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>There are two problems with hitting a plateau @ 300K: Housing costs and College Tuition.

I moved out of the Bay Area and own my home outright. The offer lets me work from home where ever I want (with some restrictions). So home cost isn't relevant to me.

And on the college tuition front: While I wouldn't necessarily advise it of today's high school graduates, by the time my kids are ready for college I don't expect college to look like it does today.

Or rather, I expect companies to be more concerned with what you know instead of how you learned it, and with the huge movement toward making effectively entire college educations free online, I think that the face of college will be transformed -- and made correspondingly less expensive -- by then.

It's already true to some extent, and if the question is between going into serious debt or getting a college degree, I think the prudent choice might be to use free or inexpensive online courses to get a degree rather than piling up serious debt for a questionable advantage in getting a job. It seems like "free internships" are already the way to get on-the-job experience, and that's a lot harder to accomplish if you've got a huge debt that's demanding to be paid.

In addition, politically speaking I think we're at the extreme right end of the pendulum swing right now, and once things swing back a bit to the left, state schools will become more affordable again. A lot of the rise in costs has been correlated with the fall in state funding. Though the rest of the rise in costs can be attributed to the rise in administration salaries; almost a half million/year for a UC Regent? [1] How much value can that regent possibly be bringing to the UC system? How many others like him are burning up the money that people are paying to get a good education?

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Brown-slams-regents-...
It's hard for people to move away from their kids. In many if not most of these cases, you'll find that that's a major reason why people don't move.
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This is why I'm building Squadron[1]. It has atomic releases, rollback, built-in tests, and all without needing to program in a DSL.

It's in private beta right now, but if you're curious, let me know and I'll hook you up.

[1]: http://www.gosquadron.com
Big Brother is Watching: Protecting Your Customers from Breach of Privacy
Doesn't surprise me. Many years ago my first job was retail security guard. One day I was assigned to a sporting goods store. I was the victim of a scam where some woman accused me of losing an expensive bag. Pretty sure the manager of the store was in on it. Another store I worked in sold baby clothes and was constantly being robbed regardless of which guard was on duty. I've heard that Target has its own crime lab. I imagine things have gotten worse since I had that job in 1998.
This isn't stateless, the state has been moved from the package manager/filesystem to a string held in the *INCLUDE.

This is nasty.
How is attractiveness evaluated? Because the standards for male attractiveness are very loose and often a great degree its perception is determined by the other factors.
Why are the missing Malaysian Airlines passengers' phones still ringing?
I get about 10 intros a week. 80% come from the top 2 people, David Crow at OMERS and Zak Homuth from Upverter (a YC company). I consistently meet amazing people. There were a couple people that used to intro me, but I've asked them to stop politely.
Didn't you read the article? He committed Japanese ritual suicide, in front of 100 broken iphones sent to him by irate players.
Same here, but apparently you're not allowed to say so.
Did you miss that this was an interview?
Ask HN: Best place to sell a 4-letter domain?
My startup, Xavy, has recently shut-down, and I'm looking to sell www.xavy.com.

Where is the best place to sell it; or what is the best process?

Thanks
The basic gameplay has been around for a long time. My old palm pilot had a similar game called "cave". The a article however talks about him designing the graphics, sound, physics, etc.
I just wanted to say thanks to the developers for an awesome application. This perfectly fits the niche of "self-hosted Heroku" with very little friction.
I would expect either a pair of integers, either a rational number or a quotient and remainder. 523/6 is not 87.

As for "solved problems," it is not at all unusual to be asked to re-implement an algorithm that is already implemented elsewhere. Maybe there is no implementation for your platform. Maybe you are writing a new language. You could find yourself implementing integer division just as much as you could find yourself implementing a sorting algorithm, a hash table, etc.

[Edit: Also worth noting is that in the context of education it is common to ask students to re-implement known algorithms and build up systems on their own.]
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I deal with snow, yes. Though it's not THAT bad.

>And a lot of people who don't understand working in tech

Boulder, CO, has the highest density of people working in tech in the country. You were saying?
Can we send Comcast first? ;-)
I had the same experience at Whole Foods Palo Alto as a cashier, 2008-12. WF management can take asking about the Whole Planet foundation and shove it up their ass.
It did win for me on the first try: http://i.imgur.com/uMB2J7f.png
It's original. There weren't any games that work exactly like it.
Yes... Eventually.

The Nix model is the only sane model going into the future where complexity will continue to increase. Nobody is forcing you to switch distros now, but hinting that you'll probably want to look into this, because the current models might well be on their way to obsolescence.
FIREWALK: NSA Exploit of the Day
Maybe it was worse for a short time, but if the app was still available the craze might still be active, or not, you just can't be sure of that. By removing it he dictated his own terms.
I agree with the sentiment but I also recognize that there is a difference between the CIA/NSA spying on citizens and doing the same to congress in a possible effort to directly influence the laws and regulations that govern their behaviour. I do not think that the outrage is "manufactured" because I think it is genuine, the smarter among the Senate that support the surveillance state at least understand the principles involved here.
I think "pessimistic / optimistic" was meant in the computing sense, rather than the colloquial. But I completely agree that double opt-in is the way to go - if the person you're asking feels burdened by the double opt-in, they can just tell you to do a direct intro in the future.
Are we talking about Linux the kernel or Linux the operating system? The kernel can do whatever it's programmed to do, of course - but I think we're splitting hairs here. It would be like me saying OSX can't do mainstream gaming. Sure, it's an OS, it'll do whatever it's told to do, but the games library available is downright abysmal.

Everyone knows what's meant here - if you work in an audio/video/graphics production shop, Linux is not a viable choice.
Didn't Ray Kroc say something to the effect of McDonald's product not being hamburgers -- anyone can make a better hamburger than McDonald's in their kitchen. McDonald's burgers aren't the best; they're easy to obtain.

Just like Bud Light -- it sucks, but you don't have to spend a whole day cooking it and then a whole month waiting for it to be ready to drink it.
I knew someone who had a vicious dog. Over the years, that dog attacked, sometimes seriously injuring, dozens of people and other animals.

One day, the dog bit off the tip of the owner's finger, unprovoked. He was put down shortly thereafter.
Popcorn Time's dead-simple user interface is what makes it so easy (and addictive) to use! I just posted some thoughts: http://www.designguru.org/blog/110314/popcorn-time-and-simpl...
"I guess we are going to end this on a petty note." -- Me in an alternate universe
Whole Foods Palo Alto had the entire downstairs recorded, so employees couldn't steal. No bag checks when I was there though.
I don't get this. Is it a VC firm? They seem fuzzy on details. "We provide startups with funding" then a list of VC partners. Are they one of those 'we help you get funding' companies who actually do the opposite?

Does anyone know, as I've never heard of them.
Last 3 hours nothing but this.

Fuck I think I'm addicted.

Congrats on the next flappy bird.
It doesn't have a 100% win rate as it stands.

Mini-max isn't even 'playing safe'.

Consider the following choice of moves, each leading to one of 5 random tile inserts:

Move A, which leads to 5 possible moves with the following game state goodnesses: ['Loss','Win','Win','Win','Win']

Move B, resulting in:
['99%CertainLoss','99%CertainLoss','99%CertainLoss','99%CertainLoss','99%CertainLoss']

Minimax is never going to choose A. Is that really what you want, even if your strategy is 'play it safe'?
aaaaand it's gone.
That's not how it works. The Nix build system is effectively a pure function, in that you specify all of the inputs up-front, which includes all dependencies, and then the build system performs the build (which is locally effectful, analagous to say, using the ST monad in Haskell, or Transients in clojure, etc). However, those local effects are discarded when we no longer need the chroot, and the result of the build process, which we want - should be a package that is exactly the same for all inputs. (We're not quite there yet, but approaching this.)
Spying on oversight committees is worse than spying on typical Americans for the same reason that spying on typical Americans is worse than spying on foreigners - it is a more direct threat to mechanisms that could keep powers in check.

This being "more wrong" doesn't make the other stuff "not wrong", though.
So it's respectful to forward someone's entire email verbatim without their permission, to talk about said person behind his back, and to spread a simple email introduction over four time-consuming emails instead of two? But it's NOT respectful to just, like, quickly and painlessly introduce the people and assume if it's unwanted it will be ignored like all unwanted email?

I'm not saying your technique is definitely WRONG, but I am saying you shouldn't assume it's superior.
It's amusing because Adam Carolla doesn't need funding to do it.
The crux of your argument is unconvincing. Service jobs have to be near the wealthy? What kind of myopia is that? Un-wealthy people go out to eat and get their car repaired just as much as Richie Rich.

Yes, if nobody but tech workers come to San Francisco, the city will collapse. But that doesn't mean everybody else has to live there too. It's also awful presumptuous to say, "Well I'm wealthy, this is where I want to live. You are poor, you don't get a choice, live near me"
Being slim to deliver only essential functionality is one thing, but playing fast and loose with user data is not a shortcut that should be rewarded so lavishly.
absolutely terrifying. This kind of stuff keeps me up at night.
>What do you earn in year 2?

Almost the same in cash, but a little more in stock grants.

Years 3 and 4 have a lower salary but much larger stock grant vesting, that at today's stock price mean that I'd be making roughly the same amount in each year. If their stock crashes, then I might leave, though they mentioned that after the second year they may up the stock grants for the following years.

And if their stock keeps going up (as it has been), then I would be getting a de facto raise in years 3-4. But I'm fine with the first 2 years; my personal burn rate is low, and it would let me work on personal projects full time again after the two years are up.
Thanks, I watched Harry Potter on iTunes too. Great point.

iTunes has won! I guess I will be watching it this weekend :)
Kudos to Gabriel and the Deis team for being great Docker citizens. They take the time to make upstream contributions, are the first to try new features and APIs, and when something breaks they take the time to send thoughtful detailed reports. Gabriel is also a fixture of the #docker channel, always lending a helping hand.

Thanks guys for a great product, for being patient with us :) and for your help improving the Docker community!
Personally, I think this sentiment cheapens his decision and makes less of what he's really done here. I think what he's done is pretty heroic, at least in modern terms, and something that very few, possibly none, of us would be willing to pull the trigger on.

Wether he's made, or is still making, a fortune is besides the point. He made the hard choice and has made it clear to everyone who's asked that he is all the better for it. This more than anything else is a powerful and important example that we may or may not see again. If nothing else he has highlighted the need for more empathy in software. His focus seems to be in bringing joy and entertainment to people and doesn't appear to have any ulterior motive. This is rare and we should be celebrating it rather than dismiss it by the fact that he has been fortunate enough to actually be successful from it (something that is also extremely rare).
My opinion is different to yours.

Piwik with Nginx was easy enough to set up and provides the data I am interested in, including conversions of goals (something I was dubious about before installing). New version even more snazzy than previous.
I only know he is still alive because I've followed the Flappy Bird story.

I just shared this story with 3 people who only know OF him, all 3 of them replied with their condolences and then we found consolation in his humor about CounterStrike. As a reporter I would think there should be some importance in leaving zero room for misintepretation regarding somebody's well-being.

Is that wrong?
I hope there is a rebuttal accompanying that down vote :)
WordPress Pingback Attacks and our WAF
Even lower: 20148

http://imgur.com/28YNfDS

That's pretty damn near optimal, might have had an extra 2 when doing the final collapse, can't remember.
=)

Check out the eval function, and specifically the function smoothness() in grid.js. It implements the edge weighting you describe!
CSS Thumbnail Animation Effects
All the fonts seem smaller, not sure if only one.
Right, there used to be a number of different random devices, including random, arandom, urandom, prandom, and srandom. Prandom was killed quite some time ago, and as of 2011 all the rest are unified. Four /dev nodes still exist for compatibility, but they all behave identical; so there's really just one random device.

The principle being that there's good randomness and there's good randomness. The system does its best to provide good randomness. You can't choose the wrong device.
Amen.

I'll add one point:

6. Don't punish (for various forms of "punishment") the people who pro-actively do these things.
Nah, it's going to be between vim and emacs if you want to do that seamlessly. Try installing tmux though.
Actually, the (foolish) idea that I have in my head is that when the median house price is NOT one million dollars (I'm looking at you, San Francisco), people who make $10 / hour won't have to devote nearly as much of their income to housing, dramatically increasing their spending power.
Belongs on reddit, not hacker news.
Initially, I had arrived at this conclusion as well, but I've seen solutions (both from other people posting and from running this script) that have gotten to 2048 with 14000 or less. I'm not entirely sure where the discrepancy is coming from, though... Obviously with a certain number of "4"s being generated each turn, the 10x2048 value will be reduced, but not to the degree we see. For example, I have logged a win with a score of 13404 points, and other people in here have screenshots of wins with significantly less than 20480 pts.

Intuitively, I want to say that the optimal score is more like 10x2048/2, but I haven't been able to prove that yet (at least not in between work today :) )
I think the advice is great and actionable. However, Facebook does not follow this advice. Haven't heard anything about Paper, Poke, or Home since they launched.
chill - i inform the person I'm introing that i will be forwarding it, they are very aware.

and no, unwanted email coming from someone i value the relationship with carries negativity and tarnishes my relationship.
No it isn't 'prefer'. It's that users don't care about this kind of security in practice, they only care about the kind of security from other people in their personal lives, which is more about privacy controls than actual security.

Because of this, they get no reward from the market if they actually focus on security. Instead they focus on things the market DOES reward them for, which is being fast, never being down, being available everywhere, for the cheapest price, with no annoying ads.

They only have 35 engineers, what they could do is limited. So security becomes priority #50 like for most start ups and only a few token hours efforts are put into place. That single AES key was probably implemented 3.5 years ago.
Well you could trust your 'feelings' or you can look at the evidence and determine whether or not Sweden is a prosperous society with a good standard of living, competitive businesses and motivated people.
Twitter changes 'Connect' tab to 'Notifications'
I've been messing around trying to find a balance between both of those heuristics. They're both implemented, but there doesn't seem to be any magic bullet.
Ask HN: I just got laid off for the first time. What advice do you have?
My company is closing the office I work in (Denver). They are opening up all of our positions, but based out of either Tempe, AZ, Sunnyvale, CA, or Kirkland, WA.

My options are to either apply for my own job and relocate to one of those offices, or look for a new job locally.

Does anyone have any experience living in or relocating to Kirkland or Sunnyvale that could give me an idea of what to expect if I were move?
it's safe to say that incompetence only occurs in areas where competence is not a priority, incompetence is on purpose, or where the situation is beyond the competence of anyone.

Such as setting up file-access auditing on sensitive files, like what they (or Booz Allen Hamilton, their contractor) didn't do? Hard to believe basic Microsoft sysadmin training concepts evade their competency filter.
Well, it was first released in October ;)
Solution: retroactively legalize the spying, create a legal framework to continue doing so. They need to accept that less privacy is the cost of legislating in a free country. It's called keeping America safe.
I don't think people have a huge issue with blind introductions when it's clear that the intention is to help them. I suspect most of the issue is when the benefit to them is unclear / dubious / highly theoretical - when the benefit is more clearly going to the introducer or the person to whom you're being introduced.
What happened to everyone's math skills here?

$300 * 2 * 52 = $31,200.
I think the reason it's easier in Sweden is the key cultural value of fairness. America is more of a "mine" society, where everyone cares about what's "mine" and lacks an ability to self-moderate based on what's fair or right.
The Race Is On for the Transit Ticket of Tomorrow
I have been thinking a lot lately about the future of manufacturing and easily manufactured consumer goods.

Why not sell a jig with instructions on how to build the desk, use a $90 router plus materials and create an instant crowdsourced mini standing desk factory? If I make one, I could easily make 5 more in probably half the time. And given the ease of manufacture, I have an almost zero risk chance to learn a new skill.

Sell the franchise (the jig plus instructions) and then others who just want the desk can pay the maker (at the source) an extra $20.

BTW, this design doesn't look stable enough. Needs either a tension wire or a wall support in the front and back.
gotcha - thanks for clarifying!!
No kidding. Just think of all the political squabbles that would vanish overnight if the USA was, for example, 99% WASP
Celery recently launched a PR guide for startups. It gives some great advice I think:

https://www.trycelery.com/pr-guide-ebook
I just mean how they use the "Chrome" branding on everything, even Android-based devices like the Chromecast.
you are begging the question, it's not metadata any more when they can cross reference it to deanonymise it. in my mind, snowden's documents show bulk domestic data collection.
> 1. You hijack the taxi and demand the driver take you to your destination for free. This creates an equivalent or better experience for the consumer at zero or near-zero cost.

For completeness, this is true only if the consumer prefers the taxi ride over walking and considers it to be a better experience.

> 2. Instead of clicking a button and watching 12 Years a Slave, you get a crudely animated version pieced together by drawings crowdsourced from 1st grade students around the nation, and voiced entirely by Gilbert Gottfried.

A counterpoint to this is Primer ($7,000 budget, 70% RT, 7.0 IMDb): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)
Example specialties of people I know in the $250k+ range:

* Machine learning + finance
* iOS (I know several examples here)
* Android
* Enterprise Java
* Embedded development
* Specific scientific expertise (a friend is into optics and diffraction and makes $250/hour freelance, with some coding and some design)

I don't know any COBOL programmers. Or at least if I do, they're in the closet. :)

This is universally from big companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Ball Aerospace, etc.
I understand how you perceive it as a burden, but optimistic introducers tend to see them as opportunities instead.

I'm not saying you're wrong or that one is better than the other (presumably it depends on context). I'm just exploring the different styles to understand them better.

Edit: I do disagree with your framing of respectful vs. disrespectful in the general case. With engineers specifically, it is probably true, though, and a good rule of thumb to apply.
That situation also means that the lowest wage workers have to commute the furthest, often (as the author of the article experiences) spending most of their daily pay just getting to and from work. "Move further from your job" is rarely an option.
well it's not coming, and the downvote is a bit undeserved (so have an upvote), but fair point: The article was attacking another article for deliberately cherry-picking and misrepresenting data to cover an agenda.

The niggling details of the pay gap arn't relevant to the articles thrust of exposing quartz's BS.
5 Qualities Google Looks for in New Hires
Sure, the message was sent. But does it have a read receipt?
maybe i'm missing something here - are you the one looking to meet people, or are you already full-time working? if its the former, then of course you want all the intro's you can take! let's agree that if you are out looking to meet people, then you most certainly want every intro possible - but my take on it is if you want the most effective intro's, they are double opt-in...
Where exactly does it show that?
They've seen drop in dead business models. But they're winning in new areas. See the reports, with the so-called 'piracy' they're winning much more money than in the past. The problem: you want to see a number, like "he sold 20 millons cds". Well, the last sucess history (everyone can't be queen or lady gaga) is Daft Punk: they sold millions of songs by making 'good' music, or music that appealed to people.
Reverse Wardriving: Tracking Apple and Google Commuter Buses
Mom-and-Pop Shop Goes Big Time in a Big Way