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pointing it out in a public forum?
Goldman Handed Out Cosmetic Mirrors and Nail Files at Women’s Coding Event
Whats scary is from reading all this and my experience, if FB ever got their act together, it would be a serious hurt on GOOG.
Mathematics is a difficult subject to teach, not because it's difficult, but because people who gravitate to the field tend to have fewer people skills.

Math101 was the only paper I ever withdrew from. One lecturer was an Indian who barely spoke English, the other with a stutter who was constantly asked by fellow students to speak up. I later took a more complicated Mathematics paper, Math170, which I blazed through. It was simply because the lecturers were more engaged. They were far less 'experienced', but simply had more people skills.
This was surprisingly entertaining. There's some truth to it, but it essentially misses three things:

1) The intangible benefits of being at a startup (as a founder or early employee) -- working on interesting problems, with smart people, in a well funded environment. You learn things, meet people, get to use amazing tools. (Startups definitely aren't the only way to do this -- academia or, for engineering, some parts of the military or government or big enterprises have some awesome toys, and some world-class experts, and interesting problems, too. But in Silicon Valley, the barrier to entry is really low, and the problems are generally the right size for individuals or small groups to solve (partially) and quickly.

2) The downside to failure is exceptionally low. It's all other people's money (at least in Silicon Valley); your real cost is opportunity, but generally the market values a failed startup founder or early employee at enough of a premium over a member of a later stage team that you can catch up quickly.

3) The EV of upside is both the odds of success (correctly identified as low) and the magnitude of that success. 1% odds in an even game suck; 1% odds where you're given your wager by someone else and you get to keep 50% of the upside and the upside is potentially 10000:1 is pretty awesome. Doubling down on success, moving away from failure, and you can do this 5-10 times pretty easily.
So wise. Thank you.
You can join any satellite by pulling hard enough.
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I'm travelling India right now. For now I'm in reasonably nice hotels (if you go too downmarket you get no wifi). My living costs are less than half what I'd pay for an apt in NY, London or SF.

All I did was work as a developer and live below my means.
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Bottled water, though, is often absurdly centralized. Dasani bottles might get filled at a relatively nearby Coca-Cola bottling plant, but Fiji's water really does come from Fiji. Despite the outsize logistics costs associated with doing so, the company still manages to make money selling it for only a couple bucks a bottle.
> Mathematics is a difficult subject to teach, not because it's difficult, but because people who gravitate to the field tend to have fewer people skills.

Oh, you should watch CS people. Mathematicians are social butterflies in comparison. They mostly write proofs for other people, not machines.
Does innovation happen in Bay area only?
The two aren't incompatible. I agree with you about the details of the views, but they still generally think it's the best in the world.
Was that a grammar school?
I'm not sure what would be more ironic, this, or it delivering a "secure" download over the protocol it intends to replace for not providing sufficient security guarantees. The other irony is that a self-signed cert is basically as good as any CA issued cert with Convergence on, if only there were a secure way to bootstrap it. Perhaps a secure way to obtain it would be to email Moxie using GPG and ask him to send you a copy, but as you suggest, it appears to be unmaintained aside from the fork anyway, so it isn't much more than research material for now. I hadn't heard of Tack yet, but that also appears to have a lack of activity.
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I think you may have missed the word "userland", because neither example should be possible outside the kernel.
I've heard good things about Apigee. My understanding is that their backend-as-a-service is built upon the acquired and open-sourced usergrid technology, which leaves you the option of hosting it yourself in the event they ever go ahead and terminate their own service. That's not a bad out to have.
Why systemd is winning the init wars and other things aren't
FB can still put ads on users timeline pages, like Twitter inserts ads in between the tweets.

But this kind of fraud is a big harm to the social network ecosystem.
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If encrypting our communications were a moral imperative, wouldn't someone have suggested our telephone calls or postal mail be encrypted some time in the past 40 years? We've had the capability to do so as private citizens for years, but who the hell cares? And it's not like your bank is going to start sending your bank statements in the mail with a one-time pad.

If we didn't have to think about crypto, everyone would be using it. It is just not easy to ensure the secrecy and integrity of all your data. And Joe Blow does not really care so much about his security or integrity to go out of his way to use more crypto.
I hoped to see PG' comment.
> exercise more, eat less. Usually it's from an engineer's brain. But probably, you forgot to take your excuses into consideration, that's why you over simplified it. Then you struggled with it like many other people. If you do take all of the aspects into consideration, it's no longer simple any more.

But it is, that's my point. If I went out and jogged instead of being on HN, and cut my portions by 25-30%, I'd be fit as a fiddle. But I simply don't do it because <excuses>. There's nothing complicated about it at all.
Embed it in the floor, since you ask.

Not that I think this is the ne plus ultra of security, but since having a digital wallet doesn't obviate the existence of valuable physical documents (eg passports, title deeds) you might still want to use a safe to protect against fire, burglary, and so on.

One distinct benefit of a physical store is that removal or tampering are more obvious.
I worked at a PayPal acqui-hire. For a while, it was pretty good! We suddenly had EBAY RSU's instead of maybe-someday-money and the work didn't change (as the mothership decided what exactly to do with us). That lasted about three months, after which our product got spiked and we were tossed in on very PayPal-y projects.

To answer your question: not really. Some of us found a niche at a place like PayPal, but a lot of us tried and weren't cut out for it.

My heart goes out to StackMob and its employees. Get paid.
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It's pretty sad that you and others have been indoctrinated into thinking that only government can provide those things.
Actually, there are surprisingly large and persistent differences between hospitals in their complication rates for various surgeries. It is fueling a debate about how to evaluate them and how to promote the methodologies of the more effective places. Not really all that different from the software industry.
The caveats don't apply here, because you're talking about comparing units of volume to units of volume.

So even though the volume of a given mass of water might be temperature dependent because water expands if you heat it, the the volume of a given volume of water will always be exactly equal to that volume of water. Sort of like how a foot is always exactly 12 inches no matter what the weather report says.
It won't take any quarters. NZ has 20c pieces, not 25c pieces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_New_Zealand_dollar...
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CircleCI is another option: https://circleci.com
Forgot the link...

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3180
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Gah can't believe I missed this!

They were in a vending machine at my gym last month! Apparently the promo was only for 30 days, but in that time they did sell a few (according to the guy that works there). I saw some guys wearing them (since the gym is above the swimming pool so you can look down) and it works without a smartphone. I'm pretty sure the water is drinkable as well.

Pretty bizarre that people had to put cash in to buy it though. I don't remember there being a Eftpos terminal at all.

Strange this just popped up today though, since I haven't seen any of these vending machines around in the last few weeks.
The Future of Games and How to Stop It
Great article by Jon Radoff, founder of Disruptor Beam (creators of Game of Thrones Ascent).
Now there's some guy in every coffee shop claiming to have an accelerator without any idea how to succeed (specialize/differentiate). They're 95% wooly propositions with the occasional one that can sell nontrivial epsilon of value.

My favorite so far is this guy that hangs out at a cafe near Stanford that has alienated everyone in his potential "deal-flow" by anger outbursts on conference calls and generally acting like a dick.
It certainly was in my case, because now I am going to investigate buying one!

Hail Corporate!
I used Foundations as a text in college, but I think it may be out of print now. At more than $200 there may be more reasonable choices. Might be an option from Dover that covers similar material.
Wow, I can feel better about myself because now I have another alibi/theory for my shortcomings and under achievements :P ;)
I'm surprised this isn't more popular. I have not just music but audiobooks, podcasts, videos (mostly for listening and occasional glancing) and classes, on my several water-sealed devices. It's a pain to keep up internet connectivity in the pool (wi-fi times out underwater) but with a range extender and keeping the device floating or attached to the snorkel, you can even do Netflix or other streaming.

"I'm not weird, I'm an early adopter."
Didn't the innovation of Napster, Facebook and Dropbox happen in Boston/Cambridge. It was execution that happened in Bay Area. Then there's the ones that stayed: VistaPrint, Hubspot, Kayak, Demandware, TripAdvisor. Veracode stayed and we will hopefully soon enter the big boy club.
Both Pin and Braintree go through NAB; they seem to be the only bank that's willing to deal with international payment gateways (not sure why exactly). I know you can go through their API directly, but I'm not sure anyone would want to.
I'm surprised there has not been any mention of Gitian, the build system used by Bitcoin to perform exactly deterministic builds. The purpose of this is to enable multiple developers to prove that they are all signing the same binary.

http://gitian.org/
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It's a useful digital illustration trick. You work big and scale down to your target resolution so you don't have to do as much line cleanup.
As long as you're careful to really keep your private keys private; the root of trust gets shifted from a hierarchy of corporations to individuals you know and (personally) trust. I like this "real trust" model a lot more than the current one of a central authority and "being told who to trust", and I think all the advocates of "if you want to use HTTPS you should buy a cert from a CA" are missing this point.
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If you use OTP (gen_server, etc), your code is a set of callbacks that return promptly, so it never stays "old" until the next upgrade. Your callbacks produce and use a "state" object (opaque to OTP) that OTP passes around[1], and OTP calls a code_change method whenever your module changes, so you can change the format of this object between versions.

The gen_server itself passes its module name to sys:handle_system_msg[2] when it receives a system message like a code-change notification, which ends up being the Module:Function type of call that always refers to the new version of the module, so it always ends up running the latest version when you upgrade gen_server.

[1] http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#Module:init-1

[2]file:///C:/Program%20Files/erl5.9.1/lib/stdlib-1.18.1/doc/html/sys.html#handle_system_msg-6
Yeah that number is pretty abysmal. We average around 100+ users per second per Google Analytics. That means, we might need about 4 dynos for our simple website? Yikes!
Yeah, I'd do the assembly myself. A reflow oven is not difficult to build, it can be done with standard industrial automation/process control components. I wouldn't have the quality assurance that a real shop has, but the process and resultant boards ought to be reliable enough to make it worthwhile for a hobbyist.
The underlying ideas for even simple math are deep. Just because you get As doesn't mean that you grok concepts deeply. Examples: place notation, rational and irrational numbers, axiom, proof, correspondence, logic, countability, etc... The formulations of these ideas were intellectual breakthroughs thousands of years ago. It's takes curiosity to explore these more deeply.
As far as I can see, this site consists of a single page that tries to collect your name, email address, and zip code. There are no links to anything describing whatever organization is behind the site. Nothing to show if this is affiliate with Senator Paul, or approved by him.

This simply looks and acts too much like a scam site trying to capitalize on concern over the NSA to collect people's information.

I signed (with a fake name, email address, and zip code, of course) just to see if maybe that was the point and the site would give me a lecture about giving such information to such an obviously sketchy site, but no.

(Note: I'm not saying that it IS a scam, just that it looks like a scam)
The solution to this is to get more cash instead of equity, and don't stick around after acquisition.

If you're looking to work as an employee at a startup to get rich, good luck with that. Early stage startups pay less than 50% of normal pay, and options are a fraction of a percent of the company. Unless the startup sale goes into 9 figures, which is probably less than 1% of all startups, you'll at best see a nice bonus. Later stage startups are just like big companies. With HR, managers, process, meetings, and the like.

I don't work at startups for money. I work at a startup for the small team size, for the massive impact you make as an individual, for the team building experience, the hard times and the good. You get to meet your customers, you get to see a feature you've built contribute directly to more people signing up. Being a software engineer at a small startup is the best job in the world, and it doesn't pay well. All the things I like about being at a startup are things that don't exist at big companies. So when the eventual acquisition happens, I help transition because I owe it to the team, but then I'm out.
The downside to failure is exceptionally low. It's all other people's money...

Oh my!
I would recommend a standard Silicon Valley 4-year vesting schedule, not a 3 year. It is amazing how many companies get into trouble because they overlook this little point. When I was a corporate attorney, I would counsel my clients to think about how they would feel if one cofounder had to leave the company to tend to a sick family member - what would be fair then? (It is easier for them to discuss that scenario than to think of one person just flaking).

Taking the vanilla approach of 4 year vesting allows everyone to be safe without having to have the pre-nup discussion on the wedding night.
The choice to send patients to India is purely based on financial, rather than political reasons. Even with the higher airfares, it often turns up significantly cheaper to send patients there. Of course in outlier cases where its thought that there is a higher chance of survival in Aus/NZ, patients are sent there instead.

Australia and New Zealand only deny medical visas for people in the Fiji government and military (and their family).
There's Apache UserGrid, too: http://usergrid.incubator.apache.org/
I see. I guess I took it for granted that everyone understood moral obligation to mean a commandment to act a certain way due to moral principles. Depending on how you define "comfortable with" we might be using different language to talk about the same thing. I am uncomfortable with immoral behavior? I do not think you are advancing moral relativism/nihilism?

I do not think most people use moral reasoning to guide (even semi-consitently) their actions. However I assumed that anyone who says "You have a moral obligation to do X" was speaking in a philosophical context and not using it as a euphemism or "Crypto is /<oo1."
Remember that in all brilliant satire there are elements of both truth and absurdity circling around a key absurd truth. I think that key truth is: YC is a value investor by any reasonable definition of the term. That's not in any way to say they're not a symbiotic value investor.
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But if you look at it that way, our military-industrial complex has become so efficient at waging war as a means to profiteering, that all we need are very tiny wars we can continue to wage forever. In fact this is what is happening.

But this continues to bolster my point, which is that our military is less and less prepared to fight a major war. The scary thing is that if a major conflict comes, we are totally unprepared and that's not fixable without rethinking the basics of military equipment and such.

Of course this is possible to turn around. The Byzantines managed to do so by cutting military spending during a series of wars they were losing. I think we need to follow their lead but that has tremendous implications on issues like gun control.
Canadian budget 2014: Bitcoin faces scrutiny to prevent money laundering
Hey that's a cool idea - good luck!
Good suggestion. Updated.
Then why did they invest in Zynga multiple times?
If you're serious about your business, maybe you want to spent time building and running the business instead of playing sysadmin. Especially when you're a small team. Let's say you pay Heroku $500 a month, which is already a somewhat mature business. On the other hand, you could pay a very cheap sysadmin $50/hr. So you'd get 10 hours of her time. You'd get way more value out of the $500 for Heroku. My time, as a founder, is worth way more than than $100/hr; I'm not going to get my hands dirty in being a sysadmin.
> 1%? Hardly. Someone earning $100k might be in the top 10%

I said top 1% of the world, not US. Someone earning $100,000 is probably in the top 0.1% actually.

But yeah, the rest of your comment is fair. I wasn't being judgemental about his request for donations; Merely pointing out how disturbing it is that despite his relative wealth, he needed help. This isn't a jab at him, but at the state of the world we live in.
Facebook Blocking Access to Developer Console to Stop Social Engineering Attacks
I don't get why anyone in their right mind would invest in a Backend as a service. Ok, maybe things like image uploading, or what not, but not the entire back-end.
That's the sort of high school experience and college experience I had, where the college experience was much more conducive to really understanding the material.

My sister-in-law is in high school, at a school that has fewer courses per term, and fewer per day, and going more in-depth in each class; I'm really glad she gets that experience.

More context switches only hurts the student's ability to get into a subject.
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I am commenting to let you know I like what you write. Thanks for existing!
Your ignorance of science is matched only by your willingness to flaunt your ignorance of what women do or do not want to do (try listening more). I'm just glad gender is known to be such a small component of intelligence — otherwise we'd have to worry about your posts reflecting on men in general.
IPhone profit share increases further
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I wrote a library that lets you store and retrieve from Local Storage https://github.com/matthiasak/Loader.

Local Storage is ie8+, so if you need to support less than that, you might need a polyfill https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Brow...
an honest question

But it wasn't "an honest question"; that's the point. It would have been an honest question for you or me, but you and me are not Linux kernel hackers. (At least, I'm not, and I assume you're not.)

Getting a message like this once would lead to a personal e-mail or in-person conversation explaining that this is in no way an acceptable way to communicate with me, followed by a prompt beeline for the exit if it occurred again.

And I expect Linus would be absolutely fine with that, because if you were unable to understand why he was so emphatic about the point he was making, he wouldn't want you hacking on the kernel anyway.

The key thing to recognize is that Linus treats the kernel as what you might call "mission critical" software. Think of it as like, say, the operating code for the Space Shuttle. If someone came along and changed the operating code for the Space Shuttle so that, say, the program that fired the retro-rockets stopped working, and when asked about it, their response was, "well, that looks like a bug in the retro-rocket program", you would not want that person doing that job. And since the retro-rocket code is mission critical, just saying, "no, that's not a good idea" might not get the point across emphatically enough. You might have to use strong language to make sure it is 100 percent understood that breaking the retro-rocket code is unacceptable. In a situation like that, you do not want to leave any room for misinterpretation.

Also, if you look at Linus' posts, you'll notice that he does not always use that strong language. He only uses it when, in his view, it's warranted--meaning, when someone has done something that is so wrong that just saying "that's wrong" won't get the point across strongly enough. That's why we have strong language: for those (hopefully very rare) occasions when no less strong language will do justice to the situation. There are certainly plenty of people in our culture who abuse such language; but looking at Linus' posts as a whole, I'm not sure he's one of them.
Good. Keep the unthinking MBAs out of sectors where they can do real damage.
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> "the kinds of problems most people have seem trivially simple to me"

From this I can tell that you're smart, but not really smart. The really smart never say things like that.
This, many times over.
Perfect! I hope ransom notes come back in style.
I always thought that quote was from Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy. Did Adams get it from Bach?
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