skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If these are people you genuinely care about, it is worth the time investment to educate them why the idea isn't practical or useful. Keep in mind that they often do not have nearly the same insight into what it takes to really build a product or a business.

For a lot of other people (where you dont want to invest the time debating/educating them), you can offer to let them retain equity and work on it at contract rates. If you have the spare time and use for the cash, you can give them a slight discount (vs. market) and everyone wins.
I've seen "convenience fees" for credit card usage a few times, specifically when renewing car registration or paying parking tickets online. But there, credit card payment was the only option.

As for enforcement for B&M shops, I think it all comes down to wording and appearances. Card companies will accept a gas stations offering a cash discount because that isn't being portrayed as a card tax (negative connotation).
Deflation creates an incentive to not spend money, because it will be worth more tomorrow. This kills the economy.
Robin Williams makes fun of Siri
You can check out our demo at http://amicushq.com/ if you'd like to see what our product does.
Evangelists - do you use Twitter to promote your wares? How?
We have a long-running (and open) challenge at work to recruit a cold-calling recruiter (of whom we seem to get rather a lot) to our HR team.

No luck yet...
I'd prefer to spend my signing bonus however I like.
Honestly, I don't mind or care about people drinking at work. I probably wouldn't mostly because beer makes me very sleepy.

But it's really a matter of phrasing.

"We typically have a couple of beers together at the end of the day" sounds much better than "we'll provide you with an unlimited amount of beer" and likely gives the intended image of the company culture. The former tells me that people like to relax together, the latter focuses on the beer you will have access to and incidentally on the dollar amount of that beer, not the social aspect of it.
> Carrier IQ is only a problem if it is turned on

The problem being that having it installed is just another attack vector that houses potential vulnerabilities on your device.
Personally, I think you should tell anyone with a bad idea that asks you to build their product that their idea isn't good. As a teenager who struggled for the first eight to nine months to find a worthy problem to solve after deciding to dabble in entrepreneurship, I think your friends or referrals will benefit from blunt advice. Also, if someone comes to you without willing to pay money for development or contract work, then I have a feeling they aren't too serious about the project, or haven't done any validation of the market.
Thanks James, we agree!
I disagree with "needed". It's entirely possible to have a modern, "smooth-looking boot" now even with the nVidia drivers as they are.

Wayland support is a valid point though.

Regardless, nVidia remains at the top of the pile in terms of performance and support on Linux. Especially for high-end 3D applications like Maya, CUDA, etc.

nVidia also has fundamental disagreements about the right graphics architecture for the system with many of the Linux folk. I personally think nVidia's concerns about that are valid.

It's unclear whether GEM, etc. are the right long-term approach.
The log itself is at least temporarily persistent, so you can argue the mere existence of the logcat info is 'storage'. The issue then being that such logs could be read by third party apps, representing a security risk.
What's the deal with recruiter email that has a from field with a different name than the person writing the message?

Something like, "From: Bob Williams"

Hi, this is Stacey Fink from techwaveconsult.com...
...bla bla...

This happens a lot on LinkedIn, too. Am I the only person who gets these?
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Yes, I'll take editorializing with some interesting source material over the straw-man sensationalism that passes for journalism in many news sources.
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I think you just created a metaphor even more memorable than shaving a yak.
Why do you think it doesn't? Xor ciphers are the basic blocks of S-boxes[1], which are part of several cryptosystems, like AES, DES and Blowfish.

And the word cipher is on the title.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_box
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Tech Recruiter here at a SF startup. Maybe it helps, but I have engineers constantly tell me that I am the best at what I do that they have ever met. However, I am 100% aware that most of my colleagues are bottom-feeding dickheads who know nothing about tech or recruiting and almost everyday I wake up embarrassed to be doing what I am doing to some degree.

However, I got into the field basically by chance. I was an intern at NASA, working as a researcher who wrote a bit of python. The day they were making me a full time offer there were a bunch of funding cuts and the only open role left over was a recruiter, so that was the job I got. Since then I have worked for Facebook, Google and a startup in SF, where I currently am. I feel like I excel at what I do because I legitimately care and understand technology, but I also understand that most people in the field have zero experience with tech and have decided that this is pretty profitable and enough like sales they will do okay :\.

I guess at this point I am coming off a bit like the Christian guy on reddit who apologizes to everyone for the people in his religion being kind of insane and awful, but if it helps, there are some of us who legitimately try really hard and really do understand the technology. Unfortunately, as the OP hypothesized, the bad ones are more noticeable because they are louder, send more emails and say stupider things. In my typical day I try to reach out to around 10, super elite people for a role after I have researched them on Github and and their blog. At some of the more sweatshoppey recruiting firms they are calling 40-50 people a day based on one word like "java" being in a resume and then hoping everything works out. This is shitty recruiting and it needs to end. We have a lot of kids straight out of school making 80k/yr to cold call spam people all day and it is seriously embarrassing to the profession. I guess this is a long way of apologizing for the rest of my colleagues.
From the description of "Diagnostics & Usage" reporting on the device itself, it sounds as though the carriers can only obtain that data via Apple. This would reconcile that wording with the finding that selecting "Don't Send" appears to disable Carrier IQ logging as well.

[..] To help Apple’s partners and third-party developers improve their apps, products and services designed for use with Apple products, Apple may provide such partners or developers with a subset of diagnostic information that is relevant to that partner’s or developer’s app, product or service, as long as the diagnostic information is aggregated or in a form that does not personally identify you.

http://daringfireball.net/misc/2011/12/ios-5-diagnostics-pri...
Maybe the startup could clone his repo and keep part of their product updated by the community for free.

How does it make sense for Path to abandon their original implementation of this idea and to use the GitHub project instead?
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I work for a US company, most of my LinkedIn contacts and the like are in the US, but I live in the UK. I infer that these are the reasons I have never been contacted by a recruiter after some 10 years in the industry.
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So use math, the universal language. I had a site request that I try to stop spam on a evaluation/registration page. I added a randomized single-digit addition problem to the form and the spam ceased. A single input field where the answer is always 0 to 18 was all it took.

Or course, if someone took the time to target this specific site, that would be easily thwarted.

It still puzzles me just how this custom-made form got infiltrated by spam to begin with. Do people go around picking such forms and submitting form-specific bot-code code to some vast pool sold to bot operators? Or are bots far more intelligent than I give them credit for?
The joke is that those four text editors mentioned by the student are also the result of someone one day attempting the impossible goal of creating the perfect tool.
Amen. :)

In my case they almost all want me to work in Silicon Valley. I live in Boulder, and it would take a lot to convince me to leave.

I've had offers of VP-level equity, but what I want at this point is founder-level equity. So I'm doing my own thing.
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That's under US copyright law. This is in the Netherlands, and related to DVDs distributed in the Netherlands.
Here's a good start to find out about the employer:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/aldrich/vigila...

If they sound interesting to you then read the plenteous clues in the HN thread from this morning.

It would be pretty hilarious if no actual British citizens figure it out for themselves.
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Ask HN: A Service That Counts The Number Of Tweets With Hashtag Per Month
Is there a way/service to get the number of tweets a certain hashtag has per month.

Example (#apple)

Sept: 560000
Oct: 456098
Nov: 654342
Dev: 34543
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Because there are a lot of awesome jobs here :)
Which leads to http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/cyber-jobs/, then https://apply.gchq-careers.co.uk/fe/tpl_gchq01ssl.asp?newms=.... They don't even seem to track who solved it or not, unless they look at the referral URLs on Google Analytics.
I think your characterization is very unfair to the article. Right after what you quoted, the following is stated explicitly:

"Of course you may not trust me about any of [the examples you wrote about]. And so my purpose today is not to propose a new litmus test to replace atheism.

But I do propose that before you give anyone credit for being a smart, rational skeptic, that you ask them to defend some non-mainstream belief...you ought to have to stick your neck out and say something a little less usual - say where you are not skeptical (and most of your tribemates are) or where you are skeptical (and most of the people in your tribe are not)."

I don't see how it can be written any clearer than that. The point of picking those examples is not that they are the perfect tests of skepticism; it's that most of the Less Wrong readership has thought hard about cryonics, many-worlds, nanotech, and AI, and so they are some reasonable examples.
data-blah is HTML 5 legal and dojo is changing its patterns to use it.

dojoAttachPoint is an attribute dojo uses in widget templates. I don't really know what you would propose to replace it (except data-attachPoint, say). If you're going to design a tempting system you need a binding mechanism, and that's what dojo does.

You can't complain too much about abusing the liberty HTML has always allowed with unrecognized attributes. Dojo cleverly leveraged the capability. And frameworks like dojo are the very reason we even have data-blah now.

Unless you are designing widget templates, you can do everything in dojo programmatically, if you choose, and keep your HTML pure. But, why?
How (not) to use symmetric encryption
John Carmack recently said he implements alternatives "in parallel" so he can compare them, instead of by branching http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266741

[my definition: branching is non-code ad hoc compile-time polymorphism at an arbitrary set of points]
Wouldn't the same be true of any diagnostic software?
The problem is the news is riddles with simple idea apps that where developed in a week or two and where parleyed into a success. The problem is those are the fringe cases, it's like winning the lottery for most other apps it is a huge amount of work to get it right and not just be shoveling more junkware onto the market.

That being said, and given the fact that I restore vehicles as a hobby, I generally approach it from a car analogy because it seems that everyone understand a computer to car analogy. I simply tell them, do you realize that your idea will entail more work than a frame-off restoration of a car back to original mint condition. That literally in less time, I could totally disassemble a car, it's motor and body, remove all of it's rust, weld what needs to be welded, sand it all, paint it, rebuild the axles, the transmission, the engine install them, install all the wring and electronics and reupholster the interior etc. etc.

I then go on to explain that if they have not done any planning other than an idea, it is like doing all that without having a manual that tells me what the head bolts should be torqued to, what the original color code of the body paint was, etc. I do this in a polite way, but they end up getting the gravity of the situation.

Then I will tell them I love to restore cars, if you go out and buy a really exotic car, I would love to come over at night and give you a hand on it, because it would be interesting to me. Applications are like that. I have to be really excited about the idea to want to put that much free time into a project. If we are around it, I usually point to my 69 Bronco and say I have over 1000 hours in that truck. It is my pride and joy, I was really excited about that project. The magnitude of what they asks sets in at that point.

Most importantly though, I try to do so from a perspective of educating them and not berating them. I think this whole problem arises from a lack of understanding of what or better put how much they are asking for. I think it stems from the fact that software, in their experience, makes doing things easier and faster, but making software has little to do with the experience of using software, it is actually inverse the more automated and helpful a piece of software is the more work that went into making it seem like it almost reads your mind.
Oh! You thought they wanted to hire people who could crack actual real world cryptosystems.
Sorry.. yeah, I was comparing relatively comparable budgets (or frankly even fixed budget N vs geared budget N*2).

As far as the wasted power, so again.. I don't have a 3k road bike. Both my bikes cost < 700$ to put together, and at that price the fixed gear is probably gonna be lots more efficient :) I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the power loss might be somewhat psychological either. Might be the feeling of the pedals pushing you in the soft parts of the stroke that in-part make you feel that connected with the pavement... either way, it feels good. Probly as good as a few hundred bucks for a bicycle can feel :)

[Edit: Oh! Forgot another thing I really like about fixed's.. Silence! Admittedly, bit of icing on the cake more than a core reason for riding.. but the complete lack of sound that comes from a fixed can be a pretty beautiful thing when riding early morning or late at night (when there's not a bunch of other noise to drown out freewheel clicking anyways)]
Another good feature would be to make the event open so people could enter their details to register. At the moment, the organiser still has to use another channel to ask "who's in?" and collect e-mail addresses.
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Nice work.

I love the way the new Path app looks / works but not a big fan of the fly out menu. It adds an additional click versus having a simple bar of the actions appear at the bottom of the screen. Does anyone else feel the same? Just curious.
It is dangerous to give price to build based on a verbal description accompanied by much arm waving.

I've been burnt. Had Mr Ideas say go ahead, actually made some small progress payments, kept changing his mind, etc. Eventually the wheels fell of the project and he sued for loss of income ! The gall of it all. His argument was that had I delivered on the verbal contract, his idea would have generated the fantastical revenue which he now missed out on and I was to make him square.

So I use a variant of this method. When people rave on about their great idea, I tell them that it "is interesting" and given a sufficiently detailed specification I will quote on what it would cost to build. Doesn't mean that I will build it. So far nobody has come back with a sufficiently detailed spec.
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Absolutely. And I'm sure raganwald knows that. By "pushes it back up to the server", he didn't mean that the Fire pushes it to the server on a request-by-request basis; he meant that conceptually Amazon has moved the locus of rendering (again).