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It is not about the pay when you work at a startup. You have to ask yourself if you believe in what they are doing and if it aligns with what you feel your time's worth is. The pay is always going to be lesser than what you get outside, but if you like them, they are honest/fair, and you believe in that idea...those can be your metrics. :) my 2c.
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Some good advice in this article. The most valuable thing I've picked up as a young programmer is the importance of finding your own learning style. Some people read books, some watch podcasts, some can just read the documentation and go. I've found that browsing example source code in the language/framework I'm using (with some light documentation reading) does well for me. It may take you too long to learn the skills, languages, or frameworks required by your post-graduation employer if you never took the time to find the best way to teach yourself.
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Not quite, there is already heavy protection against nasty peripheral devices.
Heres the problem with sony's captcha. If you are dealing with a small site that nobody gives a shit about, asking users to answer "what is one plus two" and ALWAYS accept an answer of 3 is enough. If you are sony, you need better because there are many visitors and thus its an issue. I implemented a honeypot/time analysis/js assembly tool in a few hrs, im sure sony engineers can do better in a day. But I guess not since sony is not exactly known for its good web developers.
If you think the startup is failing it is either because a.) the startup is actually failing or b.)you don't believe it can be a success and assume it is failing.
Either way it doesn't sound like you are passionate enough about this startup anymore.

So the real question should be. Should you continue to work at a startup you have no passion for? The Answer is NO. Change jobs.
Perfect explanation tibbon.
I like the analogy to car theft. It communicates how shocking plagiarism should be within a healthy academic community. And stealing cars will normally attract serious attention from the police.

Of course, if you impose draconian punishments for a first offense, then you also increase the burden of proof. It's not enough to say that "student X cheated with 60% probability," any more than you could say, "It's reasonably likely that the defendant stole the car." You need to have clear-cut evidence.

One of my friends was a lecturer in the computer science department (at the honors 200 level), and he made it clear that he took cheating as a personal affront. Every year, he'd catch 2 or 3 students cheating, and he'd devote considerable time to educating the student judiciary about CS and getting the cheaters suspended. Despite this, he was an enormously popular lecturer. But he was operating within a culture where plagiarism really was a serious offense against community norms.

In a (very) perverse way, it is a matter of fairness to the students for me to be as vigilant as everyone else.

Ultimately, this fight can't be won by a single professor. It's a matter for your colleagues, your administration and even your student body: Does NYU want to be a university where cheating is shockingly unacceptable, or one where cheating is on par with a parking ticket?
reCAPTCHA, after extensive deployment in production, now becomes extremely difficult to solve from time to time. It just renders impossible to recognize scan images. User frustration is serious concern. If you care about conversion rate, DO NOT USE RECAPTCHA.
But they sell it to advertisers and the advertisee. They both are the customers of google.

Frankly, I think the problem is that google has no real competition. Google, really is becoming a fine example of why monopoly, regardless of whether it is merit based or otherwise, is bad, for in the end, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Do you guys know that there's a mechanism in SIM cards that blocks the access if you enter the SIM PIN wrong three times in a row? Carriers store unique long PUK code for each SIM card, which is used to unblock the SIM. So the SIM card and it's contents can't be brute-forced. Wouldn't it be appropriate protection to store the unique salt or key on the SIM card?
It looks like they've artificially weakened it:

> reCAPTCHA uses a “one-off” system. That means a letter in a word can be incorrect, and it will still be accepted by the system.
Where can I find good code to study? Also, how can I tell how good code is?
Sadly too common:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015653368_a...
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Actually, Macbooks use lithium polymer batteries which are highly explosive when overcharged (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MiM2E6pvfg). So by telling the OS that a battery is not charged when it really is can cause it to explode.
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If you have root you have access to the plaintext of the password in memory. It doesn't matter how it may or may not be obfuscated on disk.
This is a duplicate of a popular story that is still on the front page of HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2795743

Lots of duplication lately. Is this a way to game karma? Simply repost a popular story.
This seems to have the same property I've seen in quite a few other HTML5 games: the arrow keys get used for movement but also still get interpreted by the browser to scroll the page. Both seem important: I usually don't want anything to break the arrow keys for scrolling, but on the other hand for something like this I don't really want the page to move around as I play. (Of course, for something like this perhaps the page just needs to become small enough to not need scrolling, which would fix the problem, but the general issue still applies.)
There is also the .me TLD - not sure if it has the same intentions as .name, but it is less used so more widely available. I own my lastname.me domain, and so I can (if I ever set it up properly) send mail to firstname@lastname.me, which is slightly shorter but works just as well.
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There is certainly some benefit to encrypting removable flash. However, for non-removable flash, the speed at which normal attackers could pull items off of internal flash without the device running should be relatively long. I'm not totally sure what the limitations are with adb but if it's using Honeycomb style encryption, if you have permission to read the file it's going to be automatically decrypted.
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There are plenty of good code around. Study Linux Kernel if you want to get really high!! Basically, depends on where your interest lies .. find a good open source project in your area of interest and figure out how it works ...
Well, a TPM would be fine assuming a hard limit on rate of attempts or total attempts. Apple, as far as I understand it, uses a TPM but had an interface that didn't properly limit attempts, hence the elcom brute force attack.
Hmm, at first glance this seems misleading. They removed all of Jonathan's posts. One of his posts was congratulating Google. Maybe that was the reason, maybe not. Maybe one of the others posts was the reason. Maybe they just removed all these old posts for reasons that had nothing to do with the content of any of the posts.
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in light of this story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2794529

i'm wondering what people would pay for simply an encrypted (cloud-based) gmail backup - no UI, just $X (USD)/year - and you can restore it to another account, to another email provider, or to physical media (for an additional fee)... $5/year? $10/year? I know some say this is a terrible place for pricing advice, but... any thoughts?
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CoffeeScript is a good tool for programmers who are first learning javascript. First-time javascript programmers oftentimes produce some nasty programming, and while it my work, there are often many problems with it. Among the list of problems are globals/locals, browser incompatibilities, messy messy code, lack of nice code architecture.

I'm not saying that coffeescript solves all of javascript's problems, but it makes a good attempt.
I don't think so. Certainly not for any peripheral that is allowed to do DMA. Though plugging in a malicious firewire peripheral is a lot more practical than replacing the battery...

http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-f...
It is also only verifying 1 word out of the pair; usually the more garbled one.
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I'm wondering how you're going to encrypt the backups? Maybe you could do it in a way that you wouldn't be able to access the files yourself after they've been written? But yes, I'd definitely pay for it (~10$/mo).
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ipad play is probably wonky as df is heavily keyboard-based, but let me know how that goes.
Yeah right. Every game triggers OC tendencies and desires in people like me. I've regretted binging on both Minecraft and World of Warcraft.

The real reason for tension seems to be this: game designers see Zynga et al achieve the same level of player engagement without careful polish and production values (seemingly).

In other words, it's the age old plight of the artisan who invested time and money into details and craftsmanship, just to see it lose market share to cheaply-produced slop.

In that sense, old juggernauts like EA, who spend many millions in budgets on games, should be concerned too.
This is a great post with great comments as well. Currently, we are using launchrock as well and we've stagnated at 36 sign ups as we are trying to get to 100. We haven't spent a penny on marketing but I feel we have hit a wall. I know that the soft launch is supposed to test and validate our business idea but I feel it isn't doing it justice, not by far. Especially with the limited amount of words you have to use. On the otherhand, I also understand the overall goal, it's to test without spending too much on programmers and developers and build something that no one wants to use. We are conducting surveys as well, which I feel are a better means of gauging if you have the right audience and validating your assumptions. However, I'm torn. I can see both sides of the argument. We started the soft launch march and it's about 5 months and running. They say the idea validation phase typically is about 5 to 7 months. But I feel strongly that even though we have stagnated in signups it doesn't mean that our startup idea is going to flop. In fact I feel very strongly in it's success. Half because entrepreneurs are just optimistic and half because the data proves it on our surveys. Any suggestions? Thanks!
It probably doesn't even need to be "good" code.
Just study any code and think about why it is written that way, and what circumstances makes it good.

Any correctly written code can probably be considered good. The rest is about how well it is designed and how it performs in different situations.
This was published in 2003: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1251354

That doesn't change the importance of securing against timing side-channel attacks, however.
So, the complaints seem to break down into two types:

a.) things which broke because they depended on Rosetta (PowerPC emulation), when Apple has been warning for at least three versions that PowerPC emulation will be going away any version now.

b.) things which Lion makes available to apps (new APIs), but which Adobe apps don't yet use -- meaning only that their apps work as they always did, but don't take advantage of new features of Lion.

Depending on the length of Adobe's release cycle, they may not have had enough time to prevent b.) since developer previews of Lion became available earlier this year -- but they can't really claim they didn't see a.) coming.
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And whilst we're at it can people stop using "water" as a synonym for "pure water". Mud is water too, it's just not as pure!
I was bothered about pay because there are other startups around doing same service and giving a higher pay.
There is also the guy standing in the middle of the 4 seats, plus all the ammo boxes, brass, radios, blue force tracker (2 way gps; shows position of friendly units on a map), etc. Rarely found on the civilian h1.

I did like how body armor and Kevlar made it easier to sleep on rough surfaces (gravel, vehicles, benches, concrete walls, ...)
I would also add this: don't join a priesthood.

In other words, keep your mind open. Don't become a domain expert, as advised, and then convince one's self that that domain is The One True Path. Conversely, don't glance at a particular domain, assume that casual knowledge to be canonical, and then write off that domain as A Path of Fools.

Young programmers are especially susceptible as the myopia of youth prevents one from grasping the miniscule nature of their own knowledge. Once one gets a bit older, he/she tends to realize that what they know is but of grain of sand in the ocean.
If you're a registered Apple developer, it's worth watching how they're dealing with this in iOS 5.
This has nothing to due with due process if the the fraudster is forever permitted to C&D anyone who mentions his name.
anon_d has a point, im interested in the same take on using scala and other hybrids.
I'd suggest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to_...
No, but it was written in 8-bit assembly language. I'm not sure if that would have any better functionality per byte ratio than minified JavaScript.
"I don't mean to judge; I just genuinely wonder how these things are viewed by common Americans."

This is part of the reason why Libertarianism is such a popular thing in America. So much regulation is introduced ostensibly to protect the common people from unscrupulous and powerful companies but when regulations turn out so often to be protections for cartels and the like, people begin the doubt the utility of the government in that area. America, unlike some European countries, tends to have a lot more government take place at the local and state levels, and while this is a good thing as it allows people more direct control over their communities, it also leads to stuff like this when folks don't pay attention. (Which happens when folks are too distracted by national elections to pay attention to local politics.)

On the other hand, a lot of Americans don't mind these kinds of things as, as often as not, they are the beneficiaries of some kind of favoritism in regulation, or it doesn't directly affect them, which is why this stuff survives.
It even has comments on the code so we don't have to really think about where the catcha is..... I've seen some stupid security in some bank's websites I had to analyze for my job but this it incredible...
I am confused if other startups too would have these issues(Feeling of financial insecurity ,Lack of talent to mentor me).

I also feel ,if I work hard , build a strong technical team - the company then may prosper.But again,as you said,it comes to the same question - Am I passionate enough about the company to work hard and possibly risk my entire career(without working under a mentor).
I stopped reading when I got to this gem:

"It can be done quickly and cleanly by adding some global variables."

We differ by orders of magnitude on what constitutes 'cleanly'.
Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1831960
Personally, it usually doesn't cross my mind to remap the keys when I make simple games, because I'm so busy thinking about all the logic to actually make the game work. If the game is particularly simple, it's not worth my time to make a settings page anyway.

And if you think about it, mario is usually played on a device where you only have a limited number of buttons. There's no reason to remap the keys if there's only 6 buttons to use.
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I'd say it's another instance of being too stupid to pay for it.

You can regulate (I'm not saying it's easy, but you can) or you can give the store away.

Public investment in effectively policing IP might well mean more effective assignment and more limited scope. Leaving the landscape more open for innovation. In my interpretation, leaving more in the hands of the public good.

And, if you truly believe in that "guy with a good idea and good execution", in the touchstone "entrepreneur", then providing and environment where s/he is not immediately threatened by crushing financial (not technical, but financial -- rights purchased, lawyers purchased, laws purchased) concerns would seem paramount.

People aren't willing to pay the price and effort of maintaining the common good, and then they wonder why their ideology predicated upon it does not work.
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IMO, that should actually be part of the process of passing a security audit. Which suggests someone who is doing an audit will ask for information that if given to him will cause you to fail the audit.
If the blast is right under the vehicle, I can see how this could work... but if it's on one of the corners, say the right front tire, wouldn't the entire vehicle get flipped or thrown violently?
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What's interesting is that they could likely be making notch-like levels of money if they went the minecraft route; some public server code and subscriptions would yield a huge amount of revenue. Honestly, I don't think they want it. If they were interested in doing that, they'd have found a publisher, and started segmenting up the game for sale.
I'm having a hard time imagining an offense that would justify removing the guy's access to all his data, but not calling the police.
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I've seen people walk out of utterly destroyed mrap vehicles, so if this vehicle is as protected, odds are good that especially in afghanistan, where the ieds tend tobe smaller, it will mean lots of work for mechanics and replacing trucks, not a lot more serious injuries.

To the extent we are fighting the war like retards, it is the concept of using huge armored trucks when dismounted patrols are more effective. And rotating units in 4, 7, or 12 months, just as they become effective, and picking corrupt and ineffective local allies and having inconsistent and irrational goals in the first place.

Senators are probably on helicopters or in armored SUVs around Kabul mre than in military tactical vehicles. The average level IV suv will get even more trashed than an up armored hmmwv in ied attacks, but Kabul was safe enough we just took local cars, so not a big deal.
They don't look that similar. The only thing they share are a set of overlapping circles, but that's just inspiration from Venn diagrams. It's not particularly distinctive.
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Not be snide, but.. no it doesn't.

There's a remote resemblance, they both have a circle as their main design... and that's where the similarities end.
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Not as interesting as this smoking gun from Andy Rubin. This is pretty damning evidence of willful infringement on the part of Google.

One of the most interesting passages in today's order quotes from an October 2005 email by Google's Android boss Andy Rubin back in 2005:

"If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way"

If a jury sees that statement (and if there is a trial, then the jury will see it for sure), Google has a very serious problem. And "very serious" may be an understatement. Moreover, a statement like that showing up in publicly accessible court documents now may cause significant concern among many of Google's Android partners (including, but not limited to, device makers).

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/judge-orders-overhau...
It depends on whether his violation of the TOS involved him stealing data he shouldn't be allowed to have.
The economic theory behind IP law is to legally imbue intellectual works with those attributes of real goods so as to make them have the properties that are necessary to have the free market deal with them, so calling it "intellectual property" is sensible and accurate.
Why would I do this when I can transfer all incoming mails to other email account? Simplicity? but I doubt restore will be matter of click'n'go. if advanced user find demand in such feature, they can solve it for themselves.
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Exactly. It depends upon which language, framework, programming style, etc. For game code you can look at ID's work. For java I hear the Jenkins code is very good. Ask around, there is no shortage of good code.

My point is that as an apprentice you should study the masters. Try and duplicate their work through practice.
For some reason I'm desperate to see this complete the circle in closed ecosystem that involves "in-house farms" and "air/water purification system" and all those futuristic concept.