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> The mentality is that if I just have enough education, the jobs will be waiting (law students anyone?)

Anyone who has this mentality is not following their dreams, they are following the crowd. Crowd-followers rarely do find success. That is what stood out to me in the article. The people who are being written about are not really doing what they want to do, they are doing what is expected of them (go to college and then get a good job).

I wonder if the results would be different if these people struck their own path?
It's not strictly for the band of $10k to $21k per month. It's anyone that makes more than $10k a month because additional swipes after $21k are the same as the opportunity cost.

This is a great deal for any company making more than $10k a day, or about $500 assuming 20 working days a month. It's starting to sound like a decent deal that should appeal to a lot of small businesses.
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I have one big problem with fingerprint authentication (really, any sort of biometric authentication).

If I lose my password I can reset it. If I give out my password, either accidentally or under duress, I can change it. If someone wants something so badly as to copy (or take) a fingerprint, there's no way for me to "change" that password.
I don't think the author proves his thesis at all. All he ahows is that being whatever you want to be is going to take effort -- you're going to have to put your heart into it. It's not just a matter of sitting around and waiting for it. Did anyone really think it was? Is anyone really saying, "You can be anything you want to be -- just sit around and wait for it to show up"?

If so, that certainly would be a lie, but that's not the message I hear being said and it's certainly not the message I like to send.

If your dream is, to take a recently topical example, to compete in the Olympics, do you really think you can get there just by sitting in front of the TV thinking "I want to be in the Olympics"? Yeah, you might wind up in the Olympics as an usher :-) But if you want to compete as an athlete, you're going to have to work your ass off. Is there really anyone who doesn't know this???

Or, let's take the teacher example. If you dream of being a great teacher who truly inspires students to learn, you can absolutely have that. Maybe it will take the usual form of teaching in a school, or maybe you'll do something different, like Sal Khan. Either way, if you aspire to be a great teacher and you do the work required to become that, you will be able to do that and get paid for it somehow. There may be too many ordinary teachers, but there are never enough great ones.

That's true in any area.

On the other hand, if all you aspire to is mediocrity, that's not a passion -- it's the absence of a passion. If the only thoughts you have about what you want to be are, "yeah, it would be nice to be X", then I absolutely agree with the author: you're unlikely to get that. But it doesn't mean you can't; it just means you won't.
Wow some of the comments here are brutal. Granted that the more recent YC graduates are not the most exciting it seems unnecessary to react with so much anger.
I agree with you. This kind of stuff makes me kind of hope we don't find any signs of life on Mars. Hopefully at that point there would be nothing to protect from contamination.
Custom Dialogs in Android
You're saying it's outrageous for the UK government to mention UK law in the UK, is that correct?
Dojo is used in more than 80% of the world's 2000 largest companies. Yes, it's not the default toolkit for WordPress or other large blogging and microsite platforms (which dominate the number of sites on the web), but Dojo is used far more than the numbers indicate. For every 10,000 basic sites, there's an impressive app out there that makes use of it. As I've argued before, if Apple had given up to Microsoft because everyone used Windows, or if Firefox had given up because everyone used IE, the world would be a boring place. With AMD, it's less about Dojo vs. other toolkits, and more about how to use toolkits together in an efficient modular manner to build the app you need.
I guess I'm not clear on what makes it be considered by Adobe to be a failure. Not enough people are installing it? Those that are aren't using it? Not enough manufacturers/providers are bundling it with purchased devices? In other words: what changed between when they decided to work on making Flash for Android and this decision?
I have Windows 8 RTM installed in my 2010 Macbook Air. It works fine, other than the whole FULLSCREEN-FOR-EVERYTHING change that is entirely anti-gamer.
I had to manually extract and install some drivers though since Apple has a check for OS==Windows7 ? Install:"Hey, User, Go Fuck Yourself."
Thanks. That wasn't nice how they did it. Now it's leading to a caching problem for users who already viewed it. I'm not sure what to do. Fuuuu.

Thanks for the heads up. It should be fixed now. Clear cache the "hard" way if you have to.
X on Raspbian is not GPU accelerated. Since the CPU (but not the GPU!) is a bit anemic even by current ARM SoC standards, that's a big deal.

Firefox OS is accelerated, running on top of OpenGL ES. :)
I wish it was free :(
Thank you, it's been fixed! Clear cache if you still have issues.
She lost me on this particular quote:

>> I can explain that a hosted Javascript application is vulnerable to a deep structural attack better than any of them — I explain things for a living.

Doing something for a living doesn't necessarily imply that you're good at it.

Conversely, not doing something for a living (i.e., "explaining things") doesn't mean you're not good at it either.
Yep, exactly this!
RTM is considered as 'done'. By all intents and purposes it is the 'final build', any changes from this point on are hot fixes or updates.
I agree. But here's the conundrum: how you can you ever be sure there isn't life somewhere? From a logistics and logical standpoint, it's impossible. All you can say is "We haven't found life so far" ADD: And are we saying that separately-evolved strains of life should never have interaction with each other unless we can be sure of all of the consequences? Sure, many of the consequences will be catastrophic, but is it better never to leave home or explore? It makes me very sad to realize than many would say yes, it is.

sigh
Square's new flat rate is good for some, not all
The (Paper) Book: A Review
perhaps a more relevant sentiment would be, 'not every aspiring ballerina can make a living as a ballerina'.
I was just discussing the "do whatever you want" last night. "Want" is not picking a warm-fuzzy-inducing phrase off a list because you feel compelled to make a choice. "Want" is "get the he11 out of my way" compulsive drive which permeates your being.

To many faced with "you can be whatever you want" don't want to do anything; all they "want" is satisfaction of basic urges and amusements. Pressured to attend college or get a job, they perceive "do whatever you want" as picking a marginally satisfying term from a menu, and dutifully showing up for class and assuming a job will somehow follow.

Those who "do whatever you want" are going to do it regardless. I write software for a living because software is my life: I'm going to write software no matter what, I did it compulsively from an early age, and got good enough at it that someone wanted to pay me to do it. Michael Dell and Bill Gates and others dropped out of college because it got in their way of compulsively creating technology businesses. Eminem spends every spare moment writing lyrics, and if he has no paper he'll scrawl them on a wall.

"Be anything you want to be" only works for those who have a want, not for those who don't.
Announcing Trigger.io Reload - iterate fast on mobile, inspired by Clutch.io
Reposting a dead reply from otneusnocuh because it took the exact words out of my mouth:

> "As a customer, stop falling for this charade."

No, theres is no reason not to take them at their word.

"lifetime" and "unlimited" need to be protected advertising words. There is no reason whatsoever to tolerate straight up lies in marketing because they are common lies.
It may be "clearly one-per-page" now, but it may not be. You don't really gain anything by using an ID. Keep the selector specificity simple so it doesn't bite you in the ass and cause a refactor.

.page-wrapper
.page-main
%article.main

There's no difference using that to

#page-wrapper
#page-main
%article#main

Psuedo example, those can be mix and matched with classes and IDS but doing so just complicates the selectors and the cascade.

There is of course exceptions and things that may just make total sense, but overall, it leads to complications. You don't gain any real benefits unless it's a JS hook for #id selector performance.
The irony of this site using a facebook login is so thick you could swim in it.
I covered this when I wrote:

'In other words, this is Assange's lawyer saying "even if all you say is true this is why we believe there is no case". And you conveniently ignored the part where he provided that explanation for your last paragraph.'

It is not only the prosecutions claims, but it is also not in any way Assange's side of the story. It is the prosecutions claims plus an attempt by the lawyers at creating a plausible narrative within the constraints already laid down by the prosecutions claims without altering any of the prosecutions alleged facts.

That's a highly significant constraint.
Kickstarter doesn't allow non-US campaigns. Better use Indiegogo (www.indiegogo.com). Anyone anywhere can make and contribute to a campaign.
Decent infographic about the spread of drugs in the US
OK sure, Helium was a bad choice. Substitute your own.

> While I'm being a nitpicker Terra-form means roughly "to make like Earth"

Substitute whatever word the aliens have that means "to make like home planet" then.
Get your tickets and hotel rooms early this year, last year they sold out months in advance.
Benefits of Running for Entrepreneurs and How Exercise Relieves Stress
I don't begrudge you your right to care about this stuff, but I don't. At all. If there's a legitimate rape charge leveled in Sweden against Assange, or the Dalai Lama, or bassist Roman Glyck of 80s hair metal sensation Jackyl, I think extradition is a reasonable course of action.
The atmosphere of Mars is over 95% CO2[1] which I imagine could support the propagation of bacteria. The Moon doesn't have much of an atmosphere at all (a trillionth of what the Earth has).[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_the_Moon
Kim Stanley Robisons Mars Trilogy is mostly about this (i.e. 'Mankind is a pestilance' vs. 'We are the consciousness of the universe')
Care to be more specific about your problem? Most photos apps are more nice-to-have than must-have.
"Explaining" things that they don't understand is a hallmark of journalists, especially the so-called professional ones. Their knowledge of firearms, to take a really long-running example, was apparently acquired by watching made for TV movies.
I bought a lifetime gym membership long ago. The gym is (amazingly) still in business and still serves me.
Who would enforce the restriction that 1 BTC == 1 USD? The fact that bitcoin is decentralized means that the value of the currency pretty much has to float.
agreed. But there is a difference between knowingly doing something sloppy to get things done in the short term versus working like that on a regular basis and thinking it's just how programs are written.
Sometimes it looks like authoritarian governments can learn a thing or two from "democratic" countries.

When Chen Guangcheng sought refuge in the American embassy, the Chinese govt didn't use any trumped up criminal charges against him as an excuse to threaten to invade the American embassy and arrest Mr Chen.

Britain is threatening to invade the embassy of Ecuador by using a local 1987 law to revoke the diplomatic status of the embassy. Next time around, the Chinese and every authoritarian govt around the world will know how to handle any asylum seekers in any British embassy in the world.
How we built a Timeline plugin for angular.js
As of circa 19:00 GMT, 2012-08-16, the Github repository is unavailable.
A company's customers determine its value. Facebook's customers are advertisers, not stock purchasers.

Advertisers have valued them at a few billion dollars. The stock purchasers put that value at over $100bn. For some reason, people took the stock purchaser's word over the actual customer's word.
I beg to differ. Sweden is thought by many especially enlightened people to be case study in radical feminist insanity.

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/government-tyranny/the-...
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If there were only investment bankers and drummers, it would almost make sense to force the bankers to support the drummers (in effect what you are proposing). But the reality is there are mostly people like me, working very hard to support a family, making less than 100k, and I find the idea very hard to swallow that I should be supporting a drummer because they'd rather play than work.
This should also be advice for Groupon... as their shares continue to slide down.
Show HN: Open Sourcing my HTML5 Multiplayer Game Engine
Judge Koh asks Apple's attorneys if they're "smoking crack"
Why My Link Blog Is A Miserable Failure
And here we go again.

The article's essence: "All you pesky, silly little humanities students, go do something useful like we CS people/engineers. No really. Build an app. Become an entrepeneur. Fail horribly, sleep on somebody's couch, oh wait. Have instant success. Become rich. Be the new Zuckerberg. Or work in a bar. Forever. Serving drinks to us. Silly, silly non-engineers."

We've had dozens of these articles recently, and they all garner the exact same responses, lots of people here (rather unsurprisingly) agree (→ know your market), some disagree, both camps supply their position by dabbling in dazzling amounts of anecdotal evidence. Voilá, HN front page + discussion in a nut shell...

Alternative reading: Y'all just need to learn to code, so you too can be instantly successful...

Bonus points: Guess which camp I belong to, bash me for my post solely because of this, ignoring the HN critique
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One of my biggest takeaways from biz school (sadly, that should destroy all of my credibility here) was something a professor told my class.

"You'll find that anyone who calls themselves an expert at anything probably read a couple of really good articles".
> But it still doesn't solve my photo problem.

Which is...?
Beautiful app - it's an inspiring way to share ideas and forces you to refine them. Death to Powerpoint and long live Haiku!
It's 1 sentence surrounded by a webpage...
Think about it. You need a 3ghz machine just to emulate the SNES accurately. With C++.

Doing an N64 in JS will not work.
I think it's a bad idea to evaluate by checklists of features you think you need. It's kind of like choosing where to live based on a checklist.

I started with MySQL, then used MySQL and PostgreSQL for a while. Then, when I started to do more "real" projects, I just got so frustrated with MySQL in so many ways at once. It wasn't that MySQL couldn't do it, it's that it was frustrating at every turn.

In my case, what caused me to drop MySQL almost entirely (around 2003 or 2004) was doing a few simple reports involving dates. Then I started using postgres and it was refreshingly consistent and flexible without so many caveats. And now I develop for postgresql, and the code is similarly consistent and flexible (and just all-around nice).

I have had a long string of positive experiences with postgres. It's hard to wrap them up into a feature checklist.

If something held you back from using postgres in the past, it's a good idea to watch the release notes to see if something new might solve that problem (or better yet, discuss on the lists so maybe it will be solved faster). But I tend to think that looking at long lists of features is a distraction.
Indeed. It installs fine.
You can change fingerprints easily (if painfully); face and retina recognition, not so much.
You would have to manually curate the node package to work with Meteor and repackage manually. We're looking into ways Meteorite and Atmosphere can help with this, Thanks!
Things Startups Do That I Hate
I meant substantially inspired as an understatement.
Don’t trust your Technical Writter to write Quickstart guides
Engineer interns unite!

Most of these seem true about any well put together company that has set the boundaries between the code and breaking of said code. As a software engineer intern at Animoto in NYC, these were all completely true, and I know other interns at other startups in NYC that also had high expectations out of their SE interns.

Interns can't learn unless they build and break, and shouldn't be put out in an island so they don't have to worry about breaking. If your system is built out well enough, no intern would be able to push out code that breaks in production.
Need a little entrepreneurial courage?
Selling admissions officers of their achievements, selling teachers and counselors of their desires and passions...

Wow. I guess I'm just so glad that I got to grow up in a completely different universe.

Where no one cared about "selling teaches and counselors of their desires and passions..." - we cared about our desires and passions quite a lot, thank you, but for their own sake. And couldn't give a rat's ass about selling an admissions counselor on them. Even if in fact we were busting our chops to get into the best school we possibly could -- this would have seemed like an incredibly vain and superficial approach to getting to go where we wanted in life. Like trying to game the system somehow, because that was the only way to get ahead. Or flattery.

And the thought of nurturing a portfolio of extracurricular "desires and passions" for the sake of impressing these kinds of people -- let alone for the supposed brass rings that would supposedly be within our reach, after years and years of such compounded drudgery and self-abasement -- really, now. Who has time for any of that?
Yeah, the comments seem to be filled with people saying that it's not practical to provide "lifetime", and people buying it should have known they didn't mean it anyway.

And that fascinates me. There's a clear information asymmetry here, and therefore a clear power differential. But so many people are instantly willing to blame the weaker party for being trusting, rather than blaming the stronger party for abusing their customers.

Of course, they're only doing that after it blows up. None of them are saying, "Stop using Hacker News! There's no revenue model, so it will all end in tears! Quit now!"
"Stop worrying about the financial and regulatory know how and just try out your idea."

Internet Libertopia!
Coming back from Portland and pleasantly surprised at the number of cabs using Square. Not an expert in the world of taxi companies, but at first glance the monthly pricing seems like a potential match for them.
I agree it's fairly complex, but I think there is a lot more than some people working hard, providing value, and making money, while others are just "playing", not providing value and not making money. Ability to capture value is central, and not as easy in all valuable areas as others. One longstanding debate is over scientific research: patents are an attempt to allow it to be monetizable, so the market will ensure that scientists are able to capture some of the value of their discoveries. But they also have a lot of problems, and in addition tend only to allow near/medium-term value to be captured, so don't help much with basic research that will only be commercialized in terms longer than the patent term. That's one specific example, but I don't think entirely unique.
What can the US charge him for that is punishable by death? The most I think they can get is conspiracy to commit espionage, which is not, according to the below list, a capital offense.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-laws-providing-death...
"Radical feminist insanity". Here's where I get off this train. Have fun, all.
No. A terrible source too: (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/16/julian-assange-e...)

> A very different perspective from Vaughan Smith, a friend of Assange who put him up for more than a year at his Norfolk residence. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One this afternoon, Smith said:

>> [...]
>> I think there's a lot of pride involved here... They have interviewed an alleged murderer in Serbia but they choose not to come to London to interview Julian Assange. I think that's very disappointing.
Wow, where did you order yours?

I have 2 of them, one each from the 2 places taking preorders on day 1 and I wasn't first in line or anything. I got both of mine about the middle of June and they didn't cost any more than expected.
No, actually I don't think the article is excluding CS engineers. He just says you have to learn how to sell and be entrepreneurial. If anything, he's addressing those engineers that think making an app is enough to give you success.
My Month With a ChromeBox: How I Survived Without Windows or Mac
7% fee. rofl.
Rackspace are amazing. The only gripe I have (which isn't minor, I might add) is that you can only buy machines in tiers. If you want a machine with high network throughput (say, like a proxy), you need to purchase lots of cpu, ram and disk space that you have no need for.
I remember talking to them very very recently and asking for this EXACT feature. If I'm using webviews and JavaScript I want to change things on the fly. One more reason to use trigger for my projects !
Behind the scenes of a seed round
Most people can never compete in the Olympics. Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt have physical characteristics that you and I do not have. For most Olympic sports this is the case.

Why pretend otherwise? Acknowledging it doesn't mean you and I can't do great things in life. It just means there are particular great things that we will never be able to do, and should not waste our time trying to do.
I thought not only impact, but "skidding" was a huge danger for cyclists [that don't wear helmets]. This seems to do next to nothing to help there.
Already posted, discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379867 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4375713 , and Google's blog post about it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4375713
Braintree Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million
Trillion frames per second [video]
Terrifying how quickly Trigger.io moves. This is already awesome, but I could see an A/B testing layout on top of this that alone could be an amazing startup.

I expect that we'll see a lot of consolidation in the mobile tooling market as companies with well-designed base infrastructure are able to quickly dominate new niches and feature sets. If Trigger continues executing this well, I'll be happy to see the market consolidate around them.
> A coin toss is random. C picking up for the stuff we did in the eighties is not random. Lisp losing traction after the AI winter is not random. Javascript gaining traction with the web is not random.

Why is a coin toss any more random than a specific language gaining traction? It's called "(extreme) sensitivity to initial conditions." Many of which are neither observable nor predictable.
Techcrunch title is not representative of the matter. How is this "betting big"? It is just and additional feature. What are they exactly betting here?
If anyone has to get approval from their manager, I'd suggest they get moving on that very soon. Look for ticket sales to open up in the fall, and expect them to move quickly like last year.

We heard from a lot of people that ticket sales opened and were sold out before they were able to hear back from everyone up their chain of approvals.