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Ehhh, I am not sure that this is truly the issue with your presentation.

If it is truly "we can do X just like FamousApplication(tm), except we are in the browser and we can be profitable charging 10% as much as FamousApplication(tm)", that is pretty compelling. That is not something that is really difficult to sell if you can truly deliver and be profitable at that price point.

I am not sure how it is possible you can replace a computationally expensive client side application like MatLAB with something that runs in the cloud, without discovering order of magnitude more efficient solutions for a wide array of well know mathematical algorithms. If you have discovered such then you can pretty much write your own check, if not there is no way you can scale as a service. Thats what I would think you have to convince potential investors about.
I get what you're trying to do, or at least I think I do, but I also simultaneously think there's something not-quite-right with your statement. I think you need to be careful that you're not reinforcing to your daughter that being a girl is a kind of disability. One that she doesn't have to try and hide from the computer, only people.
> As a private tax payer - the IRS would have no problem calling this a tax-aviodance "scheme" - and hit me with a big tax bill and penalties.

That's not actually true. If you could figure out a way to make your salary accrue overseas, you could shift it to a low-tax jurisdiction too. The IRS is actually very anal-retentive about following the letter of the law, and doesn't just capriciously decide to treat the same situation differently depending on who is on the other side of the table.

The difference is not that the law is designed to benefit big corporations, or that big corporations don't follow the law, it's that big corporations with international presences have a more complex tax situation than you do, which they can leverage to minimize their tax liability (in the face of tax haven jurisdictions).

There is pretty much no doubt that everything you earn as a salaried employee in California ought to be taxed by California and the U.S. But if you're a multi-national corporation, why should the U.S. collect taxes on all of your income when part of it may be due to, say, a product made in China being sold to someone living in the UK?
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There is no reason static languages can't support REPLs and evaluation. All of my live orgiramming work so far has involved rich static typing, though I admit more implicit typing would make the experience better....
Drop billions of RFID tags into asphalt, make a millimetre-accurate real world map and rent the data to Google. Or do nothing and let Google figure it out.
iMac was introduced in 1998, iPod in 2001, iPhone in 2007, MacBook Air in 2008, and iPad in 2010. All those product lines are still highly profitable. Even if Apple were not to come up with new product categories in the next two years, they would continue to grow.

However, Tim Cook hinted at the introduction of a new product category in the coming year. http://allthingsd.com/20130424/apple-has-amazing-stuff-comin...
Time for court. No kidding.
Breastfeeding doesn't interfere with work. Mothers can pump and store. Or they can choose to not work for a while, just as anyone else can.
I'm definitely going to give this a try, because filtering sounds like an interesting concept, and I might find some inspiration...

For those still seeking new RSS reading experiences (and because I think HN tends to be OK with self-promotion in comments) I'd like to suggest my product - http://www.rivered.io. It's a bit different - focusing on a clean 'river of news' rather than inbox style or categorising. To directly answer some of the questions around FeedWrangler:

- it has an OPML export feature.
- it has a free 30 day trial, and you can at least see what it looks like without dropping your card details.
- there's a screenshot.

I still think there's a lot of innovation to be done around RSS feeds...
Summary: He did you not use oem unlock (but he could have if he wanted to), but rather exploited a race condition bug that let him gain root.
What was the new employer's policy?
Relevant - 4 days ago there was a twitter pic posted and much discussion on HN [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5614920
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We also don't typically use HTML as an interchange format between editors.
Uh, yet another collector/grapher. That's nice but..

We have tons of collectors. And tons of graphers. What we have not is a little bit of smarts in that tools. Ability to predict and ability to react.

Predict. We have Holt-Winters Forecasting Algorithm implemented in RRDTool from 2005 and a couple of papers.

React. I'm not talking about 'fix it automagically'. But everyone wants to know 'wtf was that peak on this graph last night?'. Usually your never know, except the simplest cases. Because you cannot collect everything about everything all the time. But monitoring system could enable 'collect everything we can' for short period of time when it detects something. Something wrong or something strange, something out of the pattern. Does anybody hear about system with something like that?
I would argue you're not gaining much by complicating that specific table structure, since that information is going to be stored in the layer_attributes table where it naturally belongs. There may be several other attributes that can affect whether or not to load the resulting binary blob into memory.
Thank you for this contribution. My business uses Freshbooks, and I was unaware of this.
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It legalizes asking for accounts, in very limited circumstances, in a manner that makes is extraordinarily risk simply to ask. It doesn't legalize seizing accounts.

You get that under at-will employment, there's a UNIVERSE of unreasonable requests employers can make that will permit them to fire you directly, right?
To the people who say this is an online Matlab replacement, I do not think the website, http://www.vectera.com/, presents itself that way. First it says "Learn Matlab", to me this presents itself as another online programming class. I am not saying this is a bad thing, I personally use Matlab every day and see the value. However, I could not find anywhere it talked about online Matlab collaboration.

Also even though the word Matlab is all over the front page, when I went to the about section it said it was powered by Octave. Again, this is not an inherently bad thing. However, I thought this was an online time-sharing license of genuine Matlab. I would pay $9/month for that; I would not pay $9/month for Octave which I have installed on my notebook.

Also you can generally get a student version of Matlab for around $100 so if the only purpose is learning and not "production" Matlab, I do not think it is fair to compare to the $2,000 version.
Its not that I reject them wholesale, its that both systems desperately need to be fixed. I'll admit, I don't have the solution, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist.
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Email deliverability is a field of landmines - definitely use a service that specialises in email.

At http://SupportFu.com we use mailgun & postmark for transaction emails.
"woah, this is unlike anything I've seen before." - it so totally isn't, if you know Ruby and to a lesser extent JS, both popular languages. It's a funky syntax coating on a fairly normal dynamic language, with about three quirks (tail calling, homoiconicity, and call/cc) all of which are more of interest academically than practically.
Looks great!

Just confirmed matplotlib/pylab plotting working with Anaconda Python distribution. (To get LightTable to not use the system python, I had to go through some hoops... creating an environment.plist didn't seem to work.)

The dot-completion seems like it still needs work, but it's pretty neat to have an alternative web-based REPL front-end to the IPython kernel than just IPython Notebook.
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I just filed an issue that might be related: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/469
The car knows where it is to within a few cm. No need for anything except a database of parking information. Don't clutter up the environment with QR codes that humans can't read.
I'm not surprised. I can imagine a doctor saying they learned more from doing a few surgeries than from years of education on anatomy and surgical techniques. It says that hands-on practical experience provides far more information than theoretical concepts in a classroom. I don't think it would be wise to have doctors skip their education, however, as the education provides the framework of understanding which enables the hands-on experience to be so beneficial.
"Implicit demand" by nature can be used by every entreprenuer for most ideas.
If you earned the money overseas (and paid taxes on it where it was earned), it isn't subject to US taxes, and is therefore, not tax evasion.

Now, Apple's cash takes quite a (currently legal) trip around the world, but the basic principal is the same.
I'm still not sure how I feel to be getting these advantages though. I feel like, the more advantages like this are offered, the more it dilutes my actual accomplishments. I feel like there's a subtext of resentment and doubt saying "Well, she only accomplished that because she received certain privileges."

I recently won a competition, which is great and all, but I always wonder in the back of my mind if I won it because I was the only woman in the competition.

And I know that's probably crazy but judging some of the HN comments about these kind of things, people clearly do think that way. I just want to be recognized solely for what I accomplish and not "Good for you, you're a FEMALE software developer!"
FXG could have solved the single file problem by grouping all the files up and making a zip file, and picking a different extension. For example this is how Android (.apk) and iOS (.ipa) applications are distributed.

It also has the advantage that if you extract the zip you can now access whatever pieces are inside as separate files even by tools that don't understand the containing format. (eg a bunch of jpg/png inside the zip are perfectly viewable in any image viewer). Trying to do the same with SQLite is problematic as you have to write queries to grab the blobs and then dump them to disk.

Where SQLite as a format does shine is if you need to keep historical information such as an undo/redo log. That makes it good for an application format, but not for an interchange format.
This really needs to be the top comment.

Despite what you think you saw in that meeting, you really have no idea why they rejected you (see Rashomon[1]).

And while writing this kind of post can be cathartic, you're also leaving behind an artifact that will be there to remind you again in the future.

You're almost better off just writing a draft post to get it off your chest, then deleting a few days later.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/?ref_=sr_1
>What do you think it will take for women to be successful in the technology field?

>Equal pay for men and women with same skill sets: Women: 65.5%, Men: 46.8%

Clearly two different perceptions.

Off the top of my head, I'd expect any gender wage gap in tech to be small relative to other fields.

A quick search seems to bear that out [1][2][3].

1: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2031357/gender-gap-in-tech-sa...

2: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.pdf

3: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2013/04/09...
Actually, there is a fair amount of overlap between collectd and Heka. And Heka provides mechanisms for in-flight data processing and graphing output, in addition to logging and routing. But you're also right that Heka might in some cases also be used in place of syslog.

Of course, both syslog and collectd have been around and battle-hardened for many(!) years, whereas this first Heka release is being called "0.2-beta-1" for a reason. I wouldn't go rush into replacing any mission-critical infrastructure just yet. ;)
> For example this is how Android (.apk) and iOS (.ipa) applications are distributed.

A more relevant example: this is how .docx files work, for very much the same reasons (one XML file at the root, and then a bunch of referenced resources.)
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Appreciate the comment. However, our issue was how we pitched our big vision, not what we are now (as you see on the homepage, a Matlab learning platform).
I think the entire ensuing discussion and a small part of this followup article point to the fact that at the time at which he exploited the device, the kernel source was unavailable, as well as that flashing a new boot image is only useful if you can actually build a kernel to flash.

Given that the kernel source was not made available until the next day, he could not have used oem unlock - even "if he wanted to."
This is an issue regardless of these incentives. It's the same as being told your brother must have gotten you into gaming; just being a woman isn't enough for you to be an individual with your own brain.
I imagine you could just use a 3d camera to figure out how far away things are. Or at least approximate it.
Is it legal to do this in California? I personally have my boss and other co-workers on added Facebook - I don't have anything to hide and everyone I work with is freaking awesome so they wouldn't care anyhow; although if I was forced to hand over my information, I'd probably quit - There's plenty of other great companies to work at. But luckily that's not the case, as my employer is awesome.
Your wish is my command.

$username = array();
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This, Sublime Text is actually in my view a good looking and fast editor, with plugin support and multiselection. LT is now missing multiselection.
I don't understand what you mean. ST3 is scripted in Python. If Python was as pervasive in ST3 as elisp is in Emacs, and provided similar concepts (buffers, regions, markers, modes, hooks, advices...), why couldn't it "replace"[1] Emacs?

[1] replace here means "being as powerful as", not actually converting Emacs users, most which are happy with Emacs..
I guess this is the reason why you have to show traction.
Yes, but the site has significant flaws when it comes to handling old content regurgitated on other sites. Which is why it's relevant to point out how old a post is - because the site itself doesn't.

In this case, this is essentially a repost of something PG put up three years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071429

It's simply not detected because it's in a different publication on a different URL. If the dupe system was more "effective" it wouldn't even show up, as it's exactly the kind of repost that is intended to catch.
Don't get me wrong; I feel compassion for anybody working a job they don't want to, especially if they are forced to by a combination of economic pressure and a lack of value as an employee, real or perceived.

However, part of building value as an employee (in fact as a human being) is deciding what levels are treatment are unacceptable and standing up against them.

Are you suggesting that someone of less skill or experience has no right (forget legally - morally) to quit their job, even if it means a future of greater economic risk?

If your husband or wife, brother or sister, parent, best friend, roomate - whomever - comes to you and tells you that they are going to have trouble meeting their obligations to you because they quit their unjust job, tell them, "you did the right thing. You need to value yourself and love yourself. I'll do my best to get by until you can pay me back, and I'll help you find a job that respects you in the mean time."

No?
Hence, "show traction".
How is that different from a psd or editable fireworks png file? I can have several groups with various visibility toggles that any normal user wouldn't see unless they dig into the layers.
Love the style. Feels like Space Quest.
And we also need to understand that all these social networks are in business of spamming people ("growing the network"). Hey I remember back in 2006 (maybe 2005?) Facebook invited all my all my Gmail contacts to Facebook (including people who interviewed me ...).
That is the key of their existence, so I'm not sure how anybody in right mind can expect anything else. Maybe I'm too old and see these things as they are...
looked at your product, it appears to be quite literally octave in the cloud.

Serious question, How can this scale to tens of thousands of users simultaneously using it? It is entirely possible that this is no where near as performance intensive as I am assuming it to be.

Second question, Whats to stop a competitor from doing the same thing your doing at half the price? It seems like it would be relatively trivial for another company to take input matlab programs from a browser, shell out to octave, and then return the results via the http response, and make it look pretty on the client. There may be a whole lot more going on, but from the outside looking in it appears like there is no moat, any technically decent company could enter this niche and do the same exact thing your doing with minimal effort.

Those two questions you have to answer i think rather than whether or not this is a 'solution' or a 'something'
Thanks for the reply. I indeed was thinking of just comparing the encrypted bits.

That requires that encrypting X always produces the same bits. Reading on ElGamal on Wikipedia learnt me that it does not guarantee that; it also doubles messages in size, as you thought. That will thwart this attack for any reasonable size of the encoded messages.

One could do the comparison inside the crypto system, but that would not help either, as one cannot check the outcome of such a comparison.
I think the right measure of a programmer's worth is "the amount they'd get acqui-hired for if they made a product that caught some large company's attention." [...] By this measure, even the most crap programmer is worth $500k.

To me, this just proves that most programmers are stuck on dead-end make-work (see: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/fourth-quadra... ) of very low yield.

Acq-hires are a sign of advanced trust sparsity. Enough bozos have gotten in (and bozo management is a more common culprit in this regard than bozo engineers) that the company has lost faith in its ability to find talent at the bottom. That might be a problem with its people; more often, it means that the middle-management filter keeps out light both ways. Employees don't know what's worth working on; people at the top don't know who the good employees (if any are still around, and once this happens many have left) are.

A mediocre programmer that the company trusts is worth $500,000++ per year. An untrusted programmer is worth zero (actually, I'd argue, negative once they realize that the organization will never trust them) and put on low-yield busy-work or sent on wild goose chases (maintenance projects that won't work, "make it work exactly like the old system, but <X>" projects) and generally loaded with crap work to test reliability.

Most companies, because developer salaries are so low in comparison to what we're worth (if trusted), feel like that's an excuse to hire 5x the number of people they actually plan on trusting. The problem is that good people are the first ones to leave when given crappy, obviously evaluative, work.
Wow, now I know what to study! sigh
Future product idea, ever-cool eye drops. Keep the CPU in your contacts from over heating with this fast evaporating fluid.
So you've bought something deliberately because it's the cheap option that comes with a downside.

And now you want to drop the downside. Maybe you'll even be successful, at least a little... good luck.
Why would you need the kernel source to fastboot unlock?
To be fair, I'd say the goal of my article is to just make certain that everyone else can replicate what I did and learn from it; normally I'd co-release a post with the announcement, but I wanted to do the announcement sooner and wasn't expecting it to burn quite so much of my time.

Additionally, my article documents the threat of this kind of security exploit on Glass, along with some issues with this specific device that make exploits of any kind more dangerous (the lack of a PIN being key), as well as looking at some scary examples of Glass-specific malware opportunities.
The funky syntax does enough to knock an 18-year-old freshman out of his one-track mind. That's all you need.
But that's because HTML has complicated and ambiguous rendering rules, not because everyone hates structured, human-readable index documents.
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What gets me annoyed is that we also submitted, didn't get an interview and could have answered those questions easily. We've got some good early validation of the fact that we are filling a need (or would once releasing a V1)...
How about just making a detachable LHe tank and send some replacement helium every few years? Shouldn't be too costly even given the day-to-day cost of running a space observatory.
I encourage you to read the article, as this is one of the things that I cover (including a quote from the developer of ClockwordMod regarding the practicality of using fastboot oem unlock for purposes of getting root on a device without anything to start with, such as kernel source in specific).

So, it is possible, it just isn't practical, especially when an exploit happened to be so easy to come by. Once you then have a security exploit, you can then start to ask "what does this let me do that an unlocked bootloader does not", and the ramifications on Glass are, at least to me, interesting.
It would be. That probably explains why yahoo has a policy that both parents get 8 weeks after adoption. Its in the article.
It's certainly not available out-of-box, and it would take a bit of work, but it should be possible to build something like this with Heka. You could write a dynamic filter plugin that watched for peaks in a specific graph (or any other arbitrary trigger) and, if found, generate a message to trigger the activation of a bunch of new dynamic filters, quickly turning on a more comprehensive set of data analyzers.
I just went to the path app on the Google Play store and marked every user review that mentions the spamming as helpful. People should know about this before they download, but most only read the first three reviews and don't look closely at permissions.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.path&f....
The problem is this: say you are my friend, and you have such a (fuzzily defined) "employer provided" account.

If I have trusted your account, without knowing that it is your business account, my expectation of privacy for personal information I have shared with you is now broken.

It's an easy cop-out to say don't share anything you don't want shared with everyone. Too easy.

I do want to be able to share with just certain friends, and I don't want to unexpectedly have that shared, semi-private, information shared with the company they work for. This is a serious flaw with the bill.
Bullshit. I'm sick of hearing this myth to justify immoral behaviour of corporations. The owners of a corporation can freely define its purpose. There is no legal obligation to maximize profits. And in most countries (I can't speak for the Anglo-American system), it would not be possible to sue the management for not doing tax-avoidance unless the shareholders very specifially required the management to do so at a general assembly.