skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By contrast, I've noticed the exact opposite phenomenon that the OP describes (mainly, that over the past year or so, neo-cypherpunks have started coming out of the woodwork to prosthelitize things like bitcoin, and terrible in-browser Javascript crypto).

I suppose we all see what we want to see.

I do wish that there existed a forum for some of the discussions that used to actually happen on the cypherpunks list (even though it would frequently derail into arguments about assasination markets, and paranoid conspiracy theories).
You're off by a factor of ten. According to Google (http://goo.gl/5fEVp), 733 mpg is .32 L/100k.
Can there be such a thing as semi-technical?

I have built products, coded them myself or with some oDesk help, and can at least read Python, PHP, and (less so) Ruby. I got the most technical MBA you can get (MIT Sloan) and have utmost respect for engineers.

I've run a chown -R from the root dir when I thought I was in my Wordpress dir and effectively killed the server. I've spent hours troubleshooting CodeIgniter problems and http 500 errors. For this, I have a Clintonian "I feel your pain" view towards programmers/coders/engineers/so-called-technical people.

So my point is this: I think it IS important, if you run a website, to try to build stuff on your own. But just because you can't build your own libraries doesn't mean you can't say you're "technical".

If someone asked me, I'd probably say "yes" but qualify it. I'm not a technical builder, but I understand what it takes to get technical things built.
What contact has been made with the company?

Evidently they never expected for the use of your resume to come to light.

They obviously want to use it! Why not drop them a mail and say you've seen that they're using it. Advise them of their 'choices', if they want to continue using it they need to add a disclaimer to confirm they have not hired you, also include details of your (very large) fee for continued use.

Alternatively they can remove it and just pay a reduced fee for the time they have used it so far. After all, they have no affiliation with you - they are just using it as 'artwork' for which you should be paid.

I'd make sure the first contact with them is civil. they'll probably be sneaky & just take it down but you never know, taking the official route & spelling it out for them might produce benefits!

If they don't comply, you can always take it further. You can even say you approached them reasonably!
Yes, but they have 9 to 5, low stress jobs. I want the CEO of a company I work for/invest in etc. to be focused on the business, not saving.

I want them to feel good about their personal expenses so they can focus on the business.
There have already been failed projects (with controversy) and we'll continue to see this increase in line with the increase in volume of deals. I haven't heard of any outright scams but I'm sure they're either in progress or coming soon.

(IANAL)

I also expect to see lawsuits in the near future, possibly with government investigation into Kickstarter resulting in changes to required project terms. Very few projects have clear legalese defining what your money will be used for and any (or no) guarantees. I bet the percentage of people running projects that consult with an attorney beforehand is in the single digits. This will inevitably lead to legal issues.

When you fund a project you're generally pre-purchasing. Pre-purchases are a legal obligation to the company. If they don't deliver they have to return your money. Very few people running projects realize this. Clearly stating no guarantees in the project description may get around this but then again, possibly not.

If you're going to run a Kickstarter project speak with an attorney and make sure you have a solid business plan with all expenses calculated, including Kickstarter's cut and tax obligations.
The title of the Salon article should be "Near death, unexplained."

It has a number of interesting case studies and is very grippingly written, but though it offers theory after theory, it (attempts to) debunk them all, then ends with maybe we're seeing something from another life (hereafter, nirvana, whatever you want to call it).
I agree. This is something that bothers me in Windows 8: the fact applications have to "pause" when they run in the background. Unfortunately, this prevents you from listening to music in a YouTube video without having the browser on-screen.
Sort of lost his credibility after he revealed that he was canned. If you're spinning your wheels at a company and hate the culture, why not do something about it? You're as bad as the useless meeting-goers if you can't actually do something and simply complain all the time.

For what it's worth, I was at MS for 7 months. Left on my own volition and now I'm heading up iOS development at a small startup. And it's a lot of fun.
Preaching to the choir?
Here are a couple of my takes on illustrating relative sizes:

1. http://davidjarvis.ca/dave/gallery/star-sizes/poster-04_sm.p...

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0JMaM_tdQ

The first is a picture of the planets and stars. The second is a video fly-by of the solar system.
I'd like to know more about the hardware. Does Garry have identical computers on both sides of his commute?

It's my decades-long experience with Windows that the moment you swap an existing boot drive into a new/different PC, Windows completely shits the bed with driver mismatches and incompatible versions.
Together with Python e-learning courses this could be a real winner. I say this because back when I tutored compsci students, my most effective method was to use shared (GNU) screen sessions. The pair programming and the ability to see how others worked helped students become confident with Python a lot faster.

Unfortunately back then, students tended to use Windows and setting up Cygwin scared a lot of them before they even got around to doing any programming. A tool like Python Anywhere would definitely be a far more attractive approach if I were to do something similar today.
There are a lot of mentions to studies and not a single reference. Quoting from the text: "Studies indicate", "studies [...] have shown", "studies have revealed", "studies indicate" "Studies show" "some of these studies demonstrates" "studies also suggests"
What, exactly, does the article conclude, in your opinion? (I'm genuinely asking)

The strongest formulation I can come up with is:
"NDE studies also suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality that normally is not accessible to our senses and awareness."

However, nowhere in the article does the article's author offer a single/summary explanation of NDEs/OBEs, from what I saw.
> At one point in this experience, said Maria, she found herself outside the hospital and spotted a tennis shoe on the ledge of the north side of the third floor of the building. She was able to provide several details regarding its appearance, including the observations that one of its laces was stuck underneath the heel and that the little toe area was worn. Maria wanted to know for sure whether she had “really” seen that shoe, and she begged Clark to try to locate it.

> Quite skeptical, Clark went to the location described by Maria—and found the tennis shoe. From the window of her hospital room, the details that Maria had recounted could not be discerned. But upon retrieval of the shoe, Clark confirmed Maria’s observations. “The only way she could have had such a perspective,” said Clark, “was if she had been floating right outside and at very close range to the tennis shoe. I retrieved the shoe and brought it back to Maria; it was very concrete evidence for me.”

This sounds like something you'd see in a chain email...
in the end I thought the whole system was flawed because I’d be transferring stuff from the office via my home internet connection.

I don't get what he means by this...?
As long as they stick to distribution and advocacy rather than creating new tech, I'm all for this. Crypto is very hard to do right - one example from last year:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-18-tarsnap-critical-...
I don't think you got the GP's point, even though you say you agree. While YC does give you some funds, if you don't have a programmer working for equity, it isn't nearly enough to pay someone to do the technical work. However, if you include the $150K convertible note through the Start Fund, it does become more possible.

Edit: No longer mentioning stuff that isn't essential to my post

Edit: I'm specifically disputing "And that's precisely what incubators like YC are out to solve; the issue of upfront cash flow to fund start ups." The post you were responding to just said that they don't do that well, at least if you have to pay a programmer (although the Start Fund would help with this.)
Steve Jobs certainly was not an engineer.
Sure, me too. Without the graphical part, Ubuntu/Debian is perfect, since several years.

win = "Microsoft and OSX should really step up their OSes otherwise Ubuntu is gonna leave them behind" like that guy said.
What if they have a few kids in college? Even a public college can cost, what, $35,000 these days if out of state? What if they want to do a startup but they already have kids in private college? Sorry kids, I want to do a startup please switch to the instate public college.

My point is simply that there are other circumstances and picking an absolute number seems to be biased toward younger people with no obligations.
It should be easy to establish that a site that generates $200-$500 in ad revenue per day is worth more than $10K.
>terrible in-browser Javascript crypto

I'm not a cryptographer by any means, but my first thought when reading that is can we make non-terrible in-browser javascript crypto?
One potential use for non-DNA/RNA-based life: a fail-safe for a useful but potentially-dangerous synthetic organism. If you have a synthetic organism that is useful in controlled circumstances but could cause a catastrophe if released the the outside world, you could make it use an XNA instead of DNA (and/or RNA), and ensure that it lacks the biosynthetic pathways needed to synthesize the building blocks. Then the organism will be utterly dependent on you providing it with the required XNA building blocks, and will be unable to survive if it is accidentally released.
Could we please somehow make these incessant ad-hominem attacks against michaelochurch stop?

I know it's backed up by 'a story only us Googlers know' that explains it all, but the whole thing is starting to get rather childish.
Making blanket statements about how much people should make is fairly pointless. If spending $X on a CEO is a clear value proposition for the whole company, X can = just about anything.
Did you really mean to say that human intelligence began a millennium after the start of recorded history?
Avoiding Startup Death
I was chatting with a friend of mine on Thursday that MS seem to have a 'get shit done' team that magically pops up every now and again.

Like the EF migrations project was looking really, really awful[1] and someone's managed to turn it around and it's ended up lookig like it might be great[2].

Or like when Rails/Django were the talk out of the town and a new MVC PHP framework came out every day and ASP.Net was looking marginalised and extremely dated with every passing day. Then all of a sudden from almost nowhere comes a really great MVC framework.

Or when C# 3.5/F# came out.

There's good teams in there, it's just hard to find them I think.

[1]http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EntityFrameworkCodeFirstMigrat...
[2]http://www.davidhayden.me/blog/asp.net-mvc-4-and-entity-fram...
> The Space Shuttle flew for the first time 5 years after Concorde began commercial service.

That just blew my mind. I had no idea the Concorde was so old.
On that note, Dale Carnegie's classic "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" is always worth mentioning. He wrote this in 1948 and even today it is as relevant as ever.

(The most famous book of his - "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - I can really recommend too.)
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they can do better than warn. they could setup a global redirect to a page explaining that the pc is infected and what to do.
I've seen this type of story many times. All that can be concluded is that Max and Microsoft simply aren't compatible with each other. Nothing shocking with that... he picked the wrong place to start his career and they hired the wrong guy.

I take more seriously the critiques of long-time employees who are truly devoted to a company or project, try and try different approaches to improving things (which of course includes putting up with a lot of unsavory BS), and eventually (and usually sorrowfully) have to part ways because they can't influence things enough and need to move on with their lives.

Max's account is of someone who was annoyed within a year or two, started protesting in a way that wasn't effective, and pushed it until he got fired.

There are ways to get changes made in Big Co., but it won't be 100% on the individual's terms. You need to first get them to really listen to you, and I don't think that occurred here.
yes. It's undocumented but several people have installed it successfully, and OWC has been selling 16gb kits for the past year or so: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/133... .
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Why is there such a short supply of designers in Silicon Valley right now?
Berkeley for sure! And it has a vibrant open source community too.
Déjà Hoo: Yahoo Has Done the Pre-IPO Legal Shakedown Dance Before
You are excluding the 150K Start Fund convertible notes that all YC companies are eligible for. That makes it more possible for startups with nontechnical founders to succeed.
Because when you execute code in a REPL you choose when to do so, presumably because you understand the side effects. The IDE doesn't but has to execute the code anyway to give you the feedback. This might be useful for pure functions but you'd need some kind of integrated mocking functionality for impure code.
For what it's worth; this was one of the best written, deeply true, comments I have read in a long time.
I've been curious about this for a while: If you can do concurrent processing so easily by message passing, why not just write Java or C++ that just passes messages around instead of sharing state? That way you don't have to learn a whole new programming language to do it.
One of the top Google results for "javascript cryptography" thoroughly attacks the concept, but I'm not an expert in the area so I can't refute or confirm its claims:

http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
I Hate It When My Tests Pass
> It's really not hard to imagine that the search for alien life is a problem of asking a question for a rare/over-specified solution.

Life is quite messy and obvious. It seems quite likely that traces would exist.
I kept looking for an April 1st date somewhere, this cannot be real, can it? wow.
I like the idea, I think it's a right step into the future of coding.
Beta Access @ $15 Pledge would be nice though, since ppl would certainly donate more money if they saw how cool the IDE is.
You need to have strong passwords (Infographic)
Although there's better ways to express it, you might be right. I wouldn't want this thing next to my RF power amps, cellphone devices or power tools. Turning deaf at a turn of a nearby equipment it's probably not nice. Nonetheless it looks pretty, but not as pretty as the glow of my now defunct old tube radios.
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mainly, that over the past year or so, neo-cypherpunks have started coming out of the woodwork to prosthelitize things like bitcoin,

OK, fair point about bitcoin. But other than that, I really feel like the cypherpunk types have been fairly invisible lately. Maybe it's just that there was a certain period of time, back in the /. heyday, when discussions of cryptography, surveillance, data-havens, etc. were at a peak, and now they've leveled off. But in any case, I would argue that we (still) need an active and efficient cypherpunk community to promote technological freedom.
I think it's mostly OEM editions that are restrictive. "Standard" licenses give you more freedom.
Tips For PR From A Former Hack
He's running an Active Directory server on his home network, so it would be using his slow home internet connection to upload data.
I've looked at Delphi, thank you.
Maybe these people feel it's no longer safe for them to be so vocal about it. Maybe even for the exact reasons you are mentioning they should be angered by.
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University of Utah is very close to MIT in the number of tech startups spun off of university research, and surpassed them in 2009:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/how-the-university-of-u...
I agree it's window dressing and almost meaningless to me. Steve Jobs taking a $1? So what? He has money already and is trading that for future upside. And actually for the thrill of making his vision a success. My guess is that for many people (and especially Jobs) he could be paid $4 million and that wouldn't change his commitment to Apple.
Crypto is very hard to do right

Very true. And simply raising awareness of that point itself, is a valuable thing. That said, there are (or were) actual skilled professionals, with the knowledge to create new crypto schemes, etc. in the cypherpunk community. But clearly not everyone falls into that bucket.
will examples help in the long run of framework development?
Why not just whip up a simple method dispatch mechanism in C and skip Java/C++ entirely?

edit: </internet sarcasm> ducks
Admitting our own limitations in the face of a bizarre situation is not embracing ignorance.

There are a lot of scientistic answers in this thread that are as scientifically valid as "God created us uniquely in his own image". Admitting that would be a good first step.

MOAR DOWNVOTES!
Glad to see someone else with the same view. I've been meaning to write a post about this but you beat me to it :)

Frankly, I don't care about 'Why I left company X' or 'Why I decided to apply to YC' or 'Why I only code on Tuesday and Thursday nights.'

These kinds of posts seem to apply an 'It worked for me so it will work for everyone' mentality, but these kinda of posts don't seem to have much useful content if you ask me.
Link to the actual content: http://blog.amir.rachum.com/post/21601402106/i-hate-it-when-...
Similar story here, though I left on my own. Couldn't be happier!
Yes, which one can I use?
Grey on grey is fine for me, but the typeface is definitely too light with too much space in the counters (how would a type-designer say this – does it make sense to call the face too "open"?) Looks pretty though.
This explains absolutely nothing, and provides no evidence against the materialist view of the mind.

<<“The only way she could have had such a perspective,” said Clark, “was if she had been floating right outside and at very close range to the tennis shoe. I retrieved the shoe and brought it back to Maria; it was very concrete evidence for me.”>>

Maybe a NDE brings out what's in your subconscious mind, and she saw the shoe on her way to her hospital room at some point.

"As pointed out by renowned NDE researcher Sam Parnia, some individuals have reported an NDE when they had not been terminally ill and so would have had normal levels of oxygen in their brains."

So those weren't really near-death, were they? Here's what Sam Parnia thinks about NDE's: http://www.skeptiko.com/sam-parnia-claims-near-death-experie....
In India, a lot of the bus/taxi fleets have already converted to using CNG (Compressed Natural Gas). I was in New Delhi when this change occurred, and I must say that it did significantly reduce the pollution in the area where I lived. (However, these vehicles used to use Diesel which is a lot more polluting than petrol, so that may not be a fair comparison)
Discussed at length here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3856764
The main issue is the trust base. Allow the entire code base of a site to be pinned down to a cert (and that has to be done outside the website context, ie. in-browser), and you're halfway there.

Say, a signed webapp manifest, listing all files that are supposed to be used in that context and their hashes. On first execution, the associated key is stored, maybe compared with third party knowledge about the site (not tampered with) and key (known not-trustworthy).

After that, you know when someone else than the maintainer tampered with the code.

With that you're down to trusting the maintainer. Which makes it as good as any other code distribution scheme.
Maybe these people feel it's no longer safe for them to be so vocal about it.

Could be. And that's a pretty sad thought, given that we (those of us in the USA anyway) live in a country where "free speech" has traditionally been one of the most fundamental and cherished principles.
Oh, silly me. Posted it at reddit first and mixed up my copy+paste. Sorry.
Sure, if you like. I like (for example) the RAII and templating features of C++, but if you want to just use C go for it. I guess what I really mean is, what does Erlang offer beyond "concurrency is easy if you don't share state"?
Thanks guys!...

now to figure out how to check for replies to posts/comments, so I would have seen this earlier.
I don't consider this a vicious attack, nor does it make them devils. My evidence is a large amount of anecdotal observation, close up and personal, of various people I've met, and correlating their levels of success in their chosen professions with my perception of how their minds work. I then apply some pattern matching to relate what I've seen with my own two eyes to the patterns of speech and behavior I see in public figures. I can't prove my hypothesis but I find that it is a very good working theory, ie it has strong predictive value.

I think everyone is like this to some extent -- we all have some level of double-think going on in our lives. But for some of us, that fact is deeply troubling, and we expend a lot of effort to stamp out whatever we see as hypocrisy in our own thinking and actions. My premise is simply that that urge is pretty much mutually exclusive with regard to certain levels of achievement in various walks of life, including (at a minimum) politics and business. Art and entertainment are a bit trickier, because to some degree they demand a level of sincerity to be successful -- though there are plenty of obvious cases of hypocrisy there as well.

[edit: two examples of politicians who do not work this way are Ralph Nader and Ron Paul. These are clearly people who walk and talk their ideals without regard to more pragmatic political calculations. Compare their level of success with, say, Mitt Romney, who in my opinion is willing to send any neural impulses to his body that he thinks increase his chances of being President some day. I just don't believe in our political environment, there is any possible way to get to the top if you are a pure idealist.]
At the moment, all it does is provide some talking points.

I'm not really swayed either way, as I don't have sufficient data to make a good conclusion (and I need to do further research into it). I'm actually enjoying some of the comments here as they're providing good insight.
Keep in mind that in a language like erlang this is enforced for all it's users. So the whole eco-system is build around that premise.
Any fund manager who complains about start-up salaries should live by example and not taking the standard 2% management fee. I could easily argue that is demotivating for them.
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Start a mailing list, start recruiting people to post...who knows, maybe you'll set up the new place?