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Do you run your own company? It would be interesting to compare side-by-side the benefits of working for Facebook/Google vs. being the CEO of your own startup. Comparing salary, benefits, and perks would be cool, but I'm also wondering if most CEOs find their work more or less interesting and challenging that engineers at these companies do.
Also see Yves Rossy. He's flying with a tiny jet-powered wing and does all the steering with his body (there are no other control surfaces).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIJLLkTrF4w&t=1m10s
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Rich Hickey: "It's like traditional databases in being consistent and transactional, and it's like these new databases in being oriented toward flexibility for the application developer. It's bridging those two worlds."

Doesn't the CAP theorem [1] say that consistency, availability and partition tolerance cannot be achieved in a single system? How is Datomic giving us consistency, transactions and scalability? What are they sacrificing? How are they getting the 'best of all worlds'?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
Actually Google works pretty hard to keep the Adwords and web spam teams separated; they are discouraged from talking to each other at all.
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it's also worth noting that 35 years of the Federal Aid Highway Act that build the US interstate system costed less that half a trillion in modern terms, created jobs, industries, and changed the landscape of the country.

it's also worth noting that 10 or so years of the Apollo program costed < $150b in modern terms, and did a lot of good for science, created jobs, and industries.

A few planes don't do much good. It would be cheaper to take that money and carpetbomb your enemy. ww2 costed ~4 trillion to the US in modern terms. A trillion dollar pricetag on any plane that doesn't travel through time is pretty ridiculous.

The only engineering Lockheed is doing is financial engineering.
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Does anyone here have firsthand experience with such attacks?
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I always thought the slogan sounded faintly Orwellian.
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I don't have as many problems with W3Schools as the author of this and many comments below here. What you say is true, but their target audience is mainly newbies, not professionals who know what they are doing. They might provide some outdated information, some things may even be false. But do they deserve to be called a cancer? (Read it below in the other comments, and that wasn't the first time I read it.) After all, doesn't every website with lots of information make mistakes?

Also in the case of the author, who was looking for about the second most basic Javascript method there is, the result seemed appropriate. He didn't even have to click the page, the info was right there in front of him.

Don't get me wrong though, I do agree that their different subdomains are a wrong thing to do, and I fully agree if Google decides to punish them by blocking/lowering results for *.w3schools.com for a couple months. I also agree that the Mozilla Developer Network may be a much better resource, both for newbies and professionals. But if you are that much against W3Schools, why don't you use the search function of MDN instead of Google's general search?
The video claims the poster was kept in reserve for "times of crisis or invasion"; I've also heard that they were specifically intended to be deployed if the Nazi invasion was successful, as a euphemism for "please submit to the Nazis for the moment, we'll negotiate with them on your behalf as soon as we're able" gesture.

Does anyone have any harder evidence either way?
That video (while great) is something right out of a Wes Anderson movie.
Google may or may not have higher employee satisfaction, but I sure wouldn't trust Glassdoor to know. This is based on an anonymous 20 question survey of "at least 115 employees" at each company, so you know that one of the two data sets only numbers 115 responses, implying a best-case response rate of 3.8% (Facebook at an estimated 3K employees). There is no information on how the sample set is gathered. Was it self selecting? What type of employees were consulted? Did they span management, or were they all individual contributors? How much can you really learn in 20 questions?

Furthermore, the "best tech company to work for list" that is linked in the article (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-named-best-tech-...) is another Glassdoor list, and a highly suspicious one at that. I compared it to the corresponding CNN/Fortune list (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2012/f...), and out of the top 10 companies on the Glassdoor list, only 3 were on the top 100 Fortune list: Google, Facebook and REI. I've never even heard of 4 of the other 7, including the top 2, and of those 7, 5 aren't even on the CNN/Forbes top 100. On top of all this, this is supposed to be a tech list and it's filled with companies like General Mills, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Coach and FedEx, not to mention the fact that the top 2 are also both business consultancy firms.

I could go on, but I think the trend is pretty clear. Glassdoor appears to be basing these ratings on very small (and probably self selecting) samples sizes, and doesn't appear to have a very good means of gathering data from the right companies. Considering it's a relatively new company, this feels like something they want to make big, but they just don't have the brand and sway to implement a well designed study/survey/what-have-you.

If your curious what the CNN/Fortune study's methodology is: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2012/f...
Because frats are not a put upon minority, or any segment of society that deserves our contrition and respect. They're drunken twenty-something white guys whose primary concern is how to be drunker and whiter and twenty-somethinger. They are an outgrowth of an otherwise useful function (university), not useful in and of themselves.

The reddit post is applicable because it is a rejoinder to those who claim offense at that which cannot reasonably be claimed to cause real offense to those for whom such a thing matters.
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For some reason, this phrase grates on my nerves. Maybe it has Orwellian overtones that trigger something in my subconscious. I don't know what it is but this slogan makes me angry almost beyond rationality. Ironic.

P.S. Maybe its the fact that my boss has one of its parodies hanging in his office. :/
Larry Page is a cool guy and the founder of Google, so it's pretty hard to disapprove. It's his company that he built with his own hands. That outweighs any distaste for the concept of the "social multiplier" or whatever it is people hate him for.
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I don't know how anyone in the right mind can defend the geeklist guys.. the video is offensive but worse, the response on twitter is subtly threatening and childish. Sad.
Does anybody remember the 8 bit mapping project?

Having the source styles for that style would be awesome. But maybe seeing the source for these I could get some ideas.
Once again, misrepresented interview questions. If you are a programmer and want to know what Google interviews are like, read Steve Yegge's summary: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...

Hint: all the questions are about programming. There are no puzzles or tricks, only straightforward problems that require a deep understanding of computer science to solve. And, questions you've read about on the Internet are typically not used.
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We're already working on a mosquito genocide solution.
Ever since the Nature article ( http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html ) about how the ecosystem would be fine without mosquitoes I've seen a number of mosquito genocide solutions that just yell "mad scientist".

We're using lasers http://www.physorg.com/news185463943.html

We're using smelly socks http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-07/sock-science-f...

We're tricking them into drinking poison http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27mosquito.html

We're even genetically engineering them to self destruct http://gizmodo.com/5852703/mosquitoes-genetically+engineered...

It's a bad time to be a mosquito.

(Also, I think this is how a Starship Troopers / Ender's Game scenario starts.)
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I read this "news" on slashdot 10 years ago. Also remember reading about Torvalds interviewig for, but declining to work at Sun, which also in hindsight was a very good decision.
If you have wifi on the flight, you could test while on the flight.
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Every time I launch into the endless blue, unpowered, under a wing comprised entirely of what was just a crumpled mess of fabric just moments before, it's real for me.

Besides, why bother with flapping when you can soar and thermal? ;)
Thanks for the advice. I think, we'll do that too. Personally, I don't like when people come up to me in the street and demand attention, but maybe that's just me.
International or local, anyone who is arriving to SFO and is not a Bay Area resident qualifies.
I do remember reading a book as a kid, where it explained that our human muscles are relatively x70 less stronger to birds when compared to the body weight - e.g. you need on average to be x70 stronger with your hands to be able to flap and fly.... But I'm not sure how accurate that is. It was fun fact (or not? not sure... but when I saw the guy flying, I guess it might've been faked)
A good PR firm is an enormous help. Having a practiced, impartial judge to help craft your message is valuable. So is someone who already has relationships with folks in the press -- it's the same principle as approaching VCs via entrepreneurs they already know.

It's not for everyone, but if spending $10k on building your brand and attracting new users doesn't sound crazy, a good PR firm is a decent place to spend it.
I found an article about racism in the antebellum South and the cultural norm of referring to an adult black man as a "boy".

I never really considered that calling a woman a 'girl' was a way to demean or lower them in status (I do use the word on occasion). I think the key difference is that I would never address a woman as a girl ("Come here, girl") but I may refer to someone as a girl if she in her 20's or younger ("Hey, that girl dropped her college id, can you give it to her?) Or I might say "Do you want to see if any of the girls in accounting want to go to lunch?"

Is this really the bar for modern-day sexism?
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Elijah Madden: I hope there's a fixed-width version so I can use it for coding.
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As a side project for the office, I spent quite a bit of time making a letterpress inside-joke parody poster for the chartboost office:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150768369153169

I carved the negative for the crown and bottom decoration out of a block of linoleum [1] (~13h), gathered what little old wood type I could find to print up our ad targeting algorithm[2] (~6h), cut out masks for the punctuation because there's no wood type punctuation at that size and printed the whole thing in by sending each poster 6 times through the press for each part (~7h). It was a fun project.

Yes, I'm a nerd, and I get bored.

[1]: Here's what the carved block looks like:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150756454243169

[2]: Not really, we'd be a pretty poor ad network if that was it.
First: it's not a font, it's a typeface.

Second: This typeface is a creative expression. Readability is but one of many goals that a new typeface can have.
>Edit: For those downvoting this I should have probably provided supporting evidence, though oddly no one treated the parent post in the same way.

Maybe because they were ALREADY familiar with numerous articles examining the matter.

>Feel free to follow the references at the base of this article: http://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html*

It's funny how you send as "supporting evidence" non-specific to the subject matter studies, that just talk about the eye and it's capabilities, while never testing the actual "retina display" math and numbers. It's like you point us to some huge volume of "Ophthalmology" and say "I'm right and here's the proof".

Here's some more topic-specific exhibits:

http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/11/apples-retina-display-...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/10/re...
It hurts mine really hard. I can't look at it for more than some seconds without feeling really bad.
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Yes it is, but it's a password for the IRC channel so there is no point to encrypt it. IRC operates passwords in plaintext format so you don't use your most secret password here any way.
Is there a Haskell equivalent?
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This isn't really 'Hickey saying Android is then next target for Clojure and is at the forefront of the 'roadmap' for the language.

He's just mentioning the work some people have done in the Clojure community to get Clojure running on Android (with performance/startup issues)
I remember seeing a similar calculation that for a human to fly using scaled bird wings one's pectoral muscles would have to be about 6 feet thick.

So we're not talking arc reactor levels of power, but probably more than one can output from a small backpack of batteries like in the vid ;)
Well yeah, it's Giz. Sorry, but any "journalism" coming from Gawkmedia should be taken as fluff until otherwise verified.
On the other hand, in Sweden, they forbade using objectifying images to advertise everything except underwear. This inevitably led to a woman not being allowed to appear (fully dressed) in ads for her own laptop company. They said her smile was too sexual.
In Italy the .doc/.docx format (and all othe Office formats) is widely used. At my IT company the file format used in the CV is the starting point for the selection of a candidate. .doc/.docx is the worst choice. We prefer a .pdf file and as an addition we look at the "producer" metadata (just in case).
LoseThos is a playground for programmers. Programmers who love this debate might enjoy LoseThos. That's the niche (small).

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"If you’ve never seen a YC pitch, find a way to see one, or a few dozen."

Does anyone have a list of (good) YC pitch decks? Sounds like a great idea to be inspired by what they have in common and what distinguishes them from the rest.

Edit: Found this after some googling, seems like a helpful list. http://jonbischke.com/2009/11/13/a-dozen-of-the-best-start-u...
> The HTTP Archive doesn’t save response bodies so the determination of “identical” is based on the resource having the exact same URL, Last-Modified, ETag, and Content-Length.

I don't like this. Dynamic pages don't usually send any of those headers, so the page will appear identical in his analysis, despite not actually being identical.
The page times out or the link becomes invalid after sometime due to inactivity. Finally user has to start from the home page and then move back all the way to previous pages.
You should have some mechanism to prevent this.
Else hacker news rocks :)
I had to reload this about 10 times before I realized that the phrases were just utter nonsense.
>the huge new profits they are seeing after stoping this international pirating operation.

I seriously hope that was sarcasm.
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Nice idea. Only one remark: Anyone has ever seen the dicrepancy between the concepts of new aircrafts and the things that actually fly? Aviation is one of the most conservative industries I know, and for a good reason considering the fact one accident kills probably hundreds of people at once. You can argue that some regulations are more on the red tape side, but most of them are here for good reason. If I were a start-up, I would rather follow these regulations or have really deep pockets AND official support if I dont't, like SpaceX for example.
That said, I'm not sure if it is for real or not... Funny idea having a flying delivery claptrap bringing you your tacos :-)
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Looking for some feedback on a site I put together recently. Goal here is to test your iTunes landing page against a competitors iTunes landing page to see which app potential users would rather download.

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A quick search on the Internet for the downside of such a genocide has yielded no results. Would you care to give some pointers or explanations if you have any?

I'm a firm believer that all actions have consequences and even if presented with "proves" that a mosquito genocide is without risks for the environment as a whole, I still wouldn't believe it totally.

For instance, mosquitos are traditionally eaten by Geckos (Mourning Gecko) in SEA which can be found in very large quantities. People mostly don't pay attention to them (although some people are scared of them) and couldn't care less when they emit their "weird sounds".

Such a large quantity of Geckos is abundant food for all sort of animals such as snakes, birds, and whatnot.

I'm not even a scientist so I really don't know why I'm following this obvious path unless an outreach of creationism has blind-folded actual the scientists?
Some of the previous submissions:

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92542

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122989

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152311 <- 7 comments

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827107

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359174 <- 21 comments

This is a fabulous talk that I thoroughly commend. It's also, perhaps, for a slightly limited audience, but it shouldn't be. I think every programmer should see the whole thing, but most won't bother. Which is a shame.
I think I speak for most when I say that my reaction to this news is "expected disappointment". I never truly believed it was real, but I wanted to. Dearly. I very much wanted to believe that some Dutch guy had realized the dreams of Icarus. I wanted to believe that it was possible that I, too, could soar through the clouds with nothing but my own body and some nylon keeping me aloft.

Regardless, let us not deride the filmaker, nor undeservedly dismiss his goals. He wanted to make us dream, and in that he succeeded. Let us take from this a renewed sense of the possible; let us allow our doubts to float away and think once more as children. Let us see in this a promise, perhaps not of human-powered flight, but of the power of human imagination. Let us realize that the reaction to this video reflects a deeper yearning, and let us strive to fill that hole.

We will likely never achieve the dream of unassisted flight, but we may yet achieve other dreams as seemingly hopeless. Let us not allow ourselves to be too greatly constrained by what is, that we miss what might be.
But if the user IS signed in (and if someone arrives at your site from a link on Hacker News there's a very good chance they will be signed in) a POST forged from your site can affect their session. Read up on CSRF - it's a very different vulnerability from XSS (though having an XSS vulnerability will make any CSRF protection you have in place null and void).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSRF
hah there was a recent interview with teller from penn and teller in which he says that people consider what he does magic, simply because no one would ever even consider putting the effort and time to learn the skills required for tricks except for those who are truly willing to commit to it.

I guess this applies to this trick as well.
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Ask HN: FB saving where you have been and using this to send notifications?
Yesterday, I decided to briefly pop by a coffeeshop after work, and bumped into an old friend of my brother, who I also have on Facebook. I didn't check in. I didn't even touch my phone while I was inside.<p>So far, everything is normal. I go home, and all of a sudden I get a notification. Your friend, X, has checked into coffeeshop Y. I wasn't tagged in the checkin. I never get notifications when friends check into places?! Has anyone here experienced the same thing? it felt a bit freaky if you ask me.
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