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"Unfortunately, during the three years that I searched for positions outside of academe, I found that humanities Ph.D.'s, without relevant experience or technical skills, generally compete at a moderate disadvantage against undergraduates, and at a serious disadvantage against people with professional degrees. If you take that path, you will be starting at the bottom in your 30s, a decade behind your age cohort, with no savings (and probably a lot of debt)."

Good, recent submission on an important issue. Young people seeking advanced degrees should look at what happens to people who obtain the degrees. A lot of young people smart enough to obtain an advanced degree in the humanities would be much better rewarded by doing something else.

"As things stand, I can only identify a few circumstances under which one might reasonably consider going to graduate school in the humanities:

* You are independently wealthy, and you have no need to earn a living for yourself or provide for anyone else.

* You come from that small class of well-connected people in academe who will be able to find a place for you somewhere.

* You can rely on a partner to provide all of the income and benefits needed by your household.

* You are earning a credential for a position that you already hold -- such as a high-school teacher -- and your employer is paying for it.

"Those are the only people who can safely undertake doctoral education in the humanities."
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> Because Eric Sink is a smart guy, but he doesn't understand git yet. He's still following the Subversion workflow.

His article makes it seem like he doesn't have his head all the way around git's internals, but I think his problem with git is a valid one: it makes it _much easier_ to do the wrong thing to the build than the relatively simplistic svn does, and it can be a drag to use tools that make breaking the build quite so easy. For big team projects it is, in that sense, very much like C programming, and even more like C++ programming: it's a lot of power, but it's way more than enough rope to hang yourself with, or for the guy in the next cube to accidentally hang you with:

> ...you need to act differently than you do when you're in an environment that attempts to protect you from your own mistakes.
Interesting take on a social networking site
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I just want to maximize every last bit of publicity I can get out of launching.

a) Approximately 99.998% of the people who will eventually hear of you will not do so on launch day.

b) In six months from now if I arrive on your site for the first time following a Google search, to all intents and purposes you just sprang into being. Am I getting your best launch experience? If not, revise plans.
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Seriously I read somewhere that someone complained about the word "Sexy" turning up a porn result.

Is that over the top? Maybe. But think about who looks up the word "Sexy" on a live video stream... I think they're on the right track in some way. Well, I don't necessarily think they're doing the right thing like this, but certainly if you have moral qualms with it, feel free to not use their service. I'm not sure this is a reason to stop using their service. Still, I think it might be better if maybe they had a button that said "Yes, redirect me" instead of only waiting five (only five?) seconds. Or, if Justin.tv is really using this to keep bad content off their site, why don't they block those terms completely? It's not like redirecting users to a porn site is the best alternative...not to mention all this bad press.
I can't figure out why there is such a protective attitude about YC around here. Sure, the board is a service (experiment) of pg and YC, but seriously folks, they don't have a mentoring/seed investment patent on this kind of an operation. Why can't folks be happy there are more opportunities out there? Are you claiming that only YC startups can benefit from such a program or that only YC can be beneficial the young company?
Responding to your footnote [2], it would be interesting to hear what obstacles are in the way of doing a start-up in India. Are they the kind of things that can be worked around once and then the effort amortized over multiple start-up companies? If so, maybe there is an opportunity for something like YC in India that guides early stage people through the hoops required to start their own companies.
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Compared to GNUstep it looks nice, but that's not saying much. GNUstep is incredibly dated and downright hideous: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/images/full-screenshot1....
Call it me-too if you like, Matt, but there's some great stuff coming out of Techstars. I don't care where innovative companies come from - just that they get off the ground.

Sorry to hear you're not into that.
I use Eclipse Ressource finder (Ctrl+shift+r), Type finder(Ctrl+shift+t) and outline (Ctrl+shift+o) to jump to interesting parts.
Ruby and your brain
He's still following the Subversion workflow.

That wouldn't be my first guess for the source control product of choice for the CEO of a company which makes a source control product.
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Many people call magenta "hot pink" and pink "salmon".
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There are plenty of indy game companies who are producing fun and innovative games without spending millions. Of the top of my head:

Braid - http://braid-game.com/

Toribash - http://www.toribash.com/

Everyday shooter - http://www.everydayshooter.com/

Cortex command - http://www.datarealms.com/games.php

Introversion Games in general - http://www.introversion.co.uk/

Velociraptor safari - http://raptorsafari.com/play.php

Armadillo run - http://www.armadillorun.com/

Love (not released yet but so promising) - http://www.quelsolaar.com/

I predict that the combination of poorer customers and more accessible distribution channels (steam, iphone, kongregate) will result in a string of successes for such games - maybe enough to change the way the industry works.
How will we determine if he's competent

Why not use IQ testing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation#Treatment_an...

There are thousands of agencies in the United States that provide assistance for people with developmental disabilities. They include state-run, for-profit, and non-profit, privately run agencies.
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possibly more [...] intelligent than humans

Do you think it is likely that mean modern-Neanderthal (Neanderthal raised in a modern environment) IQ would be higher than mean modern-human IQ?
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Integrating servers that are being used as message conduits between the front end and the back end of an application seems like a nightmare, security wise. I much prefer integration points to be limited rather than everything out in the open.
How about you have another looks at those barriers to entry?
The thing is, each and every one of us is unique, by virtue of being born.

People just happen to have converging tendencies, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's no need to Be Different. I'm not saying you shouldn't find your own thing and do it. It's just that being different doesn't require any effort on anyone's part.

Besides, anyone could pick up _why's Quirky Shtick and sound roughly the same.
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My standard of living is doing just fine because I've adapted by improving and expanding my skillset and become one step ahead of outsourced and H-1B workers in my field.

Restricting foreign competition for jobs only foster complacency and increase the likelihood of my job being outsourced.

You could say my Libertarianism is malignant.
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I was very convinced by the reflections to real life soldiers' experiences. Didn't you read them?

As a father of two kids, I'm considerably more worried now, especially about the education part.
I find it ironic that you are building a business to help people know they are getting paid what they are worth and most of the people commenting here are questioning your understanding of what the "lead developer" is worth. That does give me a little pause as to your domain knowledge.
Google top menu is not coherent
Anyone noticed how the top menu is changing depending you are in gmail, reader, search, ... other services. Even the name changes for me (i.e: Gmail, Email, Mail, ...)

I tend to spend at least 2 seconds on each page to find the link I'm searching for.

Any reason why it is that way ? (Maybe just to give chance to new services ...)

How could it be improved ?
Justification: if I can take your things without paying, why will I pay you?

If you have to invest in security to make sure people don't steal your things, you are not investing in your business, which will retard growth.
I think teams would apply to YC no matter the location, but not likewise for TechStars.
I was referring to a careful implementation by competent people. An organisation opting to store in plaintext would have to have special precautions so that could never happen.

The implementation I have knowledge of is separate from the "main" DB, accessible only over an internal REST interface and heavily secured. There is no way a simple attack or compromisation of a web server could make it spit out the kind of "jackpot!" list you're talking about. The infrastructure is layered like a frickin' matryoshka doll and frankly you would have more luck just robbing a bank.

So it is possible to do well, with due care and attention and a competent paranoid admin. Not advisable or desirable for a "normal" system, I agree completely.
It wasn't transparent while it was happening. They host their status blog themselves, so it was down too.
I never thought I'd be flagging my own site.

As happy as I am to find this here, I don't think it's particularly relevant to Hacker News. I figured Adam and I would write something about our reaction to how quickly this site got big - 36 hours and 2800 sign-ups and still escalating - but I dunno if the site itself is particularly hacker-relevant.

One comment, though: it's hard to say just how thrilling it is to see this thing appearing all over the Internet. I'd never have expected this to go so far. For us, this was just an experiment in web design with a snarky theme. Waking up yesterday to see 100 users, or going to PHP class and seeing a hundred new people every 20 minutes while I was working on classwork, was a pretty incredible feeling. I'm glad so many people enjoy it.
Do internet-called boycotts ever have any measurable impact?

Even if it is measurable, do they ever last long enough to do any damage?

I'm really curious; does anyone know of a case study?
Much simpler just to use heavy duty rubber (or similar) and fill it with a non-Newtonian fluid. Think cornstarch and water, or oobleck.

http://www.google.com/search?q=oobleck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHlAcASsf6U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYj6Ju8IcW0
It works well that way. They pick the most-used services from each of their current services. Think of it as a dynamic menu.

The loss in access time is made up by the time recovered from people who find the right links waiting for them.
Seconded, both have their place.

I have tried pretty much all of them, incl. snapBack, dirvish and various homegrown scripts building on top of rsync, rdup, rcs and so on.

rdiff and duplicity are the most mature of the pack which shows mostly in their handling of corner cases (connection loss during backup, resume of a partial/failed backup, disk full during backup, handling of really large trees) but also in overall convenience and robustness (legibility of on-disk format, configuration sanity, tools to find a specific revision of a file, flexibility in retention/purge intervals etc.).

I generally recommend rdiff as the default tool for backups to a remote spinning disk. duplicity, as parent suggests, is good when you need your archive to be a single large file which helps with handling in some situations.

There is also dar worth mentioning which is less useful for incremental stuff but can add redundancy to archives which is good for archiving to unreliable/decaying media (DVD, Tape). Be aware though that older versions had problems with large archives, use a recent version.

And last no least, if you have a tape library then Bacula is a mighty tool. Easier to use and pretty much on par in terms of features compared to the commercial offerings and the residents like Amanda.

We generally deploy a single backup server here with lots of disks that pulls snapshots from everywhere via rdiff and either mirrors the local repository to a remote location or feeds the precious data to tape via Bacula.
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"Startups at that stage can move."

What if they don't want to? What if they don't want to be in California. This gives them options.
Well then, in your parallel universe, by all means store plaintext passwords. I'll go on busting up the real apps, and recommending they don't tempt fate by storing passwords.
You've completely eschewed the conventional norms in the "social networking" scene while still maintaining the core essence of what makes them awesome (especially the "25 things about me" facebook phenomenon); If that isn't relavent to hacker culture, I don't know what is.
Simple rule of thumb for measuring the perceived complexity of a user interface
Done quite a bit of retail banking work. Stored plaintext passwords? A doc-able finding.
Very neat. I had fun answering a bunch of questions. Although, I was really hoping for a dating site with a sister site called http://www.notabitch.com/

I think this would make a great addition to a lot of social networking and dating sites. Post a few new random madlibs to users every so often to keep them and their friends interested. Up the stickiness.
I guess. I'd find it more impressive if we'd managed to connect users using a similarly skewered method, but we didn't. (Even if we'd let you connect via similar answers, it would still be following convention.)
It was suggested that we create a series of sites. Notawanker, notacunt, notaspaz... not sure how good that would look on a resume. "Douche" is edgy but not quite offensive; "bitch" crosses some line that "douche" doesn't.
Too much, whatever it was.
Is Silicon Valley seeing an economic turnaround?
>> An organisation opting to store in plaintext would have to have special precautions so that could never happen.

What everyone is trying to say is there are no foolproof measures to securing data. Everyone who thinks their method is safe becomes the case study for the next generation.

Also, social engineering and disgruntled employees trump internal software architecture everytime.
It says this problem occurs only if "you've updated the distro via CPAN".

Conventional wisdom says that you don't mess with most of /usr, you only add to /usr/local; and on Mac OS X, you don't mess with most of /System/Library, you add to /Library.

So people shouldn't be trying to patch the system Perl, they should be installing their CPAN modules in a separate place (e.g. /usr/local/lib/perl5).

As long as /usr/local isn't blown away, the OS vendor can do whatever the heck they want to the rest of /usr, including reverting it to a known and supported state.
Code review of an exploit
one handed typing can be hard :/
I think that most people's interest (including mine) in doing YCombinator or TechStars is not really the funding. It seems that you'd be much better off in this case just saving the 6 or 8k yourself. Rather, the network and guidance in getting your idea off the ground seems to be the real value.
Exactly right, and I'm trying to say that too!

My point is that although password hashing is a very wise practise, there are situations in which the plaintext is necessary, and with careful design a plaintext password store can be made no weaker in security than the rest of the system.

This seems to me to be common sense and I have no idea why it's so controversial.
Then your internalized knowledge is something worth for doing webstuff with SproutCore.
Most mobile operating systems, now have an app store
pg commented above, so that can't be their reason. Maybe they just like Boston?
I wish I could... ;-)
I recommend that too but sometimes it is unavoidable. When, not if, but when you come across that necessity in your encounters with "real apps", I hope you rightfully feel like a bit of a douche for writing the above.
For all the interesting things _why does, I've always maintained that it would be completely unsurprising if he was in fact an entire group of hackers. He must never sleep.
My manly eyes only see 16 colors (only women see more than 16 colors!). Magenta is one of them, so Magenta is a color!
:-)
Did you get an MBA or something?
Normal is so overrated that it's cliché to say it is so.
...but where's the business model????

(just kidding)
I don't think that patents are a particularly good proxy for innovation - I've never even tried to get patents for a lot of the most cutting-edge stuff I've worked on (that would, in my lay opinion, be worthy of being granted a patent). And we all know the anecdotes of companies that patent every trivial modification they implement on standard algorithms or data structures.

On the other hand, I do know at least one scientist who checks out all the patents granted to a competing lab to keep tabs on the sort of research they do. He claims that, in our field, patents are a far better indicator of the amount of effort a lab is expending on a topic than papers published or press releases put out. shrugs
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http://cafepress.com/thenadstore

We're old-school: merchandise only, baby!

(We're getting a few artistic friends to make posters, so hopefully we'll have something really worth selling. I also really like the look of the "nad" logo.)
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It happens that I have a lot of data about the number of startups that need to be in Boston to participate in something like YC, because they were the ones who waited for summer cycles to apply when we had the summer cycles in Boston. Of those we accepted I don't think the number was ever more than 3 a year.
now that was cool -- i (for the first time ever) actually had fun filling out my profile!
I meant encrypted for banking, of course. The key point being that the passwords are readable. Two-way, vs the one-way hash discussed before. Maybe I didn't explain myself properly.

Web site passwords might be one-way hashed, I don't know, but telephone banking passwords must be displayed on screen for the operator to read.
I've written very negatively about spec work in the past, and because of this I get approached at conferences to discuss this issue.

I've now met 5 people doing work for 99designs and other spec work sites with an intent of coming back later in a legal form. It is all about intent, and you are asking a designer to do custom work for you with the intent not to pay.

I've said it is inherently evil, and somethings like this are going to happen.

I like the saying "there is no such thing as a great designer, only a great client." You drive the design, and if you resort to sites like these, you open yourself up to a slew of legal issues, and wave the flag that you are not willing to work on one of the most important public parts of you company.
great site -- how many of those 2800 sign-ups filled out the entire profile? I wouldn't be surprised if most of them did!
I see 2^24 = 16777216 colors, and I'm not a woman.
nad: not the best initialism...
Gateway is as is defined in RFC 3920 Section 2.1

"G1 = A gateway that translates between XMPP and the protocol(s) used on a foreign (non-XMPP) messaging network"

I don't think my question was not vague at all. It just might be out of the ordinary. Most people are interested in XMPP client implementations. I want a pre-existing open-source project that would be a good first step towards building an XMPP gateway.
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Lol, hi Jonny, small world isn't it...

Well, I've never been a huge fan of REST when it comes to user-facing web pages. The "big 7" verbs seem to me to be limited and arbitrary, and while very interesting as a kind of natural API I don't use it for browser pages.

I think Rails over-hypes "REST everywhere" and if you don't have a clear use case, I'd forget about it, at least on "normal" pages. Trying to unify API access and normal web pages seems pointless to me. I also have other concerns, which I funnily enough wrote about:

http://fukamachi.org/wp/2008/04/01/restful-confusion/

Good to see you, look forward to seeing the fruits of your labour!
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@ 12:24

When incentives don't work, when CEOs ignore the
long-term health of their companies in pusuit of
short-term gains that will lead to massive bonuses,
the resonse is always the same:

get smarter incentives.

The truth is that there are no incentives you can
devise that are ever going to be smart enough. Any
incentive system can be subverted by bad will.

Well worth the time to listen to the entire talk.
I think it was $15.
You can only use the work you pay for and nobody is forcing any of the designers to compete. So I don't see your point.
no-spec.com appears to be in violation of federal RICO laws. http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles/2008/smithfield_union_r...

Smithfield says the union, the United Food and Commercial Workers International, and its officials violated RICO by issuing press releases, contacting civil rights and environmental groups, organizing protests and calling for boycotts.
Sounds like therbligs are back. After 90 years, and without the ridiculous name.

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