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Frankly speaking, I think the most important would be to acquire those skills usually needed in start ups. After that, you can work as a professional and not a mere employee.

The issue then is: how do I acquire those skills (given that University will not give you those)? And just there is not post on HN about this.
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To nitpick, Stonebraker is actually arguing that VoltDB is faster and better than both legacy RDBMS's and NoSQL:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/6/28/voltdb-decapitates...
XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public
Here´s my guess. This political tweet was one of many thought up by speechwriters, entered in a word document. It was passed around a few times to make sure it hit the right talking points, perhaps read to Boehner over the phone, and eventually someone copypasted it to the internet.
You know the problem of offering people money in the future for money in the present contingent on a business's success? The problem is that you are offering a security. (The related problem is that you're going to wade into chargeback hell in this business model.)

If anybody ever wants to organize a Our Fans Fund Us style thingy, avoid offering money. Instead, offer status, captured in the form of a specific deliverable. That can be a 16x16 pixel badge with your pre-order, whatever, but it will mitigate your payment processor worries and avoid an unpleasant conversation with the SEC. (They really will notice startups doing innovative things in finance. Ask Prosper - who didn't, after being shut down for 18 months.)
It doesn't properly understand national domains; bbc.co.uk, for example, is shown only as co.uk.

Lovely idea though, but I imagine the author is himself collecting the stats on my browser testing habbits :)
You'd be right.

I didn't understand reference docs on Actionscript until well after I had consumed a couple excellent introductory tutorials and browsed tons of forum threads.
Be glad if you've not worked on a project where problem reports can take the form of a blurry, badly contrasted cell phone camera snapshot of the kernel oops that's partially scrolled off the user's screen. :)
Why doesn't the browser keep cookies organized by the website in the address bar? That way a cookie from a doubleclick resource received while browsing cnn.com is kept separate from a doubleclick cookie received while browsing imdb.com.

I guess I can answer my own question by saying it doesn't matter. If browsers did this, websites would be written so that an ad provider's resources are loaded with a querystring that identifies the user. So much for not being aggressively tracked.
I'm using the WidgetBlock Extension for Google Chrome ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hgiihiookhijpbhafl... ) and it seems to block the like button on the first demo. The oAuth Demo still works though.
Sure the C interface is clunky and the error messages can be a little hard to trace their source, but it sure beats having to write all that code from scratch. Most projects I have seen that make heavy use of OpenCV use a few C++ wrapper classes to make the usage a little smoother.
Oops, meant to specify the bay area.
What are the equity ranges for seed and series A? I've heard up to 4% for seed, but not sure if that was correlated with a high-end salary or not.
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Where did that $250 billion come from? Typo?

The Indian IT industry is worth $60-75 billion at present. Remember, it's the whole IT industry. BPO sector hardly touches even $20 billion. Given its value, the hype it has earned for more than a decade is ridiculous and unjustified.
Are confusing Americans and American politics?
I haven't been to many countries but I find Americans the kindest and helpful people around.

May be there are some advantages to a 2 party system but it left the whole country divided and there seems to be no middle ground anywhere in sight.
I have noticed the color temperature. As a photographer, I am somewhat sensitive to the issue.

I'm saying, people are buying and using LED lighting all over the country and presumably liking it. Ikea used to have problems stocking the item in demand and only in the last 2 years have they really managed to consistently meet demand. I wonder if maybe the idea that most people are holding off on a bright LED light with a ruddy orange glow is really supported by data or if it's just assumed.
My first thoughts exactly. I think this is why you can't buy "equity" or ever get any monetary return on projects on Kickstarter.

So unless you've figured out a way to get around the law..
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So the guy used the store's property without their permission. He installed his own software on their computers and contacted his own servers. And then he advertised it.

Come on dude, be a grownup. This is the behaviour of a jackass, to quote the top comment.

Now why the SS is involved (see what I did there? haha) I don't know. Maybe they don't like non-government sanctioned backdoors in Apple computers.
This reminds me of those Burger King "Whopper Virgins" commercials where they tested BK and McDonald's hamburgers in remote places where no one had ever heard of either restaurant before.

It's entertaining and an interesting experiment, but I'm not sure how much it can really teach us about design for 99% of people who will be using the product.
I think you raised one of the primary issues in your response. "Padrino is Sinatra", meaning the documentation is split between Sinatra and Padrino.
There isn't primary source for Padrino (similar to Rails Guides). Also Sinatra's documentation isn't fantastic either, I often find myself jumping between blog posts, sinatra's website, "the sinatra book" constantly.

Also Rails has a much more mature community with screen casts and blog posts being produced constantly. That is probably difficult to 'create' short of DHH style evangelism.
Just got accepted to Comp Sci bachelors in Israel. :)
Just updating the community to let you guys know that I was accepted at the IDC Herzliya for a BA in Comp Sci (apparently because they teach a certain number of business courses in the degree, it has become a BA as opposed to a BSc).

I am waiting on an answer from another university where I may end up studying for a masters in economics, but I am leaning hard towards the comp sci degree, although its only a bachelors.
My third option is to go to work. I could probably find a decent job.

A little about me, I'm 26 and I already have a degree in Business Economics from a UC. I am about to complete a 2 year run in the IDF (I am a new citizen in Israel, and so I must do the military).

I'm considering the degree because:
Computers are the future. And a degree in comp sci, as opposed to learning a couple of languages, gives me credibility in my career for many years down the road.
I am an advanced computer USER but have never done anything else with computers except for some wifi networking at home.
I am an entrepreneur and now realize the value of building my own products. I could get things done faster and more specific to my needs this way.
I've always had a passion for outerspace, and I am more likely to be involved hands on with it if I have a technical degree on my belt.

The degree would help me largely because my creativity usually is sparked by the things around me. I'll make connections that others may not. So until now my ideas on computers have been fairly superficial, I am excited to see what I will come up with once I know even more about computers.

Those are three little big reasons why I'm considering this.
It's only 3 years. I will be trying to start a couple web ideas in the mean time.
Your data isn't being sent out of your browser. The source code is here:

https://github.com/toolness/collusion

As with all Firefox addons, you can right-click + save-as the xpi file, run "unzip addon-name.xpi" and look at the source.
The US actually has laws about collecting information from children.[1] Google is not set up to collect information from children so they have to ban the account and delete the information or risk criminal charges. Now they don't have to do this if they have consent from the child's parents but given their lack of customer service, they probably wouldn't bother to deal with that.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrens_Online_Privacy_Protec...
He's written about gender very well before.[1] It is certainly a subject that I don't know very much about, but I appreciate that it can get very complicated very quickly. What are the good reasons for requiring it to be public?

Secondly, do you think that "other" is enough? To what lengths should developers go to handle rare corner cases?

[1]: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/06/sex-and-gender/
"Using a SourceForge page as your project’s homepage is fine in the early days. But once you get big enough, it’s just not enough. The URL is long and doesn’t seem permanent; the landing page is modular and boring, and it doesn’t really convey that much information about your project. It looks like every other SourceForge project page."

It seems to me the author doesn't know sf.net too well. sf.net does still quite well for hosting web pages. I don't know pidgin but I wouldn't be too surprised if the homepage is hosted at sf.net and if pidgin.im simply is an alternative address for pidgin.sf.net. They (sf.net) are notorious for their downtimes though.
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If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

I've seen this quote around a lot lately, and it makes me very uneasy.

I understand the idea it is expressing, and as a phrase it is attractive because it is short and simple.

The problem is that the sentiment behind it ("advertising corrupts companies to put advertisers instead of users first") just isn't true. Not only have newspapers and TV stations been dealing with this for years, but there are numerous other examples.

For example, Sebastian Vettel is paid by Red Bull. Does that he (or the Red Bull F1 team) prioritizes selling Red Bull above winning races?

Media organisations are interesting - there are numerous cases of newspapers publishing stories that are against the interests of their advertisers.

There are also many cases of media organisations holding back stories that are detrimental to their advertisers. But is this any worse than product companies selling goods that are unreliable because of cost savings made during manufacture? What about a case like BP, where an oil spill directly damaged their customers, but BP acted in the interest of its shareholders instead of its customers.

Saying something like "company culture is the critical factor" sounds like some kind of management-speak way of avoiding the issue. Yet - to me at least - it is the only explanation that matches the behaviours we see in the market.
Potentially, we could do so, yes. It would take some time, though, because the engine is centred heavily on creating map object from a JSON string, which probably wouldn't work so nicely out of the box in a simple JVM (though to be honest I haven't looked into it).
Interesting. Lives somewhere between Kickstarter – where you donate, and get non-monetary considerations from a fixed schedule – and ProFounder – where you contribute funding and get a future revenue-share.

If revenue-sharing formulas can get around the oppressive regulations on raising money through true equity, there could be room for a lot of novel crowdfunding models. ProFounder seems pretty confident in its own legality, and has a seemingly-knowledgeable group of managers, advisors, and investors:

https://www.profounder.com/about/team
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After all that everything that happened I am not sure it is such a great idea. If Sony can get into everyone's personal info with pressure just because some people shared a console jailbreak, imagine what can a government do to pressure some credit card companies with an international whitsleblower website.
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I know some people who are relatively happy with codebasehq as well.

note: I have never used it personally.
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May be you should have provided context?
like 'I've dealt with similar things and if you are interested download the book I wrote?'

I am not the one who down modded you but your posting came off as self promotion. HTH
Seems like they listened: http://help.hover.com/2011/07/07/hover-secures-passwords-wit...

Well done, hover!
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I concur. It isn't feasible to use the python opencv bindings for nontrivial tasks.

we use a c++ wrapper around opencv as well.

opencv isn't valuable for its algorithms or its api. The opencv value proposition is tied up with painstaking optimization of the inner loops of several high level operations using SIMD intrinsics.

Advances in compiler technology seem to be pointing towards generated code with similar levels of optimization especially in JIT generated code.
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They're pulling the same skeezy trick that one of my local web/email hosting competitors pulls -- and for which I teased them publicly in our latest advertising.

You only get the advertised rate if you pay the full year in advance. This allows them to advertise a "monthly" rate that is actually "$holycow/12" while also advertising "no commitments!"

edit: and, at 613M of RAM ... I'm not sure exactly what someone would plan to do with such an instance of Windows, but it won't be much.
Are you trying to provide an example of the stupid things a lawyer could invent to blow this out of proportion, or are you actually arguing that there are any damages?
It seems that giving people an option to make it non-public would be sufficient. That's not a crazy corner case, really.
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In past discussions on HN, it has been pointed out that salaries aren't directly related to local cost of living.

It's similar to the fact that the price of manufactured goods don't vary linearly with the cost of producing them. They are related, in the sense that if the cost goes up, supply tends to go down and so the price goes up. But not always.

In Silicon Valley, Seattle area and NYC there's intense competition for qualified information-technology labour. So the price of labour (wages) goes up. They pay more not because the living cost there is high, but rather because they can afford to pay more and still turn a profit. In turn, lots of well-paid employees in an area tend to raise its living cost.

There are major European and Asian cities with living cost comparable to the above areas, but I don't know of any that pays IT salaries as high as SV/NYC. There are probably many reasons for that, but I guess one of them is that highly profitable software companies are very concentrated in the US. In Tokyo, for instance, the only companies that pay as well as US companies are foreign financial companies. These are just a handful. In average, salaries are much lower.
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I think Chrome will get much better cookie controls sometime in the future. They call it non-modal cookie prompt.

The German Chrome team mentioned this in a blog post a short while back. But unfortunately the announcement was very vague and doesn't have many details. The changes don't seem to have landed in the canary build yet. If I understand the blog post correctly they are in the middle of building the feature.

This is the (German) blog post I'm referring to. http://google-produkt-kompass.blogspot.com/2011/06/chrome-ma...

I don't think Google Translate can be of much help here, because even the German version is very vague about this feature. Also, the post is mainly about other things, they only mention the new cookie prompt in one sentence.
Let me put it this way, their actual privacy statement is perfectly readable and well organized. This thing, on the other hand, is intentionally baby talking to adults. I won't argue with regards to it's efficacy because I really don't know, maybe it's working great for them, but I find it profoundly depressing that people are viewing this as something remarkable rather than something that's essentially wtf worthy.

If taking a stance on that makes me "thin skinned" than I'll take that label.
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> He installed spyware on over 100 computers

Get over yourself. He installed a simple app that takes and emails photos. He put it on computers that don't save state so there's no more clean-up then flicking the switch and rebooting them all.

Sony wrote a rootkit, one that caused actual damages, and put it on thousands, if not millions, of home PCs.

Why so much outrage at this photo project? Photographer steal your soul?
There's a difference between queuing for an iPhone and queuing for G+.

When you stand in a queue, you know how long you have to wait. It's fair as everyone knows their position in the line.

G+ is a queue where instead of letting people in according to how long they've waited they pick some people at random from the queue, even if those people have been standing for just a few minutes at the tail of the queue. Nobody knows how long they have to wait.

Limited invites would have been far better - same way they rolled out Gmail. The problem is that the crappy invite system is turning people off - they try their invite, it doesn't work and they don't come back.

I've decided not to bother any more with G+ right now. Maybe I'll come back to it in a few weeks or so but right now it just seems to be full of hard core geeks - the same people I follow on HN or Twitter anyway. None of my immediate friends or family are there so there's very little to keep me there.
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Hang on, so they don't pile on penalties and interest?
Good point. I like to think I adapt well enough, I quickly learn to use most new things simply by prodding at them and observing the results. However as I get older I get slower and less patient with that sort of thing, and I'm only 28. Hopefully I was just extra awesome before and not actually slow now ;-)
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more navel-gazing from the navel-gazing generation

on my deathbed i will relate the momentous problems solved by my generation - do you recall the great g+ circle jerks of 2011?
The problem is that this would mean rewriting/covering a lot of Sinatra (although I find the sinatra book/readme pretty complete). We just haven't got the manpower for that. This is the fate of a modular framework.

On my Padrino stack, I usually have to switch between roughly 20 documentation stacks (Padrino, Sinatra, Rack, DataMapper, Warden, 2-3 template languages and a lot of other Rack Middleware), so "one more" doesn't really matter to me.

Maybe some documentation on how to work with or to learn Padrino would be wise. Well, more work for us. :)
Male, female, other, and leave blank / prefer not to disclose are all the options I would list. It's important to allow women and men who do not want to disclose their gender that option. It's also important to allow people who would like to list their gender as other to do so. Gender is an extremely tricky issue. Whatever you do, I recommend NOT listing "male to female" or anything of that sort. Transgendered people identify, from my understanding, as their adopted (actual) gender, not the one society would often assume them to have. I hope this helps.
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I agree with you that our documentation isn't as thorough as Rails guides but I would argue that the Padrino guides we do have and the blog tutorial + screencast are not a bad tool to get started. I recognize though that to get started with Padrino you do need to have some basic handle on Sinatra. I would love to improve the beginner's documentation even further and I hope that Sinatra's docs get better over time as well possibly with our help.

As Florian touches on, Padrino is fundamentally about embracing the power of modularity. Understanding Rack, Rack Middleware, Sinatra, Padrino and a suite of chosen tools does ultimately become necessary. However, like Sinatra you can also learn the basics within 15 minutes. I like to think that Sinatra/Padrino can grow with you as you need it.

If anyone reading this has any interest in helping us with documentation, please let us know. Especially if you are a beginner. We are a very open community and would love some help or even suggestions on how to make our framework more inviting.
Why not simply reword the question to ask whether you prefer to be referred to as a "he" or "she"? In the rare case that it doesn't align with your genetic or anatomic gender, it's not exactly the end of the world.
Yup I see it as an oversight.

While I believe that people get overly sensitive about gender (or any politicall-incorrectness), I also believe that it is in their right to do so, and if Google does fulfil this request then all the better for it.

Aside, though, this post by Randall seems a little overkill at this stage... unless Google has taken an obvious stance on the issue there is no reason to take umbrage.