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When you consider how far and over how low-bandwidth a link each bit of data must travel, a geek's first question should really be why it uses so many pixels, not so few.

Another salient point is that pixel density/sensitivity aren't just a cost and time tradeoff, they are actually a direct technology tradeoff. Biger cells collect more photons and have less noise at higher effective sensitivities.
I thought this was common knowledge already. Look up most guides to starting your own website, and they will list front running as a precaution people should take when looking for a domain name. A lot of guides recommend having a list of preferred names in mind, then checking their availability. If the domain name is available, buy it on the spot. If not, move on to the next domain name on your list. I know the first thing I do when I want to start a website is secure the domain name. Then I worry about hosting.
Are there anywhere some more detailed information about the challenge? I guess the conference recordings are not going to include the social engineering live session?
Ask HN: What's the startup/tech scene like in St. Paul/Minneapolis?
I've spent a lot of time around the tech scene in SF and LA, but will be spending a great deal of time in St. Paul / Minneapolis. Does anyone know what the local university entrepreneur / tech / meetup scene is like?

I enjoy mentoring first-timers, as well as learning about new technology / startups and hope to find some way to keep things going in MN.
I wonder what the minimum number of neurons is to successfully fly the plane.
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Wow, my secret question is "Who was your first employer?" How is the answer to that even a secret?! Did I pick that or did they?
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> Whiteboards were everywhere. So were blackboards, as well as artwork and slogans applied directly onto walls.

I'm a little surprised at the blackboards. When we were expanding once at my employer and I was moving to the new office suite I asked if I could have a blackboard instead of a whiteboard in my new office, and the head of engineering said no. His reason was that chalk dust gets into computers and is not good for them.

I wonder if he was wrong, or if Facebook has more tolerance for trashing computers than we had.
Because Google has never been bailed out by taxpayers. The idea that Wall Street was able to socialize its losses and claim all its gains for itself, and then go right back to paying out extremely high amounts, is what rankled people a lot more than "those benefits are lavish, per se".
First thing the name brought to mind was something to do with Vasectomies... :(
This sounds great when you write it like this, but it's a $10 a month life insurance policy. If they have another regular life insurance policy that's fine, then it's $20 a month. Not exactly mind blowing when we are talking 6 figure salaries. Awesome, everyone just got a .1% raise. yay.
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These landings have one of my favourite ever engineering failures, regarding Venera 14. Venera 13 and 14 were twin landers which landed at the same time on Venus. Both contained a similar science package - including an arm to measure the compressibility of the soil on the surface of Venus.

Venera 13's arm functioned properly. Venera 14's returned strange data, which was soon traced to a very simple fault - both Venera landers had a lens cap protecting their sensitive camera equipment on descent. These popped off on landing, and then the spring-loaded instrument arm extended to perform its testing.

Venera 13's arm extended into the soil correctly. Venera 14's arm extended directly into its discarded lens cap. Poor Venera 14 travelled millions of kilometers to test the compressibility of a lens cap on the surface of venus.

http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_Venera_Perspective.jpg (Venera 14 on right)

Venera 14 did also function for almost twice its design lifetime (~57 minutes) so it was a good little probe, but I love to use this little example when talking about reliability engineering.
Here's the paper: http://neural.bme.ufl.edu/page13/assets/NeuroFlght2.pdf

It looks like they're using a combination of high and low frequency pulses as a reward/punishment mechanism, though I don't fully understand how that influences the decisions being made. Would love if someone could explain it in more detail.
Go to a concert or local show which has music that skinheads like. Find one, and talk to them. They're pretty nice people generally, though they also may be defensive from getting so much shit for being associated with the white power fuckheads. I've heard the european skinheads are a lot more touchy than the american ones.

If they have a patch that says SHARP on it, they are 100% anti-racist, and will probably beat you up if you make a racist joke. A bit violent, yes. But not without reason. Again, not unlike some others (people like Ian MacKaye used to shave their heads and get into fights over stupid personal beliefs and weren't skinheads at all...)
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Blizzard doesn't exactly target "average consumers". Many WoW players are very serious gamers, and StarCraft is played for $$$.
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This metaphor seems compelling, but it breaks down when you consider that in a digital break in, nothing physical must be moved. Were vault breaches like database breaches, one would merely have to look at the money to have a personal copy of it. This is a very different security scenario.
I just ordered some custom made shirts for my brother's wedding. I'll know how they are next week.

For things like that they're great too - we needed an obscure combination of color and features which surprisingly didn't exist ready-made. (Ivory, French Cuffs, Slim.)

You might find a side-market for groups. e.g. the MSL/Curiosity team's EDL event polos.
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"Crony Capitalism"

Which is an oxymoron; government favoritism is the antithesis of capitalism. The fact that money is involved doesn't make it capitalism.
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I think that the magnet idea could work if you added 3 electro-magnets to the router chassis and made another chassis (to ride around underneath) with 3 corresponding ferro magnetic pads.
Have you used Sublime? What parts of it are not native enough on Windows and Mac?

The keyboard shortcuts follow whatever is expected on that platform. They have support for specifying different keyboard shortcuts for different OSs so 3rd party packages can also provide out-of-the-box settings that are native to each platform.

It does Lion-style save/resume your workspace so even if you shut down and restart, it opens all your sessions with unsaved work and scratch buffers still the same.

I'm not sure I found anything that made me feel this was a Mac app ported to Windows or vice versa.
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I think it's to little to late, everyone's moved on to SublimeText and various other editors now
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> I find it interesting this sort of thing is rarely, if ever, presented as government gone wrong.

I don't think this is true. It's named as government corruption often enough, and it's framed from that direction fairly frequently in some political media, both by people who believe it's a corruption of what government should/could be and who believe it's inherent in government power.

> When someone steals, commits extortion, etc., no one considers it an "example of capitalism"

This seems truer than your first contention -- not only is it generally rare that crime is considered just another response to incentives, even people who think of it this way (myself and probably some economists included), it's fair enough to draw a line between a formal definition of capitalism and crime.

But then again, in this kind of discussion it's probably worth recognizing that terms like "capitalism" (or "socialism", for that matter) are usually used as shorthand in a heavily context-dependent sense, rather than as anything formally defined. I think it's better to be more precise so as to avoid hang-ups like this, but then again, being prescriptive or pedantic can have it's own hangups. Capitalism may not simply mean any laissez faire system founded largely on self-interest, but it's easy enough to accept it as a label for a class of possible systems for the sake of discussion about whether or not it's unfair to blame a private party for capture of a democratic/republic nation-state, or whether to blame the state for being there to capture.
Honestly, I don't know how you deal with some people's complaints.
> including cryptographically scrambled versions of passwords

Hmmmm? Can anyone expand further on this?
I took a class that was very writing-intensive. I was one of the only people to ever actually change the font in my essays from Calibri to Times New Roman, and always wondered if this contributed to the fact that I did substantially better than most other people with very comparable essays.
I am not sure how the exact job is relevant, really. Every job has problems that can be solved in new and creative ways and that's where you start to make your mark.

To appeal to the local crowd: If you end up as a barista and, unsatisfied with your efficiencies, you go home and write a program that solves the optimum way to prepare the different kinds of coffee you now:

a) Are a more productive and therefore more valuable employee

b) Have a product that could be worth quite a bit to your employer, and perhaps the competition too

c) Have professional experience writing software using algorithms that the average professional programmer cannot even utilize

The catch is that you have to actually do it. Your typical high school graduate who does not go onto college generally did not go onto college because they do not have the drive to go over and above like that. That skews the statistics in such a way that it makes it look like having a degree matters.
How can I change my security questions? I can't find them in the account settings.
Getting to pick your own question in my experience is rare.

We've already gone over the possible reasoning for not hashing the answer.
There are some pretty active Android, PHP and Python User Groups in the area (I'm not sure about Ruby).

If you look on Meetup.com you can also find active Web Design (Minnesota Web Design) and Bootstraping Breakfast groups.
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You can't brute force Blizzard passwords because they have server side limits.
I wrote a program for playing video in ASCII on an OpenVMS console (VT220 orange text serial console) for a university project.
I played the Matrix dojo fight scene for the final presentation, it was a big success! :)
My top 2 hits were meteor.com and meteor.ie (a mobile communications provider in Ireland) and then space debris. It would seem domain names have a lot of SEO weight, an important takeaway for startups.
I'm not sure that people browsing on iPhones, iPads, and most (all?) Android devices in 2012 count as 'techno-elites'. The site should at least degrade gracefully to give an idea of what the company's about on Flashless platforms.
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I often wonder how many people who write these kinds of posts actually benefitted greatly from college in ways they don't understand. For example, most people who didn't go to college can't write a blog post like this one.

In short, I think most people who can write great posts about how college didn't help them actually gained a lot of their most valuable (if intangible) skills from their college experience.
More challenging colleges teach you far more than you can teach yourselves.

A top 5 computer science school churns out a much more capable and knowledgeable computer science major who is both well versed in theory and knows how computers actually works down to the bytes.

Kudos to the writer, his ability to hustle is strong. There is more than one kind of talent.
> Presumably someone, somewhere has a bathtub of human neurons and is probably using them to try and predict the stock exchange.

That's nothing. I've seen -- with my own eyes -- places where they have entire office floors or even buildings full of whole human bodies stationed trying to do the same thing.
I use class selection most often, so any slowdown there is a cause of concern for me. The other slowdowns are not as big of a deal, providing it means speedups in more important places.
regarding comic sans use at CERN... often found that scientists like hideous designs. it's a way of saying that we work on serious stuff.

a lot of sites at MIT, CMU have that mark... the more prestigious, the uglier.

of course it has to be a certain style of ugly.
The problem with this line of argument is that it is anecdotal. Yes, it’s great that this guy has gone on to earn a lot of money, but that result is not typical.

This is the data from Australia:

Over the working lifetime of a university graduate the financial gain generated from income is more than $1.5 million or 70 per cent more than those whose highest qualification is Year 12, even after taking into account the foregone earnings of students while they study. (http://www.youth.nsw.gov.au/__data/page/1165/whatpricethecle...)

Bruce Chapman, the designer of Australia's income contingent education loan system, found that the Return on Investment of higher education in Australia is between 10 and 6 per cent. (http://vital.new.voced.edu.au/vital/access/services/Download...)
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Are you sure e iPhone was the first "commercially successful smartphone"? It's definitely a top-seller, but I remember quite a few commercially successful devices before it... (mostly Treos and Nokias)
Sorry, I don't have an XBox, but they seem to have a following that really likes them. I seldom use my daughter's Wii, so what do I know about games...
Is there really a point in taking video on the moon if there are no people there? What are you going to see, a moonquake? Meteorite?
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I feel companies with tech cofounder often reward their programmers and workers far better than ones founded by business founders.

This is really terrible for them. A large part of your compensation is stocks, and to lose that suddenly while others cash our must be extremely frustrating. Each person should be able to cash out a percentage of their stock to be fair.
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One interesting note about that fact is that Yahoo! was the purchaser of Viaweb back in 1999, which formed the genesis of Y Combinator itself.

Another interesting detail about Yahoo!'s lack of start-up acquisitions is that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has stated she may not return the cash from selling Alibaba to Yahoo! shareholders, which may signal a very positive and healthy buying spree by Yahoo! for talent and technology in the near future.
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I commend Steve's effort and hard work.

I am a dropout; and we have recruited dropouts, engineering graduates, MBAs and students pursuing a degree distance a learning program at our startup. The best recruits were actually the distance learning students and dropouts by far.

I always recommend young hackers to take a year or two off before going to college and figure out what they want to do. For most jobs in Internet, a University degree is hardly helpful.

In fact, you can actually learn more by working at start for a year than you would learn in 4 years in college. An undergraduate programmer who can network his way to a job can get salary similar to graduates. The only challenge will be to network and demonstrate your skills because recruiters won't be selling you.
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I'm seeing the same but because ID selection is already 2 orders of magnitude faster than any other type, the net win here is significantly reduced. The rich are just getting richer.
But in this case the server was compromised, so they can sit at home and brute force the hashes all day long.
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Most articles and comments about higher education commit the gravest sin of thought: they assume what is right for one person (namely, the author) must be right for everyone.

I'm enrolled in a public institution pursuing a double major, working two jobs because I'm also middle class. I have a good -- not great -- GPA, and I get to do amazing and interesting things every day; I got into programming after volunteering with a CS major -- I learned about HN, ironically, from my Finance professor. After drudging through a K-12 curricula which routinely belittled the entire point of academia, I get to be surrounded by people who are just as hungry and passionate and brilliant as I am (often, they're more so.) It's unequivocally been the best three years of my life.

A lot of people are realizing college isn't a universal gateway to a better life, and that's good -- I don't particularly think it was meant to be one. I'm happy that the author made his way.

"College was my biggest mistake?" I'm glad you got out, then. But it sure as hell isn't mine.
I know it is not the accepted definition, but peak production doesn't really matter in and of itself. If as economists suggest, we have to expect that supply will continue to rise to power an ever-growing economy, one will find the effects hit before the absolute peak in production, therefore expecting to see drastic changes when production starts to decline is a bit late.

I think you have to look at this relative to demand because the end of cheap oil requires demand exceed supply which it appears to have done since the oil crisis of 1973 (the oil crisis itself may have been political) but it only could have happened because there was a growing understanding that oil was a limited and finite resource (discovery had already peaked and reserves were about to). This has lead to a post-1973 world where oil producers do not increase production to meet demand, leading to price instability and little changes resulting in occasional price spikes, something we never saw before '73.
But this is now, with OEMs in their current relationship with Microsoft. If OEMs decide they can give users a fully supported alternative to Windows that's more profitable for them than pushing Windows, that's what they'll do.

In any case, I doubt Microsoft has the balls to do it. To me, it's more like they are sort of copying Google and Apple, trying to emulate them, cargo cult style.
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Fair enough, I even have one of their keyboards.

I was thinking about their very ill software, though, which would be part of the bundle, crippling whatever it was the table did.
It seems like most of the people who complain about college received poor education or were not receptive to education in the first place.

College isn't for everyone but there are a great number of us whose lives have been greatly enriched by our years at good liberal arts colleges. If you're evaluating college through the lens of some kind of personal business plan then it's not a clear win but if you care about the life of the mind there are few substitutes to studying with your peers under passionate dedicated professors.

Whether or not someone should go to *IT or get a CS degree so that they can pursue a technical career is mostly a function of the person and their capacity to engage in self-directed learning.
I think even great programmers who get solid on-the-job training doing a startup job will have major gaps as they progress. There is something to be said for learning fundamentals.
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Well I'm afraid that it'd sour the relationship, and I also have another bigger deal to engage in with him and don't want to sideline it to take care of this.
Going to college (as an adult) was by far the best thing I have ever done for myself.

I already had a career and thought I knew it all but the experience of working on theory and mixing in with some seriously smart people really pushed me to places that I would never have gotten to on my own.

Also I owe much of my current success to the relationships I formed during my time at university.