance of that happening are slim. You already make good money, at $85K per year you can save and invest more than $300K in a few years without too much trouble.

Other considerations aside, why take any risk when you already have a sure thing? Whether they offer 1% or even 10% doesn't make much of a difference.
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I think finding out someone had made a t-shirt tribute to my writing would be what they call "a good problem to have".
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I wonder how many girls applied. Can't really make a judgement without knowing that figure.
Apple is pretty damn careful about not making press releases until they have a clear, concise and informative statement to make. Staffers were likely instructed not to address it because the official response was forthcoming. Yes, it's a slow response, but not worth attributing to malice.
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If 2 applied, then I take back my outrage.
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I'm not sure if this is sufficient. It seems that most of the seized domains have been registered with US-based registrars, but some of them have been registered with foreign registrars.

So either those foreign registrars complied to US government requests although they did not need to, or the US is blocking those domains directly at the registry level, independent of the registrar used to register them.

If the second option is the case I wonder why they have only targeted relatively small sites so far, instead of larger sites such as Piratebay and Demonoid.
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I think the rule is, "Write to your audience."
If the information is marked public then crawling it is how the web works, or at least how searching and indexing works.

I ran into that a bit with our startup (http://infostripe.com) when doing demo's it was sometimes shocking to people that with a bit of searching I was able to make a complete profile of their public online activities.

I think that even when people know a particular site is public on it's own they sometimes don't make the connection between software and search engines aggregating all that together without their involvement. Usually this is not a problem for most people but I have seen instances where a user would use the same username on very different services and get burned for it.
A few months ago I discovered a curious book on my doorstep. To my shock, it contained names, address, and phone numbers of thousands of people in my area. I suspect that many other people, including criminals and certain types of marketeers are in possession of similar books. Implications?
I agree that 'Open' is really generic.

Maybe 'Transfuser', as in 'Knowledge Transfuser' :-) ?
Does this mean the sequence isn't random? Or is there a CSS trick for randomizing?
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>Implications?

Few, if any. The database delivered to you relies on security through obscurity, in that few people are even aware of its existence these days.
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They're using a very, very broad definition of elite, as in there are 193 colleges in the "elite". It would be kind of unusual if a university that's comparable with MIT didn't reach that level.
It is certainly harder for the FUD to be unheard of when someone makes a point of spreading it.
I'd be outraged if only 2 applied.
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I don't see any reference to downloading the content to use inside of a third party learning management system, so I don't see how SCORM compliance would be relevant. Although, the ability to take the content with you would be great.

One thing I have built in situations similar to this is build a SCORM wrapper that can load the content in an iframe and translate scoring and tracking data back to the LMS. They could do this while still maintaining a fully hosted content model. Many of my clients will not consider an authoring tool for content that cannot be hosted in their LMS.
Yeah, Google and the other 20 search companies at the time. I don't think this became an issue before search became reasonably good, when they didn't have a choice but follow through.

I also think Google broke and still breaks rules, just your example is not very good. Interesting that this reply of yours is upvoted over paul, pg and tlb in this thread.
It can be implemented first on Emscripten to see if people like it; later it can be standardized.
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I have no flippin' clue.
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For different reasons...
See that anonymously is in quotes. This probably means to use a pseudonym like "A Concerned Resident" on the letter.
The ability to take the content with you, I think, is crucial. A lot of the existing learning management systems have very poor functionality, so it might be neat to use Open as a central control panel for these lessons, and push them to your relevant LMS when appropriate.
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Implications? Maybe he'll make a Google Profile social network before Google does.
As a service (http://infostripe.com) we generally only store public information but we still encrypt most of it to make it less valuable as a whole in case our db got stolen somehow.

Whether the password was plain text or decrypted by a tool both are bad practice. The only person who should have any means to make sense of the hash gibberish in any db is the user who created the key.
In general the offer seems low compared to offers I have seen though perhaps they are expecting you to counter. Good engineers are incredibly scarce in the valley and if you are good, you will almost certainly get a strictly better deal from other startups.

One publicly accessible data point is RethinkDB: http://web.archive.org/web/20100410043940/http://rethinkdb.c.... They are working on a very sexy systems problem (my concentration in CS is Systems and have no affiliation with RethinkDB) and they have a great team of investors (YCombinator, Andreessen-Horowitz).

Make sure the one founder is actually technical and didn't just build a bunch of simple iPhone apps. Ask yourself would you consider this guy/girl an equal on technical ability? 3 non-technical founders is a huge red flag unless they are in a very unique market. Also presenting the equity as a percentage of the options pool versus the entire company is fishy. What you care about is the latter and this makes it seem like they are trying to sell you rather than help you figure out what's best for you.

If you want to plunge into startups, absolutely apply to others. At the very least you'll have some negotiating leverage but I think you might find there are much better offers out there.
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We've also paid for an instance which does only redirects to a subdomain because of ELB limits. Now I'm on my way to work and I know what I'm going to do when I get there. This is so huge. :)
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And Andrew announcing Groupon to PRF:
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This was posted earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2573716
I worry sometimes about our current culture's fascination with on-paper achievements and crafting lives around the perfect college essay -- ironic given the point of the Thiel Fellowship from what I understand. Have we replaced climbing the 80's corporate ladder with the hyperyuppies of 2011? Are there organizations that foster self-discovery, even to the detriment of relentless productivity and 'hustle?' To me, a hacker seeks nothing short of enlightenment.
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Weird. I prefer Disqus, but people asked for Facebook. Sorry about that!
Which of them is evil?

The closest the is the anti-trust settlement, but the reporting around that is kind of murky. I've never seen a proper report of exactly what it related to.

The others are arguably good. For example, the Schneier article is about how Google has a interface to Gmail to allow it to retrieve data when it receives a warrant. That was what got hacked, but I think saying that makes it evil is a pretty long stretch.
occasionally, a yc company will post a job ad with comments enabled. i bet most of them regret it, because it is almost always unproductive. a thread will sprout up about how this company's industry is doomed. if the company is in stealth mode, most of the comments will be from busybodies trying to locate the company name or website. someone with a grievance with one of the founders will take this opportunity to dredge up old arguments. and so on.

this is why we can't have nice things.
Maybe should be phrased as 'The Only Way to get Important Things Done, for me'

Good advice, though.
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It is wonderful that someone does. If doctors were as squeamish about death as I am, nobody would try to practice life-saving medicine at all and outcomes would be far worse.
Another day, another relevant and polite post(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2582372) randomly [killed]. phren0logy wrote:

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>Alex3917: The vast majority of doctors can't even name a single recent finding in their own field, let alone the most important ones.

I guess what you are saying is that it's important to support one's opinion with peer-reviewed research, rather than being overly reliant on personal experience.
A noble goal. I'm assuming that because this is important to you, you have done the same. Could you please cite your sources for the above statement?
Or is this an extremely clever way of proving the point that perhaps physicians really are justified in worrying about unfounded negative opinions on the internet?

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I'm assuming there's a typo for 'Faheem Zaman'. It said he got "5580 points across 5 [SATs]."

Even assuming they were all on the 1600 point scale, I had a higher aggregate score across only 4 sittings of the SAT (2 in HS, 2 in Junior High), and I'm not particularly unusual in my scores.
Haha. I once received a threatening phone call from the son of my landlord for posting a flier (protesting an illegal mid-lease rent increase) in the lobby of the apartment building where I lived, or as he called it, "his place of business."
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It seems to me that the entire point of the program is to foster self discovery, albeit in a specific area that a recipient has demonstrated aptitude in. Personally, I've discovered far more about myself leading a startup than I did in college.
Several years ago, William Bowen, a former president of Princeton, and two other researchers found that top colleges gave no admissions advantage to low-income students, despite claims to the contrary.

[...]

The result of these changes is that Amherst has a much higher share of low-income students than almost any other elite college

I strongly suspect that Amherst's poor people recruiting is race blind. That's the only way they could find enough students in the US who are up to their academic standards. It's almost certainly an excellent long-term strategy too; the relatively poor will likely be fairly fervent in their support for the alma mater.

In itself, this doesn't really matter, a college that takes in less than 2k students a year won't change anything unless the model brings in money. But it should. Taking smart people and giving them that hireable by Goldman or McKinsey stamp, that should lead to donations.
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...which brings this subthread back on topic to the growing practice of vendors attaching gag clauses to service contracts.
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What browser or operating system can you, by simply clicking an image in Google Images, have an installer pop up basically just waiting for a password to have malware everywhere?

I don't really buy the claim that OS X is intrinsically more secure than Windows these days.
“Malware is so rare on the Mac that Apple set up an entire web page to deal with the one trojan currently known to be impacting Mac users.”

I read that and I thought Apple had set up a top-level page. I then saw it is an article in Apple’s knowledge base.

As far as I know, this is the same thing Microsoft does for distinguished malware: articles in the knowlegde base. E.g., here is an old one for Blaster:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826955
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yeah I also think they're a bit paranoid, but its kinda different, the phone directory doesn't contain that kind of info (Emails, conversations, etc.), and doubt anyone would take the time to convert it to an SQL database (unless theres an API for the white pages online :D). Bottom line, we are digital merchandise, pf sounds very futuristic.
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Ask HN: any way to find out how a specific site is made?
Every time I see an interesting site, I'm curious as to what language it is written in, what framework is being used, etc.

Is there an easy way of finding out this information?
Really really sad that the article starts off with a sexualized image representing a girl that's being trafficked.

If there wasn't a creepy dude in the background then the photo could be mistaken for one of the ads in Vanity Fair of a model.
I don't think this is a case of didn't read the article.
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The source often give clues. Web apps usually populate the source with some relevant meta data.

Other than that, Netcraft was useful to know "what's this site running?". That gives you clues of the OS and the possible technologies used.

ie. http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?host=techcrunch.com&x=0&#...

Also you can try post their forms and dig around that to find out clues.
My guess is SAT (2400 scale) plus 4 of those SAT II tests (800 scale). For example:

Main SAT: 2400
Math IIC: 800
Physics: 800
Biology: 790
Chemistry: 790

Solid scores for sure, but certainly not his only accomplishment I'm guessing.
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I'm using Nimbuzz on my Android phone and it's fairly complete, bar Skype-support. I thought this was such a glaring omission, so I emailed them about it, wondering if it would be added.

The response I got was that they previously did have Skype-support, but that Skype had a policy/TOS which banned use trough other/competing IM/VoIP services and that they had sent Nimbuzz a cease and decist letter.

In the email response I got, I also got this link: http://blog.nimbuzz.com/2010/10/25/what-the-skypenimbuzz-bre...

So... If anything, Skype's hostility to open VoIP/SIP-based solutions started long before Microsoft's acquisition.
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I've done this analysis but the study overall was faulty and in the end discarded for unrelated reasons, but we found 9.99 is better than 10, but best is 9.95.also that 59 is a bad number. You will get a lot more volume with 29 than with 34.95, or even, get this, 39.95. This was in non technical consumer space.
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There's much more information in the article where the author says many involved want to take the government to court over the domain name seizures but the government stalling the process as long as possible.

His post looked like an axe to grind against lawyers with a suggestion of how to avoid them.
I think elithrar was talking about the layer-2 modem password, not the layer-7 application user credentials.
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I just added Safari support, btw. It just took a couple minutes to use to "-webkit-gradient" property instead and check for types array support in the vector library.

Opera support is coming in the next minute, too.
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Is it really just because it was made by Microsoft?
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Ask pg: What's up with the randomly [dead] comments?
Every day I see articulate, polite and relevant posts being flagged dead for no apparent reason. One of these posts was by jashkenas in a thread about CoffeeScript (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503653) I've added other examples below.

Is this a misbehaving bot or a rogue moderator with an happy trigger?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2582372

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