skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You don't get it integrated with your applications like browser, email software, text editor or spreadsheet by default. This leads to network effect in reverse. if you are only person to use it within your circles, signing and encrypting data and messages you send to others can't be done.

2. Encryption is extra risk for your data. If you lose the keys, you lose the data. People are bad at backing up their data, why they would be better at managing their keys? Being sloppy with your keys means that somebody can impersonate you with more credibility (what if banks would accepting PGP singed orders in email)

3. Value from widely used PGP happens mostly in society level. Encrypting any particular piece of data has negative expected value in most cases.

4. Using PGP requires understanding the basic concepts and using it well is not that easy (lots of pest practices). People don't know any of this stuff. Even public and private key is far out concept for most people.
I'm pretty sure it is a negative signal, you'll have to read the rest of the resume to find some positive ones.
See my reply to RyanZAG. You're misinterpreting the opportunity cost statement. It's a statement about the competition you'll be facing as a candidate, not the hirer's actual judgment of a candidate.
> the FBI or the NSA, won't be able to do it

Well, yeah, right.
Show HN: Previeweet - in stream image previews on Twitter.com
Same here (OS X, Safari). It doesn't look much better in the demos either. Their demos include some truly horrific examples, like Linux, Firefox 24, Ubuntu: http://fontcombiner.com/docs/media/demo/linux_firefox_ubuntu...
One thing I really really really find horrible in word processors is the nonseparation of content and presentation. Yes, they have paragraph styles you can apply, and hope everything you marked with that style actually changes when you change the style, but in practice it never seems to work well and the UX leaves much to be desired.
He does talks about the weight of the backpack (on page 2?)

Personally, I used to be a messenger bags guy (cooler and more convenient access) but now I need two straps.

As an adult, one-strapping gives me a near-instant headache (I wonder if it always affected me that badly?). Even looking at the photo of Channing Tatum makes me feel uncomfortable.
You do realize that's completely impossible. Time is not absolute.
Thanks for the link. Yes I really wish that any of the mayoral candidates in Boston (where I live) would make gigabit Internet a priority rather than just being "tough on crime".
Seriously, the only thing more painful for me this week than reading this comment, was signing up to reply. Between three and sixteen letters my ass!

> Given that everyone has a smartphone these days (well, the people that matter)

Really? The only people that matter are those with cell phones? When I was growing up, and even last night, I was told by local news to set my clock back an hour. They've actually been telling me since Friday night, which is great because I rarely watch the news and don't subscribe to cable.

Yes, I have a cell phone, and yes it's a smartphone of a recent generation, and no I don't like it that much.

> With this system there would be a lot more small talk chit chat about time, you could plausibly arrive a minute or two late and 'not realise the time'. Time could be vague yet oddly accurate at the same time. It would be a whole lot of fun.

Great! I'll be in Belgium this week. Standup at the normal time?
Not on my rMBP. The "enhanced" versions are noticeably better spaced and easier on the eyes.
This is it, I want to enjoy the sunlight in my free time, not use it all up while I'm commuting and working. A couple of hours of sunlight after I finish working would improve my experience of winter immeasurably.
Soon you won't find the Language Benchmarks Game with any search engine
I use GPG quite often but there are many annoying issues:

- Lacking GPG support on iOS devices, the available apps are not integrated with Mail.app (iOS).

- GPG support on OS X devices is usable with Mail.app and GPG Tools ((https://gpgtools.org/) but encrypted mails are not searchable. I use folders etc. but it is still often a pain do browse manually through mail after mail until you find the one you've been looking for …

- Webmail, for example Gmail or Outlook.com, and GPG don't fit together well – if at all.

- The public keychain is not made for use on more than one device, i.e., it's not sync-ready.

- Key verification is bothersome, i.e., you have to attend key signing parties etc.

- There are political issues, e.g., should you upload your keys to key server? If so, with or without signatures? If you upload signatures, you create not only a web of trust but you also expose at least parts of your address book.

- Key servers store long invalid keys and there is no way to remove such keys. The PGP.com key server removes keys if you don't confirm them by mail from time to time. On the other hand, the PGP.com key server only accepts one key per mail address.

- Etc.
Won't happen unless there is a war-like situation with not only widespread surveilance, but also widespread use of surveilance. I would be willing to bet on it. Large groups of people simply have too short attention span, and the cost of not using encryption is too small (the cost of using encryption is too large).
Yeah, MacBook Air owners shouldn't be hired as well. :-P
If you remove biased opinion and the absence of fact based commentary, there will be nothing left on here except documentation and source code.
Technical Disobedience
> By launching the mother of all trolls to the disgust of the industry at large, they're adding fuel to the fire and making it more likely that stronger anti-troll legislation will pass.

As I understand it, this company was formed during the purchase of the Nortel patents, which happened a couple of years ago. Not just right now. The company which was formed from investment of Apple, Microsoft, etc, is not under their direct control anymore. They basically paid a bunch of money to grant themselves immunity from these patents while creating a hazard / barrier to others.
To be fair that's been true of Bachelor's too, for a long time. Now more than ever the actual school you went to is more important (note went to, not even graduated from, an Oxford drop-out still has more cachet than a Hatfield graduate).
Agreed. Same story, I also have an 'MBA' (MS in engineering management) and had the same driving force, which was shared by the majority of classmates in my program, which is why I chose it over other school's MBA programs.

The author also said we'd find counter examples. I still agree with the author for most MBAs having come out of traditional programs, for MBA holders which do not have an engineering background.
"Why having an over-simplified title/line-of-thought gets you more clicks"

An MBA doesn't invalidate their previous experience. An MBA doesn't specialise a person or decreases his/her usefulness to only C-level positions (quite the opposite in my opinion, as they often acquire additional skills). An MBA doesn't make you a strategy guy/girl per se or makes you less an implementation person.

Apart from the social pressure one -might- experience because of their achieving peers (and maybe even the financial pressure to pay off their debt), I only believe it increases a person's skills (be it soft, finance, ...)

Eventually, it always boils down to peoples motivations to join X or Y. An MBA should at most encourage you (the recruiter/hiring person/... to ask some other questions during the hiring process.

Next in the series I expect:

"Why having worked for McK/BCG/Bain is a negative hiring signal (for startups)"

"Why having investment banking experience is a negative hiring signal (for startups)"

"Why having studied law is a negative hiring signal (for startups)"
...
I don't do many cold calls, but sometimes I reach out to people on email based on their online reputation, blog posts or similar if I feel I can help them or they can help me. A lot of these people are busy but many actually give a reply, at least if you're being short and to the point about your message.

Ironically enough, the guys who sign their blog posts with "what do you think", "drop me a line", "I'm always available on email" etc, are usually the guys who never reply :-)
From the explanation beneath "How is this possible":

> The Font Combiner application uses a couple of different techniques to overhaul fonts. All glyph forms are extracted from vectors present in the original fonts and scaled to size where appropriate, the vertical metrics are recalculated from scratch, and spacing and fresh automated hinting are applied to the result.

Now, I don't know a lot about the gory details of typography, but I do know that type designers spend a lot of time thinking about things like "appropriate size and scale" and other metrics. Can these really be automatically recalculated from scratch and how can this possibly lead to a better result?
I just wish it was always light at 6PM when we go home. As soon as we go back an hour and it's dark at 5PM, it's like no-one can drive anymore.
Probably because everyone is emailing them, and they can't keep up.
This project is dead on arrival. You cannot build solid structures on moving ground. We need open hardware/parts/DIY kits easily accessible first.
Submittable (YC S12) is looking for a Front-end Developer
In my experience it is mostly due to annoyance. PGP is seamless until someone tries to check their mail on their friend's computer and discovers that encryption works as intended. Then all of a sudden they start begging you not to send them encrypted messages.

I have yet to see any other reason for why PGP is not even used by people for whom it would be easy. Even within the security and cryptography research communities it is rarely used.

The solution to this particular problem is to have smartcards; while we are at it, we should also use smartcards for authentication, so that when you sit down at your friend's computer you plug in a smartcard to log in and to read your messages. Unfortunately that means we need to deploy a bunch of new infrastructure, and I would not count on any help from governments or from the tech community (which is largely monetized by violating user privacy).
Also in the category of boroughs hard to reach from Brooklyn without a car or undue delay: Staten Island. Today, three of its four bridges prohibit pedestrians and none have subway connections. One of those bridges (to NJ) used to have a pedestrian and cycle way, but a few years after the Streetcar Scandal it was removed as part of an expansion (!) orchestrated by Robert Moses. Look him up to find out more about the bizarre history of mass transit in mid-20th century NYC.
On the other hand, for all practical purposes most people can't, and they may be deluded into thinking they are covered in regards to freedom, openness and privacy. Or to basically know what is going on with their data and their communications. It is a serious concern.

In theory you can, in practice 99.99% of the people won't be in a reasonable position to even try it.
A lot of women in my family have an MBA, you can do an MBA in India though distance education. Which is basically reading a few books and appearing for exams. A lot of women see this as a good way to keep themselves busy while their parents look boys for them.

Exams are super easy(by any measure) and those three letters in the degree give an impression you are well read and educated.

For this reason alone. I've lost trust in M.S(MTech too). A friend of my mine has MS from BITS Pilani(Distance education program) and can't write a 100 line program. Masters degree programs, especially evening college and distance education ones are a joke. These are degrees only for namesake, and generally done for extra titles and because the person has nothing better to do.
Fine - so let's make obtaining an 'airbnb license' as easy as the driver one. Then if host has issues - take it away.

But somehow I imagine that red tape required to obtain a hotel license is significantly longer, benefiting large companies.
So do I, but if the pills make me healthy enough to go and do work elsewhere, then so be it.
The source code is on github at https://github.com/giuseppeg/Previeweet
Submittable launches API
Conferência e Exposição Projetar-Construir 2013
Though the article is a nice read, I am not sure exactly why the author is mentioning that Yehuda "avoided him during the rest of the conference". I feel that it's highly irrelevant to the article itself, kind of gratuitous and furthermore really seems like a personal opinion rather than something based in facts.
> Django Graceful is a set of commands for deployment

> of django projects as fastcgi backends.

Or just use uwsgi[1] and supervisord[2] if possible.

[1] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

[2] http://supervisord.org/
Much prefer the left and in fairness so far I've preferred the non-fontcombiner version on everything I've seen.
I see what you did there; I suspect it will fly past most people. <Posted via my 14-hour old MBA.>
The ease of use has to approach at least Skype level (and even then you'll exclude a wide swath of users who don't know how Skype works).

There's an old joke about Unix to the effect of "it's not user unfriendly; it's actively user hostile". Likewise, many aspects of PGP, E.G. key generation and management, web of trust, public key validation and keeping the private key secure that is utterly befuddling for the vast majority of people. This, despite the fact that it's one of the most accessible avenues for secure communication we have right now.

If people have things that are easier to use securely, more people will be secure.
Agile Fluency and Lean Startup
The revenge of GoPHP5 being planned
Sony let me unlock my Xperia Z. They also release the drivers to their hardware to the open source community. Well worth supporting this effort when you next choose a handset.

http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/
I am, to some degree, running the concluding thought experiment in real life—I dropped out of business school to try to build my own company. (Left after one year, at least partial credit?)

Some thoughts:

—I can't speak to how widespread the entitled-MBAs-in-startup-roles (no direct experience) problem is, but MBAs definitely have good job prospects (in the traditional sense), which has made it much harder for me to convince former classmates to "take the leap" and try to start companies instead.

—At least on the West Coast, the startup classes treat leanness as a central principle. I didn't meet many MBAs (especially ones who took those classes) who believed strategy could be laid out and then executed by underlings. Your mileage may vary.

—I went to business school because I wanted to get out of the consulting job I didn't like, and loved technology and wanted to move to the Bay Area. That said, it didn't sit well with me that I didn't pursue my dream and try to start a company instead of going, which made me unhappy all year. The question of what motivated someone to go to b-school is generally a good one, though, as most MBAs will gleefully admit that their goal was to spend two years kicking back at "summer camp for adults."

—The limits to the degree's usefulness, in my opinion, come from the fact that much of the good learning is in the hard-won experience of visiting founders and leaders (a la Startup School speakers). Unfortunately, to quote Clayton Christensen: “Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go...You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.”[1] I often felt like visiting speakers were giving good advice, but that I didn't have the place in my mind for the answer to fit yet. Another reason to try to start something and accumulate better questions.

The opportunity cost was the strongest motivator for me. As a twenty-something tech nerd, another year felt like an eternity. And I'm already five months better at programming and building a product than I would have been. Which feels like a win vs. another piece of paper.

I deeply believe my cofounder and I have a better chance of success because we took this path instead (he quit his job). I guess we'll be one more piece of data for the experiment in a few years.

P.S. We joke around about our travails once a week at http://uncannyvolley.com/why-not-combinator-podcast/ if you're bored.

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3225-what-are-questions
Seems similar to https://www.tenxer.com
Michael wrote an article about quake once that described the inner loop optimization of the software renderer. I recall he was computing a dot product or something that was used over an 8 pixel span. The hack was that he started an fpu divide and then got useful work done on the integer pipeline without a stall, perfectly timing out when the fpu would have his value ready. What a brilliant hack. I recall the satisfaction of knowing so much secret knowledge. :)
Hence my clarification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6662907

I was trying for a joke (it is still funny in my head), no offence meant.
Australia's population is growing at 1.6% pa.
Sorry, not convenient to search the topic on my phone, but it is kind of common knowledge in China. Our young and old nannies all use qq, and they probably have an email attached to their account but do not know it. many colleagues and friends even with higher education rarely check their mail, maybe reuse a week.

So you'd ask, how to share contacts? All goes through the phone number, every one has one and know it.

Qq is much more than our text messaging, it can share files, and is easier than mail for that.

When I hear all the fuss about fixing email I can't help but think that it is already fixed in China.
How hard would it be reintroduce trams to New York? I heard most New Yorkers walk anyway so it wouldn't really affect traffic much, would it?
The author makes the mistake of thinking "MBA" == "CEO/CFO" - there are huge number of MBAs working in marketing, business development, sales, etc. all of which are skills that can be invaluable to a startup.

Ironically he recommends a Masters in CS over an MBA and then talks about lean startup philosophy, a philosophy that places business development and product management above development.
Omg Gospel Artist Poses Nude
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies" and "It Is Time" happens to be two of the titles. She even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. How can this so called "Gospel Artist" be a role model is she's posing news? For more on this story.....Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail. I seen the picture on Google.
On linux with slight hinting enabled, and I see no discernable difference between the examples.
It's a bad idea.

1. It will worsen, and not improve, the effect of populism and demagoguery.

2. The complexity of overlapping and differently drafted proxy statements will cause legal nightmares. There will be ceaseless litigation to sort out questions of which proxies count, which proxies supersede which other proxies etc etc.
If anything, the products that seemed so cool to me on TV in my childhood taught me that most of it is crap and can be ignored. The kids in the commercials had so much fun with the toy and then when you get it home and out of the box... it may well disappoint.

Sounds like a great lesson to teach. The younger, the better.

At least the guy is just selling toys. Beats the heck out of a politician trying to force his grand schemes on everyone in society.
Using "signals" is always a risk because you might very well be cutting yourself off from a talented pool of people that will be available to your competitors who aren't so choosy.
This is exactly why BigCo's that use resume buzzword bingo to do all their hiring are so tragically bad at finding anything better than mediocre talent.

The question is whether a particular signal, on the balance, produces better results for less effort than simply vetting the candidates the old-fashioned way.
Looks interesting! Will look into it more closely.
Well, in fact, the answer to your first question seems to be yes, according to a lot of people with more credibility than you or me.

http://www.quora.com/Management-Consulting-and-Management-Co...
What? China has had thousands of years of rotating cycles of stability and ruinous wars.
The Smarter You Are, The Stupider You Are
It takes ten minutes to learn the handful of steps involved with using it. For most people that's too much.
Yeah until he imagines some wrongdoing from his attorneys and ties them up with litigation against their handling of his case for decades.
The name makes me think of the English Defence League. Not a good association.
Hah, my first thought is "humans also make the government" and I know which one I'd optimize first... sorry about the snark though.
Australia formed out of independent colonies out of simple expediency (eg, unified customs to improve trade). Americans have been a sufficiently practical people that similar considerations would, I think, eventually have brought them together.
Not true, Samsung devices have always had unlocked bootloaders on all of their international (read: most sold) devices.
Passion Project - Code You Love
My standard procedure when I get a new android device is to (a) unlock the bootloader, and (b) install su & SuperSU, i.e. get root.

Normally the latter involves modifying the base filesystem. If I understand it right, this will prevent the normal rooting procedure and force the need to install a different kernel just to get root. Which isn't great, as I have no desire to run a non-stock kernel; they come out later with stable builds, they may have issues finding all the right drivers for the phone, etc.

I may be mistaken, and if root can still be gotten without switching the kernel, then everything is OK. Otherwise, this is a big dent in the desireability of Android to me; root is incredibly useful for doing things outside the constrained sandbox, like mounting encrypted file systems, or syncing the clock to an NTP server (!).
TSA union calls for armed guards at every checkpoint
You describe exactly how Linux became what it is.
And the goal was not to support all the hardware there was - just 386. In light of existing examples, your argument has little value.

I'm in the Replicant market. I don't give a shit about convenience if I can find a free software version somewhere :)...
I'm Canadian and for me DST is pure hell. Imagine not being able to see the sun either in the morning while you jog before work, or in the evening while you walk home. That is my December, and that is in Toronto, it is even worse in Ottawa. I have one Turkish grandparent and the rest north-western european so it's not even that bad for me compared with say a Jamaican, but combined with the interruption to my internal clock (which is normally very accurate) it really pisses me off.
I feel I have to make this clear: I submitted this because I'm appalled by it and I feel it merits discussion by the startup community — not because think it is a worthy piece of journalism.

I find it shameful that this is the one time I've read about all the female CEOs shown here: all 19 of them.

Edit: Miscounted 20 female CEOS but there's 19.
Same thing here: it's used as a negative hiring signal by some, but that doesn't validate their thinking. These generalisations are a huge risk for loosing out on potential talent...
Goodbye Magento
On my MacBook Air, the original version looks much better than the "improved".
Same here. Here's a gif to illustrate: http://i.imgur.com/3AmIB8Z.gif