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I think you must have missed the good parts of SF, if you felt that your coding skills defined you. Try Cole Valley, or the Lower Haight and skip SOMA. I would take issue also with your men:women ration nonsense, SF is full of women. I suggest you stop eavesdropping conversations girls are having near you and get out more! NYC isn't the answer. NYC is an amazing place, it's full of life and vitality, but so is San Francico. NYC has better galleries, but SF has better weather. Might I remind you right now it's 70's in SF while you have snow...
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I believe you guys misunderstood him. I think he is not saying he should not have done those 100 plus hour weeks as a CEO necessarily, but that he was simultaneously being a dick to his wife and eventually this probably had some negative impact on his CEO performance, not just on his personal life. What I got out of this is his advice is, try to the extent possible to be present for your family and get rid of "I am a CEO, bitch" attitude when you get home because your wife/husband may not appreciate it very much
"Europe" as an entity does not exist in the sense the USA does.

The EU is trying, but from a company perspective, there is not single market when it comes to marketing and selling a product. It's all individual target groups, with big differences in language, culture, etc. They do not share a common cultural background.

Simple example:
In the US, you can make a pop cultural reference and everyone will get it. Take a German reference/joke and try it anywhere else. At best people won't get it, at worst they'll be deeply offended.

There are big French software vendors that do not bother to post job listings on their careers page in any other language than French.

Europe consists of individual markets, some a single country, some a group. DACH, Nordics, UK+Eire, but then Spain, Italy, France,...

Universities are not European. There is no European MIT. Each country has their own elite tech uni, some truly good, some mediocre. ETH Zurich? Awesome. TU Vienna? Meh. etc etc etc
Drop me an email and I can send you 20+ short PDFs worth of lecture notes from a quantum information course I took at Imperial College, if you wish.

Any chance you'd be willing to just put that stuff "out there" somewhere, link to them all in a blog post, and submit that here? I'm guessing there would be more than a few people who would find that interesting...
>Does anyone have any examples of Java proper not being secure?

What would Java proper being insecure look like. If your code is running in a normal JVM, then you can already write arbitrary data to a file and simply exec it, trivially giving you arbitrary code execution without breaking any part of the run-time.
I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite is true. It's unbearable to watch 4 hours of TV if your mind is constantly analyzing the content. Regardless, studies show that your ability to rationalize propaganda doesn't make you immune to it. The effect is much more subtle.
Who has a connection this reliable over geography small enough that it doesn't make more sense to meet in person?

That's CCTV quality there.
If you have nothing useful or insightful to post, please don't post it. This isn't reddit.
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You could ask those exact same questions about Dropbox.

Box has the same data protections as Dropbox (Box: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/200713418-Data-Sec... Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/help/27/en)
Yeah, I don't think it's necessary to trade anything. I think he is saying, he could have for example, attended more school events AND still had the massive exit. Or, say, after getting home, do the dishes etc. to at least show his wife that he was trying to help. None of that is somehow inconsistent with having a big exit
Personally I think he hit it right on the head in the second paragraph...

“appeals to authority,” sure signs of dreadful “elitism,” and an obvious effort to use credentials to stifle the dialogue required by a “real” democracy.

Yep. Public policy makers who consider themselves "experts".

Not to say that some people don't know more about world affairs than others. But my view is that this crowd are generally too caught up in their "expertise" to do what is proper. Witness the recent NSA behavior. They are "experts" in what we all need. Never mind that their expertise is dangerous, expensive and hasn't done much good.

Now hard science is a different matter. But this case isn't that at all. There may be some knowledge of world affairs but it is intrinsically linked with ideology and OPINION. Another "soft science" guy crying he just don't get no respect. And possibly a would-be dictator who isn't getting what he wants.
Trust is something very subject but they have been in the industry over a long time. Box was started before Dropbox in 2005. It has been focusing on enterprises till now.
I guess with the new iOS app and free space they are planning to move to the consumer market.
Did you do that, and were you able to get it re-activated... or did they not disconnect, but just charged you the $53 ?
Grr, NYT paywall annoys me sometimes. Saved me some time though, seems like link bait after reading the first two paragraphs (and leaving).
Instead of "only suspecting"?
Yes, I understand. The point being that this article is about the Java browser plugin and security vulnerabilities surrounding that particular part of Java and being conflated to Java in the large. The article does a poor job of pointing this out and seems inflammatory.
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My Comcast modem died on me on a Thursday afternoon. Comcast couldn't have a tech out until the next Tuesday to give me a new modem and said if I tried to bring it to the local Comcast branch to swap it for a new one I'd be refused service.

After my frustration subsided I spent a little time researching [1], made use of my Amazon Prime subscription and had a brand new, well reviewed, compatible modem [2] at my house Saturday morning.

The modem Comcast gave me retailed for $28. I paid $7/mo for over 4 years. That's well over $300 for a $28 piece of garbage, just because I didn't know I had the option to use my own hardware. I canceled my monthly rental, had a tech come out to pick the broken modem up at no charge, and have been happy since.

Invest in a modem like you do your other hardware. It will be better for your wallet and have the added benefit of _not_ lining the pockets of a company many people despise.

[1] http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/
[2] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IMPMW4
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"Adobe Edge Inspect (for devices), LiveReload (for refreshing the page on save), Parallels (IE9 on Windows), and Sublime Text 2"
If I didn't use gmail through the web, I probably would use a different provider.
Each time I read madness as 60h/w, 70h/w or the wtf 80h/w I am really happy to live and work on EU

I'm happy I don't live in EU. I don't have to work 80 hours, but if I choose to then that should be my right. Europe is too anti-ambition and its policies reflect that.
Yeah, you could easily get though by knowing the method of calculation without ever having understood a model of what they actually are.
Don't feel bad, I think porn was the "killer app" for the early internet. Not faring so badly on today's internet either.
If this is your aim, you should have a disposable sum of money amounting to around 10 million US Dollars available to devote this project that you don't mind losing entirely. The potential of losing all of your money is a mind game you must deal with.

You don't need to fill out any damn application, nor do you need a badge to go ahead and do this right now.

Paul Graham reluctantly came to the conclusion that he could afford to go ahead and finance this idea and did. He didn't know he could do this until went ahead and did it. You could look it up. Here.

Do you have what it takes? OK then, get going.
I think the author's biggest problem is laid out right in the article, though he attributes it to his "layman" adversary.

>They are instead rejecting anything that might stir a gnawing insecurity that their own opinion might not be worth all that much.
I completely disagree. Casual, unrushed work and lower hour weeks are absolutely a feature to hire qualified, but otherwise busy employees. Parents especially go for these sorts of roles.

He's not complaining about effort, but hours
Nice box vs dropbox article:
http://www.softwareadvice.com/labs/box-vs-dropbox/
Agreed. I tend to frequent stores more that have a web-based interface to a store's inventory. The best of these that I go to semi-regularly are Home Depot and Lowe's, but there are a surprising number of other stores that have no way to check availability.
I find it ironic that he was thinking of relocating to Dominica, which seems to have income tax rates comparable to the USA.
There has been plenty of hype about quantum coherence in photosynthesis, too, which I have played a part in debunking [1]. It is clear (in my opinion) that quantum coherent motion not play a large role in energy transfer in photosynthesis, but I think the jury is still out on whether or not it plays a small role or none at all.

Part of the answer may depend on how "coherence" is defined. I do have a number of objections to the conclusions drawn in the paper discussed in the blog post you link to (about the 8th chromophore). For more details, you can see a paper I wrote a few years ago [2]. I don't agree with the interpretation that "The energy transfer is incoherent in the native complex." This is still a rather large point of contention among scholars in this field.

The differences between quantum computing in the brain and quantum coherence in photosynthesis are actually rather large. There is actual, essentially undisputed evidence for quantum coherence in photosynthesis (in the experiments). There is a real scientific process going on with interactions between experiment/theory. Moreover, the people who did the over-hyped experiments a few years ago that were published in Nature/Science have moved on from claiming it is "quantum computing in biology" when further evidence and analyses came out against it. Hameroff and Penrose seem to be sticking to their original ideas even though they have been thoroughly debunked.

[1] http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/12/6/065041/
[2] http://stephanhoyer.com/pubs/PhysRevE.86.041911.pdf
I grew up outside of DC and can probably say this about the city:

Washington D.C. thinks of itself as the center of power of the entire universe. And in a lot of ways it is. But it's a weird city. Power in D.C. is indirect and complex. You can't really start at the bottom and work your way up to positions of extreme power (though it's a popular story)...hard ceilings are everywhere. To be clear, I'm not talking about the more or less irrelevant city government.

The best way I can explain it is this, power in D.C. is build on a tripod. You must have all three of these things to be powerful: money, widespread popularity, and cunning (not intelligence).

This is different than other cities, where elements of this tripod exist, but aren't necessary to be powerful in that city. For example, in NYC, money is sufficient to be powerful. But even billionaires have failed to attain power in D.C. In NYC political connections are useful for making more money, but aren't strictly necessary. In D.C. political connections are critical. In NYC, you have to have alpha-like mammal aggressiveness (not necessarily intelligence), but in D.C. it's reptile like cunning that's needed. You can draw different but similar differences with other cities and power.

Power in D.C. is also incredibly transient and fickle. In theory, power in D.C. can accumulate to the point that a single individual can more or less wipe out all life on the planet, then just a couple years later has trouble keeping reporters off of his vacation property. It's a tower of power that's built on sands that shift so fast it makes the stock market look like a simple linear function. Everybody falls from power in D.C. It's the tallest tower there is, but the downward drop is inevitable. The key is making a soft landing when you do. That way you can take a "fall back" position to power in NYC on the board of an investment company or the Bay Area where you can become an Angel investor.

But you'll notice that people who are really powerful in one place rarely move from where they know how to operate, and when they do, rarely gain positions of equivalent power in their new homes. They just operate differently. Throwing money around in D.C. might make you popular for a bit, but without cunning you'll just be that guy who throws lots of parties.

It reminds me of the old saying

"Rich is being a millionaire basketball player, Wealthy is being the guy who signs the checks"

add to that "Powerful is the guy who proposed the bill that got turned into a law with teeth that regulated the NBA and bankrupted the wealthy owners."
Exit interviews should almost always be softballed and waffled. Almost nothing is gained by frankness and honesty
I was surprised that the total amount of time between rolling out to the first servers, waiting, verifying, and then rolling out to the second set of servers was a whopping nine minutes.

Maybe I'm just too careful (perhaps because I've seen it happen before) but I prefer to wait a helluva lot longer than that for verification.

And perhaps it's because I dealt with Microsoft Active Directory so much in the past but I am extremely careful when it comes to DNS. If there's one thing that'll screw up your entire environment (especially in an AD-based network), it's broken DNS.
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No longer a practice confined to early stage startups, lean is infiltrating companies from large corporates to small one-person non-profits.

It doesn't necessarily take away from the overall point of the article, but FWIW, this is backwards. "Lean" was a "thing" in big companies long before it was ever used in the context of "lean startup". Lean entails very specific things, and is largely rooted in an approach to manufacturing management that was developed by Japanese companies like Toyota.[1][2]

The book that broke the term "lean" into the mainstream in the US and other parts of the world was The Machine That Changed The World[3], which was published in 1991.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_production

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the_Wo...
It's not that they didn't see value in it. Augmented reality and virtual reality are two different things. Valve believes that AR technology will be harder to develop than VR, and consequently that VR will become feasible and popular before AR. They chose to go after VR first, postponing AR for later. Jeri Ellsworth didn't want to wait, so Valve let her leave and take all the IP with her to try AR on her own.
I'd love to. I'm just not quite sure where lecture notes stand, legally speaking.

If I send the files to just a few people I theoretically know, I guess it's like lending a book to a friend. But putting them all up for public download feels like quite a different matter.

Thoughts?
Heh. Thing about LA is that it's huge. If you look for that stereotype, you'll find it. But you can also find anything else.
> As the engineer, it is your right to quit if you don't want to play by the rules.

Or, it's their right to say "no" (or just ignore the rule he's concluded is bad) and have a power struggle. Which is what I expect may happen at this company (not advising it, but what may happen). Or have an adult discussion about it

The new manager may not politically have a chance in hell of being able to fire the guy. Or he may replace him easily and fire him. Or realize he really is trying to cut everyone's pay approximately 15% and back off.

There are lots of ways this could happen.

That said, I do agree with you, moving on often has the smallest amount of conflict. Very possibly what the guy should do.
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Do you want to know a disturbing secret? Most people don't understand the fundamentals of most of the subjects they have studied. People get by because the perhaps even more disturbing fact is that cargo cultism often actually works in practice. A lot of the time you can get away with just going through the motions.
> At the top of the list is a need for some form of behavior detection that monitors a user's chain of events before they land on an exploit. "For example, is a user requesting a Web page that included obfuscated JavaScript, and is the user being redirected?" Gundert asked.

The article is about Java exploits, and then they discuss the potential to recognize what happens before the payload is delivered.

If the web page includes obfuscated JavaScript, and the user is then redirected, that could be a sign that a (probably Java) exploit is in the user's near future.
That sentence is to get the entrepreneur thinking about a company they don't much like, but the company is successful at getting funding. Every entrepreneur should have their own company to fill that blank.

At the end I tell the reader about Snapchat being my disliked company. And although it's based on no real computer science, investors are funding Snapchat because they are competition to where they want to be.

Now lets take a step back. If a company is in a market of it's own, the value of the market is the value of the only company in it. 100% of $0 profited is a $0 valuation. But lets make facebook our competition. 100mil SC users versus ~1 billion facebook users is ~10%. Now take 10% of facebook's value. That's the only way to give value to a 3 year old company that doesn't make money.
Agreed 100%. You should only be considered an expert if you can make expert predictions.

In physics or engineering that's damn near trivial; for anything that the layman might want to know I can provide him with quite a good answer.

In the social sciences nobody actually KNOWS anything with any degree of certainty. And as for which policy is best, you might be able to give an answer that's good in aggregate or agreeable to the majority, but definitely not an optimal answer or something that everyone will agree with.

The problem is not that we don't trust the experts. We absolutely do. Experts have built the modern world in a very literal sense through science and engineering and skilled labor and whatnot. The problem is that he's a pseudo-expert and the laymen can sense that in their gut even if they can't clearly articulate it.
I can relate to the intellectual energy that PG describes. Going to a high school in Cambridge, equidistant from Harvard and MIT, I used to feel intimidated by the city's collective brain power.

It was the kind of place where confidence intervals are a subject for smalltalk and ads for genetic research are geared toward everyday commuters.

I can't speak for everyone, but I think something interesting happens when you live in a place like Cambridge for several years. You start to feel less intimidated by the competition for knowledge.

Don't get me wrong — you still try to keep up — but Cambridge begins to calibrate your ego. You realize that you're never going to be the smartest person in your domain, let alone every domain. For this reason I appreciate the city more as I get older, and I'm glad I moved back to work as a software dev.
Some books that could help:

Brian Tracy - Eat that frog!

Brian Tracy - No excuses!

if you prefer a tldr: Self discipline is the key. Identify your long term targets and do one thing at a time until it is finished. Work on what you need to finish even when you don't feel like working.
Who are the major players making awesome strides right now in VR?
The "stop eavesdropping and get out more" bit seems like an unnecessarily condescending/judgmental response to eshvk's comment, especially considering he hasn't said anything to suggest he's poorly socialized or a hermit.

This reminds me somewhat of response to people complaining of the Seattle Freeze (the infamous propensity for Seattleites to be simultaneously polite yet unfriendly). The standard response when this is brought up is to insinuate the complainer is antisocial. This, despite being so widely felt by so many that it has a name.
Stay focused on the task at hand. If possible break it down into smaller tasks. If you have a hard time staying focused, use the pomodoro technique to get it done.
If it is free you could try it, no need to put your most sensitive documents on Box. Get the free 50GB and wait some time until you think the service can be trusted.
Everyone is trying to "get rid of the keyboard", but it's the most reliable way I've ever seen to get large amounts of text in to a machine.

Having well made key-switches and a good placement is probably the best thing next to just reading what I mean from my mind.
What is wrong with Box in storing personal files?
Dropbox and Box both provide the same service.

Are u saying users trust Dropbox more than Box?
IMO, Java in its own interest should not install/enable the Java browser plugin by default after installation of a JRE.

Java as a browser plugin is outdated in this decade of HTML5. Sure, it might be irreplaceable in some niches; for those users, the plugin could be made available as a separate installation.

Sadly, I am not hopeful that Oracle will lead the way here. They are going the other way and installing third-party utilities (the Ask.com toolbar) while installing Java.
Is that where SteamOS wins? Only platform to have full Oclus support + major game studio behind it.
At the same time, developers need to ship using the tools that are currently available. I think a multi-pronged approach is inevitable. Of course, I say this as someone who avoids this sort of tool as a general rule, since it seems risky to use in production, so I definitely see what you are saying. On the other hand, this sort of thinking would probably have been an argument against jQuery several years ago, and despite the fact that it was a 'hack' over the awful js standard api, it became a de facto standard through brute force of popularity.
Shouldn't it be Keehotay?
"..demonstrate is in being a prick.." i'm willing to bet your downvote of @mudil was due to this emotion rather than @mudil failing to demonstrate his expertise on HN culture
So glad to hear this can also be done with Comcast. The better half pays the bills and I wasn't paying attention. I had no idea they were raping me for $8/mo for a cable modem. Turns out I have an Arris TM822 -- which doesn't look too bad, and is DOCSIS 3 capable. Another comment in here mentioned that the easiest thing to do is call and tell them you no longer want to rent the equipment, and then when you don't return it, they'll charge you $53 to own it. Sounds like a plan.
I'm curious - has anyone tried one of these head-mounted displays while on a psychedelic? Do they still get that primal sense of "being somewhere else" as described in the PowerPoint?

For example, it is impossible for me to get immersed in movies while on psychedelic drugs; but when I'm sober I definitely can get "sucked into it". I wonder if this phenomenon applies to VR as well.