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Wow - I've literally never heard anyone be this frank before. I disagree with the position but I upvote the candor.

I wonder, though, how you feel about all the violence we've seen committed in the name of egalitarianism, in the lives of those now living? For instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin

Blokhin initially decided on an ambitious quota of 300 executions per night, and engineered an efficient system in which the prisoners were individually led to a small antechamber—which had been painted red and was known as the "Leninist room"—for a brief and cursory positive identification, before being handcuffed and led into the execution room next door. The room was specially designed with padded walls for soundproofing, a sloping concrete floor with a drain and hose, and a log wall for the prisoners to stand against. Blokhin—outfitted in a leather butcher's apron, cap, and shoulder-length gloves to protect his uniform—then, with no procurator present and no reading of the sentence or any other formalities, pushed the prisoner against the log wall and shot him once in the base of the skull with a German Walther Model 2 .25 ACP pistol. He had brought a briefcase full of his own Walther pistols, since he did not trust the reliability of the standard-issue Soviet TT-30 for the frequent, heavy use he intended.

If we're going to excommunicate 20th-century philosophies on the grounds of their association with this sort of thing, we find quite quickly that we have to excommunicate everyone - right and left, fascist and communist, nationalist and universalist, racist and egalitarian. And then what's left?
Done. Looking forward to seeing the other responses pile up!

One thing I'd like to know is how much of the things we perceive externally about a company on account of their messaging/reputation are actually true - I've had a couple of jobs that ended up being radically different from what was advertised. My new policy is to always connect with current and former employees on LinkedIn/Twitter/over beer to find out what it's really like.
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According to me if a person is lazy and unproductive, even luck gives up on him.

You need to work hard anyway. And you need need luck on top of it. Things work in that order.

But a lot of people first expect to get lucky and then work hard. IMO that never happens, because the person tries to reverse cause-effect scenarios. The person expects reward before work, whereas rewards always come after work, never before it.
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well, the rabbit hole goes really very deep so there are many directions to head for, but i think the most important things to develop are infinite curiosity and an addiction to solving problems.
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> Personally, I think all of my CS background from university is what distinguishes me as a software developer instead of just a "programmer".

I consider myself a software developer because I work on the software from top to bottom. From business requirements, to user interface and usability design, to architecture and algorithms. Someone who is responsible for all aspects of code, but not other areas of the application's development, is a programmer to me.

It's funny how all these labels we throw around in the industry have no generally accepted definition.
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I could barely see the navigation in Chrome, is that how it's supposed to work ? :)
Filled out the form. In summary:

I'm from Brisbane/Australia and I will be moving to the USA one way or other soon. The few trips I have made over there have really opened my eyes to the opportunities that exist that just are not here.

It's mainly about networking and social support. The old age saying of "it's not what you know, it's who you know" is still very valid. In Brisbane we just don't have any successful startups (at least that stayed in Brisbane) to provide advice/connections.

Plus it is awesome to be surrounded by awesome people doing awesome things, that's what I'm looking forward to most.
Okcupid has huge security privilege escalation for all users
If you log into okcupid right now, you can view anyone's 8 most recent conversation threads. The site shouldn't be live right now if they know this is going on.

If you are on the OKC team or you know how to reach one of them, please do so. If not, please make sure that others can see this post.

This is a huge security and privacy breach. That is all.
I'm guessing CS dropouts are just as vocal in support of the nosql of the moment.
lack of passion...

IMO, That is a narrow view. What is the goal here, start-up or business? If the goal is startup you may find that it never stops trying to start.

There are great established companies to work for and great startups to work for.

There are also terrible established companies to work for and terrible startups to work for.

I would also like to note that at good, established corporations there are two kinds of technical staff. The passionate kind with a decent mix of technical skills, business acumen and communication skills who work hard,are presented with interesting opportunities and are rewarded for their hard work, and the other kind who seam to always be complaining about the corporate environment and how it is holding them back. Often the "other kind" possesses adequate technical skills but has not taken the time to develop the business acumen and communication skills necessary to be proficient in a high-stakes business.

The first type will strive at any business whether established or start-up. The second type will likewise exhibit similar performance no matter the established date stamped on the business's letterhead.
Well, Linus did later sign: [1]

Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds

Therefore this entire HN Item is flamebait - bait for flames.

The GNU project has been joined by many other allies with time-varying levels of "closeness." I would even argue that by now, *BSD is more closely allied with GNU/Linux than ever before.

The Free Software Foundation is generally respected for Richard Stallman's prescient take on modern issues of freedom, privacy, and trust. [2]

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QW...

[2] http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-... but a little googling will turn up many, many more
The spreadsheet would benefit from the same descriptions the form has. Was very confused when I skipped the form.
I'll admit that I'm biased, because my wife has a PhD in nutrition (as well as being a registered dietitian), but my best friend from high school is now an MD, and my wife knows more about nutrition and its effect on the body than he does.

Also, I'm aware that's merely an anecdote. Based on purely empirical evidence, I'd place both my wife and my friend in the top 10% of their respective fields, though.
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I thought Kutcher was pretty good in The Butterfly Effect.
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This is an April Fools joke. http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid//comments/ro3a7/okcs_april_f....

They also have a "Check this out" item in their menu that Rickrolls people.
This is the argument I usually take. WHY is it better to wear a suit besides the investors want to see you in one? If someone willing to put hundreds of thousands of dollars into my business won't do so because I don't wear what's effectively a costume, what's going to stop them being capricious about future issues?

I don't find the suit thing any less ridiculous then if an investor specified that they wanted all board minutes printed in Tahoma because it "sharpens the mind".
Thanks for the post. I've been checking out Slim and it's cool to see some comparisons.
I love the off canvas concept. It fits so nicely on mobile and in tablets - but this article got me thinking it can/would create a nice experience for large monitors as well. There have been some examples of horizontal scrolling sites (mostly design portfolios...) but it would be cool to see more "Off canvas" content out in the wild for regular screens.
At times I think that the hitchikers series of books is basically the modern gullivers travels.

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I don't come to HN for jokes either, but I'm always surprised by the extent to which incidental displays of cleverness go over like farts in churches. I keep wondering if the people who feel compelled to police this stuff heavily also struggle to connect with "the normals" at work.
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It's a peculiar thing, but when I'm in the US, and potentially subject to the death penalty and aware that the people around me may be armed with guns - particularly armed police - I feel far more fear than I do as an Irishman in London. Those two things, gun culture and death penalties, are massive.

From a UK perspective, the US executive looks almost rampant. The constitution is not an effective check on federal power; the commerce clause seems to have magical capabilities. The US president has just recently asserted the authority to unilaterally assassinate US citizens without a trial upon conviction by some secret and undefined court ("due process, not judicial process").

At least RIPA creates legal justification for intelligence monitoring of communications. The US executive appeared to just unilaterally appropriate that capability with retroactive immunity.
Do you use this "take-it-to-the-extreme" for every argument you hear?

I didn't, and I don't know why you think that I did.

For one, the statistics on rapes and sexual assaults VS school shootings don't favor your argument in the least.

It would be awesome if the people making this claim supplied some of these statistics.
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My GF couldn't get over that I was spending my Sunday evening blasting away at 1900 other "nerdy hackernews-ers", until I realized from the coordinated attacks it couldn't be real. Still a ton of fun.
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Thankfully the Justices are aware that this is an issue. The beginnings of the oral argument in US v. Jones are relevant. The Chief Justice in particular is quite conscious about the issue you describe.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcri...
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Some people take the word "sugar" literary and switch to brown sugar, agave syrup, evaporated cane juice and so on, which aren't much better and some are actually worse. The only acceptable form of fructose is the one part of an organic fruit as you get the full complex of phytochemicals, not just the fructose. I'm really mad at the organics industry, which puts so much redundant "healthy" sugars in so many products.
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> ... that furniture was designed to be used.

If you mean, was _primarily_ designed to be used, then I don't think that is necessarily the case. For example, certain pieces of furniture are sometimes designed by an architect to complement their overall design. Of course, they want the furniture to be used just as they want the building to be used, but for many I think the art comes first.
Hes a fucking traitor actively trying to destroy this country with every single action he takes.

He is the worst of the worst scum of the government.
As for portfolio allocation, you are right about the volatility being high, thus the allocation being small.

At this point, Bitcoin is being treated as a speculative instrument. It does not share the same status as gold, being a store of value, and thus it will not move based on the fears and hopes of fiat currencies. From that standpoint, it should be entirely uncorrelated from the fiat banking system and traditional investments. Be careful if you are trading for Bitcoins denominated non-USD, as those prices will move with exchange rates as well.

From a regulatory standpoint, Bitcoin is in limbo. Right now, it's no different than trading bottle caps, but when the regulators come down on it, there will be a different story.

In short, the two forms of investment risk you face are volatility price risk and regulatory risk.
> - Switching to Dvorak.

It might not have been Dvorak in particular that helped, but switching to a different keyboard layout that helped, by causing you to reset whatever bad habits you had. I got wrist problems after several years of Dvorak use.
I think you overestimated how obvious that was. While rebutting a particular appeal to authority, you made your own.
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Who exactly will sell me put options on BTC?
I'd already done some commercial software products by the time I was going to college, and in my youthful arrogance decided CS had almost nothing to offer, and went with Electrical Engineering (Analog and Mix-Signal focus), and pick up a few CS courses that seemed interesting. Overall I'm pretty happy with the decision. I've done a wide mix of PCB design, FPGA design, and software from the kernel level up to high-level Java/C#/Python code. I couldn't say if it was a good career choice, but I do well, and really enjoy the variety of projects I get to work on.
When I saw a post with a ZDNet link, I thought that was the joke. Seriously, they're still alive?
Fantastic! I love the way they just get dumped on the floor at the end of the process!
What's interesting is that the U.S. constitution, even a couple hundred years after the fact seems like an outright progressive and radical document in most of the world today.
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When a CEO thinks about his own interests and the interest of his product : He is upholding the ideals of company, competition and capitalism.

When a Employee things about his own interests and the interest of his product : He is selfish, evil and a non team player.

Good hardworking people != somebody who MUST work for free sacrificing their time and energy to make somebody else a millionaire.
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Indeed. That'd be incredible if he can manage that. Plus, he'll gain a lot experience.
disingenuously left out

Ugh. It's called brevity. Insert your whole statement if you want, it's still sexist B.S.

You confuse "anecdotes" with hypotheticals

No, but you seem to. You want me to poll friends (anecdotes) and you want to present hypotheticals. Either way, it doesn't matter, both are to be disregarded when making decisions. You can try to get into a semantic attack if you want, but it doesn't strengthen your (muddy) position any.

fictional or not has nothing to do with whether something is possible.

And whether something is possible is absolutely no way to make decisions in life. All kinds of things are possible.

doesn't automatically mean that you would be OK to advertise your GPS position

It would be awesome if you pointed out where I indicated anything like this.

Really, you seem to have some kind of position in your mind that you imagine I'm holding, and it has nothing to do with anything I've said. Good day to you.
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If it were the case that the numbers on this ticket were unsorted, you would expect all of the rows to be unsorted, whereas everything except 04 & 02 are in order, including the numbers that follow in the same row. Still interesting to see the "forensic" approach to this.
Thanks for the response Ben. That's a really good point actually. In my initial responses I left off a couple of companies because I have known people who have worked there and then moved on. Not always because they didn't like the place, but more because they felt their goals had changed and were now different from their employers...
Since when? And which planet are you on?
"The Royal Canadian Mint ... said Bitcoin's biggest problem was that it is not backed by anything."

I don't think that's why consumers would fear it being unstable. It's probably more that they're afraid most of the current users aren't using it for its intrinsic advantages over regular currencies, but are rather investing in it as speculators (and will, therefore, eventually pull out). Since it was designed in a way that made early adopters super rich, it lends the appearance of being the very kind of investment bubble that Bitcoin advocates criticize the banking industry for creating.
It was not the best-written Economist article I have read, but I didn't find it that bad. I don't really have a problem with the sentence you quoted either.
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As a person who read about studies like these, how do I filter out the "real" studies versus the studies blown out of proportions? I've read Ben Goldacre's Bad Science (which I highly recommend), but I don't have the time to do much research on every study newspapers/other media come out with. Is there a simple way to find out whether this - or any other study, for that matter - is a study to take seriously?
There is nothing scientific about any of these tests. What's a 'high' ELA or 'low'? The thing that triggers a 'positive' seems to be only the authors intuition. While some of the tests might show something, I'm pretty sure ELA is absolute garbage - you can't separate the number of needed resaves because of the content frequencies from number of times it has already been resaved.
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If you're talking about United States v. Antoine Jones, the result the Court reached is not what you describe. The Court ruled that a warrant is required to install a GPS device on a car because the act of installing the device is a seizure (however brief). Unfortunately Kennedy hid behind this narrow ruling; no finding was made on the broader issues of the 4th Amendment and electronic surveillance.
You might find this supports your argument: http://www.amazon.com/Please-Just-Off-Its-Turn/dp/1864033282

My partner complained about this as a CTO of an investment company. Dealing with OTHER COMPANIES had them trying to marginalize him because he couldn't possibly be skilled enough. His own boss was often told to replace him by his peers, because he wasn't "Senior" enough to hold the position.
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oh. That makes more sense.

Honestly - it seems like there's not really a premium for non-eng roles, so that might be why the threads haven't really arrived (I haven't noticed them either). Not to say any given startup can't use a rockstar marketer or biz dev - they just probably don't expect to get them from HN :) It seems that by most standards, hackers are engineers. I don't agree with that (and not saying anyone here necessarily does either) - but that might be another reason for it.
The only satisfactory definition of art I've found is the following:

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Also I really identify with what you put in the "Why" column. Are there any particular companies in your list that you feel match this more than others?
Simply blowing the contrast out in Photoshop makes the fakery pretty apparent too: http://i.imgur.com/6niwJ.png
adblock must be hiding that clue, thanks for the info. That said, a very very not nice april fools.
Can I suggest the "Tor Browser Bundle[1]" -- I've only tried it on Mac OS X, but it seems to nicely, and easily integrate a Tor proxy and a pre-configured Firefox for one-click anonymous browsing.

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Kutcher was probably chosen in large part because he looks a good bit like the young Jobs: http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/04/ashton-kutcher-.... For better or for worse, physical resemblance seems to be a large determinant in who is cast to play characters based on real people, not whether their previous acting would fit the target persona. Look at Social Network or any historical film for more evidence. They try to match up visages because that is what's obvious to filmgoers.

(Months ago, a techie friend mused to me that young Steve Jobs did look like Kutcher, so the casting isn't a total shock.)
(That was a joke because Noah Wyle already played Jobs in Pirates of Silicon Valley.)
It would a special kind of fun if Lieberman participated in some sort of online forum where comments were allowed, and somebody organized a protest of sorts that flooded the comment system with things such that Lieberman was himself now liable for those comments under his proposed change.
You seem interested in reading my comments. You'll read quite a few before you see me flame someone who hasn't already flamed me - usually twice.

It's everyone else who's obsessed with "IQ and Race stuff." They're just obsessed in the other direction. Worse still, they don't know it - because everyone they know has the same obsession. Fear is a kind of obsession, too. Don't we think of the Victorians as obsessed with sex?

And I'm not Jewish, just partly of Jewish descent. I know what "mitzvah" means, however. I'm willing to be downvoted a little because I hate to see smart, thoughtful people stumbling around in the darkness, when they could just turn on the light. At least, from my perspective. I know I spent quite some time stumbling in the darkness - don't you think I used to believe what everyone here believes?

I am not a psychometrist or a population geneticist, but I know some. Also, while not Israeli or even (properly) Jewish, I'm a big fan of Moshe Feiglin:

http://jewishisrael.org/

Perhaps you'll change your mind and I'll change my religion, and we'll see each other at a Korban Pesach on the Temple Mount. Shalom!