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500friends founder/CEO here. Look at my team - 500friends.com/team. Most people are who you may consider to be "old." And we wouldn't be where we're at without them. We do not discriminate against age.

What we meant is that we're looking for someone who has coded in the past decade. Someone that has been managing 1,000 people at Oracle may not be the right fit for a company of our stage. Make sense?
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I am not really knowledgeable, but the standard argument I have read a few times is: technological development can not influence unemployment because it also creates new job openings. But this argument does not take the time it takes to train for a new job into account. So to become a somewhat serviceable programmer, it takes a few years to learn the details of computers, get accustomed to frameworks, etc. So fast change displaces (former middle class) workers towards less skilled jobs, since they are fast enough to learn. So one of the benefits of basic income is, that it would allow for more flexibility in picking up a new occupation.
Thank you sir. my response here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043188

Justin (500friends founder/CEO)
This is the second time this particular excuse has been trotted out. It didn't work the first time, either.
That's kind of cool, considering instagram is free, that makes you a free online store with a very simple process to work with.

Compare that to something like shopify, it's a much simpler product, maybe an e-commerce idea can be taken from this..
You can do this with any $2 trinket from anywhere.
It's simple. People who have more experience generally demand higher salaries. The company in question is probably seeking someone who's fairly experienced but doesn't have the budget to afford a superstar.
It's worth noting that many team members see other team members as opponents and competition.
I would argue that this is highly dependent on the University/professor who is teaching you.

I've seen courses where we're taught next to nothing in terms of thoroughness and also courses that stick us neck deep in the subject, literally going from axioms to a complete, standard mathematical framework.
I keep a short list of videos about inspiring creatives. I might be mis-reading your comment, but I will share them, anyhow:

Painting Coconuts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQxOKtCWEGE

The Knife Maker: https://vimeo.com/31455885

The Inverted Bike Shop: https://vimeo.com/36258512

Pins and Needles: https://vimeo.com/57247225

The New Wave of Barber Shops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gpm54WIyZk
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roconnor was working on one. There are git mirrors of the darcs repository on github. For example: https://github.com/laanwj/Purecoin

I don't know the current status of it.
>Any task that can be reduced to simply following a set of instructions over and over is being done by robots and software.

Agreed. Along similar lines:

Any problem that can be solved with clearly-defined steps can be programmed so that a computer can solve it. Many areas of education, especially math-related ones, involve students learning to mechanically implement set procedures and formulas to solve problems. These mechanical processes can all by definition be solved by a computer, so why pretend that these technologies do not exist? Human computers were once necessary, but they have since been supplanted.

http://www.learneroo.com/courses/9/nodes/84
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Right, but as I tried to point out too subtly, the latency depends on your location.

You, and the original post of this sub-thread, seem to be assuming that the right way to measure latency is from the US. But this isn't purely an American site, and it's silly to assume that all posters are from the US. There are billions of people who will have lower ping times to Europe than to America.
via 500friends founder/CEO.

As I mentioned to you in my initial apology, we had a fire drill. That being said, the tardiness was inexcusable, and I talked to the developer about that.

Regarding our interview questions, they were meant as an "initial screen." We do ask more practical questions in person. However, we figure that most smart software engineers can write a linked list or prime number solver.
Actually, what I really mean by that is that Ubuntu leverage their control over users to enforce their pov on software.

Nothing much new under the sun tho. Doesn't make statement invalid.
I had a interview failed like that from Amazon...

Granted, I think it was accidental on their part (ie: the person that interviewed me was newbie at Amazon himself and quite lost, but seemly the person that was going to interview me had a serious problem of sorts and could not do it)
it's all there at github.com/egocodedinsol/egocodedinsol.github.io, or did you mean adding a direct link to it?

I'm not sure how much it's a software project so much as a proof of concept. If you did want it to be more of a project, what would you suggest doing?
The least useful StackOveflow answer I've ever seen
You mean like every time there is price update announcement for AWS or linode, or the next android or apple product announcement?
I did respect indentation, and here's what I get as an error:

> tutorial.hs:21:23:
Illegal type signature: `[Person] people'
Perhaps you intended to use -XScopedTypeVariables
In a pattern type-signature
Only18 [NSFW] did it before all these suckers.

Truly, a pioneer of start-up branding.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043188
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Thanks for the Lens link! I may have to try this with my next paper.
I think poshmark is something similar that works well for clothing http://poshmark.com
University Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala now accepts bitcoin donations
It is now possibly to link any US bank account to Coinbase, buy bitcoin instantly[1], and donate to an education institution in another country. This is with no fees and goes directly to the source.

[1] http://blog.coinbase.com/post/55203204550/instant-bitcoin-purchases-at-coinbase
Even if I did, nobody else does. So I just use https://www.noteshred.com to send encrypted messages to people that only needs a password to access.
It is now possibly to link any US bank account to Coinbase[1], buy bitcoin instantly[2], and donate to an educational institution in another country. This is with no fees and goes directly to the source.

[1] http://blog.coinbase.com/post/34357253898/you-can-now-buy-an...

[2] http://blog.coinbase.com/post/55203204550/instant-bitcoin-pu...

EDIT: Well technically Coinbase takes a 1% fee in the process of converting USD to BTC, but that's it. Which makes this attractive transfer money across countries. This technology could also be especially useful for remittances.
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You learned how the real world works. It's inefficient, it's not fair, and it's corrupt.
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yeah that's exactly in line with what I was thinking. Everything is done in this world :P
That quote basically sums up my senior year (graduated in 2012). I found that after studying enough like that and doing well as a result, other people who do the same are more willing to befriend you.

Then if either party have questions about the material, they have a fantastic outlet to ask them to. Then acing a class is really manageable.
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I can't tell if this is satire or not, it's almost as if I'm reading http://funroll-loops.info/
A lot of colleges won't allow you to CLEP out of things anymore, sadly. :( There's too much money to be made off of you.
I'm a recent university graduate in a so-called 'third world country'.

You have no idea how much I'd give just to 'hang out' in the classes of someone the caliber of Dijkstra.
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>If the audience doesn't get it, then the communication is ineffective, period.

The communication in the sense of the end-to-end transfer of information might be ineffective, but that does not mean the professor's contribution to it was inffective, period.

You seem to only check the professor for failure. How about failure of the receiving end to parse the information. Because of lazyness, entitlement, easy grades acquired in other classes, and sometimes even pure stupidity.

>You can't just send corrupt data to a server that doesn't understand it and say that the communication was successful -- same deal with humans.

Only you had to use the "corrupt" qualifier for the data. Who said they are corrupt in the first place.

I can very well send perfect data according to some protocol to a client that is incompetent to parse them (e.g because he only implements a simplified and ad-hoc subset of the protocol).
Thanks for the refs!

I really like plos, but one criticism I have of their interface is that the figure takes up the entire page, which destroys my easy reference to the rest of the content. e.g. at http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj... Figure 1 takes up the entire height of my screen on my laptop and then I have to scroll back to where it is in the text.
Autodidactism is hard in part because you don't get access to the huge repositories of journal articles and scholarly materials that are included in the cost of your college education. I guess that counts as "facilities" but when I hear that word I think equipment.
And I don't disagree - It's just the only thing I can possibly come up with to make sense of it.
waste? Programming contests are pretty useful for working on your problem solving skills (algorithmic stuff, figuring out the "simplest" way to solve a problem).
That's worse, it means you're running through them rather quickly....
I think you're right re: contrast, but I'm still conflicted about column size. On the one hand, a wider column gives better justified results, but on the other hand, it makes the sliding figure column more difficult on 13 in. Screens. Which did you find more beneficial, wider columns, or sliding figures?
Hi Justin. It makes sense, but why didn't you say something more like that to begin with? Something like "Active development skills are part of the hiring criteria". You already mention doing Ruby development -- someone who hasn't coded in a decade, probably doesn't have much Ruby experience.

It just seems odd that of all the possible ways to ask for what you describe above, you choose arguably the most offensive and least effective way to do so. And I think as a marketing company, you should know better. The message matters -- not just the intent.

Seriously, think about a better way to phrase the requirement. There are several preferable ways to phrase the question (not just from a legal perspective, but even in terms of simply capturing the pool of candidates you desire).
I'm afraid ypu did.

"""the ability to recognize that a student or class of students is not understanding an explanation, and generalize it further or change the example to make it more clear. Do that ad infinitum"""

You never examine the cases of students owning up to the work they have to do to understand in the first place.

It's like as you describe a world in which they do everything perfectly, and the only factor in getting that knowledge into their heads is the professor and his "further generalizing".
Exactly. A discussion between manager/employee needs to happen there. Either it's actually a good idea to do X and the employee can rationalize why or it's a better idea to do Y, and the manager can rationalize why.
I think you read it correctly. The opening song in the Painting Coconuts video is one of my favorites currently. This bodes well :)

Thanks for more inspiring videos. The man who plants trees was amazingly apropos because of my recent departure from a promised life in the woods. However, inspiration is always valuable.
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>You also live a lonely life and there is no one you can call up who is also struggling or trade information with.

Is there some sort of network for people on the outside of the university system? A mailing list or something?
Microsoft has a couple of massive advantages that most hacker's tend to dismiss.
1. A massive workforce of MS developers. Not the ones employed by MS themselves but the huge number of dot net developers out there. Apple has a decent amount of developers now but MS and Java dev numbers still dwarf Obj-C devs. MS also has developers at every level of the stack. Low level C++ to the web with ASP.NET MVC and Javascript.

2. Microsoft has proven that it can produce quality software at every single level of the consumer technology stack. OS, B2B, B2C (office, Visual Studio), Mobile OS/APPS (One note on iOS is a really well done app and windows 8 mobile has not sold well at all but it's still very well designed and developed) and xBox proves that they can establish themselves in new markets, and Massive scale services (Azure). None of the other major players have this.

Apple - I love apple products and software but never have I seen so many failures at services as Apple has put out. iCloud is a great example.

Google - Great services in the SaaS sense but so far has done a pretty poor job on the PaaS area. Google App Engine is pretty far behind Azure and AWS. Plus they completely ignore desktop computing as a whole.

Amazon - The clear leader in the PaaS field with AWS. Azure is a great service but AWS has had massive success. The kindle fire is still a pretty weak offering compared to the others on the mobile device side.

Microsoft - Windows 8 mobile is a good OS but it lacks the great apps/well designed hardware to drive adoption. Windows 8 on desktop has been a flop sure but windows 7 was a pretty good success and I'm willing to bet windows 8.1 will do alot better than windows 8. That's their pattern since Windows Me. Flop-Success-Flop-Success. Azure is a great platform as a service. Reliable, fast, and good pricing with a lot of great features that even AWS doesn't completely match, though AWS still has some features that Azure needs to catch up on.

So MS has proven ability on all levels and a huge group of experienced developers to help drive adoption. Where they have fallen down so far IMO is that mobile has always been a sideshow. Not the main focus. So they create subpar devices and fail to drive developers to great the great apps that are needed. The big question is if they can truly design a great piece of hardware. If they do then they are in position to control huge pieces of the industry again.

All that said the latest previews of the next X-Box don't leave me feeling good about their future.
His personal finances are really impressive. Selling his fulltime dedication for 12k/year...
My co-founder was previously the (only) VP of Engineering (and did a great job), but we mutually parted ways after the Series B. These things happen...

tl;dr, we are not "running through" them.
Too little, too late. Windows is going to linger for quite a long time still just because of the massive market penetration, but it's getting obsolete.
You do have a point sir.
I think I know what you mean, but really, there must be a much better way to express this. For instance, instead of being quantitative, be qualitative. Don't say, "no more than 12 years", but say something like, "but still be able to code your way out of complex, practical software problems." Or maybe "code your way out of FizzBuzz"... Whatever. Just don't put a numerical value on it, because it is 1) insulting to many, 2) legally questionable, and 3) unlikely to actually find what you're looking for.
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D.C. area as well.
It's not of interest whether or not people should be considered ignorant if the recent NSA information was news to them. willurd was correctly pointing out that the phrase "tinfoil hat" used by tptacek is an empty insult, which avoids the need to say something more intelligent in its place. I agree with him that it's inappropriate in this forum.
The irony when one Nobel Peace Prize winner is hunting a nominee down.
A great example in this vein:

http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt...

You can mess with the sliders, etc.

Video @ http://vimeo.com/67076984
At work, we use mail-system based encryption like Zix, IronPort or Voltage. Those solutions provide guaranteed encrypted transit to the recipients public network boundary. Depending on the content, the system either just ensures that messages travel via TLS or requires explicit authentication via a web interface.

In my personal life, I haven't used mail encryption since my college days with some crypto geek friends. I do have an OpenGPG card and public key published, but I mostly use it to encrypt data at rest on cloud storage platforms or USB keys.
Fairly ignorant comment you've got there. What you wrote is akin to saying Jewish men won't touch unrelated women or their own adopted children because you once met an Orthodox Jew who told you about negiah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negiah). Also the daily mail is full of shit.

Here's some Muslims getting along just fine with their bomb sniffing dogs: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/as-soldiers-leave-...

What happened here was a man committing outright fraud and the fact you're blaming it on the religion out of your own ignorance is pretty sad.
I wonder why they're using WiFi signals instead of just analyzing the video feeds from their surveillance systems. It would probably glean the same information.

Either way, I don't have a problem with this as long as they aren't intercepting communications or anything private like my name and recognizing me every time I enter the store. If it's information that they can obtain without identifying me, there isn't much I can complain about. It's their store and as long as my rights are intact I'm cool with it.
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> There's a non-trivial portion of the market that is determined to buy a Windows phone

Is there any evidence of that? From what I could Google, Windows Phone market share is still under 5% and only recently surpassed Blackberry: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24108913

I think that's a good demonstration that number of people determined to buy Windows Phone in the market is, in fact, entirely trivial.
"Hacker News" exhibits this pretty badly. Where do you guys suggest to hear about interesting hacks instead of politics and startups?
Google+ as a crowd-funding platform?
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22sho...

Could be a start.
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Was about time after Hetzner getting hacked the 2nd time.. My friend owns two of their largest dedicated boxes for some years now. His sysadmin is exceptionally good and his pay aswell (250€/h), I mean he can secure that box the best possible way, but he cannot do anything about Hetzner getting hacked.

Now guess how afraid they were when they heard that their project (6y effort) could be in risk.

I mean they have good offers and so on, but I wouldn't trust them after that. That's my opinion, maybe they changed or improved security. However I don't know a better alternative either.
Agreed. I thought that immediately when Logdown was being shown off.

I feel like 'hacker' is being turned into a market, and that very concept brings about a certain amount of sleaze(marketing).

I thought a hacker was someone that made the tools available work for them; not someone that used something tailored to them perfectly..not that a hacker would be against such a thing -- but rarely does the capability of a tool also meet the flexibility requirements of a hacker without further modification.
When I first read the title I assumed it would be about the body scanners in airports.
It's interesting that so many people have time to maintain their OS, fixing the problems with that OS and still continue to spend time on Work, Family and co. Is that really necessary when you could use a more simpler OS and therefore could have more time to spend on other useful stuffs?
Wow. I'm not even sure how to process this.

I'll keep it short: I'm all for ranting. I love ranting. But give the guy(s) a break. Just ignore it if it doesn't meet your definition of a tool crafted for hackers.
Where can i see the solutions from the top 10?
As a grad student who reads lots of papers (with a typical length of 30+ pages), I too have a strong opinion on this. I think PDFs do not serve the needs of the day and such efforts are a step in the right direction.

PDFs okay if you plan to print out the papers to read and are just about bearable if you read the papers on a large monitor. They are quite unfriendly for tablets or smaller laptops -- starting with the multiple vertical columns, which are taller than the screen height. The font size is dictated by the aim of reducing printing costs rather than reading convenience. Just for starters, a "responsive" reader with the ability to resize fonts would make a big difference. Notes/references which appear on the side (rather than the bottom of the page) or links to interactive data (which scientists will have to figure out a good way of using) would drastically improve the reading experience and the efficacy of this mode of scholarly communication.
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So is empowerment an idea? I believe that empowerment is more than that. Empowerment is a process that challenges our assumptions about the way things are and the way they can be. It challenges our basic assumptions about power, helping, achieving, and succeeding. To begin to demystify the concept of empowerment, we need to understand the concept broadly in order to be clear about how and why we narrow our focus on certain goals. In my case my goal is to better myself in all aspects of my life. I don’t just mean financially, but mentally and spiritually and physically as well.
It's probably much easier to do WiFi than video.
I had an interview like this at Willow Garage about 5 years ago. The interviewer said he would call at 8:30am. He called at 8:54 and sounded like he'd had about 2 hours of sleep. Then he said he had a 9:00 meeting and would call me back at 12:30pm. He called about 12:55 and proceeded with a lackluster interview during which he confused knowledge representation with graphics programming. Perversely, the interview made me want to join Willow just to see the train wreck in progress. (In their defense they have produced some good robotics platforms since then.)
So in effect ms has enacted the screw over Nokia plan just now?
> I wonder why they're using WiFi signals instead of just analyzing the video feeds from their surveillance systems. It would probably glean the same information.

With WiFi signals they can uniquely identify a single customer (by MAC) without having to rely on facial recognition or complex image processing. I'm guessing that's the reason.
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Encrypting the message content sounds sensible. But as far as I'm aware you can't encrypt the to/from fields.

As we've seen recently, this kind of metadata is often just as revealing as the content.

Encryption for email is probably giving you a false sense of security. If you care about privacy, email feels inappropriate to me.

So then the question is, what is the alternative?
Honest question—I feel kind of helpless about it.