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It is simply amazing to have virtually only what you want on your TV!
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What? Don't be silly. If they delivered no results or "nothing" at all, the project would have been shut down years ago. SETI has consisently reported that they have searched through a very large amount of signal and found only natural noise. That data is extremely valuable and is absolutely not "nothing".
great post, but the math at the end is illogical. when you join a startup, the mean/average/net/etc all don't matter, as you aren't joining "all startups". so realistically, the 0.5% of $100M exit is worth $500K, period (though yes, divided up over four years).

THEN, you adjust the above based on your own odds of the company winning. if you think you have an 80% shot, then you are playing for $400K. if you think its a 20% shot, its $100K. etc.

FURTHER, you really should go back into the space and look at what the exits there are like. does that industry see a lot of quick $20-$40M flips? does it see infrequent, but not impossible $500M exits? or is it mostly just acquihires?

having worked at/joined/founded 4 startups (plus a half-dozen side projects), i can say they are all different, and each exits radically differently...
That's an odd photo to use to support your claim. In 1979 Iran was under the leadership of the Shah, who was heavily supported by the US.
tl;dr ~ Don't work at a startup for the money. Most of you knew that.
Absolutely yes.

Four reasons off the top of my head:

1. Dentistry
2. Antibiotics
3. Indoor plumbing
4. Central Air
> A theory that states "women cannot be exceptional" is disparaging to women.

And if anyone took that position, the argument might be valid. But no one has, for a very good reason -- the theory doesn't support it.
This is something I have been thinking about for a while, and I really want to know what people on HN think. If you agree with me, or if you disagree, please leave a comment as I'd love to discuss.
That's likely just the academic register. I wrote my dissertation saying "we found that..." when really it should have been "I found that...".

Getting the academic tone right in essays/thesis/papers is important and indeed becomes second nature after a while.
So is the point of the coins to reduce the cost of credit card fees per transaction? If I can buy $20 worth of coins with a $0.30 + 3% fee, I can then pay a merchant as much or as little as I want with no additional fee.

The core problem seems to be that credit card fees aren't structured in a way to support small payments (<$5).
As a Namecheap customer considering a move to Gandi, I'm curious what it was that Namecheap did in the past that you don't like?
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As always, it depends on what groups and measurements you want to go by. In the United States, median income has been stagnant for 30 years. Young people have been dealing with an awful job market since the recession in 2008.
Would have.
That's a very odd claim. Lexmark came about when an LBO was used to acquire IBM's printer division.

It did pretty well, no?
Meh. Let this kill the default Java install on Windows.

When I need to deliver an app written in Java to the end user I just include my own JRE. You have to do it pretty much anyway in order to guarantee that your app works regardless of quirks of particular system/installation.
How much do you know about that country besides regular media propaganda? Now lets look at it from other side

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/np5dh/iran_some_...
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> (though yes, divided up over four years).

Don't forget also to dilute the 0.5% by a significant amount.
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Ditto, seemed a very odd thing to notify us of but then they do seem to be quite spammy in general.
Take a look at applebaum's duraconf. It has configs for many ssl/tls services:

https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf
The more and more issues highlighted with the playframework the better. I find it a great piece of kit to play around with.

I've not come across much commentary with regards to 'bad' ideas inside the framework which I should consider when using it.
>>> I haven't used OpenOffice in years

That's like eons in actively developed software. I believe giving LibreOffice a spin may change your notion of the quality of the OS alternative. As an anecdote, Excel 2003 has 65K row limit. In current LO it's ~ 1M rows if I remember correctly. I will admit that it is a bit apples to oranges, since Excel 2003 was created way back, but in practical terms, that is what I get on my office desktop. Being able to run LO as an alternative can be a life saver...
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Heh, it's hard just because very few people have another camera nowadays.
It is true that most random Joes/Janes won't be interested in stealing your ideas but the issue is not about them. It's about your competitors who are already in/near your space, who definitely want to see what others are doing and thinking. If you are not careful who you talk to, there is a chance that your ideas may end up in their hands.

Beside, I heard that in EU and Asia, if you disclose your idea to anyone without an NDA, you immediately lose the right to patent it.

So don't be naive to believe in Cinderella fairy tales.
At the end of the post, the author says: "this issue wont be fixed for now." I asked on Twitter for more details, and this was his reply:

> response was roughly like "We might change this in Rails 4" and "$affected_lib should fix it on its side"[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/joernchen/status/298836052410519552
Same thoughts here. They use fairly aggressive email marketing, which is difficult to unsubscribe to.

I clicked the 'unsub' link in the footer of this particular marketing email and hit: 1) an SSL warning from Chrome, and 2) a 404 on accepting the SSL warning.
wow, bold as hell and ballsy but cool idea...i want in
I think perhaps the communications problem here is a difference in context.

I'm coming from a C/C++ background. I get some Haskell but you'll have to explain specifics to me (I'm certainly willing to change my mind!).

Are you using a framework, or developing one? Who gets to choose the concurrency strategy?

As a framework provider, if you provide LWPs to ppl (like provide open and read and all that stuff for them) so they can write sequential code as if it were sequential, but it's actually nonblock, what happens in C/C++ is that when they need to integrate third-party stuff, life gets really complicated. Clients are the clients of the API I'm talking about, which is a hypothetical "lightweight thread" based API where everything just works as per original post.

>>Threading sucks.
>Why?

Well, in an ideal model of computation we wouldn't need to synchronise things. This is the great attraction of likesay a node-based model where we run our stuff as synchronous events. Once you accept threading you need to care about who does what to which at what time. Also you need to figure out e.g. how your dependencies are thread-safe and under what conditions. You might have berkeley db where contexts are not generally thread-safe but handles can be if you set the right flags, for example.

>>Which ones do you think are good?
>The one that comes with ghc.

That's cool :) I should probably learn more about it. The really cynical part of my mind is going "please tell me about this magical solution to integrating different event loops and concurrency models" and the less cynical part is open to your suggestions.
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>I think we've all heard our share of jealous ex(boy)friend stories dumping loads of pics when the relation crashed.

This app certainly discourages that collecting of pics though. It's not like sexting where they are just sitting in the texting logs. Yes, people can work around the restrictions but the key is they have to work around it.
Yeah, the need for privacy is the one thing that drives me to not want to work out of cafes and coffee shops at times. It's not that often that we are talking about anything truly secret / confidential (no patient data or anything like that), but still, there are certain things you don't want to broadcast to the world.

The other time it doesn't work, for me, is when you need use "stuff" to work. For example, sometimes if I'm meeting with my co-founder, I want an easel and a flip-chart pad and some markers to draw / diagram stuff. But I wouldn't want to bust up in the Barnes & Noble cafe and break that stuff out.
have you looked at nytm.org/made?
as a long-time paying user of Instapaper who recently switched to Pocket, here are my reasons:

- a desktop mac app is available
- I really like the 2 View options (article view and text view) as I read a lot of technical articles that include code snippets and these are rendered terribly on Instapaper
- the iOS apps are snappier and crash way less often
- search is baked in the apps

the fact it was free didn't enter into consideration at all
Right? I'll be interested to see how far this goes. What the heck, I'm donating!
They should use some of that money to decrease their absurdly high subscription price when you run 10s of dynos on heroku
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I've bookmarked the wiki page on this stuff for later. Otherwise my next question would just be "what's an imaginary component?"

I don't think my tutors at Oxford really understood exactly what I meant by "I can't do all this maths". Basic gaps in my knowledge. Still passed though, fuck yeah! :D
I can't stress this enough. As someone in consulting I have to continually battle clients on realistic goals for an implementation. It gets to be extremely old, and tiresome. if you have a better understanding of how things work it will help you understand the issues at hand.
I had this exact same feeling while reading it, perhaps they expect the founders to do all of the actual work?
I've heard good things about .net from Windows-only developers, but I haven't heard much from developers on other platforms. Seems to me developers who aren't on Windows end up as second class citizens.

Is there anyone here with experience developing for Mono on Linux and Mac? What's it like in reality?
True, but I try to recommend a best practice (I never said Vundle was required, in fact the full Installation Guide mentions Pathogen as an option).
Partial Cliff Notes for the works of Eric Ries.
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Right, but the same could be said about Facebook and other social networks. The FBI wants more specific access to social media services so that they can gather contextual evidence instead of just whatever is out there in the ether:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57544139-38/judge-prods-fb...
So what am I paying for? I wasn't born yesterday; I know what the terms mean. Get to the point because I don't have all day to look at some guy holding his hat on.
How long until someone makes a flow chart out of this?
The statement that RC4 has no weaknesses is not true. It has well-known biases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#Security It is just better than CBC (as implemented), being a stream cipher, and thus using RC4 is the best solution right now. It is still important to get as much as possible up to TLS 1.2 and using AES-GCM or other AEAD modes as soon as possible.

Edit: Clarified that RC4 is better than CBC as implemented, not CBC implemented with constant-time verification, i.e. RC4 will not be preferable to AES-CBC in the fixed version of OpenSSL, at least against the Lucky Thirteen attack.
I spend far more time writing back-end code (automation, data handling, and services) more than I do front-end code. Most of that code is so that the front end can be nicer. Just because the UI I develop is web-based, doesn't mean I don't know how to write effective code. I do think that JS is an acceptable language for UI development. It is hands down the most widely used language on the planet. Gnome isn't deprecating the other interfaces, it's just that they are steering new developers to the JS interfaces. I do think that the Python guys are having a pretty bad attitude about it though. They had to pick A language as their base for documentation purposes, and I think JS is probably the most pragmatic choice here.

I have to admit that I'm a bit of a JS fan (warts and all), and with NodeJS and MongoDB it's been a far more fluid development experience than other groups of technologies I've had to work with over the past 17 years in software development. It's a pretty decent language to work with.
We are one of the few generations that can expect to live past 50.

According to Historian David McCullough, the functional literacy rate in 1900 was 11%.

Sure, the article focus on students. But, by historical standards, you are extremely lucky TO BE ABLE to be a student into your early 20s.

By historical standards, we are very privileged. This "toughest generation ever" bit is both naive and sad.
Presented as a slide deck - one of the less efficient ways to publish information (to an audience not in an auditorium).
>it was ultimately Flash's poor reputation among techies that brought it down.

Sorry, but techie's opinions are overrated. iOS and mobile video brought Flash down a few notches, not us.
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Possibly.

Cisco has been dabbling in that area with CITEIS, but I don't get the impression it has seen too much traction.

I expect an overwhelming majority of Dell gear that is doing anything along the lines of private, flexible infrastructure is running VMWare who seems to getting ever closer to EMC (whose relationship with Dell is probably thoroughly sour post-Compellent acquisition).

I'd think Dell's best shot a such a move might be to work with Microsoft on a private, Azure-branded stack.

I get the impression that there isn't much behind the stated OpenStack membership/support by the Enterprise names.
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I wonder how many times this vulnerability has been exploited before they've implemented this hack.
My understanding was that pages which are inherently non blocking could be blocked due to the use of shared threadpools and by default leveraging the same execution contexts.

I would love to understand if this is a problem in practice, or if there are other practical implications.
Can't speak for him but personally I find Matlab to be rather expensive for commercial use and it totally falls apart when you need to do anything outside of numerical computation.

It is really nice having a full on general purpose programming language to use right next to your scientific code.
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The programming language in Matlab is not very good. The main advantages of Matlab is that is has so many built in functions and great plotting tools. There are a lot of plugins too (often commercial).

Matlab is also not open source and rather expensive. There is GNU Octave which is free and mostly compatible with Matlab.
> but it's arguable as to whether that effect is actually the primary intention of driving users away from web content and toward standalone clients.

To the degree that people use dedicated apps, it is to that same degree that they're not using browsers and open media.

The motive for creating dedicated apps should seem obvious -- it turns a public forum into a series of competing private experiences, each with a loyal (or trapped) following. The classic example is Facebook -- people could have social media with a browser in a much less structured way, but people prefer Facebook, even though it is a highly structured, separate environment, one in which Mark Zuckerberg gets to decide what experience you have.

Because of Facebook's success, many other companies want some version of the same structure -- a controlled version of web browsing, separate from the public kind.

> In all likelihood, the net effect of attempting to shovel users off the web and into native apps is probably detrimental to the bottom line.

If that were true, people would avoid it (and Facebook would fail). But it's not true, and Web metrics support the idea that a dedicated app is a more efficient way to generate profits than waiting for people to visit your public Web site.

> ... to avoid "out of site, out of mind".

Cute pun on "out of sight, out of mind".
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I think the point was that these are positions that are easier to "hustle" your way into with a minimal investment. ("Read the books above for 30 minutes a day, and you'll be an expert in 90 days!") Compare this to becoming an expert in C - 30 minutes a day for 90 days is not going to give you enough experience to waltz into a startup and demand a job.

(Also, in my mind, the word "hustle" occupies the same bucket as "scam", and "30 minutes a day for 90 days" sounds like a late-night informercial for weight loss.)
Probably because you decry someone for living in a bubble but then proceed to inflate your own. Yeah, the JVM is great, but not everything that fails to live up to its incredible success is "unproven".
I'm indeed a cofounder of tldr.io but that's not a mystery, Googling my alias will give you my Twitter profile with my bio as the first result.
Maybe they can prevent some wasted time by appending " for non-hackers"
I'm in. $10.
I ran into a couple of issues while building vim with python support (which I haven't needed until now). I have arch linux and python3 was symlinked to /usr/bin/python, the build script cached this and once I fixed the symlink to point to /usr/bin/python2 it was still giving an error. I manually fixed the check in the build script, compiled, but then the plugin didn't recognize +python/dyn so I had to rebuild without python3 support. It seems to be working now and I'm compiling ycm_core. Also, if you're going to be building vim anyway, --enable-rubyinterp and check out the command-t plugin.
Take a look at CoffeeScript if you want python-like style..
Sure; I'll elaborate. First, I am arguing against the unapologetic championing of arcane knowledge, not the tools. I agree that awk/sed/grep/etc are powerful, and knowing how and when to use them is highly useful.

I take issue with the attitude that the way these tools are used, with their billion cryptic parameters, is some flawless pinnacle of achievement.

Some people have put a lot of effort into memorizing Unix switches already--but the difficulty doesn't mean that work was meaningful. Unfortunately, to justify their sunk cost, a subset of those individuals tout their knowledge as something by which the rest of us should be impressed. In fact, this comment thread is littered with disdain for peers who dare to tread on their domain with "human-readable names" and "documentation".

In the root article, the author simply suggests that it is more maintainable to use full names for arguments because the code is then self-documenting. It's like using completeVariableNames instead of sht_y1s. Actual comments would suffice, but most code (unfortunately) isn't commented or the comments are done badly.

If a programmer is solo, whatever. Go nuts. Use shortcuts; don't comment. Hard-code paths in your scripts and write 600-line functions. A coder only has herself to blame for the problems she caused.

However, when programming with a group there will always be coworkers that can start being productive sooner (without interrupting you) if things are named and described in plain English and do exactly what it looks like they do.

Script switches are not a remotely interesting problem. Which style you use is a meaningless debate--until you factor in time. Time to debug. Time to look up documentation. Time to memorize. Time is a truly scarce resource, and there exists a better way than rote memorization: making code work in an obvious way. Actively choosing not to employ this idea steals time from others and those of us that lose minutes so a shortcutting programmer can save seconds of typing don't appreciate it.

That said, it's up to one's discretion about what "obvious" means. But nobody should try to argue that making things more readable is inherently bad.
They'd have a hard time flying it into anything with the cockpit controls not even wired in, and no attachment points for the canopy. It also doesn't look like the landing gear is even retractable.
Your example is a job post (they don't have the ability to upvote/comment on them either) and they end up disappearing from the Jobs page after a period of time: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

The ones which have nofollow on them are new listings and YC company job posts. Additionally any new listing which hit the front page may appear as a no follow for a period of time before, converting to followed links.
I still respect Conrad for making the initial sale (supposedly) for the benefit of his team, who, unlike Conrad himself, hadn't experienced a startup exit yet.
thanks, saurik, for your hard work
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Whatever they want the world to believe it to be, it's a mockup. It's a thin fiberglass shell with non-functional canopy, and it's the wrong size to actually fly.
The math is missing another important point:

"Given that your stock options are valued at the current company valuation"

That's a bad assumption for an employee. The current valuation is for what investors get per share. Keep in mind they have preferred, not common stock, which generally comes with liquidation preferences. Their shares are worth quite a bit more each than yours. This means if you're getting $50k of the company at current valuation, you really should assume you're getting more like $10 or $20k.
Absolutely. But since we still have to support SSLv3 from 1996, I wouldn’t hold my breath. :(
$2.99 for just links to site? :/
I think a lot of offices try to provide similar environments to coffee shops. Places you can go and work away from your desk, similar food and beverage etc. It's also worth noting that while you are able to focus more, great for a writer, it isn't necessarily better for teams of people trying to collaborate on a complex project.
Thanks, I’ve added it to the article.
They are actually real avionics, but off-the-shelf ones.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=6432&ra=true

http://www.trutrakflightsystems.com/products/Sorcerer.html
It's configurable in the source code.
I'm not sure it was a general view amongst techies that did for Flash I think it was those in Apple (not necessarily techies) who made or influenced the decision not to support it in iOS that brought it down.

At the time that looked like a big gamble but with hindsight the gamble has paid off for everybody but Adobe and Flash developers.
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This reminds me of one thing I don't understand - keyboards that tilt up towards you. I find that wrists elevated and flat or slightly down is most comfortable, and the tilted keyboards cause me to bend my wrists up in an awkward way. Who decided that this was a good idea?

The cavity desk sounds like a more extreme version of the genal posture I find most comfortable.
This is an embarrassing and desperate stunt from the Iranian establishment. They are clearly aiming this at an uneducated voter base who outnumber those who know the reality.