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My wife really enjoyed the experience. We had a home birth. No epidural. Two kids.

It is a life changing experience for both wife and husband. It's part of life. Life isn't a video game. It's not a synthetic experience. Some people may prefer to be a brain in a jar hooked to some wires but then where would they put the diamond ring? :-)
How, exactly, was it a private conversation? Do you not understand how social interaction works? And are you so flagrantly ignorant that you like to throw around the phrase "lynch mob" without knowing what it means, or do you really think that repeating part of a public conversation is similar to gathering a mob to murder someone?

Must be nice to lead such a sheltered life that you can so easily hallucinate about lynching.
Such a bullshit argument. "no you see, it's ok to be a bigot because of the context!" Such crap - it really sickens me to see people arguing in favor of bigotry and hate because they feel they can get away with it.
The Atlantic Cities is all about charting urban geography and lifestyles. They've covered tech private buses many times.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/12/are-silicon...
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/01/silicon-val...
This actually sounds like a promising idea, though only if you've got insane dev chops on the founding team. In the Ruby world, Sinatra would be the obvious place to start. On the other hand, you might just end up reinventing Rails.
Poll: What was your financial situation when you started your startup?
Simple question. I want to get a sense for whether people are really starting from a position of destitution or if they already secured something before they start (or if they have a cushion)

Note: the last few options (starting with "Side project+: You have an existing job and are continuing either full time or part time while you start the business") were added between 10 minutes and an hour after the poll started ("Live on social welfare programs (social security, unemployment checks)" was added after more than 300 votes were cast) , so some of the results will be skewed
Family provided an explicit cushion (e.g. trust frund)
Family didn't give an explicit cushion but could provide one (e.g. extra mortgage to give you 10-25K if you really desperately needed it)
Family can't give you funds but can let you live in basement if the startup blows up and you need to find the next thing
You personally saved up a small runway and minimized costs during the time (forbearance on loans etc) so that, even if things blew over you could survive a few months.
You have enough saved up so that even if things blew up you could last a year or more
You have friends you could lean on for support
Nothing. No one could help me out, and I would be forced to declare bankruptcy or go into prostitution if I didn't make money in a month.
He's referring to their own download page: http://designmodo.com/flat-free
Google saw Facebook as a potential identity platform and de facto backend for the entire web. It might have been paranoid in its assumptions of just how much of Google's lunch Facebook could have eaten -- but the move into social was very much a defensive move, not an offensive one.

I realize this is what Google felt, and what also seems to be accepted wisdom in the Valley, but I just don't get the logic that leads to cloning Facebook.

I do sometimes forget the whole thing about how the "advertisers (not the users) are the customer," so maybe I was wrong that they weren't competitive from that point of view.

Are we approaching a world where Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft each have their own phone, tablet, set-top box, search engine, email service, maps service, login, and "universal identity" for the web? Why does every tech company past a certain size need one of all of these things to be "competitive"?

"...pressure from Wall Street..."

Google execs were always in search of the "next billion-dollar product," so their stock would keep going up, so their employees' options would go up. It's a direct consequence of the mindset that company health equals X% growth that if you are taking over the planet in one category, you have to take over the planet in another category before long or be declared a failing company. Companies like Google try to shape the numbers as best they can to tell the story Wall Street wants to hear, but it's difficult and in the long run leads to extreme contortions.
"You honestly think that most startups are created by people with FU money?"

Let's put it to a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5404986
I'm allowed to bring a tablet, but you can't code on that :)
Reasons that you could see a thearapist, that would not traditionally be considered mental illness in casual conversation, can include: coping with occupational stress, coping with grief, preparing for anticipated grief, coming to terms with mortality, (often for children) learning what mortality is, coping with changes in lifestyle (including divorce, marriage, birth of a child, birth of a special needs child, inability to have a child, moves to unfamiliar locations, moves to unfamiliar cultures, loss of religion, loss of a job, release from prison, release from the service), (as mentioned by erikpukinskis) feelings of inadequacy or low self-esteem, ...

Just about anything people may have talked to priests about in the past they can now talk to therapists about.

Now, if you want to define mental illness such that it covers all of these things, and all the other reasons to see a therapist, that is fine. Words are just what you make of them; you can, of course, define them as you see fit.

However, if you redefine mental illness in such a way then I can see really no justification for using the negative connotations that mental illness normally holds to facilitate mock outrage ("Writing off people who want or provide a diamond ring as mentally ill (as many people in this thread seem to be doing) is silly.") Instead of criticizing erikpukinskis for "writing off those people as mentally ill", perhaps you should instead explain why you do not agree with his suggestion that low self-esteem could be a factor.
Rayiner some of your other posts are showing up as dead. I suspect this may have something to do with your other posts receiving negative points (HN algo tripped up by that probably).

I'd recommend dropping a small note to info@ycombinator.com telling them to do something about this.

edit: I just did, let's see what they do about it. (and it was this post that is showing up as dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5404947)
Google forgot who the "small" number of users were. Reader is/was a power tool for many users. I was one that wouldn't mind paying some money for the time that Reader saved me. But now I have to consider that Google can kill any of the tools that I use for any reason. There are alternate choices in all Google "strengths". And many of us will switch to them.
Contrary to what? You really think a bunch of people owning most of the land makes us more civilized? That this is not barbarism? HEH.

Are you comparing pillagers with land owners? Sigh

and I also mentioned people owning their time and work

Tell me what kind of work you can produce without using any natural resources?

I suggest shared ownership of shared resources, born out of taking selfish human delusions less seriously. I suggest a bigger focus on stewardship and less delusions of ownership.

This is nothing but a subtle leash.
>how about just intentionally using an older text ...

Tried it. Those god-damned greedy SOB's buy up all the previous editions and shred them. It's hard to find copies even on the internet after a couple semesters. I still list previous editions of texts on my syllabi though, but students who are on fin-aid are herded toward the campus bookstore.
Any suggestion that implies Golang + Gorilla is comparable to Rails is poorly informed (and I really like Golang).

"You know what you could do instead of using Rails? Implement your own ad-hoc version of 60% of Rails!"
You need to bake fitness into your startup culture
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I don't understand how/why older employees will earn higher salaries than younger ones. Don't younger ones often have higher starting salaries than the older ones, even after adjusting for inflation (because the skills of the younger ones are presumed to be more cutting edge and because the dev shortage continues to grow). So, all other things being equal - number of moves, % increase, inflation - won't the younger ones start and finish at a higher salary than the older ones? Having said all that, I do agree that much of meritocracy is a myth...just not necessarily for the reason(s) stated.
That is an ideological libertarian viewpoint, where even taxes are considered as violence. Not useful.

There is a difference between going to jail for 4 years and just going bankrupt. The first you lose your freedom, the second you just lose your property but can at least keep living. Many people would never recover mentally from being incarcerated for 4 years, but many can recover from bankruptcy.
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It was either that or you're a Rails developer.
I was not aware of that. Very cool, thanks for the link!
Obnoxious and utterly ignorant of the law! Keep it up, clown.
The psychology of diamonds only works if you pay a lot for the stone. I would posit that synthetic diamonds fail for the same reasons that knock-offs like cubic zirconiums fail. They don't deliver on the promise of the advertising. The advertising promises that your love can only be shown by spending a lot of money on this specific thing with these specific set of arbitrary selected attributes. E.g., it must come from the ground, and it must cost a lot of money, even if your only reward is that you can tell people you spent a lot on it and that it came from the ground.

It's not rational; it's an emotional. Society has a tremendous emotional investment in the concept of the diamond engagement ring.
Consider that SecureRandom is really a facade around multiple providers that can plug in varying implementations. :)
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Was it done on Walmart shoppers? That would be a huge selection bias.
I'm laughing because we were arguing back and forth in this thread, and your description of the type of man you want you daughter never to marry matches me exactly.

I hope you get your wish! Children often find a way to push our buttons, however.
I must confess that this went over my head :(
What were you implying, if you would care to explain?
The "backwards-incompatible change" was part of a security fix, not an unrelated non-security change.
You don't have to register. Though that makes thinks easier. You can submit and discuss your questions AND watch the broadcast when it goes live here: http://cojourneo.com/broadcast/surviving
Yes, it's for signaling peers, not partners. I assume most people who buy a Porche do so for the same reason: they want their community to know they have a lot of disposable income.
The point isn't that they had a security flaw, it's that the patch release fixing it changed the god damn default ORM's semantics!
Pretty sure Apple's iCloud runs on a mix of azure and vmware vsphere clusters, fwiw.
Use reflection to read n. Reflection lets you bypass |private|.
In the age of everyone claiming to be the CTO or co-founder of something, Malcolm's first self introduction to me was extraordinarily short: "Hi Alex, my name is Malcolm. I'm a senior developer."

During one two hours conversation at KiwiPycon, he left the strong impression of being one who can argue very convincingly from both side. He made it clear, again and again, that as engineers, there is "no camp" for us to choose. Rather we should all be a bit more patient and make careful "case-by-case" decisions.
Wait, what company went from uncapped note angel funding directly to a billion dollar valuation?
Indeed its a matter of basic education really: most people don't know about spammers or how well organized they are but the moment they learn about their tactics they catch on quick and stop falling for link bait blogs and comment spam.

Better that than not being able to install what you want because "the garden protects us!"
In most circles the definition of investing is the deployment of capital for some expected return on that capital. You can't just take something else that feels like investing and start calling it that.
I'm so excited to see this posted everywhere. It will be just like reddit where everyone makes a loose connection to what they think is a logical fallacy and then just shouts that instead of taking time to actually put thought into a post. And I can just imagine the smugness that goes along with posting that.

He implied black boxes are bad. ORMs are black boxes, so are dozens of things that programmers use every day. I understand some of the arguments about why ORMs are bad, but it hardly stems purely from them being a black box.

BTW: My post is not an example of a slippery slope fallacy.
There is a difference between a public facing website and what the CIA will use AWS for.
OCaml [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2235204
Well you could send the previous referrer(s) as an array in a GET request on the iframe? So the child iframe gets the referrer and the previous referrer(s)? The ad company should be able to pick that up by looking at the request data. However on a small-scale this would be easily bypassed and most likely go under the radar with most advertisers.
I'm not the one that implied all blackboxes are bad.
Sure, I'm not saying that you don't provide value and you don't go to work every day. But remember, your business is much more about idea/team/market/execution arbitrage in a fairly illiquid environment than it is about doing the actual dirty work. VC is much more a meta-business than a "regular" business.
G2, Nexus 1, S2 and the mytouch 3g aka G1 looked really nice compared to the other phones out there
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Sort of, in the sense that we intentionally focus all our attention on the things that matter.
And you would lose.

> In the United States [..] consent is not as a rule required to photograph people in public places and publish those photos. Hence, unless there are specific local laws to the contrary, overriding legal concerns (e.g., defamation) or moral concerns (e.g., picture unfairly obtained) [..]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_ide...
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Can someone explain what this is asking? I don't know java
ah ha! That might of being too big of a hint, good sir.
Sure, but part of the point of the article was that the "created" diamonds could be made that are literally indistinguishable from those found in the ground. Seems like that has the potential to disrupt the diamond cartel's stranglehold on supply.
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that should throw an exception with the security manager on. I think. I might of read the docs wrong.
Why someone would design a charting library and design the dataTable without reusing someone else's format is completely beyond me.

This one is specially bad because it mixes format with content, I thought we learned it was bad idea when we came up with CSS.

Why not use the same data format as Google Chart Tools and make it dead simple to switch from one library to the other or to integrate with several data sources available for Google Chart Tools?

And if you are still mad about Reader and feel rebel just use the same format as highcharts or <insert here random charting library here>.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is beautiful, and other than this small design rant I appreciate your work a lot and the effort to bring it to the world open source. Thanks a lot.
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I theorize that the U.S. has never been so close to actual fascism as we were in 2003.
For the first few years, there were lots of sites that were designed for IE that broke in Firefox. Thus, at first, it was actually worse for many people. Yet, because the early adopters kept pushing it on everyone of their malware-ridden friends and relatives, it grew in usage anyway, allowing Mozilla to afford to make it better.
I think people forget how transformative Rails was. When it came out it blew people away. We all make fun of the 15 min blog today, but at the time it was really impressive. Nowadays it's not so amazing by comparison because everyone's caught up.

Honestly, I think it's great that this all gets aired out in the open. The amount of transparency behind all of this is a breath of fresh air.

Rails has had its share of growing pains; it really sucks that a security patch had a regression and I think this gave people a lot of flash backs to the pre Rails 3 days. By the end of this, however, we'll end up having a solid security infrastructure.

I'm willing to wager that 90% of the time these kinds of issues just get swept under the rug and silently patched.
Man this thread is killing me. Apparently I need to start wearing my salary and Mint.com balance on a name-sticker on my shirt to attract more mates. And then when I get one, make them wear a sticker indicating that they are mine, because without that, surely they would just be scooped up by the next person looking to own another person.
That is possible (we had several people using Amazon instances to do it), however the main tracker that usernames get pulled from only hands out users at a limited rate (to prevent us taking down the entire site again)
Yes, I 100% believe in focusing on your core competencies. If the OLAP is self-hosted or external, the key takeaway is to not do analysis against production (once your data set is larger than RAM ;) before that, who cares?)
www.symform.com gives you UNLIMITED cloud storage. The catch? you get a certain amount free but for more space you have to share your hard drive space. I use it for data redundancy and it works fuckin great =)
How about this one?
http://xkcd.com/221/
Tried it. You spend way too much time solving problems that are already easily solved in the existing larger ecosystems.
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When dies are produced from the fab they are broken into different lots based on results from testing. This is based on the error performance. While one lot may not work as the top of the line model, it may meet the requirements for a lower power unit. Buyer beware. While you can possibly overclock your video card, you certainly run the risk of a higher number of issues.
Indeed, it is arguably more of a concern for women who are more educated and thus more "equal" in relationships with men. A worry among my ambitious female friends is getting stuck in a relationship where they are both the primary caregiver children and the primary breadwinner. And it's not an idle concern. Society pushes the role of primary caregiver on women. I'm father of the year when people find out I take the night feedings, but my wife gets nothing but criticism for not breast feeding, for the kid not being sufficiently bundled up, for the kids bottle not being capped while in the stroller cup holder (this happened today).
As an expert on security, what makes you think that in 2013 every webapp out there should still be backed by SQL and running SQL queries?

I mean is SQL something inherently so secure that all webapp devs should use?

If you're not a DB expert, what would be your rationale for using SQL instead of other alternatives?

It's not like if every website out there was using SQL. Heck, not even all sites are using OO languages.

So while I agree that an ORM is nice if you're stuck that particular Java/C# + SQL hell I fail to see how exactly OP did imply that he recommended objects and SQL...

He said ORM sucked. Not that he was using "objects" and SQL...
Atlassian isn't going to spam Stash or BitBucket to the exposed users. They'd get crucified.

There might be a few users who were already frustrated and switch on their own, but I think the big problems are an ongoing spearphishing risk and a bruised ego.
I'm not quite following you. A diamond ring communicates to your peers and acquaintances that you have money. A bank statement only does that if you go around showing it to people.
SQL is not intrinsically insecure.
You should report the bug (or upvote it, if that's the kind of bug tracker Gdrive uses). And convince everyone you know to, as well. The best way to get a bug addressed is to file it through official channels.
Most of my college meals consisted of pizza, ramen, and soda. The human body does pretty well with the shit I often give it. If someone wants to hack their body to improve their health; I'm all for it.
Good to hear!

Thank you.

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So basically buying a ring is a shortcut to actually understanding and trusting each other.
>> I hate that starting a company is becoming almost trendy now and everyone is trying it.

I think it is fantastic that people want to create companies. After all entrepreneurs take risks to create jobs, value and wealth.
Ill download the darn thing before it gets pulled off again, I really like style.
The Ripple protocol can't be anonymous because it's a ledger; I'm pretty sure you need to give up at least one of anonymous, decentralized, secure-in-software-only.

Bitcoin is decentralized and secure-in-software, as is ripple.

Blinded tokens are decentralized and secure in software.

Cash (physical notes) are decentralized (per-issuer, like USG vs. JPN)/anonymous. You could do a trusted computing/smartcard protocol which was decentralized and anonymous, too. In both cases the level of security is down to physical counterfeiting or reverse engineering of circuits, which is a much weaker guarantee than cryptography.

I don't think there's a tractable software-only, distributed, anonymous system. The only way I could think of doing it is some kind of proof of work where the work required (storage or CPU) was something >50% of all resources in the world. Bitcoin has it easier because it's able to keep a record.

You can approximate software-only-secure, anonymous, and decentralized by having lots of distinct software-secure, anonymous systems more easily than you can approximate the trinity from other systems, I think. Even if you use a mix, vpn, etc to anonymize yourself with bitcoin, it leaks enough information to make someone identifiable.
What makes you think women, as a whole entire gender of people, enjoy making other people feel inadequate?

Perhaps if she's going to wear a ring for the rest of her life, she wants it to be a nice ring that is color neutral. Perhaps she doesn't want something cheap and easily replaceable acting as a symbol for your marriage.
It's been done: Pink products to support breast cancer research, PRODUCT (RED) for combating AIDS in Africa.
That won't work. The point here is that you don't have the number available.
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There is a really big number you don't know. You should get the square root for it.
He specifically says you need to leave the security manager in place and you can't use setAccessbile() which you need to do with the default security manager.
It seems like there should be a few more options.

My case would be bootstrapping and paying bills through parttime contract work.
The US does bad things so I can justify supporting child exploitation? Adoption is a bad choice for smart parents? Man, are you for real?
It's like believing in the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny, but for adults.

What other manufactured fairy tales have huge quantities of humans swallowed hook line and sinker?
So why are people talking about vulnerabilities and 'timing attacks' then? and how are you supposed to get the square root of a number you dont know..