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I've always avoided being too elitist when it comes to a candidate's school/university when hiring people. Partly I guess because I didn't go to a particularly prestigious one myself. I guess my point is that it depends who is reviewing your resume and what their background is as to whether this really matters.

For me I found that the best way to stand out when looking for a new position was to work on a side project. Sneakily my side project was a resume building app. Which meant I got a nice new resume out of the deal too. It definitely got me noticed and people came to me rather than me having to apply for jobs. I even got some telephone interviews for startups in the Bay despite being located in the UK.

Overall I think if you build out some form of beta app and execute to a minimum viable product level of service then that's going to be a good thing for your chances of employment.

So now for my shameless plug. I'm continuing to slowly bootstrap MightyCV - my resume creation app with hacker leanings. It has integrations with HN, github and StackOverflow along with some other cool features. You can see an example of what one looks like here:

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If you like the look of it you can sign up for a beta invite at:

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I'm hoping to redo the management interface over the next month or two and push out a largish update to the service along with some bug fixes.
See clearing banks. When transferring monies between unrelated accounts, and often financial bodies, the amount is held in clearing bank limbo. One reason for this is that so aggregated amounts from one entities account can be offset against another entities. Where for example bank A transfers X to bank B, and the same amount X within the clearing time is a transfer from B to A, the amounts are adjusted, smoothing capital flow.

The more pertinent fact in respect of your question is that while your funds are being held in this state, the interest available accumulates to the originator A. Not your account from which the fund was withdrawn.
Back when the deal was announced I was exteremely skeptical. $10.2 billions for a relatively unknown UK software company that focuses on document management? 10 billions?! Their (Autonomy's) past acquisitions looked rather erratic to me. I also did not understand as to why a hardware company like HP would buy a software company in the first place. Then there were all the glassdoor posts discussed here on HN... the whole deal just looked shady even back then.

edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902749 I just stumbled upon this comment by AlexMuir, it was the most upvoted comment on the HN discussion about HP's acquisition of Autonomy

AlexMuir pretty much called it.
Issue with disrupting existing payment modalities is that you need scale, which is really hard to do when you are a startup and there is not much differentiating you from the rest.

Ubiquity trumps novelty. Every single time.
Note that the article says "90 days to finish" or "90 days to complete", NOT "90 days to build".

The site prep work like foundations for a supertall skyscraper are easily glossed over but are very important.
Thank you! :-) We think so too!
But does Apple need to build that level of scale? The article makes valid points about Apple needing to beef up its web teams - but a $1bn acqhire seems excessive. Better cherry picking some top quality individuals to drive a vision and letting them lose on talented developers than buying an entire infrastructure that isn't really what Apple wants.
Plus Apple could never kill off Twitter. It's too "hot" - an with that comes attention. Apple's pockets are deep enough for all and sundry to sue, or governments to get in glossy fits over (allegedly) blasphemous/libellous tweets.
I thought this sounded familiar - AlexMuir called it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902749

and score one for Larry Ellison:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051730
If he got bought, yes. Otherwise, since when is making horrible business decisions a crime?
with some ticket types (e.g. advances) the reservations are compulsory and technically you have to sit in your reserved seat!
A web server isn't an agent of the company and has no capacity to grant or deny permission.

A web server certainly can grant or deny permission, but it seems that this one didn't.
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From the BBC article:

> Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is a non-executive director of the BBC.

This is the beauty of a free non-commercial press.
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Surely the trip to collect the thing after it passes out the minefield is an issue, it could take days to retrieve.
To be fair, Play 2 is also vastly more powerful than Play 1 - the core concepts powering it are complex, but they lend flexibility that allow features like this to be added on top.
That is perhaps not the same as "capacity" in the legal sense. Is a web-server legally competent?
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I guess this is exactly the thing that the court must decide on: whether guessing that code can be considered as a circumvention of security measures or not.
Im sure for around a Billion dollars they could probably do some pretty crazy stuff in-house since advertising/media isnt really their thing.
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We live in a tech-filled world without a reliable means for responsible disclosure, no way to hold a company accountable for reacting to attempts of responsible disclosure, and any whistle-blowers are immediately branded as "criminals" and "hackers".

This whole process, or lack thereof, needs some serious disruption.

Edit: My comment is intended to be a general observation and not specifically about this case
The writer is exploiting the "could sink", "possibly doomed", angle; I'd say that a competent agency is doing properly its job, by explaining technical difficulties to be either overcome or accepted.

Just the act of disallowing data from having a certified source (even if some unreliable versions are inevitably available), would do much to uphold personal rights.
Although we all know what 'hacker' means, I suspect that most people think the words means 'someone who does nefarious things with computers.' Calling him a hacker probably doesn't help his case, regardless of him being guilty or not.
Someone can provide you with a clickable link, as in for instance this submission, and you would never even know that the content you are accessing is supposed to be "protected".
> You guys still use cheques

So do the French. Cheques are very convenient in several usecases. For safety deposits they're brilliant: You write the owner a cheque for X hundred euros or whatever, and if at the end of your holiday all is good, he gives it back and you tear it up. They're also great for paying largish sums of money to people who don't have credit card machines (when buying second hand goods for example)
YES! I too hate these annoying PDF-download-pseudo-services that collect your email-address and your interests (extremely valuable virtual goods) in exchange for a PDF, that the author offers for free (extremely cheap) - this is an unbalanced exchange of information.

These kind of information hijacking must be marked as am abusive business modell that is not acceptable in a free world. We have to think longterm here and defend freedom of information on a very basic level, to be prepared for the larger battles that will come when chinese investors will be the only sources of money.

Please write the authors to remove their PDFs from these services and just put them on a webserver into a PDF folder. Or to use any free file hosting service, anything, but please do not support these ancient flash-fetish-stoneagers and information-suppressors, THANKS!
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This! I'm convinced 3D printing will become a lot cheaper, but until I played with tinkercad last weekend I thought the design of objects would be really complex. Here it's quite easy!
Not sure passive is the right word.
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"The beauty is in that we do not do "normal" updates but just patch the vulnerabilities in a non-obtrusive way, this prevents the website to fail because of incompatibilities"

Does this mean you're writing your own custom patches for every single versions of the software solutions you're supporting ?
I hope this article is sarcasm. (I am not sure; maybe because I'm not a native speaker)
> Android is still ugly, but it’s much less ugly than it was a few years ago.

It this opinion common? Trying friends' iOS devices, I can't say I've ever thought "gee, this is so much prettier than my Android phone".
No, only companies in the payments business should expect to be making less, not the people being paid.
You might not be overly pedantic, but you are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon#Usage

Nevertheless, I also do not take kindly to semicolon usage, because it's so vague. But that does not mean I can claim that it's wrong, without being wrong myself.
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Depends who you buy through, some of the websites (such as thetrainline.com) automatically request seat reservations even if you don't ask for them (and even if the service isn't going to provide them!) My seat reservation for my weekend train journey, London to Dorset on SW Trains, had no specific coach/seat assignemnt (it just had "Coach * Seat *" ) as the train didn't have any reservations on it.

I buy all of my tickets via eastcoast.co.uk (or wherever gner.co.uk now redirects to), regardless of destination or intended train line, because they are one of the few that still post them to you for free whilst others (such as thetrainline.com) charge for postage.
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I always thought the Apple webstore going offline was more a marketing hype thing, rather than a technical one.
And who at AT&T faces jail for publicly exposing these Emails in first place?
This is an "intangibles and goodwill" writeoff - its not nothing but it is also a "guesstimate" of value.

Essentially they "guessed" a year ago Autonomy was worth 10bn, now they are guessing its worth its yearly sales cash income - ie no goodwill at all.

Given that at the time of purchase it had 1bn in sales, and now they have lopped that (plus deprecation) to the same suggests the problem is to do with allocation of revenue than the actual viability of the software
I do see many advantages; credit cards are insecure (all the important info is written on them) and even debit cards machines can be modified or replaced to save your password and card info; but with the phone there is none of those risks. Also I would like to mention that there is no need to read it from a printed receipt, you read it from another device the cashier haves and that is it; wish is a green solution and can be promoted as such.

And if someone steals your phone (hopefully) you have a pattern to unblock it and before the thief can crack it you cancel the app account or change its password.
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I see you worked for Jardine. I own a company that is also a SEMA member, and for those programmers out there looking for work, most of the members of SEMA could use advanced technical help. SEMA.org is the automotive aftermarket industry group and is for the most part not very technical. In other words they need a lot of help. They just launched a big initiative this year that has the bold goal of standardizing industry data, so they are just now getting into the computer age with gusto (to be fair, many larger companies have been using EDI for years).

Sorry for wandering off topic. I have used a method similar to your "waffles" technique when hiring for positions. It reduces the 100's of applicants for a job down to a few, simply because most people won't read your postings clearly. It has saved me hundreds of hours in the recruitment process.
I see your point, but how does this apply to this case?
It is depressing to me that a community as smart as this is so congratulatory of such inch-deep stuff. Oooh, landmines! Design! Shiny! But a fast perusal of the comments shows that this approach is at best problematic. And a deeper reading of the comments suggests this might very well be a dangerous anti-pattern.

People, you are some of the brightest and cleverest people walking the earth. And the earth has some nasty problems. They won't be solved by meaning well or looking cool.

In my early days I worked with homeless and mentally disabled people, I migrated to government policy to solve larger problems, but I was perpetually frustrated by the refusal to ask hard questions of stuff that sounded good. And you know what? I am so sorry to tell you, but there are people who have noticed this persistent absence of accountability, and who are willing to exploit it.

I have no particular reason to believe that the designer in the OP is a cynic. But you do his effort to help no favors by upvoting it to the moon because it looks cool. The informed and thoughtful critique in the comments DOES help, and a dialogue talking about the potential application of design to the problem would help still further. Here are a few ideas:
- Kids ignore warning signs around mine fields -- why not design hideous boundary demons to frighten them off?
- Design "clear trail" markers apparent in all weather and easily moved to reflect cleared sections?
- Mapped displays of mined areas as targets for Apple vs Microsoft battles to see who can clear more?
- Does the computing power of Raspberry Pi offer new possibilities for cheap clearance -- maybe gather seismographic data with controlled explosions to be analyzed for "echoes" of a landmine?
- Declaring total clearance is a problem, what if there were a program that took 99% cleared land and used as grazing pasture for 10 years so the cows can find the missing bombs?

These don't strike me as half bad and I suck so I expect most of this board can come up with better and more detailed.

The guy is trying to do something and that's great. But let's not just congratulate him and move on. Let's actually think about whether the damn thing helps, and if not, how design could help more.
One of HPs many personalities wants to be IBM (hence the software services acquisition).
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Do you think you'd have to wait 6 weeks before apple approved your tweet and let it go live?
What? Why? Anyone who would install this app already has enough willpower to just not eat the oreo and anyone who actually needs this would probably just uninstall it.
[disclaimer: worked for Autonomy. This view represents my personal sole oppinion and not of the (former) employer]

I can't tell too much, but everyone I knew was in shock when they announced the price (12$bn), this was, way, way over what I internally valued the company ( I was counting about 2$bn max - stock was better but is a result of offer/demand).

Either Mike was/is a good seller, or HP ( or Leo Apoteker ) was corrupt or dumb.
Around the end of summer there was a post on just this topic. I can't find it now but it had really solid practices in this area. If anyone remembers it / finds it I'd love to be able to read it again.
Technical recruiting is hard, but I think good technical recruiters approach things differently than this. Its not as black and white, everything lives in the nuances:

We are looking for some sort of external validation: A really popular module on CPAN? Graduated with a 4.0? Graduated from Stanford? Hired full time by Google? That is all external validation, and it is something that shows me that other people / organizations think you are good. I really need just one piece of solid validation for me to speak with a candidate and this can take on a lot of forms. In lieu of this, we can administer a coding test if someone is on the cusp.

The second thing I look for is passion: Is this person a 9 to 5 code monkey in it for the solid and consistent paycheck? Or do they love the work they do and constantly push themselves to further their craft? You can almost always get to the bottom of this question on the phone. Journeymen programmers are fine for a lot of jobs, but not for the jobs we are talking about here.

If both of those line up then the candidate is good, and we will represent them. We can't promise a placement, but I would be surprised if someone with both of those boxes checked didn't get at least one offer. They are really hard to find.
From my understanding all you had to do was pass the ICC-ID to a script on AT&T's servers to get back the user data. I can see the court interpreting the ICC-ID as a form of access control since you'd have to guess them similarly to passwords.

What isn't quite clear to me is what they did with this data. It seems they reported the hole to AT&T who then fixed it. That's good. It also seems they passed the data off to reporters, which may be bad for their case. It seems like they acted, at least mostly, responsibly.

Assuming the data was never released to the public I don't think they should be prosecuting Auernheimer. That said, it does seem like they have a case based on the wording of the law.

It's a very real possibility that he's facing jail time, especially when you consider the volume of data. He's charged with breaking 18 USC § 1028A (aggravated ID theft laws) which carries a mandatory minimum of 2 years. Federal judges have some control over this but generally stick with sentencing guidelines. He could fight it and win, get them to reduce the charges, or do some serious work for the gov and hope the judge goes easy on him.

Note: I was convicted of violating 18 USC § 1028A (among other laws) so I have personal experience with this law, sentencing guidelines, and judge discretion but IANAL.
Interesting that the first "other problem" Apple has is listed as

* Apple can’t update its online store without taking it offline first.

In my experience it's a minority view that Apple are unable to do this. It seems more likely that it's a pure marketing decision, built around Apple's very successful hype machine approach.

For all of Apple's failings it's a stretch to suggest that they aren't technically competent enough to build an online store.
I have been using Name.com for a while, and I like their approach to security. Though I must say... I once forgot my password (made it way too complicated) and in addition to a fee all it took to recover my account was to send a scan of my ID card. I think I'll write up some modest proposals for this industry. Moniker's MaxLock is too expensive and imprecise.

Boy, was that a long answer to your question!
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It's amazing how biased the media is..even online.

There are plenty of things on the Democrat side that are just as questionable..but they aren't talked about. Why is that?

Here is a good example:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-re...
Maybe the guy has intel on cheap room temperature super conductor materials (boy would that change the world) to make the vessel levitate, thus eliminating ground friction, all it needs is a push and be extremely aerodynamic (that'd be the only friction it'd fight)

if he puts it in a vaccum, which I think he said he didn't then he'd have no friction to work against.

energy in the system is gathered along the way on stations and along the path with solar, it def. will not use all of it, because all it needs to do is the acceleration to 341 m/s, almost exactly the speed of sound (340m/s) (which is exactly what he needs to cover the distance between LA and San Francisco in 30 minutes)
It also shows that the Scala feature set is growing (macros) and that the play group is not afraid of the awesome 210 [1] :-)

[1] http://www.scala-lang.org/node/16606
Which is of course a catch-22, though people like Facebook and Foursquare solved this by launching in small geographic areas first to get ubiquitus in those areas.

Oh look, Droplet is targetting Birmingham UK, first - looks like they know this.
with the tiny difference that this Loftstrom Loop is supposed to be 80km high. He's clearly said this goes on the ground, so nope.
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On the other hand, if Weev is sentenced: what does that mean for such things as Google's security flaw bounty?
MetaFilter.

When big news events pop up, enough information streams in through the (excellent) comments that I can keep informed about context and unfolding situations. When there's no big news, there are interesting links.

The fact that any user can submit a story means that the content is always eclectic, and also that other people are often skeptical of how interesting a post really is. I enjoy having that perspective a lot. It's useful to have other people telling you not to sweat the small stuff – gets rid of one of the problems more "focused" news sites have, which is the groupthink and insistence that This Is Important.

(There's groupthink on MetaFilter, of course, but the minority voices have a specific place to go and speak their mind. Over the years I've lurked/been a member, I've noticed that the tone of the site get better and better as more heated discussions of what's right and what's wrong have guided MeFi in the right direction.)
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I am wildly supportive of this sentiment.
You can format a link to be something like:

http://username:password@members.example.com

I wouldn't say that means the account in question is unprotected.
I think the '+' indicates that it's 4°C warmer.
A safe path is 99+% clear, this is not a 99% solution. And please keep in mind human nature, a false sense of security will kill you. If it is a flat out no go zone people will avoid it, if they think it is safe they will find mines on there own. Fear can keep you alive and anything that lessens the fear of the minefield without rendering it safe is a net loss of human life in my opinion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_residue also the Legendre symbol.

Also there's no need to consider numbers >= 40 when working mod 40

47 * 47 (mod 40)

= (40+7) * (40+7) (mod 40)

40 * n = 0 (mod 40) for any integer n since 40*n will be a multiple of 40, so:-

= 40*(40+7) + 7*(40+7) (mod 40)

= 0 + 7*(40+7) (mod 40)

= 7 * (40+7) (mod 40)

= 7*7 + 7*40 (mod 40)

= 7*7 + 0 (mod 40)

= 7*7

So n^2 (mod 40) = (n mod 40)^2 (mod 40).
How about this. What if we have another section on websites called something like 'Submit a bug' next to 'About,' 'Contact Us' etc.

If more and more sites make it easier to report these things to them, hopefully either the error will be fixed or if it is being ignored, the "hacker" will have some kind of proof to claim that he tried to tell the bank to fix their door.