skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's difference which is much bigger though: VC's can take much bigger advantage of a 25 year old than a 50 year old.

This deserves more attention, in light of ageism concerns.

If a 50 yo founder has used his time wisely, built up connections, deep domain knowledge, general know-how, decent bank account, there is little reason for him to take external investments. Even in the rare occasions he does, he is well aware of his value, and demand favorable term sheets.

On the other hand, if a 50 yo founder doesn't have the confidence, connection or personal wealth to fund his own venture without a good reason. He is looked much less favorable than a 20 yo in the same state.

In short, the older you are, the more is expected of you.
Definitely agree that a cash incentive would be better, but I think a karma based version is worth a shot. I'm looking at it more like an experiment than a startup at this point.

Look at wikipedia, which beats out any paid enycolpedia. The goal is similar: focus on a dedicated group of core users (news junkies/ econ geeks) who create something that is valuable for everyone.
Chrome asks for Facebook password on... Google.com?
A really good way to increase the diversity of your staff is to encourage education for minority groups.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that the door was not ordinarily used by anyone, something akin to the jail version of a fire exit. I believe it was set to alarm regardless of who opened it, but if an authorized person opened it, presumably they would let whomever receives the alarms know about it in advance and not send in an army of officers.
If you don't need all that glitz, here's a jQuery plug-in: http://zikes.github.io/circle-menu/

The best (semi)circular menus I've seen recently are in the iD editor for OpenStreetMap: http://ideditor.com/
I'd be okay with this being mandatory in some sense to our future descendants, after it becomes uniquitous enough that it's only the lone straggler who doesn't have one.

Not for government bulletins, though--for instant-vote referrendums :)
The real value of an MBA is the signalling it provides future employers - that you are sufficiently smart, diligent & focused to get into a B school, and prepared to do long & arduous hours for the company in order to get ahead.

The content is beneficial but inconsequential - not much more than a broad survey of intro/mid level undergrad stuff - and certainly nothing that a mildly dedicated auto-didactic couldn't learn with a local library card.

The tech world is one in which there are many ways to signal competence, and I'd argue that an MBA is a highly inefficient way of doing that. And even if you do find a tech company that does value MBAs, do you really want to work for one that values inefficient mechanisms or academic pedigree highly over say, competent contribution to open source?

That said, I don't regret doing an MBA - it was the seed that lead me to where I am now - doing a PhD in Philosophy
It is estimated that 9-12% of programmers are women. I don't have any figures on salaries but most of us don't get to be CEO unless you start your own business.
First I use as a river of information...
the ones I like I send to instapaper to read later with attention on my cellphone.
Steve Jobs Was Right About Tablets: Is the 3rd Device a Keeper?
Actually all of the bigger SoC families bring USB gadget support with them... the Linux kernel has at least support for USB mass storage and networking (of course, networking is useless, because of low speed) - so it should be possible indeed to internally connect the USB jumpers to the ipkvm board to provide HID and storage.

The only thing is now to get a cheap way to adapt VGA (or better yet, DVI) to an SoC. Video encode is supplied with the chips, the real difficulty will be getting the signals to the CPU, though.
Statistically, one cannot locate a mean or establish a standard deviation using only the provided remark -- the values could be nearly anywhere, with some broad limitations.
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That might be true for certain classes or certain programs, but it didn't matter a bit for 90% of what I did.

Life experience doesn't help you project free cash flow, consider the complexities of pricing strategy, understand accounting rules, or really, do anything else we did over the course of those two years.

Maybe it helps with management classes, but the only management class I took was a complete throwaway.

Edit- Got hung up on the life experience bit and didn't address work experience, but in many cases, much of the same applies. There was nothing conceptually difficult about any of the classes I took. At times, my work experience was relevant, but the only benefit was needing less time than some of my classmates to internalize some of the ideas.

Now, I realize that I can't just jump in to a position where someone with 10 years of experience in X + an MBA would be, but that was never my expectation. My expectation was to get good foundational knowledge in a variety of areas. And I got that, just not to the extent I expected. I was just disappointed in how easy a lot of it was.
Visit Eve Online in Oculus Rift
LGPL basically means that if I modify the libary code, I should open source the changes, but I can build derived products (in GPL sense) from an unchanged lib as much as I want. This static vs dynamic linking debate is a silly pendantry, enforcing which doesn't contribute anything to the GNU's goals or vision. It's really disappointing to see people time on this. If you want to pursue justice - go after the GPL violations. Making one to re-link a binary to force a compliance is a misplaced effort and essentially a waste of everyone's time.
Nursing and other non-doctoral programs work hard to increase the numbers of men. It is never seen as reverse sexism in these cases.
Here is how I deal with them. I always reply with:

"I will not consider any position that pays less than $200,000 a year. Non-negotiable."

They leave me alone.
As much as I'd love to attribute this to the dark side, it's probably just your browser prefetching the first hit. They're big on that kind of stuff.
Elon Musk said "Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death." (see http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/05/elon-musk-on-the-best-way-t... )

So yes, it's supposed to feel like that.
Ubisoft launches Assassin’s Creed IV companion app
Mountain Lab: An Interview With Scott McGuire
The rebuttals seem pretty weak. The only substantive criticisms made were already addressed or changed. Most of the "point made" basically amount to name calling.
Yes, they do. Or use gender-neutral names or non-de-plumes.
Writing code in an open source environment can be extremely intimidating. There is an unfortunate element of elitism around writing code and this can be very off putting for many people. Being able to code, learn, and get criticism in the privacy of a private repository is a big step toward open sourcing your code
Laziness or ineptitude. In case they are using MD5 or SHA1 due to legacy systems then migrating passwords to a new encoding is troublesome at best and impossible at worst.

Many tutorials and reference documents use MD5 and SHA1 in their coding examples, so right from the get-go novice developers are at an automatic disadvantage.
LivingSocial has also made significant contributions to Resque, which I maintain.
Much bigger than linkedin compromised.
I've actually recommended this service to a client of mine as I didn't have time to take on their work.
This might seem like a strange submission, but I thought it was worth submitting for all the insights into very hardcore "user centred design"
It turns out I was wrong about log-runtime-metrics! Please see the followup post: http://siliconisland.ca/2013/04/26/beware-of-the-zombie-proc...
> Is their Github account a good indication of the state of their Rails setup?

No. Source: former employee
Cydia Founder Saurik Jailbreaks Google Glass
oh this isn't fantastic enough for CSI or BONES to use... not enough 3D graphics... very cool visual none the less..
But perhaps the prior use could help to demonstrate that "eat more ..." is just a generic statement, and so the "eat mor chikin" trademark shouldn't be applied so broadly?
Email sent with phone number. Thanks! Can't say how much I appreciate it. But, I'll try. Pumped for Sunday! Pumped for phone call today!
And that's the fucking truth right there: VCs love to find young stupid (but bright) kids. They are easy to fool, will jump at any opportunity, and most importantly, don't know shit about money. Meaning that they can get them to work for peanuts. That is why the tech industry likes them young.
"Nutritionist Explains Why...", no she doesn't.
He means actually working with them, not the spam. They seem puzzlingly worthless. I actually asked a guy at an interview, years ago, "Why do you use recruiters?" and he said it saved time going through resumes. As if that's worth a fat commission: Using some lib-art knucklehead who can distinguish 5 years of .NET from 3 years of .NET.

Also, they sometimes call your office. If you don't have a good relationship with your receptionist, never ever use them.
keyboard cat heading your way... EDIT: not sure it's working :/
I don't mean to attribute this to the dark side :-)

However, it is important from a privacy perspective (even if it's prefetching).
I love driving, and it's the reason we were talking about having to jailbreak your future transportational means to begin with. :P
The point of unique salts is that even if all the user's passwords are the same, the end resulting hashes that are stored in the database, are different. So, let's say you wanted to hash your set of 50,000 different, commonly used passwords. You'd have to hash that list of 50k passwords for EACH individual user. So instead of 50,000 hashes... you have 50,000 x the total number of users.
I don't think he implied the system was unpatched, only that an issue with Rails may have been exploited to compromise the site. It is reasonable to posit there is an undisclosed security issue with Rails that is being exploited here.
Learning To Code: Get A Degree, Or Just Teach Yourself?
The attacker does, of course, have the salts as well, since they're part of the hash. I don't see how they can try hundreds of billions of password combinations per second, though.
Yes, that is effective. I tell them "I am not open to full-time employment -- corp-to-corp consulting only". That also repels them.
I have been contacted because a recruiter had seen my profile on Linkedin, because I was in the list of subscribers to a Meetup group (not attendant, merely subscriber), because of classes I took in college (about 3 years after the fact), because of my github profile, because of my (very minimalistic and completely outdated) homepage, and through one or two other channels I'm probably forgetting right now. And I'm neither in the US, nor particularly known for anything.

So, either you're really stealthy, either I'd like to know your secret.
You are always going to be able to find trends between data points if you have enough information. In order to tell whether you actually have predictable information you need to do a double test, which they don't seem to mention anywhere.

Typically you split your data pool in half and use data analysis to determine some kind of relation, such as the change in "color" seems to correlate to a reverse change in DOW Jones. You then generate a prediction algorithm based on that.

Finally you use your prediction system on the other half of your data, to see if you are actually predicting or just correlating. Feel free to adjust any of your methodology but make sure you don't include the second half in your generation step or else you have only shown correlation not prediction.
Of course. And we all know that professionally trained/educated nutritionists always agree and are never wrong.
Yes, it's still relevant.

It was a big deal when SwiftKey and Android 4.2 implemented its own version of "Swype" and both promoted it. I've used all three KBs and prefer Swype because it's the most accurate for me.

Not being available in Play store doesn't mean you can't get it. You just go to their website, sign for the beta, then you download the apk. ANYONE could do this.
Just a heads up, confidence is the correct noun to use.

Confident is the adjective form.
Like i said before.. this is not a world wide social problem, my college was almost half boys, half girls. The highest grade was a girl, why? not because she was a girl.. but because she was freaking smart.

Its like african americans complaining about racism, i don't get it.. they are the coolest thing on earth right now!! Ignore that uneducated minority and move on.
So do I.

I like to gently tear apart the tangled spaghetti code and figure out what data store goes with what process.

One thing I absolutely refuse to do is compromise on tools.

Telling the factory-trained Mercedes-Benz mechanic at the dealer where you bought your $120K SL550 that you want him to use only a hammer and a screwdriver to service the brakes on your car will get you laughed out of the dealership.
+1

I've been experimenting with Cloud66. Currently everything I have is on heroku. I'm going to be moving a few things over to cloud66.

It's definitely a little bit more work, but once you get over the learning curve and have your manifest/post-deploy hooks setup correctly... It's pretty much auto pilot. Scaling and deployment are a breeze.

I'm running it with digitalocean. Going to be saving a lot of $$.

My favorite part is running my own redis and memcached. No more need for expensive add-ons.
The whole article is no more than a glorified appeal to authority/audacity from a so called expert nutritionist who, it turns out, pimps detox and other homoeopathic diets fads on her website.
These are satellites in orbit, not suborbital balloon payloads.
Emoticons get more emotional, thanks to Berkeley psychologists
It's amusing how quickly the HN sentiment can completely contradict itself.

Anytime there's an MBA article posted, the overwhelming number of comments are about how terrible MBA managers are and how many organizations suffer from their money-grubbing ways.

Then you get stories like the Ecomom debacle where the comments basically repeated the "Founders need to understand business and financials." platitude about 200 times.

Many commenters don't seem to realize that a huge number of MBAs (especially from good schools) have technical backgrounds and are doing the MBA to gain better organizational and financial knowledge. Granted it's less common in software, but most companies in the sciences and physical engineering domains have tons of engineer-MBAs.

As for startups, would an EE/MBA not be a huge asset for a newly formed company? Even forget the EE for a second, would a former sales guy with an MBA not be valuable? A good MBA teaches accounting, finance, marketing / advertising, market-research, supply chain / logistics, as well as the more recognized organizational structure, management, and conflict resolution pieces. Obviously, after only two years, students won't be experts in those fields, but they'll be much better off from anyone trying to learn accounting on wikipedia.
Very impressive how close the answerer gets to the questioners mock up. Good job that man!

And yet, I bet the designer will still come back and say the curve isn't right, or the bar isn't think enough.

I think that's some impressive CSS.
Oh, that's another thing. Why have they been in beta for, what, five years now?
This is essentially the 'Genchi Genbutsu' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genchi_Genbutsu) principle. You need to get off your butt and figure out what your customers want (although not necessarily what they say they want).
I never trusted a man who poses with arm crossed in a fucking suit for his God damn twitter photo. He changed that recently, but I still don't trust Wadhwa - nor like him.
looks nice.. thanks for sharing
I receive lots of recruiter spam through LinkedIn. I reply to each an every one indicating that I'm not looking and that I don't connect with people I don't know.

One of two things will happen next, I will get either a phone call (from the details in the email signature), or an email asking if I will refer other people.

Either of these will ensure that I never deal with the recruiter.

There is only one recruiter I've ever met that doesn't fit that mould. I won't talk to much about HOW he's different, because it's his secret sauce. But Steve Gilles (@stevelikesyou on twitter) is someone that is highly regarded within the Australian Ruby community.

If you are looking to find someone, or looking to find a job I highly recommend a chat with Steve.

Disclaimer: I have over the last 3 years, become very good friends with Steve.
What Crimes are you Guilty of?
My biggest quibble with the OP is that you can never say that there are no black swans out there just because you've never seen one. No matter how advanced the aliens might be, they wouldn't be able to predict everything they would find here based on theory alone. What if their theory didn't include something they hadn't yet encountered? They would have to see for themselves by some means that, if quantum limits are what we think, could not all be remotely viewed from light years away.
I'd include freelance/consulting/contracting as a lifestyle business too.

Most lifestyle business are full time jobs, just not ones where you have a chance exiting with 20 mil in the bank.

There's nothing stopping people bootstrapping their freelance business into small digital agency if they want to expand.
Digital Reporting - Best Or Worst Job Of 2013?
http://www.korokithakis.net/

https://github.com/skorokithakis/

http://gr.linkedin.com/in/skorokithakis

I'm just as puzzled as you are.

Not that I'm looking for work, it's just one of those "why am I being left out?" things.
Reminds me of this...

http://boingboing.net/2007/01/25/diebold-voting-machi.html

"someone has made a copy of the key which opens ALL Diebold e-voting machines from a picture on the company's own website"
Actually, they aren't in beta anymore with it being on the Play store so I guess that was their criteria for being in it for so long.
The short answer is that it doesn't matter because if you live in a fantasy land where users never re-use passwords, always have passwords with sufficient entropy, or you never lose control of your data, doing key-stretching is not necessary or helpful.

The long answer is that security experts are expensive and trying to figure out security systems from first principles is very hard and fraught with disaster. The result is that almost all security practices are transmitted via folklore.

Also, the documentation for security software is often dense and hard to understand, while the documentation for non-security software provides advice that is simple, actionable, and terrible: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/encryption-functions....

* The undocumented-algorithm PASSWORD() function that mysql uses to hash passwords apparently defaults to unsalted double-SHA1

* You are helpfully advised not to use this function to store user passwords, instead you're advised to use MD5 or SHA2.

* Salting is not discussed at all.

* Key stretching functions are not provided or discussed.
I simply do not understand HN's fascination with this type of posts. "Something that could have been implemented in any other turing complete language NOW IN GO".
Infoliberalism, or how the Internet can replace the traditional political order
I turned off prefetching. You must be right. I'm not turning it on.
Google bans self-updating Android apps, possibly including Facebook’s
I was pretty sure this was the point of the submission.

I'd like to see more of this. A fresh interesting take on representing programs, especially welcome as not being served as yet another eclipse plugin or a multi-screen .vimrc.
>nobody cares that there are very-few/no male prostitutes

Prostitution is very common in the gay and especially trans-gendered community. It may just take a different flavour of prostitution and a different sense of power balance.
I also do that about moving to some cities. I'm kinda hoping I stroke lucky sometime and someone really does want to pay me €500,000 for a job in $CITY. Jackpot!
This has led to some interesting neurological findings: Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon

http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.jpg
via http://www.metafilter.com/85322/The-Wisdom-of-Salmon

An extreme example, illustrating a common mistake in the field. https://xkcd.com/882/ has the gist of it.
Some of the code on the device is no doubt a copyrighted work, eg the main Glass APK and such. You can't dump some parts of Android without being root, and getting root would count as circumvention.

I'm sure they wouldn't pursue it... but it's shitty enough that they could.
Maybe I missed this somewhere else in the thread but ... what do you do? I feel like I can't quite grok your comment without that context.
Of course it's a generalization. I wrote a three paragraph post, not a thesis. You want to argue the point or be argumentative-internet-guy because you found a way to deconstruct the intricacies of my three-paragraph post?

My point is, is that companies with top-heavy business-grad management tend to be crappier companies as opposed to companies with a balance between business and technology. Don't try to change my argument into, "Hey! My cousin Larry has an MBA and he's a great guy!"
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I've heard, and my experience supports this, that in Silicon Valley you get a ton. I've consistently got a lot of attention since moving here (albeit only from local companies). I also got a ton in the weeks after my last company received a lot of media attention. If you're working at a fairly typical company in a fairly typical city, that might explain it.
what can strikingly – or any company that ever – possibly do to mitigate that?
That's called competition and its required so business owners can't completely rip off employees.
Replacing WWDC
The right approach to someone who says they have a particularly delicious bottle of wine is always "let's talk about it after I've had a couple glasses".
Preloading of images for hover states
Hovering over it does reveal English approximations in the wikipedia article. Did you try? I'm running FF19 and the only addon is NoScript.
> The goal is to make it completely readable in plaintext and not super markup-y.

If that was the goal, then I think it failed. I have used it in the past, and it has more weird rules and syntax than even reST. It is powerful though, I will grant it that.
killer quote: "Ideas come from need; understanding of need comes from experience; and experience comes with age."
For more on the history of oil, The Prize by Daniel Yergin is an excellent read. While long, it's quite captivating and interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/143911...
There are some pretty serious potential health consequences for the improper use of such a device.

In this case, I actually don't blame Google for keeping things locked down a bit until those are better understood.

The best I would hope for is for them to provide some amount of support for custom OEMs... but allowing people to do whatever they want on the device without some real barriers / safeguards would expose them to enormous liability.
Great demo. Not to nitpick, but the original poster's question was about a 3 item menu. It would be nice if the CSS allowed arbitrary number of elements. Right now, deleting one of the 5 links seems to break the design. Seems like something SASS could handle.
If only there were some kind of meta-recruiter you could use to identify and recruit the good recruiters.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding (entirely possible!) and I think your point still stands, but isn't it 50M * 1,000 hashes * # of possible salts?

EDIT: Just realized that the salts have to be stored somewhere and the attacker probably grabbed those as well. I think that answers my question.