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TBH, I have never really looked at the education section on a résumé when hiring unless the person is an existing graduate.

After a few years of work experience, all that really matters is the last 3-5 years.

You could pretty much omit everything before that, because just the last 3-5 years is usually enough to figure out the caliber of work a candidate may have been doing before that.

If all résumés only included the last 3-5 years of an employees life whether or not that includes their education, would it really be worth that much less as a factor using in the decision to interview or hire?
Looks great and works great on the latest iPad. Nice work and I appreciate the attention to detail - shadows, transitions, etc (even if it's cribbed from another application).

To help with usability on a regular PC (as decultured mentioned) I'd recommend a zone for auto-flipping without the drag on a regular mouse-based browser.
Lexarius' answer is great, but if you want to read more about it just look up "corporate raid[ing]" or "leveraged buyout", e.g.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_raid
I don't know these guys. My comment isn't aimed at them at all.

I see a lot of projects on Kickstarter where I find myself immediately questioning the numbers. Having the scars to prove that I've run a business or two I generally have a good sense for costs, process and other elements of typical projects. In so many cases on Kickstarter the numbers are so awfully low that you have to wonder what will happen if the project reaches the stated goal and is funded.

It is very easy to end-up working weeks-upon-weeks for $0.75 per hour and have nothing to show for it but a huge loss at the end of the process.

My recommendation: If you are thinking about posting a project to Kickstarter and don't know much about business (profit, loss, fixed costs, variable costs, development costs, tooling costs, regulatory requirements, etc.) spend a few hundred bucks to get advise from someone who does. I would run your numbers by a CPA and some of the other stuff by, perhaps, an attorney with experience in the field. If it is manufacturing related, there might be regulatory issues (UL, CSA, TUV, CE) that an experienced manufacturing engineer might be able to help you with. Be careful, regulatory testing alone can easily get into the tens of thousands of dollars.

In general, don't post a project to a site like Kickstarter unless and until you have had the financial model for your project verified by those best-qualified to do so.
However, this doesn't omit the need to have a place where teams encounter each other, mingle and have serendipitous conversations. This is the reason why Pixar has bathrooms and other common spaces in the middle of the office.
In 2007, New Zealand experimented with a public wiki to collect input for a revision to the Policing Act laws. In 2008, the wiki would be reviewed by a parliamentary committee. I'm not sure what the outcome was, but the wiki itself is now offline.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7015024.stm
We are a tiny startup in India. I am a techie myself and have failed twice in sustaining business (teams of 12 members both times). We have failed getting into YC but have never lost hope. We will apply again, our product is nearing MVP.

The biggest thing is to keep fighting. Being a techie helps in reducing your initial costs. There are other things you can do. We, for instance, got our product sponsored hosting from SoftLayer (thanks to them). We are also going to ask RackSpace to sponsor us once we start closed beta. We keep in touch with everyone around and people in the Valley. We are very far away but we have ambitions and experience.

We read a lot of very detailed battle stories and get extremely inspired. That is I believe the spirit. There is more competition than there ever was, and I have myself been watching (and failing) for about 6 years now. The important thing to remember: it is NOT EASY, face it, continue doing what you want to do.
what? an insightful article on techcrunch? oh wait, it's a guest writer. whatup sunil!
They had planned the IOC's route through the city and had GPS in the cars with them so I doubt the tracking was automated. And England seems semifamous for it's intense use of CCTV systems, on the traffic side larger US cities with advanced traffic control systems have cameras at most (major) intersections.
In that case they shouldn't look too surprised if they end up hiring wrong people.

They shouldn't, but they probably will anyway. I think you have to assume that lots of companies will be stupid and work with them or work around them.
Why can't I read the text at the bottom? I can't seem to scroll down.
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Can someone please explain to me how what is happening in higher education is any different ?

Sure. The big difference (enormous, really) is that unlike homes, there is no secondary market for diplomas. We talk about an education as an investment, but in truth the 'asset' is us. One reason the housing bubble was so devastating was that if one person defaulted, it marginally depressed the value of everyone else's home. If someone defaults on their student loan, it doesn't make everyone else's education less valuable. The student loan debt problem is much more like the credit card debt problem, which exacerbated the housing bubble but on its own had nowhere near the cascading impact. Student loans are a problem, but they are not a crisis. We should be much more concerned that there has been no meaningful banking reform since the 2008 crisis, and that banks are still gambling on dangerous derivatives whose real risks are unknown and quite possibly incomputable.
I would like a source for this, particularly for Japan.
The reason I moved out of NYC (and out of the country) was because the NYPD put up cameras on my local (135th Street 1/2/3) subway entrance.

If you think the billions of USD of antiterrorism money is somehow not funding purchase of facial recognition software, you're foolin' yourself.

Collect enough uniquely-identified John Does and you can link them statistically to MetroCard swipes, and then you've got names from the credit cards used to purchase them...

Ride the subway enough times with (a) friend(s), and then they've got part of your social graph, too.
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Yeah, I'm not arguing that a degree is a good indicator of performance.

You have to put yourself in the shoes of the person in charge of hiring. If you advertise a well-paid tech position, you will probably get thousands of applications. You can't read them all in elaborate detail. You can't visit everyone's Github. You just don't have time. So how do you cull? Just randomly select 10% and go with that? What if you happen to pick all the bad ones? That's not going to work. Industry experience? That's easy to fake and also doesn't really mean anything. Contact their previous employers? Those interviews are notoriously inaccurate and also way too time-consuming.

If they graduate from a good college, that's possibly a good sign (but possibly not! easy to get a CS degree and have no work ethic). If their resume lists a bunch of personal projects and GitHub links, that's possibly a good sign (but possibly not! easy to push random crap to GitHub that no one will use).

I'm afraid it all comes down to time. Either you hire an army of extremely well-trained HR people who are all capable of evaluating code quality and project performance (in which case, why aren't they off programming themselves?) or you come up with some heuristic for culling applications that doesn't take an inordinate amount of time. It's harder than it sounds, and that's why employers fall back on do-you-have-a-degree - because it sits at the sweet spot of sort-of-predictive and easy-to-cull. Or they end up asking their current employees who to hire, which means they hire their friends (which is not necessarily a bad thing).
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Fuck college. It's not the only way to learn, to meet people, or to show your expertise, capabilities and accomplishments anymore. We have this thing called the Internet now. Write a book. Put a PDF online. Record a video of yourself giving an intelligent speech or showing some useful talent. Put it on YouTube. Write software. Put on GitHub. Answer technical questions well on StackExchange (or whatever for your particular industry/field.) Apply your supposed skills and talents on something tangible then put it on the web and be findable. Fuck 4-6 years of your life and $100k in debt. Fuck all that.
not sure that's the case.

"Here, however, is what was explosive: Dale and Krueger concluded that students, who were accepted into elite schools, but went to less selective institutions, earned salaries just as high as Ivy League grads. For instance, if a teenager gained entry to Harvard, but ended up attending Penn State, his or her salary prospects would be the same.

In the pair's newest study, the findings are even more amazing. Applicants, who shared similar high SAT scores with Ivy League applicants could have been rejected from the elite schools that they applied to and yet they still enjoyed similar average salaries as the graduates from elite schools. In the study, the better predictor of earnings was the average SAT scores of the most selective school a teenager applied to and not the typical scores of the institution the student attended."

there's a guy at work with a phd in math from princeton. there are plenty of people with his job title that didn't spend all that money to get there. most of them went to the great in state engineering school and spent far less money for the same result.

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2...
The game engine was going to be used by Notch as a '3D Dwarf Fortress' but ended up turning into Minecraft. I wish I could have seen it as Dwarf Fortress.

Also worth checking out is a game called Towns.
Wow. I would love to read or see a more detailed demo of how that effect is done on the images. Wow, much cooler than I'd hoped for.
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there are large swaths of the country without such video surveillance.

did you consider staying within the country?
How does that 30-50c look once its turned into sales, as in how many clicks per sale? (Unless you don't directly sell anything).

Anyone who exhibits at an event for fun is a fool, as is anyone who exhibits at an event but doesn't find it fun. In my experience - and maybe this differs in other industries or indeed other parts of the games industry - events couldn't be further from holidays, most event organisers and exhibitors I know, myself included, would tell you they are the most tiring and most stressful times of the year. But for some of us, that's what makes them enjoyable.

Of course there's fun to mix in and around them in ways that being away from the normality of office life let's you have, but it's generally a case of lletting off steam while working crazily hard, not of enjoying a break from working. My last event consisted of 10 days without a break, 10-12 hours minimum, or 15+ during the 4 days of set-up / pack down, but it was still the most fun I've had recently.
Today I totally bleed purple:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh4jvDsNtEE
What are some decisions that helped Facebook reach 500 million users?
Time. I saw something recently that made the point that "founder bandwidth is the most precious resource at startups," and I believe it. There's a nearly infinite amount of work to be done, and a fairly limited amount of bandwidth to go around between the founders, as we're doing the self-funded / bootstrap / still-working-day-jobs route right now.

That said, beyond time, then feedback and introductions are definitely huge. Of course that all ties together, as the time I spend networking trying to meet people I need to build relationships with, is time I'm not writing code, and vice-versa. It's a non-stop battle of priorities and a never-ending stream of trade-offs and judgment calls.

I know there are services that specifically target these needs, but I wonder if there are more opportunities out there.

Not sure... I'd guess there are quite a few free/low-cost SaaS apps that many (most?) startups could gain some value from using. Steve Blank keeps a list like that on his blog somewhere, FWIW.

Personally, something I took a flyer on recently was building a simple web-based tool for managing competitive intelligence. We'll be entering an established market when we ship, and there are plenty of competitors out there. Of course we think we have a unique spin that will give us an advantage, but I've just recently decide to sit down and do some serious competitive analysis and start paying a little bit of attention to "the other guys." I needed a way to keep all that data organized, so I built a one-off tool for it. I'm actually toying with making it open-source and/or launching it as it's own SaaS offering, but I want to play with it a little more first, and maybe do a "Ask HN" to see if anybody is interested in that sort of thing.
Make sure you have clicked on a story before you try to scroll, that got me for quite a while too. There was nothing to tell me to click on stories to read them. I only figured it out because I tried to click on an image and got a story instead...
I agree 100%. The struggle is far more common in startups than most valley publications portray it to be. If you're B2B, you need customers. If you're B2C, you need users. Just put your head down and keep working.
The situation seems to be quite different at private schools. Here's a graph of Stanford tuition from 1920 to 2011, plotted on a log scale:

http://imgur.com/dGiSi

I've put a linear regression line on top. It's a pretty good fit.

I can't find the data now to do a plot for it, but I saw similar numbers for Harvard from around 1970 to present, and they similarly showed a pretty steady growth.

Public schools are much more variable, I believe, because they are one of the few state institutions that is allowed and/or required to get a large part of its budget from fees to its users. Thus, when a state has budget trouble there is a tendency to make state colleges and universities raise tuition.

PS: the tuition data I have for Stanford gives the tuition at the start of each decade from 1920 through 1990, then gives yearly data. I probably should have plotted points, not lines.
Does the reason for the backdoor really have to be to allow malicious remote access (hence requiring a replacement backdoor)?

I highly doubt, considering the obvious nature and simplicity of the binary, that clandestine remote access (i.e. by the Chinese government or other such tinfoil hat theories) was the idea.

Especially given the name of the binary, I suspect some ZTE engineer was tasked with writing a desktop or mobile sync application that they decided needed root access for some reason. Said engineer then made a major mistake and decided a non-unique plaintext secret stored in the binary was adequate security. This happens all the time - see the recent RuggedCom "backdoor" fiasco [0]. It's happened at places I've worked, too, and it's not exactly new in the industry as a whole.

An engineer was uninformed or ignored security best practices and wrote code with a vulnerability. The vulnerability will be patched out. It's a big deal and it sucks (why were all setuid binaries not audited, at least to the level that basic oversights like this one would be noticed?), but at least in my mind it's not some kind of secret government control backdoor conspiracy - it's just a horrible bug.

[0]: http://www.nerc.com/fileUploads/File/Events%20Analysis/A-201...
I don't wish to start an argument, but most libertarians define their reality in their own head. Their arguments often don't translate into real world scenarios but trying to convince them of this is practically impossible.
I disagree. Well, I agreed with what Linus did but not the general idea of your post. If too many people in the group actively push against new people then the group suffers. It may appear no harm lost in telling the guy that made a suggestion that's already been made several times to go away because he's whatever the current popular insult happens to be, but it does cause harm such as reputation. The guy making the suggestion most likely does not know he was not the first to do so. Being nice about it may encourage him to try another suggestion he may have in the future and possibly benefit the group. If you just insult him then you're just telling him not to bother again, which is detrimental to the group.
In which case, don't answer the question at all.

If a person is completely new and this is obvious from the question, then you might be helping by saying "don't do that", otherwise, you're just adding noise.
Looks nice, but pretty rough around the edges: things like the hover on the bookmark links flicker, and when you drag notes it selects text as well.
It is interesting that they still choose to use college-level credentials as the baseline metric though. Why not "Four years of demonstrable self-directed learning in the study, or equivalent"?
Advertising is not nearly so effective as to warrant such a high value for a facebook profile. I'd put a week's pay that, in retrospect, we'll see Facebook's IPO as the beginning of the bubble's pop.
No Kickstarter project should pay income tax in their first year.
What I find disturbing here is the complete, total, hegemonic shift to thinking of education as job-training.
Looks good. Kudos for trying something new.
It's an altogether unpleasant feeling to see my country and its people become a plaything for the rich and powerful.

Too many government decisions are made in order to procure glory and gratification for those at the helm. Britain has a lot to offer the world, and it has been stifled by its vain and inward-looking leadership for far too long.
They have a course in Advanced Rails Technologies? What kind of damned idiot takes "Advanced Rails Technologies"?
False. Many of the Mavericks players do not have college degrees.
Create something awesome over years of your own life and have people make offhand comments with no depth of knowledge and then waste your time arguing about it. See how you feel then.
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I have been interested in the rise of minecraft, so about 3 months ago I started scrapping some stats from the website and forums every day. I grabbed total users, total paid users, forum post count and forum member count.

You can see that data here: http://pastebin.com/W8AhzfK8

I haven't been doing it for very long, so there is nothing of great interest in the data, other than the crazy amount of money that Notch must be making.
There are some more interesting demos when you click on "Previous demo" repeatedly.

And if you like this one, don't miss the how-to: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/05/07/experimental-page-lay...
This article makes some great points, but if you had to identify 1 point they made in the article that really pointed to "how they raised $1m" it's this: they had 120 introductions to angels and VC's.

Holy. Shit. I've had maybe 4 in the year since I started out, and I've raised money from all 4. 120? Obviously all the points they make are GREAT, I really do like this article, but there are lots of people with good products, pitches, revenues, etc. and they can't raise $1mm because they don't know 120 investors.

Am I wrong? Does everyone have a network of a 120 investors?
They are using the extra money by and large to fund additional administration expenses, a new football team and other prestige projects in order to boost the perceived status of the school.

The really fun thing being that all the students, faculty, alumni, and graduate-students hate this shit. If there's all that money floating around, why not pay TAs and RAs something above the poverty line? Why not hire more faculty?
Generally speaking, when a company bets its continued existence on one strategy, and then a few months later starts backpedaling from that commitment, that is not a good sign for its continued existence.
If you ever want to do cool analysis let me know, I can provide you about a years worth of forum history, can't help with the minecraft.net side though, but there must be someone with the data out there!
That's totally awesome and completely fine in my book. Props (Cheers!) to whoever thought of the idea.
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Did you take a course called Advanced Rails Techologies? Did you take the course in question and find it lacking? If not, you shouldn't insult people you don't know who might be interested in such a program.

How about you explain, nicely please, why taking something called Advanced Rails Technologies is a bad thing?
Nope. Treatments would almost certainly involve synthetic drugs, which are prohibited by the FDA unless approved. But they can't get approved because of some Puritan regulation (thou shalt not use medical science to improve thy life, only to treat diseases). Yaay moralizing bureaucracy!
There aren't large swaths of the country without the USA PATRIOT Act.

From http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/realtime/ :

"Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court order, a new document released under a government sunshine request shows."

There's no hope for privacy or civil liberties in that country. The only nonviolent solution is to leave forever.
During the early part of my working life I had the experience of not getting a job due to the fact that I did not have a degree. It was a junior embedded programming job.

I was 19 and just getting going with the college thing. The guy that got the job had a degree in landscaping and had taught himself some programming with an 8085 board that was popular at the time. I know because the owner of the joint was kind enough to tell me.

I was probably too young to put-up a fight and state my case with authority. By the time this interview came about I had probably built and programmed no less than eight computers of my own design. I had programmed in assembler and written my own Forth compiler. I probably knew the architectures of nearly every popular microprocessor available at the time (80xx, 65xx, 68xxx). I had been an electronics hobbyist since probably the age of 13. I knew more and had certainly done more than the aforementioned job-robbing landscaper.

Again, I'll mark that off to, at 19, not having the chops to state my case and fight to demonstrate that I was the better candidate. As it turns out a few months later, as luck would have it, I would land an entry level engineering job where skills and work ethic were valued far more than anything else. I rose to a level of being solely responsible for multi-million dollar engineering projects while still attending school.

In my case it turned out OK in the end. The issue is that a degree is a check-mark item that a lot of companies use for filtering. Just one look through job on Monster and you can see that lots of them have degrees as minimum requirements. If you are dealing through an agency you might not get past the first filter, no matter what you know and what you've done.

In the case of Mr. Cuban, it'd be interesting to hear about examples where his organization has hired people in spite of not having a degree from a traditional institution.
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