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Yeah I'm not understanding those questioning you going to the interview both here on HN and in the comments on your post.

Why wouldn't you go to the interview? The recruiter seemed to be so out of the loop that you may have missed a great opportunity had you not gone. Also self promotion and meeting new people in your field is never a bad thing.
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Anyone else getting tired of this general trend with KS? If I've giving money because I want to see something magic happen. not to get ancillary crap. I've seen some where there's gotta be 30%+ of the budget going in to the "rewards".
Pretty and neat, although I echo the sentiments of others on the use of "expert". Especially when github is where I do side projects, not stuff I'm good enough to get paid to do.
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How are they competing with TeeSpring?
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>>It is now up to you to demand your deposit back and to challenge the validity of your “signature” on any alleged bank “loan” agreement or check.

Great. Have fun stashing your cash under your mattress. Or maybe you'd rather just have gold bars, but I hear those aren't as valuable as they used to be these days[0].

This is nonsense. Fractional reserve banking[1] has existed for literally centuries. Based on the concept that "not all depositors need their money at the same time" and "most creditors pay back their loans," a bank can give out loans in excess of the cash they have on hand.

Naturally, this isn't full-proof. Banks can make too many loans, and too many of those loans go bad, and not actually have any money when depositors want their money back. This possibility used to end up being self-fulfilling -- if you thought your bank was at risk of not having enough money to repay your deposits, then you'd immediately withdraw your money, and if everyone did this, then they really would likely not have enough money to pay back your deposits.

You'd have fractional reserve banking even if the currency was anchored to some sort of asset like gold. I'd urge anyone to try and imagine a world where banks were required to have 100% of what they loaned out backed in full by deposits. Credit would be extremely tight. Almost any successful business -- internet startup or otherwise -- starts with some credit, and you'd basically be throwing a huge roadblock into any brilliant but capital-intensive idea. Did you invent an amazing prototype and now want to get a loan so you can build a factory and crank out and sell your new invention? Well, guess you have to wait until a bank has enough in deposits to loan out, of which they'll probably charge you usurious interest rates, since they can't tolerate any risk of eventual default because that could bring their below 100% of deposits.

In lieu of requiring banks to cover 100% of loans with deposits, in the the US we have things like FDIC insurance, and we had laws like Glass-Steagall, to minimize the chance of bank runs and bank defaults happening, and to mitigate the impact when it does. I'm sure all the resident HN Paulbots are already furiously pounding away at their keyboards ready to blast my naivete about fiat currency, government manipulation, inflation, Ben Bernanke being the spawn of Satan, Too Big to Fail, etc. To me, those are separate from the OP's point, which attacks fractional reserve banking as some sort of Great Lie that needs to be expunged.

[0] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/dead-ingot-bounc...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking
Well, be that as it may, you're probably not very impartial in this matter.
Yes, they assume that the sending/receiving machines arent themselves compromised. That case, however, doesnt have a solution as of yet (that I know of). The point is that any machine intercepting the transmission of the message has no way of possibly decoding it period. It absolutely requires the key to be decoded.
The suffix -ant can turn verbs into nouns or adjectives, which means something can be a peformant performant.

I suggest using the -y suffix for the adjective form and -ant for the noun form. Then you can say the performant is performy, or performier than before.
What if you actually want to send someone RAW files, or big videos? Can they access them, or do they only get compressed/resized ones? Seems like a shame to go to all this effort to make a fast service, then force users to obfuscate their stuff by putting it in a tarball or something.
She types by hunt and peck. The was a while where I'd have to help her find the "f" key, etc., but that's pretty rare now. She has a notebook with some words spelled out in it (names mostly: "Cinderella," "Ariel," "Mommy,"...) and she'll type them in and read them, and I'll usually write her some sort of message on the screen when we set it up.

We started doing this last fall IIRC and she'd either play with letters or we'd use commands and type words in together. There was a lot of filling the screen with "*" to make a snowstorm. She's somewhat more independent now but there's still a lot of running back and forth and consultation.

She likes Webdings a lot too.
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Flickr was essentially killed. Yahoo is now trying to bring it back to life. Based on a completely unscientific survey of my friends it seems to be working.
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I wonder if the 200MB vs 50MB differentiation is intentional. As a Pro user, I was curious, so I tried uploading a 70MB file. The flickr uploader complained. I tried a 30MB file and it was happy. So, it appears that, at least as of now, the 50MB limit may still be in place for Pro users.
I imagine there are recruiters for every type of profession (I know for sure that "executive" recruiters exist). The question is, is it this bad in those other industries? Is IT particularly bad because it's intangible and an 'average person' doesn't know the first thing about the inside of a computer vs the inside of a car?
I'm the author of the linked article. Feel free to ask me questions.
Incredibly misleading? Obviously it doesn't give you 8Gbit internet, it just saves your precious time. You don't have to spend five minutes on a task. It's not like Bruce was going to download that file as soon as he got the message, and that's assuming it sent right away, which it could avoid by delaying the email by those same 5 minutes.

In terms of workflow, it's a huge improvement.
Well, you cant send paper privately in milliseconds across the country. But yes, the meeting to create the key limits the possible receivers as well as a connivance hassle.
Celebrating inequality
I've had to login to my phone provider's website and block numbers on two separate occasions. If I don't pick up after calls/voicemails every day for a week straight and you continue to call, you are doing your job wrong.
I think the redesign of flickr unveiled today makes this argument obsolete. It was true under the old Yahoo! ... this one is far more aggressive.
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For many Kickstarters whose main goal is not to deliver physical products and even for those that do, offering tangible rewards is still essential to getting backers. I don't see that changing.
I understood that the lookups are standard, i.e. anyone can do them. The problem is that shining light through glass creates heat which can change the structure of the glass if you do it too often/quickly, hence the time limiting factor. Naturally, this would constrain the intended recipient as well. It is the outcome of these lookups that form the secret key.
Yeah, seriously. My first reaction was, "Wait, you wanted this userbase?"

Yahoo is so unhip that they don't even realize what they've gotten themselves into, probably.

I'm sure some sane people have blogs on tumblr, but they're vastly outnumbered by the "social justice" retards who think that screaming about how all straight white men should be auschwitzed for their sins is some sort of legitimate activism. (Where sins = having been born.)

A lot of the tumblr community's response to the acquisition has been downright hilarious, naturally. They're pretty offended that someone bought "their" blogs without their permission. Any explanation of how the world works is, of course, met with accusations of "privilege" and shouting about how the poster/yahoo/etc is trying to "oppress" their precious PEE-OH-CEES.
' animated gif and posted on tumblr : Yahoo gets it. Its CEO as well'
Why is this such a big thing, what is so hard to grasp about tumblr.
No, that is not accurate. Google Checkout processes payments for the merchant, and Google deposits the funds in the merchant's bank account.

With the new system, Google has an API to give you the users information, but the merchant must have some way of processing the payment.

So these two are not the same at all.

I can tell you for my ecommerce site, I intend to drop Google Wallet altogether.. After the numerous Froogle/Google shopping api changes, I have no hope that the new api will stick around for any reasonable amount of time. So I just don't think it's worth the effort.

Edit: for comparison to Google Checkout, I get roughly 15x the number of orders with PayPal.. and 25x the number of orders from Visa/MC/Dscv/Amex.

Google's implementation of Checkout was flawed from the start (esp how they handled/treated merchants).. So I'm not surprised it didn't go anywhere.
Bandwidth and storage costs were surely a growth pain. However, the thing that was inevitably going to sink them was the $1 billion lawsuit they were facing from Viacom.
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This sounds really awesome to me. I'm finishing up my last year in college, and I've failed to really connect with a single person so something like this could have made my life so much better. Obviously, though, I'm not a good representative of the population. It's possible that this service would only attract me and a half dozen other social rejects.
To disprove a hypothesis, you must already have data. You can't form a hypothesis without data. How can I start to collect data to disprove a hypothesis I haven't come up with yet?

Well to get initial data, you must have some guidance in the data you decide to collect. There must be structure, a control, standardized values. You can't form a proper experiment without first having a hypothesis. Your goal is not to prove it correct regardless of the results, your goal is to gain insight on your hypothesis base on the results. I never said you must prove your hypothesis correct. But the goal is certainly to assess the accuracy of your estimation.

Your comment is really just a strawman tactic anyway. Thread derailed.
I'm not a merchant, but it sounds like there's a bigger difference from that side -"If you don't have your own payment processing, you will need to transition to a different solution within six months. To make things easier, we've partnered with Braintree, Shopify and " to offer you discounted migration options. "
I have never seen anyone as cruel as the people on tv laughing and making jokes out of someones death and someone else's mental state. It is quite evident that Jody Arias is a sick person. Why do people hate her so much. She was convicted of a cruel murder and she will pay so it is not funny at all. She is still a human being and nobody is perfect and she let this person come into her life and now she nor he has a life. He wasn't perfect. He didn't deserve to die. She probably wouldn't have killed if he had come into her life. I wouldn't admit to that either and I wouldn't turn myself in if I was a killer. All those shows with HLN and Nancy Grace are ridiculous. Nancy sounds like a bitter person who was just out of place with this person. God didn't put people in this world to condemn another. He is the soul master of this universe. Let it go people. Let it go. I hope they spare her and let her eventually get probation if she straightens up her life. Killing her will not bring Traverse back nor end his families grief. I don't hate anybody and God teaches us so.
This has been something that I've looked at a few times over the years. There have been a number of FLOSS and commercial projects that have tried to do this (and all that I'm aware of have sputtered out). A defunct product called "Mailonator" (http://web.archive.org/web/20080611060558/http://www.mailona...) did exactly what you're talking about.
Yes, but with risk. Index stock and bond funds yield in that range, with much less volatility. I've been using them since 2008 and have gotten an average of over 10% annually. I suggest the book I used, _The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need_, by Larry Swedroe (endorsed by John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group). Cheesy title, but it's ideas are supported by lots of data.
As far as I can tell, it's just a reasonably large on-demand (until it overheats) source of randomness. All the other OTP principles hold, the glass-generated random bits are the only new things. And you can still "electronically copy" it - viruses are great at executing code, such as dumping all the random data such a thing can generate (they even say it would only take 24 hours, and less to upload).

I suspect it's not even very good randomness. Long dark / bright lines from deeper scratches at either end, skewed randomness due to the atomic structure of glass (though glass is probably a reasonably good natural source, since it's not crystalline), that sort of thing happens when you're dealing with physical (hard, static) structures. And this thing has to be very reproducible or you can't decrypt your message, so we're not talking extracting randomness from a warm cup of tea.
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I disagree on some levels.

I think the amount of innovation and creativity that Google pushes for is amazing.

What if Checkout was the next big thing? At least they tried it and can put it in the history books now.

I do agree with point number 2, that they are making their services seem "legitimate" too quickly. Personally I would move them back to their Google Labs days to solve that problem. Where they would make a larger point of this service being in BETA and possibly not a long term goal.

From there if it passes BETA just streamline it, make it profitable, and keep it for as long as possible.

Perhaps that's what they're doing, but seeing a headline on HN every few days about "X Google Service Shutting Down" is incredibly disheartening and damaging to their brand, I agree completely on that one.

EDIT: The "Go Programming Language was first designed and developed at Google Inc." according to wikipedia. And we all love Go on HN. So it's hit and miss just like anything else, but godspeed to them for trying!
From the notes on the post:

"somethingcatchyhere reblogged this from marissamayr and added:

you better not fuck this one up “marissa mayer,” if that’s even your real name"

Stay classy, tumblr. (Or "stay uninformed," more like.)
Will Yahoo! tightly integrate Flickr with Tumblr ? It will be really good for Photoblog lovers like me.
So because the article exists it is now OK to lie in the headlines?
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He speaks at a rapid clip and, often, for minutes without stopping

Aaron Levie seems to speak this way as well.

I'm not sure what it stems from - but many founders/entrepreneurs have this trait.

Has anyone else noticed this?
When I look at that, I see man-years of work that I don't have to reinvent.
I assume there are tradeoffs? Or are precise garbage collectors simply better everywhere (except maybe complexity)?
I never use my laptop on my legs while plugged in. That's what the battery is for, and if it runs out of juice then I know I've been sat in the same position for way too long.
If anyone is interested, I hacked together a proof-of-concept framework with a different take on the {{ }} style binding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5741708
I think that by writing the article this way around (crossing the road -> refraction of light in glass) the author has rather unfortunately invited the kind of criticisms in this thread, that his "model is flawed" etc.

As a contrived scenario to help more intuitively understand refraction, it's nice, and I think that was what he was going for. It's how I read it.
TeeSpring is entirely focused on kickstarting custom t-shirts. Different arena.
Can you please elaborate? I have serious problems trying to understand comics.
They do all over the place. Still, there's an abstraction layer to work with in detecting these host methods and in providing a backwards-compatible implementation (polyfill).
The new design is clearly just to accommodate the thinner profile of the rMBP. I guess Apple figured that the space savings was worth having a noticeably shittier connector latch; I think they're wrong.
Great Point... I deal with recruiters all the time that just don't get the point but every once in a while you encounter a good one here and there.
How much would it cost to store 2TB in Amazon s3 ?

With $0.080 per GB per month it is 0.08204812 = $1966 per year

And that is just storage. Flickr provides lot more than just storage. So $500 per year does sound reasonable and 1TB free sounds like a crazy good offer.
If I understand it correctly, Gob encoding is slower in 1.1?
The top 96% is almost the entire population. Doesn't really mean anything.
> Got any source for that?

Sure: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditures.aspx...

Download Table 7 (Food expenditures by families and individuals as a share of disposable personal income), and you will see a steady march from 24% of disposable income to 9%.
They're better everywhere except complexity. The two main things that add to the complexity in Go's case are:

1) Existing compilers. Both GCC and LLVM don't precisely track object pointers throughout code generation.

2) Existing FFIs. If you expose an FFI that allows object pointers leak to C code without anything to anchor them as a root then you lock yourself into a conservative GC.
I took the implication to be exactly the opposite of your line of thought. Given that his article is about all the work he put into Tumblr, I'd say he is not likely to have a "lottery winner" relationship with money.
Really like the ability to buy my way out of ads. Would love to see other big ad driven properties (I'm looking at you Facebook) give me the option too.
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Are you thanking yourself for giving yourself a belly laugh?
A link with more about the RAT, for those who are curious -- it's a neat bit of aviation engineering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
Being cool is not a business model.
Check this out: https://github.com/songgao/bufferManager.go

Not a precise GC, but will be really helpful in some scenarios.
Perhaps. But it's simpler than all that.

Assume that 70 million disjoint sets all have finite cardinality. Then the cardinality of the union is the sum of the cardinalities, and is finite by construction.

Contradiction; QED.
I work for a fortune small-cap company, we have 500m in sales per year, more money than we know what to do with, and we never pay our bills. It's a little game the accounting department likes to play. This has caused a problem more then once as engineering (my department) was unable to obtain specialized equipment due to not having paid the vendor previously.

The most quixotic thing is, engineering expenses are scrutinized heavily. I literally can't get basic equipment needed, yet we have 100's of unnecessary managers flying all over the world on lavish expense accounts.

Why did I become an engineer again?
I am using it for HN tl;dr extension on a server side.
Great advice! Dharmesh from Hubspot seems to use similar strategies if you're part of "OnStartups" on Linkedin.
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I think you misunderstand the Network Effect.

I can assure you that I try every new release of Jitsi, and while they are definitely improving, let's not call it a Skype replacement just yet.
It should be the other way around: below a certain IQ all you need is the efficient market hypothesis and you will be an adequate investor.
Mail me? We should just arrange the next HN meetup ourselves. We can probably pick a better venue than the last one I went to here. :)
TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Shaker tried to do something similar. Never took off, however. https://www.atshaker.com/
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With 1TB of space, it starts to be really attractive to try to embed additional data in your pictures and use it as a general data store.
The original paper [1] is much clearer about the actual algorithm. The below is pretty much pulled straight from it, although I simplify it slightly (by assuming one pattern, etc.)

First, Alice and Bob decide on a pattern P. Then they each compute a key K(A) and K(B) using the pattern P by shining P through their slab. Then, they publicly publish P and K(A) ⊕ K(B). (Apologies for the lack of good mathematical notation, but HN is not a great medium for such.)

Because P, K(A), and K(B) are all random, the attacker learns no useful information from these two published items.

Now, for Alice to encrypt a message m, she computes K(A) ⊕ m and sends it to Bob. Once Bob gets it, he uses the public pattern P to recreate K(B). Then he uses the publicly published K(A) ⊕ K(B) to compute:

K(B) ⊕ [K(A) ⊕ K(B)] ⊕ (K(A) ⊕ m)

which is in fact m. At any time, the Eve can only know P (useless since she doesn't have either slab) and K(A) ⊕ K(B), which is not enough to recover the key or message.

[1]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3886
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Can someone help me understand something - Manufacturing the "glass" in order to create at least 2 identical copies will require some blueprint. I would assume that this blueprint would be stored in some database or communicated to various parties in some fashion. Couldn't hackers just get their hands on this somehow in order to reproduce the glass without having to actually physically steal the glass?
Yep, the end of the world :-)
the media lost their Forth Estate status when they let Bushies push Dan Rather and Tom Brokow off the air for reporting stuff the Bush administration had them sitting on for almost a year. The editors didn't take the fight to the public then when it really mattered.

The Government bureaucrats know they can make the biggest press agents sell out... now the asking price just dropped and the government expects more freebies.
There's been a lot of "physically unclonable function" work, which IMO is a lot more useful for DRM and anti-counterfeiting than for encryption.

The big weakness with OTPs is inadvertent key reuse, not someone stealing the key wholesale.

Even with quantum computing, conventional OTPs are fine, provided keys aren't reused (or lost). OTOH there are plenty of other more efficient symmetric and asymmetric systems which are still fine under quantum computing, too. (it's really not much of an issue for conventional symmetric cryptography; yes, most common public key systems in use today fall to quantum cryptography, but their are known/viable systems which would be fine)