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To that end, what is 'balance'?

Some may argue the weight on the other side of the seesaw - the startup or product you work on - has such dismally low possibility of 'taking off'/earning you life-changing money/etc that it's not worth putting a premium on work hours, as opposed to living and enjoying your youth.

That, right there, is the substance of debate.
If you give conference attendees the option to have that much fun, they will take it and go party instead of, you know, networking and discussing the conference topic with their professional peers.

This, to me, is not a successful outcome of a conference.
Not currently. If it becomes problematic, we'll add limits.
You would be missing the key "the phone is, beyond doubt, yours" step.
At least with fingerprints, you can effectively destroy the "password" irreversibly before being compelled, since you can always cut off the tip of your finger and destroy it.

Sounds messed up, but it's certainly a possibility. Since the finger is not the evidence itself, I don't think this would constitute destruction of evidence, and so long as it is done before the court asks you to unlock the device, it should not result in contempt of court. However, this is all uncharted territory and IANAL.
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A better title would be "number of times NASA has described a fascinating new discovery made with Voyager I as 'leaving the solar system'." The issue is with the headline writers who avoid words like "heliopause", "heliosphere", and "interstellar plasma".

But every one of those hash marks still indicates a region of space that humanity has explored for the very first time.
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CS isn't about programming at all. While CS can help make a programmer a better engineer, it's not intended to teach programming skills; which is much more a vocational skill than a science.

I think the primary reason so many development shops ask for CS grads, is not because they should have learned programming at university - it's because they've already been selected for intelligence by getting into a more selective hard science university program. If programming skills were more important than intelligence, these jobs could be filled with folks who have a 6-month certificate from ITT -- but hiring shops have evidently found out that they get a better product from CS departments.

I kind of feel that CS departments should really emphasize these points to prospective applicants so they can go to HackReactor instead of wasting their time in CS programs - but unfortunately they have little incentive to do so.
That's one, but another scenario you forgot about is one where researchers would just fuzz the microcode update mechanism to try and figure out more about how the insides of the processor work. If you could get the processor to recognize your microcode updates as valid, you could determine information about how the processor deals with microcode internally by observing what changes after you send different update sequences.

Intel protects their trade secrets pretty fiercely and they don't talk about the processor's internal microcode representation. As much as many of us would really like them to let us know what's really going on inside there.
Although the heliosphere is variable the size of the solar system is not expanding due to universal expansion, which is only witnessed on a very large scale. The solar system is gravitationally bound much like our galaxy and local group.
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Years and years ago, I wanted to make an auction site like Ebay, but only for "haunted" items. So, yeah.

Also, services where you pay someone to digitize your mail. And Lockitron... I just... these seem like bad ideas waiting to happen.

But then I was sure Twitter was a terrible idea, and I loved the original format of formspring so what do I know?
> Stone discussed with the Voyager science group whether they thought Voyager 1 had crossed the heliopause. What should they call the region were Voyager 1 is?

> "In the end, there was general agreement that Voyager 1 was indeed outside in interstellar space," Stone said. "But that location comes with some disclaimers - we're in a mixed, transitional region of interstellar space. We don't know when we'll reach interstellar space free from the influence of our solar bubble."

> So, would the team say Voyager 1 has left the solar system? Not exactly - and that's part of the confusion. Since the 1960s, most scientists have defined our solar system as going out to the Oort Cloud, where the comets that swing by our sun on long timescales originate. That area is where the gravity of other stars begins to dominate that of the sun. It will take about 300 years for Voyager 1 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it. Informally, of course, "solar system" typically means the planetary neighborhood around our sun. Because of this ambiguity, the Voyager team has lately favored talking about interstellar space, which is specifically the space between each star's realm of plasma influence.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-278

I tend to agree with their rationale, but they may just be pressed with time (remaining power on Voyager 1) and want conclusion. They can't wait 300 - 30,000 years.
I'm not certain that NASA has made such a strong claim before. Usually it's "Things are weird", or "New indications of the heliopause", etc. It's been about a year since these wiggles turned up; perhaps now the experts are satisfied.
Was going to comment the same... the author should consider renaming their project
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Thanks for organizing a Clojure meetup, it is much appreciated.

My only recommendations are quite generic - for smaller meetups, make sure a group introduction is on the agenda and actually happens. Might be nice if there were easy ways to become more active in the group, but this is hard for the meetup/talk format.

I'm definitely not being critical though - I feel lucky enough to have a Clojure meetup happen in my general area. Mostly it falls back on me, as an interested-in-the-community hacker to find a way actually be social and integrate myself into that group.
Yeah, but the court can still get a warrant for the iCloud data, which I am almost certain isn't store in encrypted form or at least in an encrypted form for which Apple does not have the keys.

You really need to use iTunes and an app like PhoneView for backing up all your data locally and storing that data in encrypted form outside the jurisdiction of your country.
Can you be more specific as to how you want it to work compared to how it works now? (It would be useful feedback for somebody building a browser extension or to those at Google.)
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I like Lynda.com, but it gets expensive. Watching tutorials on youtube is cool, but they aren't organized well. So I made a free version of Lynda.com where you can embed your favorite youtube tutorials or upload your own. Hope you find it useful!
Time to write a little VBScript to port scan me some Dropbox servers...
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Imagine what NSA's mathematicians (and budget) could do, if they were focused on these tasks, instead of spying!
Facebook shouldn't be allowed to ban that. Facebook is so big, it has become infrastructure. That it is not regulated yet is the real scandal.
"submit to abuse" is one way to put it. "Are right for the job" is another.
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Whenever I think Microsoft's online offerings look good, I remember this article:

http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...

Of course, the NSA revelations make it hardly matter anyway.
* There is also in fact video evidence of the rebels possessing sarin and actually using and experimenting with it. In fact an earlier UN inspection group led by Carla del Ponte blamed the rebels for a smaller scale attack that happened earlier in the year.

* Syrian military was driving back the rebels in this particular neighborhood just fine without the use of chemical weapons. So Assad in light of this decides to use significant amounts of nerve gas on the very day that he invited UN inspectors to come back?

* Who said that the sarin used was stolen by the FSA from government stockpiles? In an earlier bust of a rebel holdout there were nerve gas delivery mechanisms discovered which appeared to have been produced in Saudi Arabia.

* Finally there is the case of German warships who were patrolling the area and intercepting Syrian military communications and recordings of Assad repeatedly forbidding use of chemical weapons.
By my estimation, you have two primary options, but I wanted to first ask you to consider:

Is there any possibility that you could (even if slowly, at first) move toward where you want to be in the current job? The reason I ask is, if they are accommodating about your educational goals, then they value that and they value you. So, think about what is available where you are at. I can't tell from your post, but if the work you are doing is semi-relevant, then it could be that you are currently in a "semi-relevant" area because they are grooming your talent for the future; meaning, they want to get you warmed up before they put you in a starting slot as a wide receiver [1] in The Show [2]. Just a thought that maybe you haven't considered.

Otherwise... you could:

1. Start going on interviews.

If you truly feel that things are going nowhere at your current job, and if you feel confident with the target subject matter, then start interviewing. Even though your current experience is semi-relevant, you can still leverage it, coupled with your education, to demonstrate that you can discuss the subject matter and deliver in the target area. Only you will be able to determine if you are ready to take this step. Sure, you may get rejected on some interviews, but, at some point, we all have to "put ourselves out there" and give it a shot.

2. Stay where you are and "work your craft" until you are ready to move.

If you are unsuccessful in landing any solid interviews (or you simply don't feel ready to start interviewing), then stay the course. Appreciate the situation that you are in as being temporary. Stay focused, keep working on your education and, this part is critical: start developing a portfolio. That is, start working on side projects that are related to the area where you want to be. This will increase your skill-set while simultaneously increasing your ability to talk comfortably about the target topic during an interview. This is, of course, important, because you want to be comfortable with the topic so that you can sell yourself during an interview. A portfolio will also show initiative, interest and experience in the target area to a potential employer.

Wishing you the best.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_receiver

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League
There's an unsaid implication that it is possible to sub-type cancers based on a patients genetic type. E.g. what makes a particular drug work on a particular cancer form, is determined by that patients genetics. Is this a generally accepted assumption?
Without doing my own research, any article that opens with "no homework in Finland" that is immediately denounced as untrue by Finnish people is to be mostly disregarded as dubious.

I do note the irony of proclaiming the greatness of a lack of standardized tests (because they're useless, right?) in one infographic while using a standardized test to prove how great the Finnish education system is.
This site has been down for days at the exact time the video is going viral. There is another site [1] www.phoneblocs.com that has more information
I like Lynda.com but it gets expensive. Youtube tutorials aren't organized well. So I made a free version of Lynda.com where you can embed your favorite youtube tutorials or upload your own tutorials. Hope you find it useful!
You mean the hypothetical oort cloud? Because we don't know where that is either. This is news because they have confirmed their hypothesis again. This is how science works. It's not just one experiment and then it's time go home.

Besides, have you ever seen any data from interstellar plasma before? Well they have, now.
http://www.phoneblocs.com is up and has a copy of the video.
If I were to take a massive guess on this (and this is a massive guess). I would say that for the lifetime of the phone being unlocked with your fingerprint you could do things like pay for items etc.

They may be lining up for banks or other authorities to start allowing finger print recognition in their systems and apps to make bank transfers or pay for items in general and that your finger print would be the authorisation.

It may be one level more secure when they implement NFC.

I don't know though, I doubt they have done it simply because people want to unlock their phones 1 second faster.
You can still contend that the fact your finger unlocks the phone today doesn't prove you were the one using the phone in the deceased's home. Maybe the phone was unlocked via passcode at the time of the murder.
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There is a whole web of rights when it comes to media distribution. AMC has the linear rights for Breaking Bad but not the digital distribution rights. Meaning, when you buy Breaking Bad on iTunes the money does not go to AMC. Netflix's Breaking Bad deal benefits AMC in that people can catch up with the show and then watch it on AMC but AMC didn't sell those rights to Netflix, Sony did.

I work in the industry and am happy to answer questions.
Er, iphones and other fancy smartphones are being stolen because they fetch hundreds of dollars from black-market wholesalers and unwitting craigslist buyers. Not because people don't use a PIN. Of course, using a PIN is a good idea in the event that the person who eventually gets possession is an identity thief.
"I just bought it yesterday."
Ok, so where do we all job hunt, and how can we do this again? The info there is of great value for applicants.
> I don't think anyone disagrees with that.

Actually I think most in HN disagree with that. In HN taking the native side is a sure way to get downvotes.
The biggest annoyance I have is that there is no way to do that for Reply. Why should Reply be different from Compose? They're both just sending an email.

The whole thing is poorly thought through. Countless details seem off.
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Why? Identity theft? Where are good places to job hunt then?
Nice effort. Just a few remarks:

- You should certainly use Requests http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

- The Story class seems somewhat redundant.
You could possibly use collections.namedtuple as a container for properties or simply a dictionary. The print_story method could just be the __str__ special method.

- JSON output would be useful.
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It's far more than inadequate WMs. I've got a WM that works very well for my other tasks. For managing my Web content it simply doesn't play.

I've found two tools that help me to degrees: Calibre (an eBook reader / content manager), and Readability.

What they offer that a browser doesn't is both content management (bookmarks are a very weak pass at this) and queue management (the ability to organize a list of articles I'm reading). Tags are another solid plus.

The footprint of both is also vastly smaller than my browser.
I opened my pathikritbhowmick@msn.com email address in 1997. They then rebranded it to hotmail.com, then to live.com, then to windowslive.com, then back to live.com and then to outlook.com. I still sign-on to my email using my @msn.com...
Just as long as there isn't house music blaring. I don't even like that for non-technical socializing. One reason bar owners like the loud music is that it induces people to drink more. If people could hear each other they may get caught up in conversation and not take as many sips of their drinks.
I think it is a great idea. I understand it in an instance. If you want to see a bad Show HN check mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353500
Some thoughts:

Lack of motivation, i.e. Absence of "burning need" to learn the stuff at hand. Also, inability to visualize the end-result/reward.

Trying to look at the task as whole than in smaller parts: i.e. looking at a 720 pages, mostly text-only O'reilly programming book.

Multitasking: Checking news feeds, twitter and trying to learn/code/read simultaneously.

Distractions: people around, location, short attention span.

Not able to get into the zone/flow: This usually happens when,

goals are not clear

feedback is not immediate

lack of balance between opportunity and capacity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

Appropriate reward and feedback system is really important in learning.As per some studies, it relates to certain neurotransmitters in the brain i.e. dopamine.
Although it's more expensive to do a separate pilot, it's not always a waste of time or money. In many cases, ideas that on paper are very good don't translate well. A pilot lets you catch these problems and remedy them. If you go straight to series you may end up only finding out about these issues when it's too late to fix them.

A few good examples of this: the (unaired) pilot for BBC's Sherlock is a not fantastic 60 minutes with significant pacing problems, which was subsequently reshot and turned into a well received 90 minute miniseries. The US version of Life on Mars got completed re-located and re-cast as the pilot was just bad (...most people wouldn't call what ended up as 'good', but it was a vast improvement on the pilot).

Neither approach is without its problems. Take a show like Game of Thrones, which is very expensive to make. On the one hand, HBO could have saved millions of dollars by not ordering a pilot. On the other, it was pretty clear once it came back from post production that the approach the writers had originally taken wasn't going to work, and a number of changes were made to make the show more accessible to people who hadn't read the books.

So HBO did 'waste' several million dollars on a pilot that never aired, but the ability for the creative team to review the pilot before embarking on a full series commitment meant many changes could be made that resulted in a better show. HBO have easily recouped the lost money.

It's interesting that Amazon have taken the opposite approach to Netflix, and ordered a large number of pilots rather than going straight into series commitments.
I'd imagine it's not that much different per hour than the average person who decided to become a banker 2 years into college.

To make an accurate comparison we would need to consider a number of facts I'd rather not take the time to compile. Such as:

% of people who drop out of college in year 3-4
# of people who never get a job in banking, but still have the student loans
% of interns who wash out
% of bankers who never make it past an entry level position

Then we take the small number of people who made it through the funnel and distribute all those 120hour work weeks over their annual compensation. We'll be generous and not also add the 'keeping up with the social circle' expenses that would be necessary as well.

Given all of those factors the averages are probably slightly higher for the bankers. Still not as much as you would think. Also not a deal I would seek out in general.

Personally I'd rather work 25 hour weeks for 50k than 50 hour weeks for 100k. Definitely not 100 hour weeks for 200k.
> The fingerprint ID is just another option, which you don't have to use.

It's still important to let people know the potential pitfalls of such a method, even if it's one option amongst many, so they can make an informed choice between the options.

> Why on earth are people getting worked up about this?

Because it has serious implications on your security, both from other people, and from the government (or its actors), implications which are not immediately obvious.
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Sorry. I think you are too paranoid. You are. Close source can have backdoor and open source can have backdoor too. I like to use Linux and my Mac to do programming work, but it doesn't mean I don't care about Windows.

If you think Linux has less chance getting backdoor, well, look at all the speculation we got these days. If NSIT cryptographic standard has reduced security as many people believe, then your communicate is dead.

If you believe that all ISP are cooperating with the US government here in the US, why the hell are you still using the Internet as we know it? You are guaranteeing that only an open source system will not have a backdoor while a closed source must have. Microsoft has collaboration with NSA in one way or another. Is that a secret? Most of their "collaboration" probably come from business things like military-kind projects. They might have backdoor. But guarantee is a big assumption. If you don't have solid proof then you are making false accusation.

It's like saying because your friend shakes hands and hang out with a cold-blood murder he must be a cold-blooded person too. Plain wrong, ignorant and simply stupid.

Security has a trust involved. If you don't trust your USB, your own product, then you will not get any security. There is nothing wrong with transferring things between usb and windows computer. It's fine. You can still run SCP, SSH over your Windows socket. Is that now weaker because damn MS is working with NSA as you say?

Someone give this man a cookie because we are obviously living in an fantasy.

If you think your ipod, your laptop don't have backdoor according to how MS and Intel are working with NSA, you are contradicting. Stop using the Internet and stop using anything. Then you are safe.
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Interestingly, it looks like they used their AMA on Reddit specifically to announce this [1].

Kind of a neat idea.

1) Implement a long-requested feature.
2) Do AMA on Reddit and wait for inevitable "when are we getting {feature}?"
3) Answer with "right now!"

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1m926j/we_are_the_outl...
You don't need to go that far back in time:

Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;

The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
Vertical Parallax sites are neat, but does it lead to higher conversion?
It was... a while ago now.
>You run on AWS in a single availability zone,

How about: Your hosting relies totally on amazon?
The private keys for SSL are orders of magnitude more valuable and much easier to get ahold of.
According to Kevin Spacey, Netflix was the only buyer that didn't want "House of Cards" to do a pilot, which, when you think of it, would have been an immense waste of time, talent and money.

I agree with most of Kevin's Spacey's comments but this one was a huge gamble for Netflix. I think pilots in the digital realm will be the media version of an MVP and seed financing before an A round.

Also define "immense" waste, a Pilot is an episode you're making anyway. There's some added expense from ramping production up and down temporarily but its no where near as bad as making 13 episodes where the last 7 or 8 aren't useable.
German news also showed smaller numbers. For what it's worth, 1.6e6 people on 250 miles means everybody had only about 25cm (<1 foot) of space. A realistic number for a human chain would be about 1m (approx. 3 feet).

Seems bogus.