skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simply put, people in their 30s, 40s and beyond are more likely to have kids and a mortgage, and be averse to the risk that a startup carries. 20-somethings are more likely to be in a position to work for a company that might not be meeting payroll obligations reliably -- and to reap the benefits that (can) come with that risk
So, I assume the founders in the images are young also. If the company is small, then maybe it's a case of the founders mostly pulling people from their own social groups. Obviously this group would be young if the founders are young.
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This happened to a friend of mine. Her grandson only 4 was able to make many in app purchases to the turn of hundreds of dollars.
Don't be ridiculous. Most crypto algorithms that back major standards today have been approved by the NSA, and to date no backdoors have been found. For example, the change to NSA suggested for DES s-boxes _strengthened_ the standard.

[Disclaimer: I am a Canonical employee, but I had nothing to do with this.]
I'm Swedish, studied English many years ago -- and still know more English grammar than that. But I certainly do more "do/does" errors than a native English speaker.

I remember the AI course at univ when we needed to parse Swedish sentences -- and an English PhD student was teaching the class trivial Swedish grammar, which we all had forgotten...
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Thanks for the comments. This is no market research, I am not apt to program a browser much less sell it.

I took me about 20min of tweaking FF to set the privacy and security to the extent possible. I did not setup TOR b/c I think anonimity is not required for everyday browsing, plus TOR is slow and many sites do not play well with it. I also do not need spyware/adware b/c I run Ubuntu.

I was just wondering if non-techies would be willing to pay for a browser version/bundle that is setup like this out of the box (it can be open-source).

If I tell my mom that she's being re-targeted and profiled b/c her cookies are enabled...she'd bring me some milk :)
Technically it should be the best woman/man for the job and often it depends on two things -

1) What profile is the startup trying to fill in? Adult supervision (read COO) at a fast growing venture backed company run by barely out of teens? You might want to poach someone like Ms. Sandberg.

2) Which sector and industry is the startup plying in? Is it enterprise software? Hiring for a VP engineering or an Engineering Manager? Hadoop or Solr specialist? Need years of experience/ deep knowledge. 20 somethings might not be the best fit. Enterprise startups like Altiscale, BitGlass, BrightFunnel, were in the news this week (funding rounds, launch) .. look at their about us pages, plenty of experience and grey hair.

Horses for courses work fairly well, inside and outside the startup world.
As a primarily linux web dev I still thought it worth seeing what the MS technologies might offer, they told me to bog off.

I keep seeing people post things like this and I cannot imagine how dumb someone has to be to get turned down for BizSpark. They are so amazingly clear in the rules of what you need:

1. A custom domain email address

2. Some semblance of a web site

I registered a domain name for $4, made a free Outlook.com email address on it and put up a "Coming Soon!" website. I then spent 5 minutes filling out the application. 4 days later I was approved with no follow up questions.

Now I get free Microsoft software for life (you keep your MSDN subscription licenses forever), free Azure hosting for three years and a ton of other benefits. For a $4 domain that I'll be using as a startup and about 10 minutes of my time.
The thinkstock smd solder pix is doing it wrong. The board was obviously solder paste assembled (look at the unused pads) and its had the flux cleaned off yet there's a (probably photoshopped) swirl of flux smoke. I can do rework with a hand iron but joe average probably needs to use hot air rework, so they don't even have the correct kind of tool in the photo. Also the iron does not appear to have ever been tinned or used before and possibly is not on and possibly by complete lack of oxidation has never been powered up. If you try to do rework by shoving the point into the component thats not going to work very well.

Finally having fun trying to ID the soldering iron. Its not from the Hakko/Aoyue family like I have at home. Wellers don't clamp like that either. I googled around and its a brand new unused harbor freight model. Given how much harder open loop temp control makes everything, I don't think it would be my first choice for rework or assembly.

It is an interesting educational display of depth of field.

There is the meta issue that is semi-relevant that in some ways its harder to do a bad job than a good job AND it'll jar anyone who knows what they're doing away from your "message" so there is little point in halfway measures with graphics arts. And no fair hiding behind "its just popular science filler so who cares about techies" because its superbowl sunday, ONLY the techies are going to be reading about tin today.
I think we should build a sick ecosphere of over-socialized nerds. In space. We can use it for testing, umm, things.
Apple, as gatekeeper had (has?) the opportunity to fix this.

They should not be listed as free games. Free games should be listed as demos.

In-app purchasing should be limited to unlocking discrete chunks of game-play... not 'coins'.

There should be a way to buy the game outright instead of freemium.

Essentially, we're back to where we were with video arcades, before consoles at home gave us unlimited play.

Video arcades died... Freemium games need to die too.

Apple has a noose of very bad karma around it's neck because of this.
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Rest assured Mr. Management, hackers only target profitable business, and since you're the manager, we won't have much to worry about.
I've used it both ways. Using SQL licensing is much easier for someone already used to that. You can't do much with standard SQL tools (ex: Management Studio) while using an Azure SQL Database. You have to use the web interface. Backing up is different, restoring is different, designing tables is different. Copying databases from a local SQL instance to a SQL Azure is not straight-forward like copying a .bak file and restoring it and there are features in standard SQL that aren't supported in SQL Azure.
Fixed. It was purely my bug: I was relying on a certain ordering of propChanged() callbacks, but it does not seem like Polymer.dart guarantees any.

Now it works in Chrome/FF/Safari all the same.
> But I certainly do more "do/does" errors than a native English speaker.

You "make" them. This thread is a grammar Nazi goldmine, and I say this as a grammar Nazi for whom English is his second language.
I guess it depends on the mood of the rest of the interview. If it's all about getting a slew of technical quizzes right, chances are people will be intimidated or pissed-off by an open-ended question at the end. However, if the interview is more a "getting-to-know-each-other" thing that is free-form in general, this works much better. And I might be biased, but I think that's also a more productive style to interview in general.

Getting tech knowledge right is something that doesn't transfer well between interviews and real work, so having them code and work under real-life conditions is a preferable procedure anyway. Like I said, I might be biased, but the best predictor for good work is, you know, good work ;) So in a shop that follows this philosophy, the interview becomes more of a first stage to determine if it makes sense to do one or more test work days.
So many people forget this. I've spent a lot of time in South Korea a few years ago (nearly 12 months altogether). This is normal there, and most people are okay with it. Yeah, some publishers and developers take it a bit far, but a lot of others don't. Combat Arms/Warrock sort of had a pay-to-win setup -- you bought weapons with in game cash, or could buy them outright. But, play a few games, get some cash and suddenly you have the same weapons those who have no patience did, and more importantly it was a twich based skill FPS -- even if you had the best weapon, I'd still headshot you with the base M4 before you knew what was happening. And then I'd gloat, cause I'd be playing with 16 other guys in the games cafe at 2am... Sorry, reminiscing is fun :)

Anyway, truly, it may seem like the end of the world, but I don't think it will be. It'll just be the new normal, and you'll always have those devs that don't take advantage of pay-to-win, and everyone has fun, and developers make money. Seems like a good trade off to me.
The A5/1-encryption standard was artificially weakened - short key length with padding of zeros - to make mobile phones easier to eavesdrop on.

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Sources-We-were-pres...

Given their past behaviour with respect to weakening security, why ought someone to trust them now?
You haven't met a true star then. I have been in IT for over 20 years and I've seen a handful.
The site is down ... did his server crash under the load, or is the government getting better at blacking out the media? News at 11:00 (or not).
> Do you feel it's ethical to take $30k a year from 'the whales'?

I don't have any essential ethical problems with the question. I have two concerns.

(1) They're called "games" when they're not really "games."

(2) The socio-economic implications of a system where it's easier and more profitable to sell to 50 people willing to pay $30,000+ than to 1.5 million people willing to pay $2.
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Yep, sounds pretty stupid and pointless to link it here :)
I spent over $400 on a certain free-to-play stronghold-building game, over a few weeks, after intending to spend only about $5 or so testing it.

It was very interesting to introspect on the self-rationalization, etc, all the while understanding that I was BS'ing myself and also understanding the tricks they were using. It was addiction, pure and simple.

Now, part of the reason I didn't stop sooner was that I can afford that, although it's not a good use of my funds. That was actually built into the rationalizations: Oh, if I'd taken the car to work today I'd have spent $20 on parking, and $15 on lunch, so I'll just take the subway and bring my lunch tomorrow ...
I think Snowden is probably being advised by lawyers to limit his communications to "official" journalist outlets, for his own protection. It's unfortunate, but in many countries journalists have more protections than regular citizens.
Nearly half of people in California are in chronic financial stress
I agree with you. I'm 32, and my biggest complaint at my current team is the lack of more experienced people to learn from. I think the "team full of 20 somethings" brings a dangerous lack of diverse thinking.
Composer's what, barely 2 years old? You can have 10 years of PHP experience and not have used that specific tool much, yes. It's not the first PHP package manager.
When you get a little older your risk profile often changes. You have kids who you hopefully think are far more amazing than work and providing a secure lifestyle for them becomes more important than a potential lottery ticket of super-riches. You probably find it a bit harder to "drink the kool aid" that your tech project - while really really cool - is in fact "changing the world" and deserving of "passion." If you take a big risk in your mid 20s and blow up you have a long lifetime to recover. Past your mid-30s you become more aware that you have less time to recover financially from big setbacks.

As an almost 40 geezer I think it's amazing the startup ecosystem exists for the younger crowd and wish it was more fleshed out when I was at that point in life. But I just have different priorities for myself now.
Let’s analyze the worst case scenario:
50 weeks/year * 5 days/week * 8 hours/day * 2 patients/hour = 4000 patients/year

So your finger would get 4000 “dental” x-ay of ~5uSv (u=micro), that is 20mSv. For comparison, the radiation worker yearly dose limit is 50mSv, but the 50mSv are distributed to all the body, and you get the 20mSv in your finger. Doesn’t sound good.

The problem is the repetition. Taking 4000 dental x-rays in a year is not a good idea. (I’m not sure if someone proved that it’s dangerous, but don’t try this just in case.) This is also the reason why x-rays technicians hide behind a shield while taking the x-ray.

* Nobody claims that x-rays are not dangerous. The claim is that the risk is minimal under reasonable use and in some circumstance (for example an accident) the benefits are much bigger than the risks.

* And the Linear No-Threshold model is mostly an upper bound, the risk of small radiation dose is perhaps smaller than what is extrapolated from big radiation doses.

For example, suppose that 4000000 patients take one dental x-ray and 1000 dentist take 4000 dental x-rays each one. In which group will be bigger the increase of the cancer total number? The Linear No-Threshold model says that the expected number should be equal. But perhaps it’s smaller in the patients group, because the body perhaps can deal better with a low number of problems from radiation.
Yes, it's negligible either way

But doctors have that pesky "do no harm" credo that makes them consider whether the benefit of CT scans is worth the harm of 100 people getting cancer that wouldn't have otherwise gotten it.

It is proper for society to examine this without dismissing 100 people getting cancer as "negligible".
The article was fantastic and the depth of his history to serve the USA and to help the country just shows that he truly believes that what he did was for the best of the public interest.

I also liked the bit about Obama challenging him to come back to court, and his smart rebuttal.
Honestly, I couldn't remember the name of the company, I'd buried it.

Let's see . . . oh yeah, Omnipage.

The activation was painful, too, involving a key server and a few cut-and-paste operations that were easy to get wrong.

I haven't needed to do any OCR in the last couple of years, but I'm sure I'll investigate other options than Omnipage before I'll use their products again.

I'm happy to buy software. But I have to be able to use it indefinitely, without activations (which depend on companies still being around) or time-limited licenses that are just designed to fuel an upgrade pump. I don't insist on source code or freedom, just quality. I'm not on a holy mission, I just won't buy software on bad terms.
It's better for the NSA to collect all your data now than when you've set us up the bomb.

I love the irony in this flawed line of thinking here.
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Exactly. And the title is incredibly misleading.
A stupid idea is just that, an idea. The entrepreneurs ability to convey his vision or idea does not necessarily mean that his execution will be bad. Which leads us to the question: What is a good idea?
Exactly. That's the problem I've noticed: Do you really want to hire someone who takes 80 hours to accomplish something that takes 8 hours for someone else? I think we've all seen this happening. I was brought in to a parallel team one day because they were about to miss a deadline. Turns out 25 year old guy was trying to build a graph database from scratch. He didn't know that he was building a graph database, and wasn't really aware they existed. He just knew what he needed, and went about building it. He spent a huge amount of time building his own awful, non-performant implementation. I told the team lead to get Bob to help. Bob has kids who are in their mid 30's. Bob sat down, logged into the VM, and a few hours later had an instance of Neo4J running and hooked into the app.

But hey, he thinks foosball tables don't belong in offices, so why hire him at a startup?
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If your target market is stupid people, then you need stupid ideas. This is the entire business model of many companies: Upworthy, Buzzfeed, Snapchat, etc etc.
The same thing happened recently at BU, but our school is covering all losses even though I think the users are at fault in our case:
At BU it was people that responded to a fishing email that had their account info changed.
http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/fighting-phishing-bu-moratorium...
You must be talking about.. Kim.. err.. *Surgician
The mechanisms for surveillance and the political will to oppress are orthogonal. The Gestapo didn't need XKeyscore.
It represents randomness(entropy) in the firmware file. And "known" file types found in the firmware file.

It is very useful. As different file types and data structures. Often has a quite common entropy level to them.

Rather than doing it in your head as you do one can use a machine to help, which happens to be the hole point of machines.
Should be said, black people are lazy, and Asians are good at math!

I want you to repeat that statement any time you feel like you have a valid stereotype that must be said. Because it should help to remind you that a stereotype is not a truth.

Don't help promote ageism. Some people make development a job, others make it a lifestyle. Age has nothing to do with that. I have devs anywhere from 25-30, and I'm often disappointed by their lack of exposure or passion for the new tech out there. But they will all go home at the end of the day and read comics, or watch TV. I'm 39, and I come home and play with a new technology or build a new product. Your age doesn't define you, your passion does.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken

A half-way competent attempt to examine this issue would need to dig deeper into the meaning of "consensual", "non-coercive", and the fact that we are engineering these products, knowing that these cognitive biases (defects) exists.

Your dogmatic quote meets none of these criteria, and is frankly a pathetic attempt to address this complex and well-studied problem.
Too many negatives. I think you mean, "Anyone who thinks excelling in that environment isn't a highly significant achievement is sadly mistaken." Even then, I'd go for something clearer like, "Excelling in that environment is a high achievement."
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This should really be the top comment.

For anyone that thinks there is actually a problem here, what could the motivation or mechanism behind this "blackout" possibly be? Significant parts of the US media have been reporting pretty well on Snowden for a long time now.
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At some point I had 17 upvotes to my comment. Now I have zero.
How is this possible?
You could say yeah you had 17 ppl upvote you and 17 people downvote you, but the population who can downvote is a tiny minority compared to ppl who can upvote.
If there is a possibility to flash in a third party firmware, there is also possibility to brick the device.
It brings up costs of customer support, company needs to replace faulty devices, repair them or argue with customers over it. Also a third party firmware brings no benefit in the eyes of the corporation, device was already sold(thanks to marketing and low price) and now comes device bricking firmware that inflates costs and eats margins. It's very easy to see why someone would like to defend himself against such menace. Sometimes in spite of the fact, that a third party firmware was the only reason why so many devices were sold in the first place.

I have heard a rumour, that for the same reason SanDisk stopped supporting(with free hardware) Rockbox development.
I believe author does not really understand what does mining do. There is no way to use it for brute force attacks on encrypted transmissions.
Yeah, I've never understood this. I think of going out to eat somewhere nice as something I'd like to do on a major holiday (or when celebrating anything, really)... but the only local restaurant that stays open for Christmas has "high prices" as its only selling point -- notably, not "good food".