skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's 34% more linear resolution. It's hardly going to be noticeable, especially when they haven't designed their optics for it. And if the refresh rate and latency are even slightly worse than Oculus's 2nd generation device (and they're only claiming parity with the 1st gen device) it will be pretty poor.

As good as Oculus is, it's really not good enough. And the idea that 2.5k (i.e. 1440p) is the key thing vs. 1080p and far lower latency is ridiculous. Bear in mind, Oculus uses the best displays they can get in the quantities they need, these guys are simply showing off in-house prototypes.
I'm not sure what you can do legally, IANAL, etc. But do you really want to? Getting embroiled in a legal mess probably isn't worth it, in any case.

I believe you did learn a valuable lesson in how to operate within a company, though. You will be faced scenarios like this many times in your career. It constitutes part of the politics of the workplace. Like most people, I went through a similar learning process. When you're younger, you tend to let your passions dictate more of your overt actions. As you get older, you see how the game is played and learn how to choose your battles. I know it sounds a bit cynical, and it probably is, but being around to fight another day (assuming that you believe that you're someone who can have a positive impact) makes it worth it.
FWIW, to the extent you spoke out in protest of unfair working conditions, it possibly could have been a violation of federal labor laws.

http://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/protected-concerted-ac...

Yes, most employees have labor rights, even if they're not in a union. Check out:

http://www.nlrb.gov/resources/faq/nlrb

Who knows if it could help, but you might want to contact the NLRB.

http://www.nlrb.gov/what-we-do/investigate-charges

Mostly, though, I wish you luck finding a decent job. That company sounds awful.
If you are sad about your job, you _can_ and should change it. Go get em!
Don't work anywhere that you're treated like a child. That "incentive program" is infuriating.
Because I'm fortunate to have a circle of developer friends where there is no longer any taboo talking about rates and salaries and no one is charging less than $100/hr. Maybe even $130/hr now. My rate is now $200/hr for one-off iOS and Ruby on Rails projects, up from $120/hr when I started working independently in the summer of 2012, and I still have to refer folks to qualified friends.

The taboo of talking about salaries and rates is something that only benefits the people employing you and maybe a handful of employees, but never benefits employees at large. As a manager I remember finding out how much my employees were underpaid vs. another friend's team in a different division and after bringing up the issue with my director or VP a company-wide memo went out telling all managers and directors to stop talking about salaries across divisions. I wonder why.
> Both his PSAs and his material on marketing and business are a real service to everyone. That's why they've been so popular on HN for years.

HN loves startup porn, but how is this any different than how self-help books are marketed?

Distrust anyone who makes a business out of telling other businesses how to be successful in business because of how they're successful in business.

The people who are successful don't have time to run consultancies, and anyone that knows anything about consultancies knows that the lessons you learn there are very different than what's useful and necessary for product companies.
Having been bitten by SHA1_Update with no expectation that SHA_Update would work as well. I'm sort of bitter about that.
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On the contrary, I appreciated this detail. It's difficult to come up with a plausible-sounding start up idea that doesn't sound like a joke. The lossless compression idea sounds plausible to the mainstream audience. For the hacker audience, it plays on a different level - it's a cue for us to get.
It may not feel like it right now, but it seems to me that you should be happy to be out of there. Don't accept that kind of ridiculous belittling humiliation.

I don't know if it's legal (in the US it probably is), but I hope and expect you will find something better.
Thanks - our major priority is to build Volley for mobile. We designed the experience with mobile in mind from the beginning but sought to validate on the web. I'd welcome your suggestions for improvements
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Yes, http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-important-things-to-keep-...

The gist of the answer was your relationship with a reseller should be one of mutual respect and shared success and typical discounts to a reseller should in the 20-25% range on the low end for an established product and perhaps as high as 40% if the re-seller will invest a lot in marketing and commit to buying very large quantities upfront.
Goodbye from Five Simple Steps
I just downloaded one of the excel sheets and I only see procedures on the list, no drugs, but your suspicion is warranted.

The other thing to remember is that if it did include ASP reimbursement, ophthalmologists wouldn't be at the top, oncologists would. If a cancer doc saw 200 HER2 positive breast cancer patients in one year (16/month), treating them with Herceptin alone would cost $14,000,000. Most docs I've spoken to see 100-200 cancer patients per month (of course not all get treated with expensive drugs).
That picture at the top is horrifying. Looks like she is undergoing the Ludovico technique http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxODIxMDQwNl5BMl5Ban...
Human dignity takes many forms. Some would argue that it is harmed in some way by office management overseeing silly giveaways. Others would argue that it is harmed by losing your means to provide for yourself through the consequences of your actions.

I think the latter loss of dignity is greater than the former.
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What's the name of the company? What's the name of the manager that got you fired?
Employment in the US is "at will", which means you can be fired without just cause (except for prohibitions for race, religion, gender, age, disability, national origin). It may seem terrible, but it's good to remember that "at will" works the other way too, so if your situation sucks you shouldn't feel legally obliged to stay.

[edit] Also, I'm sorry that you got fired like this, it sounds maddening and inhumane. Best of luck to you in finding something better.
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What exactly is Volley? It's not very clear as to what the purpose is from this page alone, and I couldn't find any links to learn more.

Why would I signup for something based on one line of text?
Dude you have more rep than I do at Stackoverflow. Where are you located in the world that you are unable to find a web development job?
This also completely depends on the region.

This might be average in say the Midwest where the cost of living is much lower than say NYC or California. Most "consultants" I know on the West Coast are making more in the range of $85-$100/hour.

If I lived in NYC and was billing $40/hour, I'd practically be hovering on the unemployment line with the cost of living there.
All the time I see people complaining about usage of HTML tables vs. pure CSS, and yet the one thing that drives me absolutely insane is a 4 point smaller than the rest "prev 1..3,4,5..10 next" navigation control at the bottom of a page. Always a treat to use on mobile too :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevacizumab#Uses_in_eye_disease

Probably why there is a lot of controversy surrounding this and the price of this drug.
You made them feel stupid, so they made you feel unemployed. Do not criticize management openly in front of others, this was your mistake. I've also made this mistake, I was right, I was also ended up unemployed. You were right about everything you said, but it's probably small consolation. It may even have been illegal to fire you, however how likely is it that somebody who makes $8 an hour can afford a lawyer to right that wrong? You can go to some kind of labour dept lawyer and make a case for wrongful dismissal, but the bureaucracy behind such organizations is slow, by the time they act (if they ever do) you will be long past caring.
How does Zidisha handle compliance with SEC regulations around issuing securities? I know that both LendingClub and Prosper had to go through a lengthy process to offer their notes with proper documentation and disclosures.
> Departments of Labor usually LOVE aggressively defending employees' rights

In my experience this is only true if it is easily proven that you were fired because of blatant racism or sexism. If it isn't either of those two reasons or it is harder to prove, nothing will happen.

To the OP, yes it seems perfectly legal, you can be fired at any time for any reason that isn't one of a handful of protected reasons (sex, religion, race etc.). You can be fired for wearing blue that day if they so feel like it. It's just not usually so petty because it can be a little bit of a cost replacing a person.
I don't claim this view of the world is true, but the analogies they might make is that would be same as

1. Learning to use your righthand dominantly as a lefthanded person.
2. Pretending you were heteronormal when you were actually queer

Both examples have been commonly seen in the world.

That is you can use your executive function to override (m)any of your intrinsic personality traits, but physiologically you remain either gay, lefthanded, or liberal/conservative.
Same here -- I played it in 1974 on an HP 2000F minicomputer via a teletype located in a converted janitor's closet at my high school.

The author mentions the lack of ability to renumber the lines in a BASIC program, but I'm quite sure there was a RENUM command that would do that.

In 1976 we got ADS (CRT) terminals in the computer lab, and once I figured out ESC-sequences, I had a shoot-em-up space ship game going. God I wish I still had the source code for that. :(
a consultancy employee doesn't have to do business development, marketing, accounts payable/receivable/collections. A freelance consultant does. In most cases an employed "consultant" should be able "bill" 32 hours per week.
I know that $140 million sounds like a lot, but when they IPO after rejecting the 2 billion acquisition offer from Google, Goldman Sachs will peddle QUOR to institutional investors, and surely they will be able to recoup the $140 million investment + a 10x return if the stock pops. </sarcasm>

On a more serious note, Quora users have a better profile for advertisers because they are likely to be in the top brackets for income and education and unlike an English Q&A site the topics on Quora are limitless. You could target ads at 20-40 year females that have a PhD and live in New York very easily.

Also from the looks of it the decision might not purely be for financial gains. Adam D'Angelo is apparently one of the smartest people around (as referenced by Mark Zuckerberg in some interview) and also independently wealthy so keeping yourself in his good graces might lead to future positive outcomes not entirely related to Quora.

Also Tiger Global is run by a youngish hedge fund manager born into old school money family and he probably pals around in the same circles as Zuckerberg, Adam D'Angelo, Charlie Cheever, other young SV entrepreneurs with FU money and this seems a lot like friends helping friends (this is just a hypothesis which might not be true).

It can also be that the investors know something compelling that we don't know or are hoping that Quora will be the next big social thing after Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter / etc.
The poster was talking about an $8/hr temp job. He's already made a decision to trade dignity for necessity.

Defending dignity at 'all costs' makes it sound like you've never had to make a hard decision in your life. This is a case where the right move is to keep your head down, do the bare minimum, work on your portfolio on the side and bolt for a better job as soon as you can.
Is it even legal? Yes.

It sounds like you went on a short rant that makes the management look bad in front of everyone: this was a mistake.

Next time if you have an issue with the program like this bring it up privately with your manager or save your feedback until it is solicited.
Since the point of this proposal is to inform password managers (or other user agents) that a password needs to be changed, a slightly different approach could be to specify "if you created an account in this timeframe, you should change your password." Then there's no need to specifically address which vulnerabilities existed when.

Something like:

https://www.linkedin.com/.well-known/password_revoke:

from: <datetime>
to: <datetime>
change_url: https://www.linkedin.com/sorry-we-lost-your-password-our-bad/

... where the file must be requested only via https and the domains must match.

And then LastPass or 1Password or your browser or a plugin looking at credentials stored by your browser could routinely check sites where you have accounts, and say "Hey, LinkedIn says that your password is at risk and should be updated. Would you like to do that now?"

This is roughly equivalent to having LinkedIn send an email to all affected accounts (which is mandatory good citizenship, right?), but maybe will increase the success rate. It's another way for sites that have big embarrassing security breaches to try to do the right thing.

Possible downsides:

- Might teach users a behavior that makes them more vulnerable to phishing?

- More worryingly, if an attacker was able to MITM requests, they would be handed a list of every site where you have an account, and a way to affirmatively reach out and ask you for your password to those sites.

- Attackers might be able to detect the list of sites you have accounts at just by analyzing encrypted traffic. That could be valuable info on its own.

- An attacker who gained the ability to write to password_revoke (but no direct access to user data) could potentially escalate the attack by revoking everyone's passwords (although it's not clear to me how much more dangerous that would be than being able to write to password_revoke in the first place, and it might be a quick way to blow their cover).

Interesting idea anyway.
You should reconsider what you were trying to accomplish with your remarks. If your intention was to change the policy, it may have been better to offer your criticism after the public event, in a less confrontational manner. No one likes to be shown up. Consider making suggestions that allow the other people to save face. While it might feel good in the moment to complain in public and humiliate your boss, the end result will often be counter-productive to your goals. This happens at all levels of management. You got to learn it when the stakes are relatively low. Good luck!
So what's the difference between recognition and detection?
Maybe Merkel doesn't trust youtube and disconnected you?
Love the interface, but the landing page should be more informative.

Maybe experiment with showing the cards before actually giving my email.

Like by questions, Steve Jobs asks me what's my name, I give it, ... Same for email, gmail, ...

BTW, I post it here because I couldn't post an answer to your card.
Indeed I read that as NP-complete. That's very interesting, do you have any references on it?
Even if knots are ruled out, there might be hard topological decision problems that can be reduced to linear separability under homeomorphism, maybe in higher dimension.
But please don't paginate a 500 word text into 10 pages either...
I think side channel attacks are valid, but in this case they are a red herring. One side channel exploit and what three remote code executions?

It sounds like lots of people (sockpuppet echo chamber) are saying if the new language/runtime doesn't fix all possible flaws we should stay with the broken-on-purpose OpenSSL codebase?
California is an at-will state. You can generally be fired at any time for almost any reason:

http://www.business.ca.gov/StartaBusiness/AdministeringEmplo...

I'm no lawyer, but them not liking how you act in a meeting is probably one of the reasons.

As an aside: yes, you're right, that's horseshit. The purpose of behavior like this is to establish dominance. "Fair" is irrelevant; even "well run" is secondary to keeping the caste system in place. If you're interested in the nature and history of this, you might see if your library has the book Confronting Managerialism: http://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Managerialism-Business-Eco...
They think that because it's not part of their job, so they should be paid extra for it. I don't think that OP's $8/hour job's reponsibilities include increasing productivity on a company-wide scale. Management is asking the employees to do something that's not part of their job and for which they are not paid.
Welcome to the New Economy: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/11/surviving-p...

There are many very educated people who write English (and other languages) well struggling for $8/hour jobs. This state of affairs will be coming to the tech industry, too. We're not special, we're just behind the curve because tech was "uncool" for so long.
Thanks Marie-Lynn! We hope to get a lot of women devs involved in Bitcoin. They are sorely needed.
It's completely legal, and probably a reasonably good life lesson for you in how communicate in the workplace.

I don't disagree with what you said necessarily, but if you think about it from the manager's perspective you basically shoved their nose [edit: and even worse, publicly] in an effort to make employees feel their opinion was valued and a small incentive program for it (the budget for which may not be under their control).

Realistically, you were an $8/hr temp. You were extremely replaceable, and you made yourself a net negative in someone's mind.

I sincerely hope you find new and meaningful employment in very short order.
Left/right or liberal/conservative are false dichotomies, at least in U.S. politics. Both major parties are willing to use coercion to achieve their goals, and they don't even differ very much in what those goals are.

The real divide is between authoritarians and anti-authoritarians. It would be interesting to see a similar study (or the results of this study re-analyzed) with liberal/conservative replaced with authoritarian/live-and-let-live.
I do love IRC, but what Understudy gives you is a one-to-one relationship with another person who cares.

It means that Thursday evening, when you're tired, it's easier to pick yourself up and work, because doing so gets you a _better_conversation_ on Saturday. I'm a cellist - this comes from private music lessons.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_2_Sigma_Problem . In that study, the median person learning one-to-one performed at the 98th percentile in a control group. That's huge!
I wouldn't go so far as to make this assumption, though it could be the case. I'd say it's more important to realize that management that would come up with this sort of 'reward' in the first place is not at all likely to care about this kind of input, even if it's phrased nicely or given privately.
It's a shame, but something I've learned in the last few years working for a bigger company with layers and layers of management is that they genuinely are not interested in your ideas or input.

Some middle-manager somewhere in the chain came up with the "spin the wheel" idea - and no matter how stupid you think it is, they have a vested interest in it working out, so they look good to their boss. As soon as you point out how stupid it is, you're undermining them, and that's something no middle-manger will tolerate.

It's a shame, but the best thing you can do is keep your mouth shut.

(Yes, I'm looking for a new job)
I questioned that a population can be categorized in only two sets. It's unfortunate that a lot of people buy into this, and end up trying to be as faithful to one of the label as they can, just like a fan will dedicate himself/herself to a specific sport team for no good reason really than just picking a side and sticking to it.
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How could they do that to Ludwig Van!?
More generally, it seems the more we look into the seemingly-simple emotion of disgust, the more complicated it gets. While I hate to just drop a Wikipedia page in a comment link, it seems to be a pretty good starting point on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgust It's fascinating stuff.

The other nice thing about this article is that it seems to refrain from judgments, which is a problem this general field has had. First, study scientifically. Then, if necessary, judge unscientifically as needed. (No sarcasm. A judgment here is necessarily by definition unscientific, but that doesn't make it wrong... just unscientific, and don't forget it. Unscientific is not a synonym of "wrong" any more than scientific is a synonym of "correct".) However I think that when you study the differences carefully, and with an open mind, it becomes much more difficult to say that one side is right and one side is wrong on the question of "the proper level of disgust". Disgust is a blunt instrument, like any other emotional reaction, and turning something so broad and vague "up" or "down" inevitably results in errors either way. This is especially true when you remember that not all humans live in the same situations... for a middle-class American living in a safe neighborhood, excessive paranoia about out-groups is probably unreasonable, but for someone living in a tribal area, insufficient paranoia about out-groups may very well get you killed.
It's their playground, their rules. Move on, find a place that is a better fit.
Couldn't agree more. The classic 'false dilemma'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
That's not a 10% cut. It's a -chance- to win a 100$ item. Saving a company 1,000$ a month = 12,000$ a year -> that's a 1% cut, or possibly less.
Volley gets you introductions to people you're looking for. We do this by helping you connect with people over actionable requests (Eg. “Looking to grab coffee with a developer for advice around building a NodeJS API”). These requests are sent to and acted on by a community built of your existing contacts and their contacts. By completing requests, the user gains karma (similar model to stack overflow) that could be spent on things like featured requests (think: featured listing on ebay) or held for community status.
Not sure about your whole story but working for 8 bucks per hr, at least from your resume seems way below your pay grade. There may of course be a good reason for that but otherwise I'd say aim higher.
Took me a while to realise that I should click on the tiny icon in the bottom left corner to see an example on what a profile will look like. (I didn't even know it's a site for profile up to that point) I would at least add a short description or tagline to the landing page.
LOTR was originally written with SQL?
Could you elaborate on log's roots in physical log? (A link is fine)
Lossless compression of non-random data is very possible, though. Video and audio files are far from random, and I don't believe that lossless compression is "a solved problem" (even by the business standard) for those. (However, it is a bit far-fetched that someone would invent a groundbreaking new algorithm in the space for a silly website.) General lossless compression may not exist, but we're talking about highly patterned (low entropy) subspace of all possible files/bit-strings.

Lossless compression requires assumptions about the data, of course, because making some patterns shorter requires making others come out longer. Random data will, in general, get larger under a lossless compression algorithm.
Perhaps! Though not unlike hacker news, where hackers market the value of hacking to other hackers. ;)