skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually "anything but just like us-ist", and with the rest of the ad saying they won't accept someone who uses Windows, and starting with "PG loves us" and continuing "We like to party. We are laser focused on work, but expect to get crunk at least once a month" I'd steer clear.

They did one thing right though: they decided to be in stealth mode so we don't know who those fools are.
Interesting. I've mostly been a consumer here and rarely submit or comment but even so I never realized there was a guidelines page. Honestly, unless I need to find a "contact us" link I rarely look at the footer or any website. Perhaps a little more visibility of its existence would go a long way.
Is it sexist to refer to a male programmer as "brogrammer"? No.

Is it sexist to state you're only interested in hiring male programmers? Yes.
What does brogramming mean ? I'm from brazil and this word doesn't make sense to me...
Well if they were given the choice between giving the relevant data or getting their entire data center raided, I'd pick option one.
While that's an understandable concern, I think parent was wondering whether Microsoft should be more concerned with why their system allowed the rootkit to install itself in the first place.
I think you could argue that "brogrammer" is gender neutral. I also think that anyone advertising for a "brogrammer", ironically or not, are probably not going to have or attract software engineers who you could learn from.
I've heard this called "pretotyping". The basic idea is not to create a working prototype (which still can take weeks/months/years) but to judge interest.

http://www.pretotyping.org/
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I think we have a tone mismatch here. For instance if a user brought in a Mac the email would be something like "Hey, just saw $newdevice connected to corpLAN. Remember that all company data needs to be saved to a share in order to be properly backed up. Also here's what you'll need to connect to email etc..."

1. Backups are performed regularly on devices I have control over. If someone stores their info on a personal usb flash drive and loses it what should I do?

2. So you're advocating an automatic kill of any unknown devices and then calling me a obstacle? "If they want it to work then they will call me". Does that sound helpful?

3. It's not a complaint, just information. The boss is responsible for that employee and would expect me to know when devices change. If the manager doesn't approve of personal devices that's between you and him. Most bosses don't have a problem.

I'm trying to be helpful towards other IT people with methods I've learned to allow the users to BYOD while still managing expectations. Your response is "this is why everyone hates you! Because you won't do things the way I think you should have!"
It's also to combat piracy. For example, Windows Loader uses a pre-boot technique to fool WGA:

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/24901-Windows-Loade...
There is an enormous difference between a 3G and a 3GS. My wife and I have one of each, both running 4.2.1. Her 3GS is usable, my 3G really isn't. The 3H suffers from lots of OOM-killed applications, and a huge number of 30-40 second pauses that freeze the entire UI. (Although AT&T seems to be equally good at dropping calls placed from either.)

I hear you on the 'Apple didn't have time to get the 3G release right'. That's fine. I have no problem with being stuck on iOS 3.x. Good iOS 4.x would be best... Good iOS 3.x would be almost as good... but bad iOS 4.x is awful. They either should have invested the time to do the release correctly, or just not ship the update to the 3G.
Bro is slang for brother, which in this context is supposed to mean (male) buddies. I guess "brogramming" is supposed to mean "programming with buddies".

These super-duper-cool-stealth-YC-startup job listings are becoming more idiotic every month.
I'd say it's rather because most high volume sites using .NET are more commercialized , and often run by companies that's typically not been very open about anything they do internally.
I agree that the post's title is not very tactful or professional but I don't think it's sexist.

The term "bro" refers to values like fraternity and solidarity. Even the word fraternity comes from the latin frater which means brother but "fraternity" is not a male-only concept.

I myself consider some girls to be my "bros" even though I wouldn't use that term, but I agree in the values it conveys.

Additionally, if a girl applied for that job in particular I don't think she would be turned down because of her sex (at least I hope so).
Over the course of the 2-year lease, they pay $3600 for a $600 machine (according to the OP).

Let's assume his math is way off. It's a $1000 machine, and it's only $100/mo for 2 years. That is still $2400, 2.4 times the value of the hardware.

I fail to see how the proposed solution could be any LESS cost-effective.

This also is only discussing raw costs of equipment, and not employee downtime. You could likely recover an employees productivity in HOURS instead of DAYS.

Seems like a great solution overall, which is most likely why it would never be implemented.
Doesn't this happen also with virtualized hardware?
The real question is who "approves" what software runs on _your_ hardware? No software producer should have a say on that. It should be the decision of the hardware owner.
That depends on who is asking. If you're a responsible parent who plans creative and intellectually-stimulating activities for his/her children, by all means pick other activities.

On the other hand, for many people I know, "being kids" refers to watching TV and playing halo. I was lucky to grow up in a house without television and I had an intellectually stimulating childhood that I wouldn't exchange for the world. I hope all kids experience "the zone" and a more meaningful, well earned, type of fun than that of consumption.

The actual accounting knowledge the OP gained might not be important in the long run. The experience is.
Funny hobby project.
It might not even be login, but the ominous "Login As" button which does not suggest the ability to post anonymously.

We recently tested Disqus on one of the major blogs I work on and our comments dropped by about 60% month over month (where a lot of our users choose to comment anonymously).
You need Firefox nightly for it to run well, because it depends on the hybrid static/dynamic type inference work and some other optimizations. I believe that Brendan was demoing it from a Mac laptop of some kind.

As far as applications, it will let content providers who want to ship H.264 and pay the license fees do so without requiring all browser developers to pay such fees. (For Firefox it would be a meaningful portion of Mozilla's engineering budget.)

And it's a pretty compelling demo, IMO, of the fact that we're not done with JS performance yet, and that people don't need to be running to Dart or NaCl or other rip-and-replace technologies in order to get great perf. There's a lot of opportunity for even better performance on the engine side as well as the library side: they started a week ago with emscripten, Closure and the libstagefright C sources...
Canonical isn't concerned that windows 8 compatible motherboards won't support linux because secure boot can be disabled. They're worried that a naively implemented secure boot will add one more barrier to installing linux. Requiring a user to 'turn off security' through an unfriendly bios screen would make the first steps into linux more hostile.
The definition is either of those or something different altogether. The point is that it should depend on the kids and the parents involved and revolve around something mutually enjoyable (rather than "improving").

I agree work can be fun and so can learning, and I agree that Rob probably had a great time and certainly had a great dad. My point is that he had a great time because he had a dad who was interested in him and engaged with him, not because he had a dad who tried to teach him cash flow.
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Exactly. Vimeo is not a wannabe YouTube--it can't be. YouTube already won the video war. So instead they focus on high quality creative content and that's their niche.
Exactly. Telecom is basic infrastructure like the highway system. If Apple were building cars they'd want to have special super smooth tastefully designed toll roads that only Apple cars could run on.
At first i thought it was a spelling error... I think it's something like bro-grammer: brother (so male) programmer.

Anyway, is it sexist? At least in Italy you can't do that.
But.. are there people who really like male only working environments?
If you are having to stretch that much to purchase a Mac, why go for the Air? Get a less expensive Macbook Pro ... or even just a Macbook. Buy used off of eBay, max out the RAM and you'd be in good shape.
Seconded. There is so much stuff that is superfluous or just not that good but not sufficiently bad to flag it.
It's the best one I've seen. There is also http://www.instapage.com/ but it's not as good and I've run into problems with pages not loading -- and when you're paying for traffic to hit a page, you want it to load.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brogrammer

I guess it means: "You write code, but you're not one of those nerds"

Also see: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bro (definition #1) for what the "bro" part stands for. It's not technically "brother".

When I was in college the term was a little more harsh: "douche"
http://peoplewtf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DOUCHE-4.jpg

It seems they have better PR now.
> "This is the first time I've been completely locked out of an iOS app I wanted to use for not being on FB."

Didn't this used to be against app store guidelines?

Also, with the granular permissions of FB, if tying it to FB, why not host the photos on FB?
There is no such thing as user error.
Issue 3 sounds like a glitch. I've written comments while logged out and been able to log in without loosing them. I use a Disqus account and not a Google account to log in, though.
Does anyone know if what they're talking about a National Security Letter? I would guess not, since those come with a gag order.
So which videos were removed again?
There is quite a bit of flexibility that the author seems to have missed. But speaking as someone who has just recently tried Disqus on a major blog for work where a number of the comments are anonymous, the simple fact that the button is ambiguous ("Login as...") did dramatically drop the number of comments. I suspect this is largely due to the fact that most visitors are one-time visitors, not regular users of our blog, but I don't have any data to back up that assumption yet.
I suspect some individuals inside companies are motivated to increase number of followers/fans, and figure an RSS option would dilute that figure. More likely, it's just ignorance ... Facebook and Twitter show you're down with the kids.
I worked in The City last year and asked someone about the police officers at certain intersections. The reply? Oh, they're always placed at the border to The City. I looked it up and it was true. Strange indeed.
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Huge margins tend to come from good software, and I would much rather have better software than care what the manufacture's costs are.
Even better, we need to not be dependent on profit-seeking corporations for the free dissemination of critical information like videos of police brutality.

p.s. good on Google for this action.
Must be something with Nightly then, I'm just running the regular version.

Says a lot about the importance of software over hardware :)
But you still leave open the possibility of not learning the basics of whether or not someone wants the problem solved.
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Righthaven's entire model (last I heard) got fairly gutted in another case where it was found that they actually didn't even have standing to sue infringers. (It was found that Righthaven can't just acquire the "rights" to sue, without acquiring the actual copyright)
> I'm like that too, but the occasional transferring does require a lot of steps: I (1) dig out my phone cable, (2) plug it in, (3) wait for my phone to sync while waiting for iPhoto to launch, (4) wait for the photos to import

None of this is true any more with Photostream.

While in Corsica last week, photos shot with my iPhone showed up on my iPad, simply by having logged into hotel WiFi. Upon return to the US, I found them also already available to iPhoto and Aperture.
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The problem with new comments at the top is that you read replies before the original post. HN solves this by using threaded comments and having intelligent commentors.
This point can't be repeated enough in my opinion... far from being a cartel-industry, there is already fierce competition in the law.

Small- to mid-tier law firms can generally handle all but the largest, most labour-intensive matters at a fraction of the cost of the top-tier firms. The top-tier firms get the work not because they're the only option, but because people want the best. If the quality or service drops, there are plenty of lower cost alternatives without needing to flood the market.

In my opinion, deregulation of law is analogous to deregulation of medicine in that they are skilled professions which take many years of study to become competent in. The main difference is that you don't hear armchair economists advocating to let every man and his dog hang a "Discount Brain Surgery" sign on their fence.
MLM... Seriously?
Don't think anybody does so it would be really stupid to ask for an environment like that and boring also...
Spoken like a true "biz dev" guy.
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Comparing "Samsung profits" to Apple's profits is meaningless - Samsung is not a single entity but a group of 83 interlocked companies (chaebol) which is largely controlled by the founder's decedents.

As a matter of scale and impact, Samsung accounts for 13% of South Korea's GDP.
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I'm not one to hate on C#, or be a programming language snob but this certainly looks like a case where poor performance and a lot of extra work were created simply because of a deficiency in a language. Languages like C# are advertised as being simple to use, and for the most part they are. They fit the bill in a lot of different use cases.

But it certainly seems like to me that if you want to build a high-performance, scalable piece of software, you don't want to have to bang your head against wall and fight against deficiencies within the language implementation itself in order to get your software working properly.
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I wish Google would just allow my normal Google account to be associated with a domain for Gmail...
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Empowering people to figure stuff out on their own is the best way to teach. My Dad handed me the reins to out a small stock account with my own, my siblings and some of his money when I was 11. Man, can that motivate you to learn. I'd read 20 investing books by the time I got into high school. And fundamentally the most important thing it taught me was how to think about money. And its was so effortless on his part.

On a similar note, Warren Buffet made around $50,000 by the time he graduated high school by owning several vending machines, among other things.
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If they are connected to a share already... done. Just let the list of open sessions tell you what username is associated.

Alternatively dump the FDB on the switch. Really easy if you use voip phones with downstream connections to the computer. Then you can lookup which phone MAC is associated and call it.

Depends on your environment but once you find a method. Write a script and tie it to the new MAC alert. So the report would look like. "New device on switch x port 6 given IP y.y.y.y and logged into shares under z."
Ask HN: Bootstrap compatible Canadian Credit Card processing
After a soft launch of my web app yesterday I have already found two people who want to actually pay for my product. I'm very broke and trying to bootstrap this app with as close to $0 as possible. I'm trying to find a credit card processor that supports recurring billing or has a 'credit card vault' where they store the cards so I don't need to worry about PCI compliance. I also don't have a registered business (it's much easier and cheaper that way in Canada). Last but not least I need $0 monthly fee even if it means I pay a slightly higher percentage on each transaction.

The only processor I've found so far is Paypal web payments standard, but the recurring billing is too inflexible (pro is perfect but you need a credit check and a GST number and costs $35 a month). Ideally I'd like a stripe-like service (or Stripe, please come to Canada soon!).

Can anyone offer suggestions, remembering I'm in Canada so many of the awesome US solutions are not available to me.
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Apple loves the JBL Company, offers many of its products in the online and retail stores, no less resellers are fond of it. Practically in every single store with the “apple” technique you can find something from JBL. What is the reason for such popularity?
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The icon looks practically idential to PlainText, the text editor for iPad but with a thin black bar top & bottom.
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let's not forget that it would kill the entire car service industry in favor of the dealerships. Thinking of the financial impact on society as a result is already scary but it also doesn't let me choose between getting a cheaper oil change at quickylube or paying twice the price at my dealer. (You get to decide how valuable the dealer guarantee is).
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> You are being unfair. "Anything else" could include newer versions of Windows.

Just re-read the posts. I agree. I apologize!
It has been a while so I can't remember. They were getting people to do the transcripts for their shows.

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19244/community-podc...

If your Google-Fu is good.
The Gates Foundation isn't your traditional "take money, give money" charity, though. It is actually just the kind of charity that you would expect a successful entrepreneur to create. They require results from the research that they fund and they require regular status from the research they fund. It is a very hands-on style that entrepreneurs are good at and other charities, traditionally, have not.
I had a huge smile on my face while reading this.

This has got to be one of the best stories I've read in a while, and a fantastic idea if I ever have kids. I love it. Especially the idea that the dad would slowly start introducing charges to the kid. It's actually a brilliant idea, and more real-world than giving a kid chores and allowance.
The politician in this article is a character. You should check out his campaign literature.
If you're looking for a fast landing page creator like the one mentioned in the article, I'm working on one: http://seekevidence.com
Skimming through the API docs, it seems to be a very small subset of OpenCV at the moment.

However, a lot of vision is how you handle the details (both for speed and for accuracy/performance). Without using it extensively, it's hard to say if this is better.

OpenCV has at least a long history and being battle-tested going for it (despite its warts).
Sorry, but that seems dumb.

You'd rather pay $100 for a flash drive to the guy that only makes 10% on them because of his low volume or bad logistics, than pay $80 for the flash drive to the guy that makes 50% margin because he's the high volume buyer and has great logistics?

Me, I'd rather pay less for the best, and if that guy has better margins, so much the better.
A shared calendaring app, where multiple people can have rights to edit their own events but not other peoples events.

See discussion at:

http://www.quora.com/Calendar-Software-Online-Calendars/What...
"When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world in 2007, he mentioned that Apple had set a goal for itself to reach one percent of the mobile phone market share."

.

--http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/01/iphone-passes-1-pe...
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"for affluent, white, middle-aged, American males with a taste for minimalism"

So what do you reckon, what would a perfect smartphone for black, middle-aged American males look like?
Sorry, Dropbox, I still don't trust you
I wrote a book, it might be of slight interest to the HN crowd. It's non-fiction. I wrote it for fun and I've sold over 60! copies of it. I self-published on Lulu.com and was shocked when Apple picked it up earlier this year and put it in the iBook store!
It's "Outsourcing and using a Virtual Assistant for Fun and Profit" and it's avaialble in the iBook store, or on lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/outsourcing-and-using-a-vi...
That's not a real job ad, is it? Sheesh.
Brendan's demo was running at 30fps, I believe on a Macbook Pro (I'll find out). Some content will run slower right now, which is true of all codecs AFAIK but is more so for this stuff right now.

The patches linked from the github README aren't necessary to run the transpiled version that was in the demo -- it's a memory optimization that's being used in the tuned-for-JS version.

As regards derpiness: it lets content distributors decide to pay for H.264, if they want, exactly, and paves the way for other codecs to be deployed by such distributors as well. It also runs the codec in a managed environment -- format decoders are often very fertile territory for exploitable bugs, since they are pretty much by definition all about pointer math and byte-poking. But the initial intent, when they decided a week ago to try it, was to push the envelope of JS performance such that we find new ways to extend said envelope.
I actually heard the vote was for Kevin Spacey.
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I work in an almost exclusively Mac shop (an agency) and to say that they don't require much IT support is laughable. The worst part is that when they do require support, it is much more involved than with PCs.
I had no idea - I use that Pilcrow sign everywhere. I plan to update the icon in future revisions though
And the other half was owned by Russians (Czar) ?
You might be scrapping an idea off just because the landing page wasn't optimized - could this be a possible problem?
what does respect for the user have to do with biz dev? if you want to connect with another system (human or machine) you accomodate it.
The article is about Samsung overtaking Apple in shipments (vs sales).

I was pointing out they they have not overtaken in profits. The two points are not mutually exclusive.
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CSS cascading allows you to apply styles based on the structure of your HTML document. It does nothing for structuring CSS itself. The point of variables (and my suggestion above) is to have a tool for ogranizing and reusing CSS regardless of your HTML structure.
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