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I was in Delhi a long time back(9 years), and when I came to Chennai, the Delhi buses started to look pleasant in comparison. The only buses which ran on the route my college was on were skewed to the side owing to the hanging passengers. In Bangalore, at least the damn door closes and no one is falling to his death.

When I was in Delhi, I was a broke student and took buses most of the times. Some routes were quite pleasant. Some were outright hell. The one that runs between south Delhi and Najafgarh is packed(especially after 8 in the evening), and people are knowingly and unknowingly thrusting their crotches into each other.
Thanks for the reply. Externally, watching Google kill of products is hard, but it's easy to forget that they might be killing off engineers with these moves too. It's great to hear that they're trying to keep the talent and just shed the real estate.
Hearing "How are you?" at a grocery store or a fast food place was a kind of culture shock for me when I visited the USA from Europe. I did not know how to answer either, you have to be accustomed to it to find it normal, when a simple "Hi, may I help you" would work
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I suppose but I would think that he would know mavericks like himself would never agree to work for a corporation under someone else, they would rather freelance until they can conquer that corp, sell to that corp, or create a new market. But maybe he's just supposing there's not another Gates out there? ;)
I wish I had something more constructive to say than 'wow, this is really cool' but, wow, this is really cool. I was saddened to see speech synthesis and speech generation (seemingly) punted from the Win8 WinRT APIs. And here you are doing it with a bit of Javascript.
> That is without doubt the single stupidest argument for the incompatibility of science and religion I have ever heard.

Sorry you think so.

Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough.

The purpose of this thought/actual experiment was to highlight the drastic difference between the official sort-of-maybe-mostly-okay-with-science line of the Vatican elite with the everyday reality of Catholicism and of the Catholic parishners. For example, while, as noted in this thread, evolution has been OK with Catholic leaders since 1996 (what pioneers! — pardon, that was rhetoric) — ahem, since 1996, my sister, born in that year, was skeptical that dinosaurs were not a hoax of museums since they were obviously incompatible with her strict Catholic upbringing.

(And good on her: she should doubt anything fanciful, though obviously in this case the facts are on the side of, you know, dinosaurs.)

Never does a Catholic priest remind his congregation that Adam & Eve (and thus original sin, as known to laity) is a myth.

Never does he encourage them to think critically.

What he does do is expect them to act as one entity playing their part in perhaps the most extensive hierarchy ever created.

Hierarchy is another antithesis to science.

Can I stop arguing yet?
I suspect the largest example is Android.
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But isn't it more like a medium that has changed? What stops those newspapers from running online versions? In fact, most or all already have an online presence. Wouldn't it be cheaper to run a website, versus running a printing press? In addition, the $ spent on ads in newspapers will surely shrink, but $ spent on online advertise continue to rise without signs of stopping.

To me this whole rant about running out of newspaper business is like a rant of messenger going out of business. No, you don't have to ride your bicycle through entire city to deliver message from Mr. X to Mr. Y; we have email and internet now. At the end of the day, the consumption of news will not change -- people will still want to know whats going on in the wild world, whether it is economy, politics, science or celeb gossips. Sure the medium will change, but lets stop crying over the fact that 99.999% of population is not using an electrical telegraph anymore (if most never did).
I wouldn't call celebrity gossip a commodity product. People usually pay for commodities.
For those of us who don't have an available modifier key (or at least one that's accessible without looking down at the keyboard), is there a way to use a prefix key à la ratpoison and stumpwm? There's a patch for dwm that provides that functionality, so I assume it wouldn't be hard to add for goomwwm if it's not currently supported.
> Actually the solution is simpler: deposit insurance.

Canada didn't have deposit insurance until the late 1960s and has recently restricted its coverage. (It's now per depositor instead of per-account.)

Of course, Canada is populated by Canadians, who are demonstrably different than Americans. (One example - Canadians don't smuggle guns, much.)

> Strikingly, economists thought about these things before Hacker News.

Yes they've thought about this, but if they've asserted that deposit insurance is "the solution" they're more ignorant than I thought. Please tell me that you're just making this up.
Celery supports beanstalk among many other backends (RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, ..., etc)

So you can use Celery as a driver for beanstalk in Python.
Keep in mind that those guesstimations are for determining the floor rate one would ask for to maintain an expected standard of living, rather than determining the rate one would actually ask for. Your rate should be whatever you can convince people to pay you, and that can be a number well north of $90/hr.

(While I love HNers, one should not rely on HN salary surveys to set one's rates. There are many factors that drag it down: HN has a global audience but you do not have to sell to global consumers of programming talent. HN, in other surveys, frequently skews to young and inexperienced -- you may not be young and inexperienced. Many HNers are unsophisticated about pricing to extract value from mutually beneficial business relationships -- you should not be unsophisticated in this manner. Many HNers occupy positions which are low on the value chain such as undifferentiated "web design" which do not command high hourly rates -- you should upgrade your skillset or marketing such that you can command higher hourly rates. etc, etc)
I only spend a fraction of my current income, but I still seek more because those increases make me feel like I'm improving in my career and as a person, which is what really matters to me. It may be foolish to think that way, but it seems to be the metric our society uses.
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This is how people work and it will not change anytime soon. Everybody needs weekly check-in with the company (represented by the manager) to stay in course.

I call bullshit. I have over a decade of experience in this industry and have only had regular 1-on-1s with my managers over the last year. Despite this, I've always been a highly valued contributor to the companies I've worked for. If anything, the last year has been the worst / most-dysfunctional of my career (although, this is probably not related to having 1-on-1s, but rather unrelated organization chaos). I have always talked regularly (i.e. daily) with my manager, but formal 1-on-1s were never part of the equation.
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> the bread and butter of the newspaper industry is celebrity gossip, which is the very opposite of local information, and is a commodity product, which is why people are unwilling to pay for local newspapers.

This directly contradicts itself, which is probably your point.

Focusing on local news is a necessary but perhaps not a sufficient condition for local newspapers to survive: They don't have a monopoly on any other product, but there's no guarantee they'll be able to survive on that one.

Or maybe they can create local celebrities to follow around and gossip about. (They might run up against tougher defamation laws that way, though.)
Sounds a lot like the old Talking Moose/Macintalk voice (1986):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Moose
"Datomic is so different than regular databases that your average developer will probably chose to ignore it."

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> And while they're definitely dwarfed by people who can use a Segway, I believe they make up a significant fraction of those people for whom an electronically-assisted, yet-more-stable tour holds a natural appeal over a bicycle, walk, or scooter tour.

Like I wrote, I've been on lots of Segway tours. Almost everyone on them is physically capable of doing walking, biking, or scooter tours, yet they do Segway tours. (In fact, I've seen those same people doing other kinds of tours as well.)

Your entire argument for assumes otherwise. What's your supporting evidence?
Ironic that a follower of Buddha's path saw and felt exactly what Buddha saw and felt thousands of years ago yet failed to recognize it.

More ironic is how Buddha's lifeboat for the poor and hungry turned out to be intellectual's tool for enlightenment.
I've noticed an odd phenomenon lately: when I'm in a crappy mood, and someone asks me how I'm doing and I lie and say "fine," it often takes me out of my own head and reminds me that I might be overestimating whatever is going wrong.
I'm torn.

One on hand, I agree that automatic responses like "I'm fine" aren't particularly accurate and can mask true emotions and feelings in a sea of politeness.

On the other hand, this piece is incredibly arrogant.

"We are supermen and women skipping through daises and pulling cash from behind the ears of thankfully, delighted customers who are saved from the old guard. We don’t make mistakes; we pivot. We don’t win; we crush it."

If the author's advice is to 'cut through the bullshit', then I sincerely advise him to stop writing stuff like the above quote. You are an entrepreneur writing to an audience of primarily entrepreneurs. Ego-stroking is just as bad as fake positivity, and drowning your message in it is just as bad too.

"I challenge you to take a day and care. I dare you to listen actively and when you ask someone “How are you,” that you demand a deeply truthful answer."

And I take some level of offense to this; first, that the author presumes that I don't already care, and that those people I talk to aren't being 'deeply truthful'. The majority of my friends and family are surrounded by people they generally like doing things they generally enjoy. They might not be ecstatic -- but they're definitely fine.

Most people know -- or should know -- that things could always be worse. Your business might be in trouble, you might not have reached every single goal heaped upon you as a child (see Dave McClure's recent post) but yeah, chances are, you're fine.
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SpiderOak perhaps? I haven't used it heavily my self but it seems to cover at least the encryption requirements the author puts forward.
Ask HN: Time to give up on Qt?
I'm about to start on a cross-platform desktop app, and I'm trying to choose a GUI toolkit. I was originally planning to use Qt, because it looks great right out of the box, and the API is nice and simple.

With Nokia kicking Qt to the curb, should we all be moving to wxWidgets? Something else? GTK+ still doesn't look very native on Windows or OS X, so for many cross-platform apps it's not a viable option.
iOS doesn't offer much in the realm of TTS either. Siri has such a good voice but there is no API to make your iPhone or iPad talk from your own app.

OpenEars has made a decent TTS engine (based on flite) but it is far from the top of the line engines offered by Acapela, Ivona, and NeoSpeech.
I wasn't predicting, more stating my affinity for the day when religion is gone. Religion had its time and place, but it is no longer needed and we can shed religion and move on as a species. Frankly, at this point, religion is doing nothing but holding us back. I can't think of a single element of religion that is actively advancing any area.
The problem is, even with the salted hash, it’s still too easy for an attacker to run dictionary attacks if they are able to retrieve a single user’s salt and hash. When your attacker can do 1 billion SHA1 hashes/second with cheap hardware, even slowing it down 10,000 times and they’re still cracking a lot of your users’ passwords.

False. If you use Colin Percival's scrypt to hash your passwords, then it's impossible for an attacker to crack them via brute force.

See previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4076197
Are you sure these companies have no structure? Where did the size estimate even come from?
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"If you haven’t experienced waking up one day with millions in a bank account and a dozen or so people looking at you in the eye, nodding their heads and telling you that they believe in you, you have never experienced the perfect storm of excitement and fear."

Sounds like the author has totally misplaces what should cause an excitement or worth pursuing as a goal. It's not having someone looking you in the eye (who this person is?). And not even a million dollars in the bank (is one million a lot of money?). It's what you did to make it, and what you make after with it.
You have a serious case of "the bitters." :-)

I'd love to see a reference to where I said I think I invented RSS.

I think I've said (and written), a number of times, that things like RSS aren't invented.
This is incorrect. Full text search works by querying an index. The client has access to all of the encrypted indexed content, so it can easily build the index, encrypt it and upload it.

Cloud providers couldn't "give you" full-text search, but if it's technically possible and if clients implement it then it's essentially the same thing.
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It might suffice to say that 'regulatory capture' is used more broadly in economic literature than what the wikipedia article you're referencing leads on. Maybe not. We disagree fundamentally on the 'appearance of impropriety' comment here. I don't consider the reason for changing jobs to be so cut and dry. I don't see this moving onto a productive discussion.
(A) yes, I was bitten by the "your 'email' setting doesn't show" feature. It got me even though I'd been warned in the past. :(

(B) (1) This past week, as part of an interview, I've built a django project that provides text and video chat to logged-in users. This is, I would say, small-scale.
(2) Some years ago, I wrote a quick scraper to download Peanuts archives from comics.com. The main thing I learned from that was that, years afterwards, I encountered the web page for Beautiful Soup and immediately understood what problem it was dealing with. I'd call the scraper tiny in scale. I'm not too sure what qualifies as a "project", but, as you guess, I haven't done much.
(3) If you have hiring authority, or even if you just know someone who does, I'm happy to build something for you. I'm less happy to think of something to build myself. :/

As to the pre-questions, I don't have much of an opinion on startup vs non-startup, I'd prefer to be in the Bay Area, and my CV is, unfortunately, smaller than a breadbox. I'm apprehensive about moving somewhere just on spec; as a cousin post illustrates, that seems like a great way to exhaust all your cash and still not have a job. I'm only too happy to move for a job, since Santa Cruz could be charitably described as a "dead end".

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I was wondering about that too, you sure?
Popularity and fame are highly self-reinforcing, thus not nearly so deterministic as you might think. There is some luck and a lot of volatility involved since people tend to copy each other's decisions (even when the signalling quality is poor).

See: http://www.livescience.com/7016-science-hit-songs.html

Did you have a plan two years before BCC to be well-known for it? I think it's more common for people to stumble onto a first hit, but there are things you can do to increase the chances. My meta-strategy is to work on multiple projects and stay close to new, emerging things where there is a lot more space up for grabs.

If what you say is true then send startupers or clients or both this way and go play League of Legends. No, really. Do it right now.
In India its pretty common to have this scenario. We call it the 'License Raj System'- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj

Licenses for supplies, manufacturing, export, services etc. Heck nearly everything is controlled by licenses. Which are in turn issued by the government. The Net result is heavy bribes are paid to get licenses. And then bribes are paid to regulators to by pass violations.

You might think lobbying and campaign funds are too much of corruption in US. Come to India, you have to pay bribe for everything and anything.

To give you a specific scenario. Lets say you bid for a contract to build roads. Lets say you tar roads. Firstly this can be won only through if you are licensed contractors(You have to pay bribe to get one). Then tenders are allocated for the road construction, you have to pay commissions to get selected.

Now after heavily bribing your way through all this. The only way you can make profit is by sacrificing quality. Therefore you now use low quality material. If saw you are asked to tar the road 8 inches, you do only 3 inches. You don't tar lanes. The quality of tar you use doesn't last one rainy season.

Regulatory authorities are severely bribed to over look all this.

This is the regular story in India, In nearly ever walk of life. This happens from birth to death. People even bribe for birth and death certificates, voter identification cards, passports. You name it, and there is corruption associated with it.
Do you think that a professional programming language based off a spoken language would be feasible if it were based off of something like lojban? It would be pretty neat if the distinction between code and language could be blurred.
Or just use bcrypt/scrypt/PBKDF2 in the typical manner. You're much more likely to screw yourself by mis-implementing this than you are to actually gain any real security benefit from it.
I think climate may play some role, but it's nowhere near as important as the OP stated. You've got Canada vs Russia, Singapore vs Madagascar, South Korea vs North Korea, Australia vs Papua New Guinea, etc. Basically, there are lots of other factors.
I would contend that the piece was inherently ideological, and the editors saw where it was problematic. It is the sunday opinions page. I reckon its purpose is to solicit sultry conversation.
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A smaller percent than if it were the actual Gulag?
It's certainly not impossible. scrypt provides reasonable defense against using cheap highly parallel approaches to brute force, but still can obviously be cracked by brute force.

For passwords, current typical attacker does not care about cracking all of them, but cares about finding some (mostly weak) passwords that he can try with other services used by same user.
I am the author of the article. Thanks for pointing out scrypt, I have heard of it before. PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt... they all share one thing in common:

They MUST be configured to run fast enough on your server so that your users can login even under high system load.

Let's say you need to support being able to test 1,000 passwords per second on your server (to support your projected peak login traffic). In that case, relatively weak passwords can be cracked, and by relatively weak I mean 95th percentile entropy bits for less than $1,000 on EC2.

This is why I'm trying to think differently about the problem. If we hide the hash in a haystack, the attacker will no longer be able to target an individual user, and theft of the entire hash database should be more easily detectable and preventable.
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I am skeptical that this method adds any protection to a brute force attack relative to a standard implementation of PBKDF2 hashes stored with the users.

With proper salts, we have no advantage cracking a password in a database of 10 users or 10 million users. LinkedIn didn't have any salts.

The effectiveness of brute forcing a password is determined entirely by how many passwords they can test for a particular user (because they are salted) in a given period of time. Sure you can add tens of gigabytes of extra data that they have to search through, but your system has to search through it too so it's no different than adding extra iterations to PBKDF2.
I would say calm down, no one here is disagreeing with you, or with the history or the geography of India, nor is anyone here claiming the opposite of any of those things that you are worked up about.

You probably read too much into cstross's comments, maybe you didn't, but your comment reads like you are very angry about what he said and are admonishing him/us for getting India's history wrong and giving us a history lesson.