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Was the meetup in Santa Clara?

Santa Clara is not where the "action" is, so to speak. SF is the center of action in Silicon Valley, even though it is technically not in the actual geographic valley. Other hotbeds of startup activity would include the Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Menlo Park area. As it stands, Santa Clara is quite far from the epicenter of Silicon Valley. Along those lines, 90% of meetups in Silicon Valley happen in SF. Another 10% occur in Mountain View / Palo Alto / Menlo Park.

Yes, the big tech companies are in Mtn View / PA / Menlo, but most meetups are in SF because of the sheer density of engineers.

There are events happening quite frequently. Check out meetup.com and Eventbrite to stay up to date. You also have to go up to people and take the initiative to talk to them: most meetups have a format where there's a speaker and then after the meetup ends people socialize. Lots of people at meetups are looking to hire; a typical conversation would be something like you introducing yourself, asking what the other person does, and then telling them that you're looking for an internship. Many times I've had conversations with people and then they will mention that they're looking to hire.

I've never had luck with craigslist or indeed. Some great resources for finding internships: AngelList (the talent portion of the site) and LinkedIn.

Also, nothing wrong with directly applying to companies through their websites. A lot of startups also like it when you take the initiative to email them - a short intro about why you're ideal (I'm Eric and I'm really interested in <foo>, having done <bar>, bla bla bla).

You also need a GitHub account and should put some code there.

This is totally unrelated to your job search, but ericna.com is available. You should buy that domain name and someday put a portfolio up there.

Also, I've heard of SUNY Buffalo and I wouldn't say that its reputation in the US is that of a mediocre university. I would say it's a "decent" state university. Have you tried contacting SUNY Buffalo alumni on LinkedIn that work at startups?

Also, I'm a bit confused as to what kind of role you're looking for. You experience with Java/C++ leads me to slot you into a systems developer position. Those positions can often be difficult to get. Android is definitely an in-demand skill and I think it would improve your chances of a job if you had an actual app on the Play store.
In my experience (every day for 14 months in the quiet section), some people don't give a rat's ass though, and ignore the signs and plaques. It wasn't uncommon to see/hear sub 10-yo kids there either, and woe unto you if you attempt to explain to the parent that they are sitting in a quiet section. The ultimate fault is of course on SJ for not making it more obvious that the booked seats are in the quiet section during the booking process, however.
Unfortunately it's not quite that simple. Gates, Allen, Myhrvold and others at MS in that era were some of the most powerful influences on intellectual property expansion, in particular software patents and business method patents. That's having a lasting impact. And many of the Gates Foundation's activities re-enforce the same boundaries in the area of drug patents.

If you want to net it out into a number, the game is far from over.

Edit: lest my comment seem one sided: Gates could just be all scrooge mcduck with his treasure and there's not much anyone else could do to stop him, so I do give him a great deal of credit. I don't put much attention into casting people as good guys or bad guys; but the world is complex, and consequences matter.
For water, the most cost effective is submarines, and has been submarines since before WWII. Big ships are an expensive way of giving the enemy some target practice.
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I was on play.golang.org last night and didn't see that button.

When did that get added? That's brilliant!
Stderr is nice in theory. In practice, it is really hard to consistently decide which types of output should go on stdout and which should go on stderr. Different developers (all experienced unixians) have different ideas on when stderr should be used instead of stdout. For example should stderr be used for --help, --version or when invalid arguments are passed to a program?

Then there's the problem with granularity. An output for a long running program could be purely informative, minor warning, major warning, minor error, critical error or some other category. Putting all those outputs on stderr doesn't simplify anything for a script that would still need to parse the output and determine what to do with it.
Drop support for IE8 and use these features
You have to understand that there is more to NK than just what we hear on the news. They're at the center of a lot of illegal activity in the Asian/Pacific region, and have a state-sponsored investment in criminal infrastructure (drugs, smuggling, kidnapping) that they use to keep themselves propped up.
lucky you. i got a huge computer hang on my Iceweasel (firefox 17) with a beefy CPU but crapy 3d accel.

Performance was fine in chromium.
I get a feeling there is some alternative motive behind the article. The arguments are some what valid:

Mining uses electricity so it leaves a "carbon footprint", but printing money and mining gold also leaves a footprint.

Unaware "zombies" are used for mining, which means criminals get them more reliably, but I don't think this is BtC's fault. People should be aware what they download to avoid infections.

I haven't heard of the stolen electricity thing, but in hind sight it's obvious, if you aren't paying for electricity you are minimizing your costs, but I'm not sure how wild spread this is, but again I don't think it's about BtC or BtC's fault.

Lack of regulations does NOT permit assassination, sales of illegal drugs or spreading of child porn anymore than our current currencies, because this shit has been happening for way longer than BtC has been a thing.
That is a nice theory and all, but I must ask, is it more than that?

We got the comments from each party privileged to the private deals each company made. We can cut away the commentary of the article, and still be left with a finger pointing at NSA. At that point, we can either trust that they speak the truth, or think they are lying.

> lower operating cost than the Rafale or Super Hornet, Saab has agreed to transfer a massive amount of technology and Sweden has committed to investigate a quid pro quo acquisition of Brazilian KC-390 tanker transports

Was that a new offer on the table, or has it been there several years? What causes the negotiations to continue for years, and what caused the negotiations to stop now? Those are the question I am left with after reading parent comment in the light of the article.
My favorite is actually the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco. Did you know that Win9x's dependence on DOS helped Caldera to continue suing MS?
You are substituting dogma for critical thinking. Sometimes a switch statement (or goto, etc.) is the best overall solution to a problem. In those cases, it is actually good code, not "justifiable code smell."
It was pretty well known at the time that he was dating both of them. It turned out that their views of the relationship(s) were pretty similar, except that each was biased to thinking she was #1.

I won't name them clearly. One should be obvious even so, even today, as she went on to a pretty big career -- bigger than mine -- and was open about the relationship. The other -- a lesser peer to me -- is more forgotten, except by industry old-timers.

My epiphany was that one shouldn't string along women for long periods of time, even if in the literal sense one is not being deceptive.

He wound up marrying neither of them, of course.
Works even on my old firefox build in debian.
Perrin appears to be one of the lead authors here: http://tack.io/draft.html

You might also try reading some of his more recent discussion comments on IETF working groups:

- http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/websec/current/maillist...

- http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/maillist.ht...

- (from 2002): http://mhonarc.domainunion.de/archive/html/ietf-openpgp/2002...

Just a few things that turned up when I Googled him.
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The current Conservative government defies the assumption behind Hanlon's razer; their malice and stupidity are one and the same, because so much of the harm they've done is the result of maliciously-held views that cause them to do really stupid things.
Windows 8 has more users than all versions of OS X combined. If that's an "unmitigated disaster", what does that make OS X?

Windows Phone has overtaken iOS in Latin America and holds the number two spot for mobile devices. Windows Phone has also overtaken iOS in Italy, and is less than a percentage point away from taking over in Germany as well. Across Europe Windows Phone market share has doubled from this time last year, while iOS continues to decline. Windows Phone is the fastest growing mobile OS worldwide. Nokia's customer satisfaction has surpassed all Android manufacturers and is right on the heels of Apple. None of this evidence supports your claim that Windows Phone is "absolutely ignored".

Bing handles roughly 30% (Bing + Yahoo) of internet search traffic in the US. A far cry from being "largely ignored".

None of this paints a picture of "an experience that no one cares about". Your statements show clear bias with no evidence to support it. You're certainly entitled to your opinions, but the sweeping statements you are making are simply wrong.
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> serious weakness in a particular brand of a steering wheel lock ... gave it a good hard yank and it came off the steering wheel

Serious weakness indeed. Not what people (especially HN readers) usually mean by that phrase!
Yes you could do that. But why go to such contortions when "switch" is an idiomatic and efficient way of expressing this pattern directly?
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On compilers, from http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=105 :

"This can be seen as a hack (and a violation of abstraction layers; there is intended to be a logical separation between operating system level SEH support, and language level SEH support; this special support in RtlRestoreContext blurs the distinction between the two for C language support with the Microsoft C/C++ compiler). This layering violation is not the most egregious in the x64 exception handling scene, however."
I don't want to get into a full debate over the intricacies of the idea, (problems can be ironed out) ...but you could have part employee payment in fiat, part in public cryptocoin, part intracoin... it's up to the employee. But if we want to see public cryptocoins widely used, having it interface with private chains seems like a prerequisite, or at least a good start.

It's really an information systems topic: technical/business/social. Could be the next big thing.. if implemented right.
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Also note that a speaker can be used as microphones as well. (In physics terms they are the same device, which can convert sound to electricity or vice versa.) With modern sound cards having reprogrammable inputs and outputs, I wouldn't be surprised if even a laptop with no microphone installed could record audio.

(My friend once had to record herself for a foreign language homework, but her microphone broke. I instructed her to plug her headphones into the microphone jack and ust them instead. It worked, but she had to talk loudly to make them work.)
I would definitely go for the teaching option. Maybe you could start like this:

1: If you have a little runway, start by learning some teaching basics, especially regarding teaching adults. Or K12 if that is what you'd like. Start by doing some of the MOOCs, coursera, edX and some others have some good education courses. The benefit of this is that not only will you learn some of the theory behind teaching, you will find out what works and doesn't work for students in an online learning format. This will be valuable for part 2-

2: set up a blog with a learning management system (LMS) to offer some short video or screencast (my favorite style of delivery) based courses for free. Use this as an R&D and market research site to see which courses get traction, how to prepare materials, interact with students, etc. Your blog posts are there to show off your knowledge and experience which should get people interested in trying out the courses and help you build a mailing list for part 3-

3: with the data from 2 above, plan a book release and some more in depth for-pay courses. Use your business skills to sell online+book+in person training for enterprises (you may find it easier to partner with a training/consulting company who may already have contacts with potential clients - less money in the beginning, but as you build your reputation you can eventually go independent) Which leads to meta-business point 4-

4: Document your journey through the above points, and sell a new book and online training course targeted at people who are in your position (ie me) so that we can all join you by buying private yachts from all the money we make :-)

5: post results here on HN for support and inspiration for others

This is what I'm doing (albeit half-assed at the moment) and I have 15 years of teaching under my belt, but no degree (by the way, I have gotten teaching posts at universities based on the strength of my teaching skills, so give up on that route just yet!) If you want to reach out for info on where to start with learning teaching (I'm the head teacher and a teacher trainer at a school in the Czech Republic) me email is in my profile, I am more than happy to chat with you about it and I have a lot of resources I am more than willing to share with you for free.

Lee

[Edit] for an LMS try looking at Moodle or the edX platform, both are open source, and Moodle also has a rich plugin environment including modules for payment systems. I have a lot of experience with Moodle, and I'll be trying out the edX platform over the Christmas break. There are some others out there, but these 2 seem to be the best from a no pay system
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Nice pivot! Couple of small things:
- It isn't clear to me what products you can find testers for. Is it just tech related, or do you find testers for anything? Like, do you just provide testers for apps/websites, or also for a new flavour of soda?

- Please make a form or a dedicated page for aspiring testers. What are you looking for in a tester? What will I get out of it? Whatever you do, never make a link that points to a mailto:. It's super annoying when I want to find more info about becoming a tester and instead of opening a web page (it's a link after all) it just opens a new message in Outlook, but I use gMail.

- The name doesn't bother me. It doesn't speak to me either, but so aren't 90% of all startup names. Having a seemingly nondescript name with a really cool meaning is still better than having just a nondescript name. You could consider getting genba.me to avoid confusion.

On a side note, I admire you guys for making the decision to kill your photo sharing startup. Those are hard decisions to make. Good luck!
Research paper is here: http://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/acoustic-20131218.pdf

Edited to add: This is one hell of a hack.
Pavel, since you are here,

Don't you think that you are basically fighting a needless uphill battle here? I mean, people crave a good encrypted communication system and you have the intent and the infrastructure in place, but you are shooting yourselves in the foot with your cryptographic design indulgence. This animosity will continue, because Telegram crew comes across as cocky and arrogant know-it-alls, and not because people think you cannot design a crypto protocol. The contest doesn't help a bit, it only further enforces the impression of arrogance on your end. This is not what you would've done if you in fact allowed for the existence of flaws in your design. You would've released an RFC instead.

I have all the sympathy for you. I don't doubt your motives, but you are setting yourselves up against skilled technical crowd. It has already started off on the wrong foot and this unfortunate dynamic will continue.

Perhaps consider offering an alternative crypto suite based on standard protocols? In parallel with what you have. Just reuse an existing crypto framework and redo transport layer to your needs.
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> Also, I'm a bit confused as to what kind of role you're looking for. You experience with Java/C++ leads me to slot you into a systems developer position.

Isn't Java/C++ one of those first OOPs languages that undergrad computer science students study?
Only because HN kicked up a fuss about it - someone elsewhere in the thread claims they experienced the same delay but were only credited Bitcoins at the locked-in price, causing them a big loss[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931976
If they wanted every language feature, they'd use C++
In these kinds of situations, O(1) means nothing; any (reasonable) approach will be O(1), but constant factors will dominate.

For example, there are measurable differences in branch prediction based on whether each opcode's implementation ends with its own dispatch code or branches back to a common dispatch routine. The sequence of instructions is basically the same in both cases, but there is an icache/branch prediction tradeoff to be made. Subtle stuff (see http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git/blob/0ded8e82a88fadb40b4d...)
Overheard in conversation at a security conference a few years ago: for many people, it's probably likely that the fingerprint you leave just by the top ten websites you visit is quite distinguishing.

Given that - on top of all of the 'obvious' linkages that are out there (friends, email contacts, identity cards/numbers, payment methods), it's imaginable that for a 'suitably advanced' adversary, you have to be extremely vigilant if you want to detach your new identity.

The reality for many people (including in modern witness protection, I'd imagine) is that it simply isn't humanly feasible to be that perfect - so you have to trust your benefactors to a certain extent (and assume that no-one will get access to any correlation information they might build).
Kiva is sort-of iffy in some areas, for example pre-dispersal means that most loans are funded long before they're live on the website[1]: when you're loaning $25 to an individual, you're actually just sending money out to the field partner, who have already granted a loan to the individual. Another concern some people have is that because of the way field partners work they can be aggressive with gathering loan repayments as every delinquent loan reflects poorly on the field partner.

Personally I find the amount of good that Kiva does far exceeds the negatives that some people put forward, and while they're far from perfect they are a very well managed charity[2] that I have a lot of confidence in.

[1] They do include this information on each borrowers page though, it's transparent if you know to look for it, but a lot of people don't understand it.

Loan disbursal can happen anywhere from 60 days before to 90 days
after the loan is posted on the Kiva website. The disbursed date indicates
the date that the borrower receives their loan funds from the Field Partner.

Many of Kiva's Field Partners choose to disburse loan funds before
the loan request is posted on Kiva. We allow pre-disbursal because
it ensures that the funds reach the borrower as soon as they are needed.
Loan funds from Kiva lenders then go to backfill that amount and as a
lender you assume the risk of the loan. By doing this, our Field Partners
assume the risk that, if the loan isn't funded by Kiva lenders, the Field
Partner has to fund the loan without any funds from Kiva lenders."

[2] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
I'd be much happier with a requirement to the industrial design department:

-- There shall be a way for the user to physically obstruct the camera lens.

Apple used to have this in their standalone camera back in the day.
Gah, that was almost unreadable due to the many typos and inconsistencies. First:

For example, the number 10 is encoded as 0x10.

As an example, that is fantastically opaque. It tells me nothing sensible at all, there could just be a magic look-up table that you're assumed to know, for all I know. I can't draw any conclusions that lead me to believe that CBOR is "simple" from that example.

Then, it contradicts the above in the table, where it claims:

10 0x0a

It also shows bit numbers numbered from 1 to 8, left to right, which is very different from how bits are typically numbered (from 0 to 7, right to left) and thus makes me even more confused.
Immigration has very little to do with a population being homogeneous or not. Take the few extremely diverse countries with extremely heterogeneous populations: Russia, India, Indonesia. These countries do not have a recent history of immigration at all.

Now take a few counter examples: The USA and Brazil. Despite the vast size of these countries, and the high immigration rate, they both have a population that is rather homogeneous compared to what you'll find in the old world. Economically, the USA is more homogeneous still.

I get the impression that to Americans the only measure for diversity is skin color, because you are used to everything else being the same.
Does it mean that you have to change ocaml sources to change the language? Why don't you develop Rust in Rust? That would be the real eat your own dogfood?
Bitcoin alone is fragile
The Lightbulb Conspiracy (2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfzQzGNYaiU
The big deal is that the filter is beyond your control, and the cost is transferred to the customers regardless of their use of the filter or lack thereof.

This is clear evidence that filtering is a terrible way to block "objectionable" content, that it won't make anyone safer; any confidence in it is baseless so the whole thing is just a waste of customers' money.
http://www.loa.org/sciencefiction/biographies/bester_writing...

This link was in a HN thread some months(?) ago and I pinboarded it then. I keep almost buying a Bester novel...
What does 'having a renaissance' have to do with whether they are American or not? If anything, they are becoming more 'American' with their high-PR plans to build stuff in the USA. Their products all have 'designed in California' etched on them. They are, and they want to be, American.
Well I followed the link and it did not display my name or seem to make any attempt
Speaking as coming from an Eastern Europe, here's my view: the biggest problem in poor countries is corruption (in government), not poverty. My country, as well as those you mention, have plenty of middle class people, it's not just super-poor or super-rich. At least in my country, the biggest problem is that it's much harder to be a successful entrepreneur.

Taxing corporations more does not, in any way, fix government corruption. In fact, it actually makes the problem worse, since there's more to steal by corrupt politicians.
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these people, to me, are indistinguishable from wizards.
Oh so it's an asset now is it? I'll be sure to remember that next time a 'coiner tells me it's the world's best currency or payment method.

Deflation is only relevant if we're talking about BTC as a currency, which people do and therefore it's part of the discussion.
Perhaps this can be thwarted by adding randomization to algorithm implementations so calculations are performed in different order every time.
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