skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an engineering student right now but I know exactly how you feel. I like the content but the thought of working full time terrifies me. I spent a couple of months as an intern/observer in a company and I can't imagine devoting my life to work. It would almost certainly make me burn out in a year or two.

I've been looking into jobs that work few hours but are highly qualified and they're usually outside consultants that get called in a couple of days a week. Apart from them there was one person who worked in a refinery that only had to be at work 20ish hours a week. She spent most of the rest at home on call or simply working from home. I recall that she enjoyed it.
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AppFog is just as simple and way more powerful too.
I just looked at the sold listings. The Nexus 4 looks like it's going for $460-499.
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Here's a slide deck by Bellare talking about some of the differences between encrypt-and-MAC, MAC-then-encrypt, and encrypt-then-MAC:

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/cse207/s-ae.pdf
It does not then follow that when someone refuses to explain something to you like you are their grandmother that they do not really understand what they're talking about.

Also I'm pretty sure that's Diablo Cody's quote, not Einstein's.
^^ This is a better solution. I've learned my lesson in not getting my phone :(
More than half the population would take a serious pay cut. In reality, I think they would if you could measure results easily without gaming.
Yeah, acabal. Fuck you for trying to learn anything.
It's the same unlocked "no carrier" phone, just at a higher price in-store, or so I've read.
I was just reading in "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte and interestingly there is the same crescent visible in his cancer maps.

It is most pronounced in "All types of cancer, white males; age adjusted rate by country, 1950-1969" on page 17 (second edition of the book).

I don't see it in the corresponding (all types of cancer) map for females, but with a bit of squinting it might be visible in the lung cancer maps for both white males and females.

Unfortunately the book has only the maps for whites.
I did at a previous job. It was a small web development shop owned by a husband and wife, and around 7 employees. I was the lead developer there and getting bored with the work. I proposed that I work 3 days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and be paid 60% of my salary. I spent Tuesday and Thursday working on my side projects.

Eventually the company went out of business, but I had great success with working part time.
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Setting aside whether 60-80 hours per week is sustainable (and I think it's not for most pople, except perhaps for 20-somethings and people with hypomania), the research this article references says that there isn't a 1-to-1 correlation between hours and output. That's the whole point.

"... increasing a team’s hours in the office by 50 percent (from 40 to 60 hours) does not result in 50 percent more output (as Henry Ford could have told them). Most modern-day managers assume there will be a direct one-to-one correlation between extra hours and extra output, but they’re almost always wrong about this. In fact, the numbers may typically be something closer to 25-30 percent more work in 50 percent more time."

From about 1/3 down in the "The Overtime Exception" section.
You shouldn't use crypto at all (for instance, for reset tokens, you can just use long random numbers as keys), but if you have to use a library, use PGP, NACL, or Keyczar.
I also feel the converse is true to some extent - the effect of a founder on a company's atmosphere is massive, especially at smaller scales.
You need to see what the permission means within the behavior of similar permissions, and that is written in application guidelines for iOS devices. Here's one way that this app violates the guidelines, hence does something unexpected with the permission:

"17. Privacy

17.1
Apps cannot transmit data about a user without obtaining the user's prior permission and providing the user with access to information about how and where the data will be used"
So the current social expectation of most twitter users (app developers take note) is that an app should not post content without informing the user that they are going to do so; or without affirmative action from the user indicating that they want the app to take that action. I've seen people get outraged by apps that post without warning often enough to think that doing so breaks a fundamental bond of trust.

So the granting of permission is conditional on that permission being used responsibly, and if the app fails to work without that permission and then breaks trust with its users in that dramatic of a fashion...

I know that I won't purchase or use any Enfour inc. product in the future on the basis of this; there's plenty of easier dictionary apps that won't falsely accuse me of piracy.
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Quite a few of the replies to acabal's comment amount to "yes, it's hard, suck it up and learn it."

But the crypto community has told us time and again that we shouldn't be trying to learn the fine details of crypto. If we are, it's a warning sign we're wading into the dangerous world of actually implementing crypto. We're just supposed to use pre-built, peer-reviewed crypto systems and understand at a very high level how they work. E.g. knowing what a hash is versus symmetric keys vs asymmetric keys, knowing which algorithms are still acceptable (Bcrypt) and which aren't (md5). And this, I think, is the right message for developers.

But the OP has a valid point. If it's true that many of the high-level, crypto-layman-friendly libraries do bad things like using all-zero IVs, then we have a real problem. But here's where I disagree with the OP: It should not fall on the average developer to understand this stuff and override a crypto library's insecure defaults.

Instead, authors of crypto libraries need to step up and implement secure defaults, as well as provide solid documentation on the do's and don'ts of their libraries. (Assuming of course the OP is correct about the flawed defaults in existing libraries.)

In any case, the solution is not to urge normal developers to learn crypto at the level the OP describes. I'm a smart guy, but I know better than to trust myself with things like initialization vectors. This is, after all, what the broader crypto community has been telling people.
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How did they shut down third party apps? I'm technically not supposed to be able to tether on Sprint, but I can run PDANet or FoxFi to tether over USB or bluetooth anyway, on a non-rooted phone.
I think it's a massive win for everybody concerned, given the prevailing work conditions the workers had to suffer.
How is race more fine-grained than the socioeconomic status of individual schools?
One thing to factor into the equation is that taxes on 401K money are paid eventually anyway. Taxes will almost certainly be higher in the future, but offset by possibly lower income (the annual draw from the 401K). You get compounding in the 401K on tax-deferred money, but there's no guarantee above 1% annually now. Also Congress can keep raising the minimum 401K withdrawal age, before which the 10% penalty applies.
On T-Mobile, yes, yes they do. I save $20 a month on my bill from bringing in my own phone.
I dunno, I think businesses realize that reach comes at a cost. In FB's case, however, they interpreted the cost as the time, effort, and resources that it takes to build a fanbase and pump out relevant, interesting content. Now they have to pay more to reach people who've voluntarily said, in essence, "I want to read/see your stuff." It feels a bit like a bait-and-switch.
Why do we need conferences, wouldn't a meetup be better?
The modes themselves aren't intrinsically breakable, it's just that the most obvious ways to use them are.
The iPhone 5 sold five million in the first three days. The phone was announced Sep-12, preorders opened Sep-14, sales opened Sep-21. If you look at the estimated BOM+manufacturing cost ($207) that means Apple probably had a billion dollars worth of iPhones sitting in their distribution network before they even started selling them.

Does Google have five million of these phones sitting in a warehouse? I doubt it, they probably manufactured based on historical Nexus sales figures, and I'd guess that the fact that this is sold out just means it is selling better than previous Nexus phones.

EDIT: I can't find a good source but my best estimate for the sales of the Galaxy Nexus (i.e. Nexus 3) is 100,000 per month based on sales of $250M over 6 months at $400 ea. [1]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/20/3256590/samsung-galaxy-nex...
Yes, but the study seemed fairly focused on single task performance. I don't think I can do a single task for even 40h/wk (maybe 20-30, tops), but running a startup or being dev/devops at a fast growing startup involves a lot of varied tasks. Performance on these doesn't really draw from the same pool.
I attended Virginia schools from grades 4-12, and my particular school district decided it would be a good idea to have a "prestigious" grading scale (A=93-100, B=87-92, C=78-86, and so on). It seemed like a good idea at first: A public school system would be known for having "higher standards" than others. The problem? Colleges didn't give a damn what grading scale you used. Your GPA was the same as anyone's, which made it harder on every student without any real benefit.

My question is what does this "achievement standard" do if the grading system stays the same? It doesn't really seem to affect anyone, except maybe takes another step toward eliminating "survival of the fittest"
That's odd. I wasn't notified by email when it apparently became available. Were people just refreshing Google Play nonstop until they saw an option to buy it?
You'll notice they are very strict about background processing in applications and the usage of battery draining things such as GPS or cellular data. This helps battery life significantly. Google didn't start prioritizing view smoothness and efficiency until android 3 or 4.

The OS & apps are pretty much pure C from the ground up, with an objective-c application layer. The entire view system (Core Animation) is GPU accelerated with OpenGL from day one.

Objective-C on iOS does not have a GC, so apps are generally faster and more responsive with manual memory management. Many apps can drop into pure C or C++ to improve performance easily.

All of these performance choices give you a faster phone for less processor.

A slower processor also tends to use less energy too. Battery size is a pure weight/size vs capacity tradeoff.
This not true for all carriers. T-mobile has cheaper non-contract plans.

No-contract is 50 dollars for unlimited everything ($70 if you want 4G):
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans

With a contract it is 90 dollars for unlimited everything (which I believe is roughly standard across the industry):
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/individual-plans.aspx
To be fair, he asked in his post for cost certainty, not "free."

Now, honestly, what I want as a user and as an advertiser is the ability for the user to turn up and down the volume of another entity, be it a person or brand. I may want medium on George Takei, high on King's X and low on Hormel's Spam (yes, I like Spam.) Do you think it'd be valuable to send things to different demographics as a brand? I know I think so, especially if I can get some cost certainty.

The problem is that the amount of likes and the value of the brand are unrelated. Takei is not going to pay as much as Quizno's, even if he has three times the fans.
Unfortunately, socioeconomic status doesn't work. Poor white kids, for example, have this bad habit of out-scoring black children from the highest income brackets on the SATs.

This is the same reason that AA-preferences in college admissions use race instead of SES.
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Yes it is impressive. The iPhone engineers critically have done great work with the performance/power consumption of their CPU and their power management in the OS. They're also using a fantastic baseband which is extremely lower efficient on LTE it seems. Lastly the screen area of the iPhone is quite a lot smaller which does account for some of the iPhones lower power usage.
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There are a few alternatives, like https://www.deskwanted.com/ and http://www.opendesks.com/.

We're actually building an MVP for a similar site with focus on the market in northern Europe, it would be interesting to hear where it went wrong for Loosecubes. They looked like the best kids in class.
I think he _does_ want to invest, but in experiences during his early 20s, rather than by building his finances.
Show HN (~ 2 months ago) course reviewer
With all the online courses (coursera, edx, udacity) someone made a nice little site where people could vote on courses, and provide reviews of their experience.

They put it up on Show HN between 2-5 months ago and I would really love to find it again, but google isn't helping me.

Anyone remember?

Thanks in advance
Startup School was the best I've been to by far:
a) free
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c) high quality attendees including yc alums
That's usually how it works with commons - everybody can use it until someone starts to screw it up.

Facebook originally allowed this because it enticed both user and content engagement. Now, Facebook needs to reel it back in to preserve whatever value is left of it's activity feed - before it becomes the next useless myspace.
I'm using pagodabox.com it works great for me.
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I don't see how those statements invalidate my claim.
Tangentally related, мотыга is Russian for Hoe. As unglamorous and boring word as it gets.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoe_(tool)
Its /kind of/ sold out - if you refresh enough it will allow you to add it to your cart. I took me about 30 minutes of refreshing, and about 15 failed attempts to add it to my cart, but I finally was able to check out successfully with a 16GB Nexus 4.

Order date: Nov 13, 2012 1:36:11 PM EST
That has very little to do with developer-friendliness...

The ability to run my development OS in a virtual machine, preferably on a hyper-visor, is paramount. Am I supposed to buy one physical machine per configuration that I want to test?

Apple has recently gotten a little friendlier in this regard. At least now you can run OS X in a virtual machine at all, even if it does have to be on Mac hardware.

Microsoft also has a history of private APIs.

Not really...and especially not on the level that Apple does. (Can you name some off the top of your head that are not security related?) It's not just about APIs either. It's usually an utter lack of functionality on Apple's part.

For example, look at Finder vs Explorer. Does Finder have an official/supported plug-in architecture yet? Why not? Power users and developers have been begging for this for over ten years.

What do you suppose Apple's reason is for only allowing the Dock program to affect NSScreen visibleFrame? I believe that it's the same reason that Apple took forever to allow people to resize Windows by all sides. It's the same reason that they never admitted that a single-button mouse is not better - they think they know better than any other developers out there. That's unfriendly.

Fortunately, you can use Java or any mixture of widely-used open source libraries, which are often far easier to compile and use, given that OS X is a fairly regular UNIX.

Apple is not very inviting to a large portion of developers, yet there's (sometimes) an alternative, so that means Apple is friendly to developers? I know that all of the *nix devs out there are on Macs now because Linux failed miserably as a desktop OS...but that still doesn't make Apple friendly to developers.

There's a reason that Apple has this bad reputation with developers, particularly in comparison with Microsoft. Part of it has to do with their business model, part of it is simply hubris and in any case, there's a long history to consult here.
So now capitalism itself is the opium of the people?
np - good luck.

This should be a profitable long haul play - build a brand around your story and the value to landlords, sure, but the bread and butter should come from white labelling to every realtor from here to Nebraska. Really, ask for some advice here on pitching to AngelList. You really do hit all the boxes, but sales to realtors is notorious (at least in UK - highly fragmented and demanding market, but they all want nice regular monthly paychecks from rentals - and you are a value add they could sell)
My college had the same idea. To 'boost' the program they made the average GPA 2.8.

The result? About 60%(instead of the usual 50%) of the graduating class was automatically denied interviews at company's that had a 3.0 minimum GPA requirement.
It's the difference between using a wifi weight scale and using a normal weight scale and recording the value in an app. That removal of friction will make you weigh yourself more.

Wireless charging 5-30 second operation into a 2 second operation
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> for most though, a subsidized iphone 5 or galaxy s3 is a better option at $100 cheaper

Is it really, though? As an example, T-Mobile prepaid offers $30/month for unlimited data (5gb @4g) & SMS, plus 100min voice. Poking at ATT's site the most comparable contract plan I see for iphone 5 is about $90/month. That's over $700 more out of pocket in a year if you go with the subsidized phone.
The simplest way to think about it is during the receiving process: checking the MAC before decrypting catches and rejects evil messages earlier so there are fewer things that can (and will) go wrong. Even if you tell the world that the message wasn't invalid, you don't reveal any new information to the attacker.

OTOH, if the receiver must decrypt before checking the MAC, any information leaked to the attacker (success or failure, timing, etc) is very likely to give the attacker a systematic method to decrypt some or all of your secret plaintext.
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The goals of evolution are not the same as those of some country's army.
Eastern Massachusetts, outside of Boston.
there is actually e-book with similar topic:
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Another alternative might be Wordpress+Heroku:

https://github.com/mhoofman/wordpress-heroku

I've used it for a few projects and it works reasonably well.
I think it’s just unacceptable for the interface in such an expensive car to look so ugly. You may be able to fiddle with it, but that never seemed like an acceptable excuse to me. When I pick the knobs I know what I get. It might not be really possible to change them, but at least I could pick something I liked.
Where do you reliably find the client?
This just happen to be how the latest Android toy is sold. And probably has little to do with the cost of data plan or subsidy in general.
It's not; the socioeconomic data is just hard for schools to get.
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I once saw a janitor who always had more work to do. She worked 40 hours a week and then did the extra that the boss asked her about on any given day. She could've told him that cleaning desks wasn't in the contract. Or she could've reported the overtime. But not everyone has those kinds of luxuries if they want to keep their jobs.

Some jobs always have more shit to shovel, be it actual shit or feature creep. And some people will always expect you to shovel more next quarter/year.
I'd prefer something with the simplicity and ease of setup/maintenance as PHP Fog.
I think you've touched on the base problem of both sides of the argument -- it's a UX issue.

Facebook has given too much power to the 'like' button. There should be a different 'follow' or 'subscribe' button. If you subscribe to a page, you would expect to always get updates from it.

I only subscribed to facebook to be able to watch some dev videos. As I slowly became more used to it, I wanted to know how to get updates from the company page I work for. When I asked how to do this and was told to 'like' the company, that made no sense to me. What if I don't actually "like" something, but I still want to watch its activity?
Well, we're in agreement there - and I'd go further to say if you find yourself concatenating strings and feeding them to hash algorithm you're probably doing it wrong too. It's insecure and it's more work, and it's stupid.

I just wanted to point out the more general notion that, from a business perspective, even a colossal failure like Dropbox's is more of a PR disaster than anything else. And until that equation changes, security will be at the bottom of the totem pole.
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I'm not saying I can't imagine how to work around it, I'm saying that we're forced to, and likely will do so in a variety of competing ways, which degrades its usefulness as an interchange format. It means your tools, at the end points or in the middle, don't know what the data in that field is and so can't do anything useful for you that you haven't explicitly taught it to do.
Just an attributed quote? If I start quoting passages from Mein Kampf I'm sure my intentions are understood. But you're saying that I can just claim; "It's not me saying this, I'm just quoting Adolf, don't blame me".

People need to think before they act instead of just sheep herding themselves by mindlessly retweeting crap some other donkey is saying on the Internet. If a few of these idiots need to be taken to court as an example, so be it.
That's an interesting comment. I would be interested in seeing a source for that information, as opposed to just taking it at face value.
AWS RDS uses EBS for storage[1]. Depending on RDS instance type, I think they use multiple raid'ed EBS volumes. EBS relies on physical disks, of course, but they're accessed as SAN devices over the network and that means higher latency than accessing disks that are hardware-attached to the local instance.

EBS has historically also had somewhat variable performance (on top of the extra network latency), but the new provisioned IOPS feature should help with that[2].

[1]: http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/

[2]: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/07/31/announc...
Also had the same initial read of the logo. Thought it said "Leai·ndot". Other than that: Paul, "thanks" for sharing your story. Interesting and well written.
No, RDS runs on a virtual RAID array of virtual disks over a network (EBS).
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I learned quite an interesting "hack" to aid in naming a company. Talk to children, under 10, and see what names they come up with and their reaction. You will be quite surprised!

edit: a little proof; yumbud.com
I think it would be a good idea to expect everyone to learn the material and be evaluated on their ability. If someone does a better job, they should get a better grade.

If people find it hard to do understand the material, the solution isn't to let them scrape by with less understanding. That's doing the students a disservice. Instead, we should be investigating why the students are doing poorly, and at least attempting to fix the root causes. Bring people up to the desired standards, don't drop the standards.

I think it's horrible to think that just because someone started off behind, they're too incompetent to produce the same quality of work as another student that started off with an advantage.
In Denmark thats the law. Its illegal to charge the customer, if you haven't shipped the product.