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I am of opinion that if demand is high enough, companies will start hiring "halfway there" people. But this will happen only if the market grows big enough. Right now it is still a niche market where companies are cherry-picking right candidates, it seems. At least this is the impression I get from reading this thread.

The question of the size of the market is crucial. Small labor markets are very inefficient. This means that the number of qualified people is small enough, but the number of companies they can choose from is also small. It is hard to find a job when the number of companies hiring is probably less than 100.
Being in a healthy relationship does not exclude the possibility of consuming pornography. That you seem to think it does is a bit odd, and makes me think you don't really understand how this stuff works.
My main issue with that attitude is that it primarily comes from older users with a ton of karma. Of course you don't need to worry about it.
I've never seen that. I use lion fullscreen mode all the time and i am very certain that my macbook still asks for a password after waking up.
Uggh, no. Let me try and explain. BS is not used as a model that explains how the world works.

It's just a formula to convert volatility to a dollar price of an option. But the actual vol surface that people use is anything but Gaussian. So the job of the trader is to construct a vol surface. However in order for 2 people to trade an option, they have to agree to a cash price - which is when BS is used. But the entire trading universe revolves around vol surfaces.

Think of it as making a painting. BS is just a single paint pigment - whereas the painter will take 20 pigments and mix them up to produce millions of colours. So to accuse those who use BS formula of assuming Gaussian probability distribution is akin to saying that painters use one color to paint.
Agreed! Here's a relevant quote:

"Science fiction should get out of the classroom and back in the gutter where it belongs!" -Dena Benatan Brown.

Sci-fi is decently respected now, but some authors have gladly embraced Dena Brown's advice. When writing science fiction, you shouldn't care about respectability. That's not the point.

So yeah. Same goes with porn. Porn doesn't care if it's respectable. That is not porn's goal.
Was this before or after accepting the offer?
Another person suggested this idea and the thread, and this was the problem I had with it:

> Ultimately, all corporations are owned by tax-paying people (or nonprofits). So why not tax their distributions as income?

Many companies don't pay dividends and sit on their profits for a long period of time, so in practice, that money might never be taxed.
The don't actually get that $5,000. It's worrying that that amount was pledged, but Kickstarter / Amazon Payments doesn't charge until after a project is complete, and in the case of an unfinished, canceled project, never.
I've been wondering for a while how long it would take for mass fake projects being created on kickstarter/indiegogo once these sites got more widely known. This project uses stolen pictures, but one could easily mock up random 3D scenes, make a cool video and walk away with 100k for two days work
Well, for one thing, the total number of digital computers in the whole world increased by a factor of about a hundred million.
For women, porn can be beneficial because it provides information.

(from "A Feminist Defense of Pornography"; can be found by Googling it; originally included the link but post became dead immediately after submitting and I think that's why.)

"

* It gives a panoramic view of the world's sexual possibilities. This is true even of basic sexual information such as masturbation. It is not uncommon for women to reach adulthood without knowing how to give themselves pleasure.

* It allows women to "safely" experience sexual alternatives and satisfy a healthy sexual curiosity. The world is a dangerous place. By contrast, pornography can be a source of solitary enlightenment.

* It offers the emotional information that comes only from experiencing something either directly or vicariously. It provides us with a sense how it would "feel" to do something. "

I'd think the same would also be true for men.
I wonder how this (seemingly fragile) setup of forking and juggling globals compares to a ptrace-based sandbox on Linux.

It's quite easy to fork a child, ptrace it, and have the child execve the actual program you'd like to sandbox.
I don't notice an effort to expand the workforce by training or by recruitment of non-traditional workers, etc.

"Code Year" for data scientists would actually need:

-- "Code Previous Year," where everyone would need to kick ass on Bayesian inference, linear algebra, and production-level software development; then,

-- during "Code Year," they'd proceed to learn about distributed algorithms, graphical models, and HMMs, then learn about distributed frameworks like Hadoop.

See Joseph Misti's comment here for more--it's really the most accurate list of skills one needs to become a data scientist:

http://www.quora.com/What-skills-are-needed-for-machine-lear...
this is awesome, thanks!
If you have a method that breaks when an int is passed in, just seems like good defensive programming to call to_s in Ruby. Any other caller could make the same mistake. But, I also understand/agree with fixing the root issue for the sake of other clients.
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It feels that California was a random choice for Jobs family, not a calculated decision, like Microsoft's move from New Mexico to Washington. On tuition, feels like these guys should start a fund
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Where do you currently live? What are the immigration requirements to move to, say, Australia?
If anything, this is should be kind of a relief to Kickstarter users since people have PLENTY of time to discover these scam projects before payment is distributed.
My prompt is five lines tall, including three blank lines. I did that, along with some bright green coloring, to make the prompt easier to spot as I rapidly scroll up through a mountain of output from my last command.

zsh prompt:

PROMPT='

%{$prompt_default_color%} %~ %* %{${fg[$prompt_user]}%}%n%{$prompt_default_color%}@%{${fg[$prompt_host]}%}%M%{$prompt_default_color%} ${vcs_info_msg_0_}_

$ %{${fg[default]}%}'
One obligatory warning: oftentimes the cables are older generation or may not support all features. Especially with the mac cables (e.g. thunderbold/minidisplayport)
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"There's also a little nice addition for you Javascript coders out there: a semanticdb back end for hooking into a running Firefox via mozrepl. So you just load your current code into Firefox, fire up mozrepl and you can get completions for all your objects and for frameworks like jQuery in Emacs,"

I am so drooling over this already... awaiting promised followup blog post anxiously :)
Where my money depends on it - yes, actually I do avoid them. (apart from github - since they're easy to replace when needed/down) If I can't have a local copy, it's too dangerous.

Still - great for testing stuff out quickly.
Honestly, somewhat. Dropbox and Gmail are seen as fine with less sharing with the internet and more about just having your personal service online, whereas things like Google Docs and Github less so. Even then, you try to avoid using Gmail to send sensitive material(Not to mention actually sensitive in a legal sense).
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There is something called "career status" in the federal government that is worth taking into account:

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/mrpbs/hr/job_opportunities/fed_emp...

Permanent – Career status as a federal employee is
achieved by fulfilling 3 years of substantially continuous
service as a career-conditional employee in the
competitive service.

http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2010/08/18/dea...

The service requirement for Career Tenure is 3 years of
substantially continuous creditable service to become a
career employee, i.e. obtain career tenure...Obtaining
Career status is crucial for federal employees,
especially, during times of instability and economic
downturn like we are in today.

In short, after just three years in the federal government, you effectively cannot be fired except for gross malfeasance. This radically distorts the cost structure of the federal government.

There are many additional checks and balances on private companies. Perhaps the most important is that a poorly managed company will eventually go bankrupt, while the federal government can defer that for decades via quantitative easing.
This is only because the project was rumbled so quickly after it was launched. If they had maybe spent a few hours time mocking up some original images they could have been on their way to a fully funded project.
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What changed over the last 50+ years in computing that might raise expectations for programming experience? The personal computer "revolution" of the 80s and 90s would like to have a friendly word with you. :)
What stuff?
And of course it does not exclude the possibility of consuming porn (The only situation that does is not having internet or TV). But I don't watch porn and I don't think I need to given my current life style and personal principles. As simple as that.
What about people (like myself) who never took the SAT?
This was 1959. Cold War in full swing, WW2, Korea a recent memory for many,
A fresh look at iphone UX
We launched a new iPhone app this week - based on chatting across various social networks. I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks about our UX, it's a fresh look at the iOS style. The app's 2 bucks, but I'll toss promo codes to any fellow HN'ers, just tweet us @chattrapp and mention hacker news.

Otherwise you can find the app here: http://bit.ly/chattrapp

Hope you dig it!
Q: When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

A: Imho, when innovation and production of material goods is as democratized by 3D Printing and similar technologies [1] as knowledge innovation and production was by the Internet.

I'm looking forward to the day the impedance mismatch between knowledge creation and tool/product creation is much reduced from the current state.

Good summary [1] by the Economist for anyone who hasn't read it.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3895690
Not growing mold doesn't imply lack of nutritional value. Anything pickled or dried would fail that test. Lots of fruit too - I have apples and oranges that have survived for weeks.
I love the fact that the problem domains remain so static. Well, that's not strictly true: we have a lot more problem domains with which to contend now, but even our tremendously improved knowledge in operations research, military science, and meteorology haven't led us to consider these "solved problems".

Though I personally wish we focused much more on (1) and (3) than (2) as a society.
What I find very humorous (read: ironic) is that this comment thread (edit: ENTIRE comment thread) has been sidelined by discussion of porn, when the article actually referenced porn very little.

probably a good indication that the article is pretty spot on.
Isn't this rehashing PG's essay, The Acceleration of Addictiveness? http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
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I think we really need to talk about what innovation means because its liberally thrown around everywhere these days. Taking the more conservative meaning of innovation...

The internet is an innovation in itself - but what is being built on it is the --application-- of the innovation of the internet, and usually these internet services are not true innovations in and of themselves.

That doesn't mean internet services aren't useful or progressive - it just that I'm very bearish on seeing huge truly paradigm changing innovations on the scale of space flight, nuclear, etc pop out of the "internet sector".

What the internet and the services being built on it are really good at is taking existing services and processes and streamlining them to be easier and less costly. We can communicate, distribute, and automate so many things because of the internet and whats being built.

Thats the internet sector's form of innovation - I think you just need to qualify what definition of innovation that fits.
The funny thing about the problems stated at the top is I could imagine seeing a job posting today (maybe even from IBM) with the same problems and thinking, "Wow, I have no idea how I'd go about solving those problems."

It makes me wonder what they were really doing back then vs what a job in those fields would look like today.

Related, I find it somewhat annoying when people abstract the job to such a degree that you can't see the tangible things you'd be working on in that field. I'm all for a "change the world" vision -- I really am, not just qualifying --, but sometimes I'd like to hear up front how they plan to solve that problem.
Oddly, when I zoom in twice, the game is visible. It's not usable, but it's there!
Ask Valve employees: How well does the flat organization work?
The only scams like these which will work on Kickstarter is campaigns that aren't especially interesting or may not appeal to a huge audience. Once a campaign gets to 100k, there is press involved and people researching. If you get $5k in pledges, no one would look deep enough to check if you're legit. Kickstarter is quite tough in terms of getting on the site and through the month process.

I think it shows, always do some due diligence, it seems people did in this case. Look up the creator, their experience. They don't have to provide any work at the end of it all, so it's up to you as a possible pledger.
Out of all the CEOs I've been around, the one I viewed as the most successful would always tell me "If you try to do too many things at once, you end up doing justice to none of them at all".
Is that written backwards? If our societies were more open sex-wise, maybe there wouldn't be porn?
The saddest thing for me is just what an institution IBM has been for America over the years. Having gone to UC Santa Cruz, the Computer Engineering department was started by IBM alums (my advisor was Glen Langdon of Langdon and Rissanen / Arithmetic Coding fame. Other friends/faculty spent time working at IBM Almaden Research where several advances in storage technologies have been produced.

These days, IBM is in decline. Friends/tech blogs/even sites like Cringely -- http://www.cringely.com/ -- note how IBM is quickly trying to shed any semblance to it's old self in names of meeting investor expectations.

IBM isn't the only legacy company in the same situation, we have seen this happen with HP as well as AT&T over the years. Microsoft Research, Google to a point, and Xerox Parc (after a period of decline) are stepping up for some long term/basic research. But, I wonder, will we every see the hey day of IBM Research, PARC, Bell Labs, etc. ever again?
Hopefully we'll see a stricter application of rule of law going forward. What's happened up till now is an appalling example of the US government forcing domestic police forces in other countries to do things that violate their own laws.
The comparisons he made reminded me of something I read not too long ago:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/02/hes_just_not_that_int...

In other words, online porn isn't a drug, it isn't an addiction, it isn't a sign of deviancy or a trigger for disease: porn is junk food. It is a bag of potato chips you eat when you aren't even hungry, and once you start and the initial "mmmm!" passes you're all in, may as well finish the bag, you've ruined your diet/night already, start over clean tomorrow.

After a while potato chips just figure into your routine, there's a passing thought that perhaps you shouldn't but since there aren't any obvious and immediate consequences... And now it's part of who you are.

But no one would ever say that "other foods don't measure up", no one says that potato chips taste better than steak not because they don't but because no sane person makes those kinds of comparisons. If you did, if you played it all out in your head and now deliberately avoid eating a steak in order to get to potato chips-- then you have a problem that is deeper than steak or potato chips.

Junk food is stripped of the essentials of real food, leaving just the vulgar, the simple, the obvious of taste: sugar, salt, fat, repeat. It is the pornographization of food. The mistake people make is that they think it is delicious, but it's really just easy, comforting, reliable, satisfying. And that's where we are now: online porn is the pornographization of porn.
What if pushing capitalism far enough results in California being run like an Enron, a Blockbuster, a Lehman, or any number of tech bubble 1.0 darling businesses instead of like Apple? Apple is pretty lean and is winning the market cap game right now, but the largest companies haven't always been as good.
You're right that the internet haven't brought much growth to the U.S., but it was an important part of the growth story in some parts of the world: india's outsourcing business, probably part of china's growth and probably growth in other places.

But yes, except economic growth , it has brought huge benefits.
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Why would anyone ever send someone a link to /b/? Threads last half an hour, tops. By the time the person sees the link, the thread has likely 404'd.
You're referring to Keynes - who also said, in the good years, pay down your debt. You can't borrow your way out of debt (well, I suppose you could if you have a negative interest rate). All you can do is debase your currency. Which the US has been able to do to date, but the instant OPEC decides to trade in EUR instead, they're toast.
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128 bpm just ain't enough these days. ;) Coding at 150 bpm always helps with some electronic music (eg. hardstyle) http://gaming.operationreality.org/groups/music/forum/topic/...
I remember reading a job ad back in 2003 that wanted someone with 5+ years of C# and .NET experience. I assume the position was filled before 2006. (It's possible but unlikely that they were solely looking to poach Microsoft employees.)
Interestingly, I think the real story here is how popular this mostly content-free post is. makes me wonder how many HNers are closet /b/tards (I count myself in that group).
I read earlier reports that the procedures/paperwork for the seizure warrant was done incorrectly, thereby opening the door for it's return. Refer this article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&#...
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And today is the greatest time to be a programmer in the history of the profession. If ninjas and rockstars and brogrammers are part of it, it's certainly better than building war simulations and calculating civilian casualty rates in the case of mutually assured destruction in order to advance your profession and provide for your loved ones.

Those were not halcyon days for mathematicians, physicists and engineers. I'll take the juvenilization of the profession instead.
I think that the "legitimacy of the US order" refers to the evidence that will be presented to the US grand jury, not the search warrant in New Zealand. The Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act [1] requires that the Attorney General be satisfied that the request be related to a foreign criminal matter, but they do not have to ensure that the order would be held up in the US.

[1] http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1992/0086/latest/D...
I was thinking about using sparrow just to access the mail but not save it locally...is that what you mean?
guess I need a bigger HDD...ha
Don't forget all the music and movies that you've payed for in one market or another that you might not be able to transfer easily to your new device. Building a complete consumption ecosystem was very smart of Apple and it's why Amazon has grabbed the lion's share of Android tablets with a pretty lackluster debut.

Yeah most music is DRM-free these days but as far as most users know, their iPhone knows how to talk to iTunes and their other phone doesn't, end of story.
It's funny - a lot of my classmates at Stanford who started out in non-CS programs switched midway or picked up coding skills later. There are three startups that come to mind, two of which are YC alums, where at least one co-founder did not initially major in CS but picked up enough technical chops to code an awesome product.

I think it's difficult to learn outside a college environment - without the educational support system of peers, teachers, structure, credentialing, and student loans - it's a tough choice to try and learn how to code later AFTER you've already majored in something else. There's no guarantee that if you learn how to code on your own that you're learning properly, or efficiently, or anyone will hire you or want to co-found a startup with you. I think there's A LOT we can be doing to improve the pipeline of software developers.

That said, personally, I'm probably going to learn how to code and forego a joint degree in an MBA program, even though I'm 26 and two thirds done with law school. Is this the right choice? I'm not sure, but among all my friends who are entrepreneurs, it seems like coding is something you really can't afford to not learn anymore.
> I cant imagine any other period of time being more exciting to live in.

You must be very much lacking imagination. Greek philosophers century, Chinese warring states, Italian Renaissance, French Lumieres, Worldwide exploration, all off them must have been much more exciting time. Discovering a new country with unknown people and animals, risking your own life and your team's every single day... Don't tell me it compares with inventing yet another way to procrastinate on the Web.
The thing that I dislike the most about the technology business is people who want to use developers as crash test dummies for their random ideas and think that "good ideas" are the topmost measure of goodness and once having a good idea, all the rest will naturally unfold.

Pivots are good and oftentimes necessary, but I learned years ago that good ideas are a dime a dozen. The ability of an organization to competently execute on a (seemingly) good idea is the much rarer skill, 1% inspiration/99% perspiration and all that.

The OP seems to think this is something that can be managed. I do believe that, but I'm not sure it is something that can be as easily quantified & then learned as a generic management skill as the OP seems to imply.
Ask HN: How much equity should I ask for?
Hi guys. I will be joining a startup that has received some funding already. There are 2 co-founders so, I will be the third employee and the first technical one/programmer. This is my first time working for a startup so I'm not how much equity I should receive/ask for. I will be compensated in a combination of stock and salary. What do you think would be fair?
I would like to hear the numbers behind your arguments. I would be very surprised if highly degrading porn is more popular compared to amateur or gonzo. Simply because it exists does not mean it represents a popular trend emerging in pornography.

You seem to believe that women deciding to be dominated sexually must be subjugated, and that her choice is a result of the oppressiveness of our society. Many women would find that view very offensive.