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There are plenty of homeless in DC, but the vast majority are well out of sight in major business and residential districts. It's in part a "virtue" of the intense economic (and racial) segregation in the district.

I was born and raised in DC and have lived there for the last 6 years, working and living downtown. Of course there are homeless people (as opposed to the bizarrely antiseptic Palo Alto, for instance), but the level of visible homelessness is not in the same zip code (let alone ballpark) as SF. Honestly, it's not even close.
Just sent you an email. Would be great to talk.
Solution: UEFI should not exist. Period.

We don't need to argue over UEFI or anything about it. We need to get rid of it, simple as that.

If Intel goes through with this, we need an antitrust case against them and we need Intel broken like Ma Bell.

UEFI must not exist, period.
I bet the iPhone app will be great. A few months ago I had some weekend fun implementing this algorithm in a trow-away iPhone application, and indeed I was able to observe the color change in my skin, and when watching to the veins of my arm the movement was greatly amplified.

I was missing a lot of the filtering required in order to amplify more and performance was a bit poor (frame rate) since it was just an hack. Something like that done in the proper way will be cool.
I think it was naivety on a few of their parts. When you get all that freedom your first thought is to maximize is while still being able to deliver on your work. If you're not careful, that balance can be thrown off rather quickly.
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Your option E is perfectly reasonable if you don't care about secure boot. And most people don't. After all, computers have worked without secure boot since they were invented.

If you, as a vendor, want to support secure boot (as a new, optional, extra feature), I think option B (be the CA) is the only right way to do it. If vendors don't like having to do duplicate work then they can cooperate and form a shared organization to be the central Linux CA. Relying on Microsoft to do the signing is not a good idea long term.
That last is the killer - clients who are willing to pay more, turn out not to be fools but actually respect quality and don't waste your time.
I don't disagree with anything you've said, just pointing out that it's an arguable point.

I think child care is more important than corporate America perceives it to be. It is the thing perpetuating the pay disparity between men and women in white collar jobs.
http://virus.wikia.com/wiki/29A

These guys had the reputation to build something like this. The fact that a large part of it is written in assembly along with the style of some of the things it's doing makes me suspect this could be the work of members/ex members. I'm guessing the author of this article might be hinting at this as well, hence highlighting that particular op code.

But that's just my opinion, I've nothing to back it up with.
I sincerely hope his scientific evidence of the efficacy of letters of gratitude does not come from this reference within the "Journal of Happiness Studies" with a whopping sample size of 219.
No one has ever tried this with an OS before.
Hey Watsi, you could probably help some folks here in Bangladesh. Let me know if you need any on-the-ground assistance here.
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If you need an explanation as to why a encrypted only closed platform shouldn't exist, you're already off the mark.
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> In other words, hourly billing guarantees a built-in cap to your annual income.

In practice that cap works out to a hard ceiling of 350K.

Which is pretty good considering you need to feed only one family of it.
Another mystery of how a story can stay on the front page for hours with one comment while others drop off more quickly with active discussion happening. I know it's been discussed before, but sometimes I'm very confused about the ranking of stories.
Apple doesnt compete on the power of their hardware - they compete on desirability. I would say hardware wise this is at least as desirable as anything that apple ships. This with a haswell refresh is going to be sweet.
What power do investors have if they don't have board control? All the percentage equity stuff seems irrelevant.
What I find neatest about this (if I recall the paper correctly), is that it's essentially the same concept as an unsharp mask filter, only taken over time instead of over space.
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Actually, human brains have been shown to be able to recognize patterns generated by non-standard sensors. Our brains seem to encode sensory data into a standardized protocol before processing it. For instance, in one study researchers encoded visual data from a camera onto a thin tape on the tongue with a grid of pressure points. Subjects received visual data through their taste buds and were able to correctly process it (i.e., catch a ball). I can't find the exact study right now but it is out there.

This is partially the basis of "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, which led to his founding of Numenta (disclosure: I worked there last summer).
In practice the manager/director is billable at a higher rate and has some hours on every project, if only reviewing the work.

But you're right in the general case, that a company whose income is from billed hours needs to bill enough to cover the whole company.
From the refs on that page, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/sep/24/scientist...

"There is little that irritates scientists more than the idea of the "boffin". This century-old meme has at least two flavours: the befuddled, bespectacled, bad-hair-day (or no-hair-day) man, socially inept but somewhat cuddly (think Doc in Back To The Future); and there is the more sinister iteration: the equally dishevelled but cold, arrogant and/or mad male meddler, bent on no good (think Rotwang in Metropolis).

"Neither of these versions is remotely flattering, and neither bears any resemblance to reality."
how to open those cells like they do in the video?
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I can remember times being a student, learning a lot, but losing focus of how amazing it was I had dedicated time solely to study. As someone working full-time now, who only gets to learn new fascinating math in his precious free time, I implore you to fully embrace the awesome opportunity in front of you. Enjoy the lecture, and milk whatever you can from this man's teaching.
There used to be an old guy camping out behind a building, near where I worked. I started talking to him and offered to buy him food for which he was grateful. He never asked for money, he was happy to get a sandwich and a large bottle of water so he'd have something to take his numerous pills from the VA with. He told me, after I inquired more about him that he was a Vietnam vet among other things. I know this is a cliche, but it wasn't information he volunteered out of the blue. He was my dad's age and I believed him. The last time I saw him he shook my hand and thanked me. I remember his hands were enormous and the skin was hard like rock.

I don't have a reason for sharing this other than your post reminded me of him.
>But if you think that changing diapers, changing clothes, breast feeding, and cleaning up vomit for your kid and giving them activities to keep them from climbing the walls is easy, then I've got a bridge to sell you.

Maybe nurse-maids are about to make a comeback.

You can hire someone to do all of those other things, except breast-feeding; where your options are to feed or to pump. Employees who choose to breastfeed still receive the periodic disruptions in absence of the baby's immediate proximity.
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Sorry if our wording was confusing. We guarantee funding for every patient profile we accept before posting it online. We adopted this process based on feedback from our Medical Partners. If you're interested, you can find more info in our FAQ and on our blog.

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The only real reason that I (as a Linux user) can see is for the amusement value, as well as the opportunity to watch others fail to boot Windows on this machine and the opportunity to engage in an extended philosophical discussion regarding this event.

Mind you, I might be a niche case.
The problem with lists is not boredom, it's importance overload.

When you have 1000 items (conservative for our business, in Asana we must have at least that many), the problem is that no matter how many categories or hierarchies you make, there's no way to make sense of the information overload. I call it importance overload because that's what it is: when everything looks the same and feels the same, everything becomes the same importance. And when you have 1000 items of the same importance, nothing is important. This is a design paradigm used on information. I think it works well to describe the problem.

There's no list structure that yet exists that solves this problem. Nothing that brings your list of 1000+ things into a manageable analogue of what is actually important for you to see and do at any given time, in any given context.

I don't think this is it, but it's getting closer. And "lists" are still not sufficient. We can do better.
Double-take: "Luckily her professor funneled money from an existing NIH grant to fund her side project."

But seriously, this is awesome, guys. So much science just doesn't get done because nobody's willing to fund it.
If their only other option is to pull themselves together and get a job, then I suppose that's true. It seems unlikely.

Don't use this as an excuse to do nothing. Be smart, but be compassionate.
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Amusingly mydomain.com is a domain registrar. I wonder how many people stumble upon it by accident.
I'm working on a project to embed WebKit in vehicles. One of the things I'm interested in doing is running a suite of tests to ascertain things like compliance with various specs and performance. I see the 28k layout tests in the WebKit repo, but would be interested in any other tests -- especially those that can be easily loaded into an iframe.
In the end I have to agree. The Sheevaplug was simply not powerful enough for the vision. I hope that we can find something that can drop in price to make this possible.
I believe it uses nrepl, not SWANK. (I wrote about the difference here: http://pchristensen.com/blog/articles/clojure-development-ec... )
I wouldn't hire a freelance tester, because it's so important, we all do testing in our business. I expect every freelance developer I hire to test everything thoroughly (and I don't just mean unit tests). They're either full-service, or I don't hire them.

I've never heard a single coworker or fellow entrepreneur say, "Gee, I really need to hire a freelance 'tester'." (Or other words that would be more likely, such as 'Q&A specialist'.) That's something people either don't do at all / don't care about, or do in-house because they know it's so important.

So, aside from arguments about skills, I don't think there's any demand.
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cyphertite uses a private (per-user) deduplication pool, not a global deduplication pool like dropbox and many other online storage providers.

Example 1 - user1 uploads file1, then at a later time user1 tries to upload file1 again. the 2nd occurrence of the data in file1 is recognized as a duplicate of what has already been stored, so the service does not re-upload the bulk data of file1. this saves bandwidth, time, cpu cycles etc.

Example 2 - user1 uploads file1, then at a later time user2 uploads file1. in a private (per-user) deduplication pool, both user1 and user2 would need to separately upload a copy of file1, but in a global deduplication pool, user2 would not need to actually upload the bulk file data since it can reference data that user1 uploaded earlier.

the upshot here is that each user has their own separate crypto keys that are used client-side, similar to spideroak, tarsnap, etc.

i could get into the details here, but it's pretty well summarized in our infographic and crypto whitepaper

https://www.cyphertite.com/papers/CT_InfoGraphic.pdf
https://www.cyphertite.com/papers/WP_Crypto.pdf
If your visitor is not in the US, add a red text or something that says exactly the quote from parent ? I too was looking for it and ended up reading the HN comment to find the answer.
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Small bug I found: When I change the editor theme to something other than `default`, the next time I start up the editor, the theme isn't loaded. Instead, I just get some light grey text on a dark grey background.

UX Annoyance: When clicking on an exception, there's no visual indication that it's been clicked on. I found that Shift+Tabbing brings you back to the editor pane (other than using the mouse).

A couple more things that could just be me being stupid. When I try to eval using Ctrl+Shift+Enter, nothing happens. Instead, I have to eval each line one-by-one. I tried creating a new key binding, but couldn't figure out how to delimit my keys to allow modifiers. I also can't figure out how to pop up documentation or data flow as demo'd in the original light table (this is my first time using any version of light table). I tried `(doc <foo>)`, but it just evaluates to `nil`.

Anyways, hope these comments might be useful in terms of my user experience as a first time user.
I'm not an expert in the history of economics, but I don't see how anything I said is controversial or obviates any debates. I find it hard to believe that any economists think that consumers do not consider these things when deciding what prices they believe are fair.
I did something similar to this with my Volkswagen. I wanted different tires, wheels, and a different stereo from what was on the car they in the lot. I ended up paying about $500 more, but received exactly what I wanted.
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He was using the example from the article - did you read it?
I don't believe that's what they're referencing, as a network link doesn't technically do any of the things you just said. It merely passes on requests for those things. At no time does a network link itself make those requests.

Comcast doesn't get sued by the RIAA for delivering packets which contain pirated music, for example.
I would say small companies aren't aware of the value either. If they're small and hiring software development contractors, they probably don't know enough about software development to do the work themselves, which means they have no basis for determining what software is worth. They probably also don't have the skills/metrics in place for determining ROI for individual aspects of their business. They just look at cash flow in and out, and from that standpoint all they see for the contractor is a definite and precise cost with a vague notion of some value.
Sure I'll have a look, email in profile.
Number of comments is not important at all, just number of upvotes.

Stories drop of quickly if they get flagged. It also depends on the amount of competition.
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I've always had the interviewing companies pay for the tickets on their end and they (or their travel agents) would send me the confirmation email/tickets.

Didn't know some companies are asking to pay for it yourself upfront first - definitely makes it more risky…
I'm a network security analyst. Either of these two books would be a good place to start. Also, if you are looking for a decent community for this type of thing, visit reddit.com/r/netsec.

Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-The-Art-Exploitation-Edition/d...

Hacking Exposed 7

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This next site is basically Youtube for security conferences. They also offer some online courses on writing exploits in assembly and python, but not all of them are free.

http://www.securitytube.net/

Computer security is just like programming, you can obtain a world class education for free, from the Internet. You just have to know where to look.

I haven't read the books that the other guys mentioned, but I've seen them recommended so often that I'd bet they're worth a read as well.
considering the tipping point of me leaving buntu was being tired of the upbreak release process, I second this idea.

they are basically adopting the debian scheme, only the stable releases will be more frequent.
That's only shared hosting though I would think.
> This article is only about primitive literals, not compound ones.

It mentions array literals: http://www.gavilan.edu/csis/languages/literals.html#_Toc7587...
Beautiful site and a great way to introduce the concept via Bageshwori. Maybe it's because I'm a parent myself, but I'm still tearing up at these pictures.

I'm donating today, and saving the link for the next person that bitches to me about another Kickstarter delay.
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What do you mean? Arch and Gentoo are two pretty successful distributions and both use a rolling release approach.
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This is just the first step in a potential future that could be huge. The consequences of which could be so persuasive i'd almost question if we could still call ourselves human. Huge changes that could help Communication improve, and general intelligence improve. Think about how much time people waste simply trying to communicate their minds vision to each other. This literally could be the most effective form of communication. Additionally imagine if its not a person on the other end, but a computer with artificial intelligence. It would literally be like having Google built into your brain. That's the intelligence explosion. Of course, if only a select few people have it, the digital divide would be huge.
I'm the President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle, which ran the drug discovery project mentioned in the article. As it happens, I did my Strata talk on Tuesday about just this topic. I will be repeating the talk in webcast form (for free) in a few weeks: http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2538 . I'll be focussing more on the data science implications, rather than implementation details.
I think the other part of what he's saying is that if they don't already know whether they have "the right people", it's because they've got mediocre management that has allowed them to skate by without setting concrete goals and building a culture of achievement.

I get that metrics don't always work well, and they may be harder to enforce for people you don't see day-in and day-out, but there's nothing stopping them from setting a goal of "complete work on X by day Y", and hold people to that, regardless of whether they're in the office or at home.
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Weird bug indeed. Is that code provided by Google? It seems that 1953569843-viewer_core.js was causing that.
What are you saying? That no one can charge more than $1k per day? Why?
While it is probably not relevant for must users, there is a subtle difference between "There exists no A record for x.example.com" and "There is no x.example.com".
Created an issue for the first [1]

Not sure about the ctrl+shift+enter not working, I'll see if I can come up with a repro. Keys are delimited with -, so Ctrl-Shift-Enter

For (doc ..) take a look at the bottom console, click the little arrow which should be blue when there's new content in there. All prints go to that console.

Thanks for the report! :)

[1]: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/281
I agree, especially about "you can do both, and if possible, you should".

I think you're right, chatmasta, about the benefits of being an employee, especially in the context of a given craft. This is exactly what I was thinking between reading the title of the article, and reading the article. Just yesterday on HN there was a very moving confessional about hacking on a production DB without transactional safety, and everyone agreed: in a sane world, junior staff learn not to do this from senior staff, rather than just trying crap and getting burned. How many things are there left to get burned on? Oh my FSM, so many. Please, please, let me learn from experienced hands, and reinvent as few wheels as possible.

But, that said, I found this article really convincing. I think all of TFA's points about the benefits of early -- crappy -- entrepreneurship are very compelling. Far more compelling than I expected. When I look around at people who're doing better (at their careers and their contributions to the world in general) than me, and people who're doing worse than me, my feeling is this: the strengths mentioned in the article (selling, managing, and focus on creating value ) are really big differentiators in determining success and impact.

I've never had my own business, so maybe I dunno what's up.
Sarcasm doesn't translate very well over the Internet.
From my own experience, I have concluded that start-ups located in the FiDi and SOMA have no idea what they are doing when it comes to interviewing and hiring. When they aren't interviewing for sport or to gather intel, they generally don't know what questions to ask to determine if someone is a good fit. EDIT: I've been asked several illegal interview questions, as well.. maybe I should start capitalizing on that.

A lot of people bash Human Resources departments, but they do inject a great deal of sanity into the process when your time is on the line.
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Sounds like they should have laid off management then. :)
Your point is fair, but they know order of magnitude. They know you're (likely) not bringing $10B annually of value, and they know it's more than your current billing rate (or they wouldn't waste time with you). The point is to talk with the client and try to pin the number down to bring your rate closer to the value.

Somebody in the enterprise is responsible for ensuring that projects aren't run without any expectation of creating value; that's the person/group to talk to. If you're not talking to that person/group, then you're right that value-based pricing is going to be hard/impossible to pull off.

If the buyer doesn't have any idea how much value you can/are creating, then your first task is to help them quantify the value (this is good for them no matter who they hire).
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