skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aggregate population of the states that you mention have is approximately 16.5 million.

The impact of those 16.5 million people coming online (if, as you claim, they currently don't have adequate access) is almost trivial compared to the impact these non-traditional internet connections could have for on the order of 1 billion people.

I suppose you were just being snarky, but I (and Eric Schmidt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqfC0l3W0B4) think this project could have a massive impact on the state of the internet.
This happened with two different companies in Europe.

Of course the age was never a formal reason. There were also other qualified applicants.

One case was borderline as the senior candidate also were asking for a higher salary. However in all cases I heard it mentioned, "isn't he, kind of, old?", and it was pretty clear there'd be no hire.
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What is the marginal cost of a digital good? The cost to download it one more time? It seems like the marginal cost to produce one more copy of an existing digital good is close to zero.

Books and music and other similar works certainly have a large fixed cost to produce: the opportunity cost of the creator's time; the technology or equipment involved. The producer might choose to market the work, which incurs further cost (but it's not marginal). However, once the work is created, can it really be said to have a marginal cost beyond the cost of digital distribution?
If I was aspera or filesociety, I'd be rather worried.

I'm planning on using this to sync terrorbytes between london and LA. Why should I pay the ridiculous cost of a thinly wrapped rsync over UDP when I can have it for free? (the latency between the two means that the maximum throughput on tcp based protocols get about 2-3 megs a second tops)

I will be testing the throughput of torrentsync. Currently it appears to be painfully single threaded (it looks to be python)
What if you’d bought Apple shares instead of a PowerBook in 2003?
The US is also notoriously high-density in guns and the will to fire them; many of its inhabitants do indeed believe they live in a warzone.
> Who decided that Silicon Valley had to be held over hot coals for building software companies that solve problems and make money.

It would appear that Silicon Valley did. Every mundane piece of software is going to 'change the world.' People are just waiting for that to happen.
Yep, for more evidence on how little oversight contributors are given: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/05/27/donations/
To be fair, this post is just rehashing the point that the blogger (Lion of the Blogosphere, formerly known as HalfSigma) has been making for 5+ years now.

He's a Manhattan-based lawyer who really doesn't like software developers, and is constantly warning his readers not to let their kids major in computer science. He cites outsourcing, stagnating wages, lack of long-term career development, and perceived low status as reasons why one should stay away from most things in tech, especially anything that could be conflated with "programming" or "IT" by people outside the tech world.

Then again, he doesn't offer any real alternative advice. It's usually some variation of "be rich and work at a non-profit".
Forced to download, its not a remote filesystem
I've seen plenty of developers in their 30's unable to work because they were a one-language pony, and that language was no longer needed in the marketplace.
Grade inflation = stealth ageism.

You can guess my approximate age by knowing that my high school GPA was around 3.5 and that was considered pretty good, but not near valedictorian level.

However, in the 2010s you can get a 3.5 just for attendance so you can tell I'm older.

I'm so old that the highest grade point I could earn in a class was 4 points, I guess now a days an A+ in a AP class gets you 6 points now or something like that in modern high schools.
"When they appeal to the Supreme Court, which they will"
SCOTUS is unlikely to take it, unless the normal appeal is very strange, which is unlikely. Even the microsoft antitrust case never was heard by SCOTUS. The appeals court is also pretty unlikely to care about what Amazon did, only what Apple did.

I think you completely misunderstand what is going to happen here.
You don't get to commit an antitrust violation to try to save people from someone else's.

So if the trial they want is whether Amazon committed antitrust violations, they are idiots. They should file that lawsuit themselves.

The trial here, despite what Apple wants, is whether Apple committed antitrust violations. The answer to that is pretty clearly yes, based on the emails i've seen.
For the record, Jeff Bezos was 30 when he founded Amazon.
Horses for courses.

My point was that she set up breakfast to be a single uniform meal with no variation whatsoever. It was also a high carb meal which is certain to cause an insulin crash later in the day.

I'd much rather see a higher fat/higher protein earlier in the day with some greens, fat, and protein for lunch. Dinner should be a light meal of protein and plant carbs.
At least with BT sync your files are stored on thirdparty server encrypted, unlike dropbox.
To disprove this all somebody needs to do is write a headline:

Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines correct?
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We started Tweaky.com to help with this exact problem. We only tackle small projects but we've built a system which makes this work for both customers and developers.

Our project managers break a project down into "tweaks" where each one is well defined and $39. We then curate the developers in the marketplace to ensure that only quality people are in there.

Once the tweaks are paid for the developers pick up the jobs they want to work on and get started.
It's clear, especially considering that these are meant to fly in some unstable countries in central Africa, that certain parties will be trying to attack these blimps.

What kind of defenses to you think the blimps will have to defend against these strikes? Some sort of armor plating on the underside would seem to be the minimum. Hopefully they'll be equipped with some offensive capabilities as well to combat and dissuade guerrilla and terrorist acts.

Or would it make more sense to just use expendable blimps, like a $10 balloon and a $20 router?
BitTorrent has orders of magnitude more potential for the enterprise use case than for the consumer use case.
In this particular case, the marginal cost for Amazon or Apple would be the per-sale licensing fee paid to the publisher. This is a cost set by the publishers, for sure, but it most definitely is a marginal cost in the eyes of the electronic distributor.
I guess this is kind of a factious question to ask, but why 32 bit and not 64 bit?

Are there any technical reasons for this?
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Something I've noticed is a sticking point with some less experienced computer users is file system navigation, specifically being able to consistently locate files (e.g. for web uploads).

It's something I've considered attempting to solve myself, but no super intuitive and clean solutions come to mind. Has anyone else run into this issue, either with friends or family?
How well does "move into management at 40" scale?

If anything I would have thought there would be more 40-60 year olds in the work force than 20-40 year olds (or at least a close number). So either some of them have to move into management of non technical staff or you end up with a very top heavy management structure.

Tech companies seem to prefer a flatter management structure to avoid too much bureaucracy.
This is not bias, the judge has seen a lot of filings at this point, and is giving a preliminary view of what he thinks is likely to happen here.

Basically, what's the judge is really saying is "Apple, you should settle this, because from what I see, it isn't going to go that well for you".

This happens all the time in both civil and criminal courts.
That's because he use Chrome on Windows, who doesn't render webfont well due to the usage of GDI instead of DirectWrite in the Windows version: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
Got no ideas of your own? 
Just a little sidehack at the 4 hour venture event #010 in Karlsruhe.
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Another practice is that in most professions, leaders are also very capable in their own areas. Think about a law firm, a hospital, an accounting firm, a construction company.

But often in programming you have managers that are ignorant, outdated and sometimes even complete idiots. Why do we put up with that? Why do accept that our managers are not more capable than we are?
I do not think the problem is with how many options we are presented with, but rather with the difficulty of figuring out what primitives are actually needed to solve a particular problem, and how to compose those primitives. Do you need digital signatures? Do you need a hash function? Do you need to establish a common random string before the system can be used? It is very easy to assemble a system that appears secure (it's encrypted and signed!) but that does not actually provide any meaningful security (oh no, we actually needed non-malleable commitments!).

A high-level language could help quite a bit, because it would help programmers abstractly specify the needs of the system rather than getting lost in the details of which operations to choose. Maybe you really only need to sign and encrypt your messages. Maybe you need to sign, encrypt, then sign again. Maybe you do not need signatures at all, but you need to use a non-malleable cipher and a few rounds of communication (e.g. to make a deniable authentication protocol). The next generation of security problems will not be solved by slapping on encryption and digital signatures; we are going to need to pay increasing attention to higher-level issues.
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Some concurrents:
http://www.tweetspiration.com/
http://www.twtspire.com/

Still a good idea
The main issues are that gestures are not consistent across apps. So if I teacher her pinch gesture in one app, it might not zoom in another. If it doesn't do anything, she is most likely to get frustrated because to her, pinch gestures should zoom. I personally love gestures, but an interface that revolves around gestures might not be good for people who are already a bit afraid of technology
"Our template has as we speak been sold a 361 times within half a year and it's still increasing. Themeforest rated our template worth a $17."

Yes it is. Which basically means the author is refusing to acknowledge the copyright of the WordPress authors and the license rights of the ones he's calling thieves.

There's one pirate here, and it's StampReady.

Also, I think Email on Acid have a good case for libel. This is willful public defamation.

Edit: Apparently, I'm wrong about this being a WordPress theme. My apologies.
The chances are you won't, since most businesses fail.
I consider "sync" to only be a feature of Dropbox. Its the absolute best way to get files into their cloud storage platform (as compared to something like uploading files manually via a web portal).

But I think the value of Dropbox is in their cloud storage platform itself. It is the platform that is responsible for integration into a bevy of mobile apps, backup, and many other useful tools.

In my opinion, BitTorrent is a feature that doesn't offer the value of a platform. This feature is super awesome for a select use-case (maybe moving my media library across all of my home devices), but its no Dropbox killer. Its not a full platform at its current state.
There is a marginal cost to Amazon. They're paying the publishers a certain amount for every copy sold. And if they're selling a copy for less than they bought it for, they are selling it below the marginal cost.
My guess is that it will be as a plugin.
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I'm not sure that I would call some of these "clones". ioquake3 for example is the community maintained modernized fork of the Quake 3 engine source that id released. You can't do much with it without your own assets (either the original Quake3 assets, the OpenArena assets (that game is what I would call the Quake3 "clone"), or assets from any number of Quake 3 mods (tremulous, urban terror, etc).

I think ioquake3 is an example of where open source game devs are at their best. Providing modern engines (ideally from the original source, but not necessarily) to old games so that people can continue to reasonably play them. OpenTTD would be another example.
It is questionable reading material based on the evaluation of the Prison authorities in his prison, not any other authority. If you cannot fathom how a book on CIA + Afghanistan + Black OPs could be twisted into "reading up on terrorism" you're incredibly naive, or know nothing about the types of books that have lead to solitary confinement in the US prison system. The latter is obviously the case: I'd urge you to do a little research some time into how the rule is abused. Biographies of Malcom X getting you in solitary, that sort of thing...

As for "giant leap", I'd suggest: Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement by Stuart Grassian (25 yrs Harvard Medical school) for a quick over-sight into the issues. Journal of Law & Policy PDF: http://law.wustl.edu/journal/22/p325grassian.pdf

Solitary confinement is one of the leading punishments that is currently used in the US Prison System. Weev has already made himself a "little unpopular" in his stay (less than 3 months: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/weev-soundcloud_n_3...) and is on the fast track to learning the hard way. He has ~36 months remaining, less if he behaves and doesn't "troll them". Asking publicly about their financial data is not cute and not smart and will not go unnoticed.

Enjoy your sports. Perhaps you should stick with the TeeVee, I was merely suggesting that people think before engaging with a totally foreign (to them) mindset, that of the authoritarian US penal system. Or, at the very least, do the barest minimum of Due Diligence.

Do the research; you might get shock & awed out of your bubble. Lions, Tigers and Bears.
Pretty poor, since I needed that Mac for work.
But for the points you brought up, it doesn't matter if westerners are 'inherently' smarter (whatever that means - genetics?). It only matters that they are smarter, for whatever reason.
Reading many of the comments below it's clear to me that most commentators have never worked in the enterprise.
Anyone who has purchased enterprise software knows full well that you never pay "once". Far from it.

- For most organizations, using software without a support & maintenance contract is not a viable option, and yearly support & maintenance cost is typically ~20% of the product "list" price of the product. Many customers of large enterprise vendors typically see these costs go up every year. There has been revolts over this but often customer does not have much leverage.

- Unlike SaaS, companies who buy software products, have to pay for implementation and ongoing operations of the software as well. Enterprise products can be quite complex and require one or more people to operate it. Implementation costs alone can be hefty (often higher than software cost itself) and make SaaS a much much better option for the customer.

- Enterprise is littered with products that purchased but never used or no longer used. What looks like a good solution does not work, or requirements change, etc. In short, unlike SaaS where customer has almost no risk, customers take a lot of risk by buying software products outright.
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So I understand that data transfer is not done via online services, but can BitTorrent Sync be used entirely locally?

For example, I have a desktop at home, one at work, and my laptop.

I would love to have my music collection available all the time on my work desktop, but I don't want to waste the bandwidth at the office.

My ideal use case would be that while I am at home, my laptop and home desktop sync across the LAN, when I get to work, my laptop and office desktop sync.

Does BitTorrent Sync allow that?
You can't just display an ad at any price, even if there are no other ads. There are too many spam ads now, but it used to be quite a bit worse. Setting a minimum price sets the bar high enough to make it not worth the cost to spam. It's gotta be a juggling act for Google to keep prices within reach of legitimate advertisers while keeping out the riffraff.

The only other solution is to manually approve all ads before they go live.
In an industry like O&G or energy experience is highly valued. When you have you have potentially billions of dollars on the line and many peoples lives with an oil platform you want someone who has done it before.

In tech you are trying to make something no one has done before so you want the young hungry engineer.
The first major purchase I ever made was a Macbook Pro in 2009 - I spent ~$3000 that I didn't really have on it.

I would wager that in terms of increased personal learning and productivity in the 3-4 years or 10000+ hours of use since then, I've made far better returns on that purchase than even a purchase of AAPL stock in its heyday.
>I think you completely misunderstand what is going to happen here. You don't get to commit an antitrust violation to try to save people from someone else's.

You do if the DoJ's guidelines say you do, which is Bob Kohn's whole point.

(The Sherman Act makes the DoJ's guidelines the law. Or at least, a finding that Amazon merely practiced "predatory pricing," a low bar, would give Apple estoppel against the DoJ in this complaint.)
> you weren't properly taught how git actually works

I'm using git (well, forced to, in fact) since 2009 and I've learned its' guts. And I still can't see why should I care of .git contents unless I'm git developer.

Ask yourself this: how come mercurial/bzr/fossil/veracity users aren't aware of those DVCS' internals?
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In 2003, Apple was picking up steam, but the iPod was a 2 year old product, and they weren't selling music until late April. There was no iPhone, and no iPad.

At the time, if you wanted to ride the technology wave to riches, it would have seemed a safer bet to buy Palm or RIM.
Always do something newer at home than at work. This is really easy and cheap in CS/IT vs say chemistry or physics or medicine.

There's no need to have hardware at home faster than work. Software that's newer or more complicated than at work, sure.

Keep up with changes in the industry, just like any engineering career. I never fail to be amazed at meeting people who have no idea whats going on in tech outside their work department. They're doomed in the long run.
I don't know about the power and manufacturing industries, but for insurance, I have seen firsthand a company lose a multimillion dollar contract because they pushed a SaaS offering, even though their solution was very good.
You're missing the point. She was treated very well at Northwest pre-merger and at Delta until the union vote failed. She's have to take a major pay cut to reboot her career. I'm not saying that due to a sense of entitlement. That's a fact. But other than the recent changes, she likes her job, so she's started volunteering for the union and otherwise actively working to improve the situation for her and her coworkers.

Your willingness to parrot the party line (specifically the word "entitlement") is disturbing, but pretty common.
I looked at BTSync the other day when researching self-hosted Dropbox alternatives. It looks like a great product and so far beats the pants off the closest competitor, Seafile, for ease of install and use. I was really impressed.

But unfortunately it's not open source, so it comes down to an issue of trust--which, in the end, is the same issue with Dropbox and really the entire point of moving to self-hosted for me.

Do you trust BitTorrent to properly encrypt your data as they promise? To not send it to someone else on the sly? Etc. etc. I acknowledge the possibility of funny business is remote at best but it's one of those "on principle" things for me.

(Yes you could use another layer like Encfs or something before putting it in your BTSync/Dropbox folder but that's a pain and not really the point.)
Downvoted because your comment consists of an unsubstantiated assertion followed by a dismissive slur.
> In tech you are trying to make something no one has done before so you want the young hungry engineer.

Alternatively, choose the older engineer with the experience to know: "You know what? Fundamentally, what we're building here is the same as this thing from 10 years ago".
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I've written about this before. You're right, but I think you miss (or simply gloss over) something that is critically different in software -- abstraction and reusability.

The nature of SW is to create abstractions that are reusable. So if you've built a good reusable abstraction, no one needs to know what's "under the hood" except in rare circumstances.

Ask your frontend web dev to explain some differences between the x86 and ARM ISA. Most won't have clue. Even much higher up the stack, most probably couldn't explain how TCP/IP work. For the most part it's irrelevant.

Other fields don't/can't build on lower levels in such a way that practitioners never have to learn the lower levels at all. How many surgeons are there that don't know cell biology?

Your best hope is to either continuously churn with the latest trends. Or pick a part in the stack that is likely to not change, and be a niche expert (aka, a networking guru, or x86 god). Your job opportunities will be much smaller, but if you can find your team (e.g., compiler architect or processor performance analyst) you'll likely to have a job for as long as you like.
Yeah, that's not true at all. Lots of people find success as an entrepreneur but they're the exceptions, not the rule. I'm not saying that it's something that people shouldn't attempt, and it certainly has a higher success rate than attempting to be, say, a rock star or a professional athlete, but it is by nature a high risk endeavor.
I'm surprised there's no mention of MarioKart / TuxKart
Try Dan Boneh's crypto course on coursera [1]. It covers quite a lot of ground, both practical and theoretical, and includes programming exercises similar to the matasano puzzles. Without a doubt it's one of the best courses of the dozen MOOCs I've taken. There's also a followup course [2] (I haven't taken it yet personally, but I believe the currently scheduled run will be the first).

Interestingly enough, there's also an upcoming security course (with no date planned yet) which will cover the application programming part of security and will be co-taught by him. [3]

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
[2] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2
[3] https://www.coursera.org/course/security
The first book I co-authored on Android programming is already so obsolete it is in O'Reilly's repository of free downloads - the back list of the back list.

SICP, which, when it was published, summed up a lot of what I had learned as an undergrad. Nobody reads it to write a mobile app. Since I read it, I had jobs or book contracts that depended on knowledge of LISP machines, bit slice, the original Macintosh OS, Windows telephony API, edge routers, core routers trying to be edge routers, J2ME, Linux on ARM, and Android. Android will be around another 10 years, maybe a bit more or less, and it too will be a museum piece.

My shortest trajectory from zero to Noted Authority and back to zero was when I had a book contract to write about Visual J++. Thank you, Sun's lawyers, for that short trip.

All that said, if you don't know anything about project management tools, estimating market size, or how to write, or critique, a cash flow and P&L projection, your knowledge is going to be hard to package in a form that has high value.