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I'm one of the Cofounders of Significance Labs, and I completely agree with you.

Our fundamental premise is that we don't understand the problems. That's why we are focusing on providing our fellows and hackers with extensive immersion into the very communities we are trying to help, as well as organizing as many focus groups and user feedback testing sessions as we can so that we know that what we are building not only helps, but that it's something people will use. It's going to be a challenge, that's for sure, but if it works, I think that this could be a very powerful agent for change.
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Spoiler from the article:

"Isaul Vargas, a New York-based software tester, spotted the videos in a post on BoingBoing and recognised them from an automation conference he had been at a year ago. They were being shown by a European firm that made streaming software for set-top boxes, the kit that sits under a TV and connects to services such as Sky or Netflix.

The company needed to be able to quickly and reliably upload digital video, a capability which it tested by uploading short, randomly generated snippets to its YouTube channel and running image-recognition software on it. "Considering the volume of videos and the fact they use YouTube, it tells me that this is a large company testing their video encoding software and measuring how Youtube compresses the videos," says Vargas."
Lately there is so many companies and startups with "Square" in name. Again I misread article and I thought Squarespace is up to something, then it turned its Square. No, wait, its actually Foursquare...

Is it only me getting confused with them? (I dont live in US so I dont have access to most of those services thus I am not really used to their names but so many "Squares" lately).
"Just". The "mostly" in pymake's tagline (below) is the tricky bit.

pymake: A mostly GNU-compatible python implementation of `make`.
A case of a curious LibTIFF 4.0.3 + zlib 1.2.8 memory disclosure
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It might be a completely different type of communicator you need, depending on the direction of the status hierarchy you're addressing.

Talking to employees, or even partners, where the other party is responsible for understanding the general mental framework and needs a precise answer to a precise question, is very different to talking up the status hierarchy.

When you speak to an investor who expects a "crisp" response to an arbitrary knee-jerk question they just thought up, which buries in it several wrong assumptions, the correct response is to reverse engineer that, and address the assumptions themselves, while conveying a whole host of other attributes at the same time. Essentially you need to decode the other person's mental framework and encode your message on their terms. If the inferential distance is significant, there is no way this can be done in real-time. But what I worry about here is that the more off-center the entrepreneur's mental model, (which is what you need for innovation), and the more complex the execution, the harder it is to cross the chasm to communicating with an up-the-status-chain interlocutor that expects everything to be in bite-sized insights they can digest.

An observation here is that, in one case a correct answer is a direct answer, and in the other case a correct answer is an indirect answer.

the YC interview is particularly error-prone in that regard, as you don't know who you are going to be speaking to in advance, so you have little means for preparing. That setup (plus the 10 minutes limit) is a recipe for randomness. Essentialy you get good interviews if the two parties happen to have similar mental contexts, but it doesn't seem that YC takes that into account at all. On the other hand, it also favours mainstream mental models and simple-to-explain ideas, which seems directly contradictory to what YC wants to achieve.

However I don't see how convincing a non-motivated arbitrary person of a fairly complicated idea in 10 minutes is highly correlated to all the other contexts a founder has to deal with. Sure it's a great attribute if you can have it, but it's one in a long list.
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I got rejected back in 2010 as a solo founder (my cofounder bailed a few days before the interview), and feedback was all about the idea -- not my sudden solo founder status. The idea is really all they have to critique based on the app and interview. They consider founders heavily, but how do you give good feedback on "you guys just didn't blow us away as a founding team"?

Here was my rejection for something close to what Beacon does now (this was pre-startfund money):

> I'm sorry to say we decided not to fund you. There may well be something in the idea of commissioned stories, but it seemed to us that to get such a project rolling it would either have to be a spinoff of an existing site with lots of traffic or be quite highly capitalized (since otherwise there wouldn't be enough "donors" to cover costs). A YC size investment wouldn't be enough, and yet it would be hard to raise enough from post-YC investors, because they'd demand "traction."
Rethinking Test-Driven Development
I interpreted the comment differently. I read that the human was to do the association more on a task base, rather than a file association.
Not quite. eg:

public final Date date;

date.setTime(1);

That's not immutable.
Privacy is like cryptography. You're private/secure until you're not, and there's nothing you can do once it's been broken. So cultural or legal agreements or frameworks might provide some recompense, they will not stop the initial problem, which is the revealing of the information.

The best way to remain private is to ensure that you don't tell anyone else the information you wish to be private at all.
In a hydrogen engine, you can do fuel rich staged combustion.

With kerosene, you must go oxidizer-rich. Nobody has mastered that except Russia. Nobody really knows how much it costs, or how they came up with it.

SpaceX uses the far simpler gas generator cycle.

In staged combustion, you pump some of the propellants to some absurd pressure like 300 bars, burn them, put them through a turbine that extracts some power that lowers pressure to 250 bars or so. Then the turbine exhaust is put into the main combustion chamber, together with the other propellants that were pumped up to 250 bars. All propellant contributes to thrust.

In a gas generator, you pump all propellants to perhaps 70 bars, divert some small part to a gas generator that burns them, the exhaust is put to a turbine that exhausts to ambient air. The turbine powers the pump. So that part of the propellant flow does not contribute directly to thrust.
If you go to higher pressures with a gas generator engine, you waste a larger portion of the propellant to run the pump and it's just not worth it. So gas generator engines are limited to much lower pressures than staged combustion engines.

Lower pressure means bigger engines are needed for the same thrust. Also the efficiency is worse. A large (tall) rocket can have problems with limited base area per mass, hence for example the low pressure engined Saturn V had an expanded base.

Space Shuttle's main engines ran with high pressure and could fit on the back of the relatively small reusable orbiter vehicle.
> Unless recreating non-patented work from memory is actually forbidden? That would be horrible.

Here lies the black magic of the Non-Compete Agreement.
Do you use the link source tab of the "Java Build Path" to point to the project directory in the source control directory?
I've had some success using Q10 on windows and leanpub.com on the web.
Substantial fines and imprisonment are potential consequences.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5330

I don't know of specific instances where they were enforced (IANAL, etc).

This page [pdf] cites some specific penalties but does not refer to specific cases

http://www.anti-moneylaundering.com/pdf/Example_Fines_and_Pe...
This is kind of the idea behind shared taxis, which are sometimes called colectivos or jitneys or a hundred other names. They have a semi-fixed route and will drop you near where you want to be. They don't leave their stop until they have enough people to fill the taxi. I think they're usually independently operated. They're already quite popular in some countries, South America and Africa mostly. I used them in Chile and it was a really nice system, fitting the niche between taxis and buses quite well. However, you had to know the name of the neighborhood you wanted to go to, and there was no automation.

I honestly think they could be useful in the US for commuting purposes. Everyone going to the same office park from the same neighborhood could charter a shared taxi and relax instead of drive. Cost would have to be low. I'd use it. Hell, I even had idle thoughts about trying to create it. However, I have neither the capital nor the expertise to make this happen.

Edit: also see Demand Responsive Transit (DRT). It's the western name for this, and it's been tried before for various uses. Getting disabled people to the doctor is a common use in the US. Various European cities have tried this for getting people to train stations. In my opinion, it's never been marketed the right way. Also, the big bus/taxi companies that have tried DRT didn't have the vision or will to make it happen. Nor do the municipal governments that have tried.
off center and mechanical splitting axes have been around for 100 years. Seem like loosing your grip on a sharp object just as it strikes is counter to safety.
The people in support of this horrific plan need to listen to PHK's advice at FOSDEM[1]. It may seem like he's talking about a certain three-letter-agency in that talk, but his thesis is far more general. It's a warning about how frighteningly trivial it is to prevent a whole crowd of techies from addressing core political/sociological problems by distracting them with useless technical distractions.

The question has nothing to do with what "URL" means, the various ideas about how to make an efficient UI, or even the current knowledge and skill-level (or lack thereof) found in the median user. Those are distractions.

Instead, the only question any of you should be asking is if removing URL visibility serves, in the long run, to educate and empower users, or if it instead removes power from users - even those that do not yet exercise that power.

Often - and especially here on HN - there is a tendency in geeks to avoid the hard political and sociological issue. Unfortunately, some issues are inherently non-technical at their core, and attempting to avoid those hard questions by limiting attention to the technical minutia, a political or sociological choice is still being made. All too often, it is leaving that choice to those who seek to steal power, making those that avoid the real question into useful idiots.

Because this is a crowd that enjoys scifi, a quote from the end of Sleeping In Light:

"[Babylon 5] taught us that we had to create the future, or others will do it for us.
It showed us that we have to care for each other – because if we don't, who will?
And that strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely of places.

Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings,
even for people like us."

Instead of giving the "large serving" of offensive language that this proposal does deserve, I suggest instead that there is still time to choose to create a future that includes a free internet similar to the one we've enjoyed, instead of another step towards the encroaching "dumbed down" corporate nonsense that treats users as idiots and actual internet addresses being only shown to some new corporate/techie priesthood.

[1] http://video.fosdem.org/2014/Janson/Sunday/NSA_operation_ORC...
The FinCEN threshold is $10000. The article mentioned buying enough Amazon gift cards to buy a stroller. The most expensive stroller I could find on Amazon in a minute was less than $600. So I don't think we can blame the government in this particular case. Probably just a lazy clerk who didn't feel like selling that many gift cards.
Well, being realistic, I doubt that most exchanges like Bitstamp are sharing their customer's info with other companies, so the original issue that the author was talking about doesn't really apply here.

If you're paranoid, you can use Local Bitcoins or the Mycelium Local Trader app to do in person transactions.
>> The caveat being that that code only needs to be parsed and executed once in a single page application.

Sure, if you don't consider users that open lots of tabs, or users that close their browsers periodically (e.g. mobile).

>> Presumably this cost is providing value to the developer in terms of reduced development time, reduced complexity, or improved correctness. You shouldn't typically incur significant wasted cost in execution

Ideally that would be the case, but from my Angular experience, it's unfortunately not always so clear cut (e.g. filter caching is a good example of time wasted in refactoring for performance reasons)

>> You would never add items to the DOM individually

I was under the impression that this is more or less what everyone was criticizing about Backbone rendering a few months ago when that Om article came out.
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Also, the tested Laravel version is 3.2, while the current version is 4.1
Sure, but it's also the case that encrypting at the block level means that upper-layer filesystem code needs to be prepared to deal with corrupted metadata, which is stored in encrypted sectors that attackers can randomize.
Apple's new EarPods will have sensors in them, for heart rate and blood pressure.
looks very similar to fractal curve approximation of traveling salesman and fractal indexing.
There was another post about this today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679920.
Social problems are both about the huge levers of society and government as well as a situation where poverty becomes a "death by a thousand cuts". I agree with you: the huge levers of social policy and economics make a huge difference in peoples lives. They are truly important issues, and there are plenty of organizations focusing on those problems.

On the other side, though, the thousand cuts are real and maybe we can figure out some way to help solve a few of them. A great example of a simple tech solution that has hugely beneficial outcomes is text4baby https://www.text4baby.org/

When you go for your first pre-natal care visit, you signup with your baby's due date and it sends simple reminders at the right time about what you should be doing to ensure your baby is as healthy as it can be. Things like reminders for checkups, folic acid, diet, etc. Super simple app, huge results.

I think that there are other problems out there that technology can help address. Certainly not ALL the problems, and probably not the systemic socio-political problems, but some. Why not try?
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Thankfully I am seeing more and more comments like this. I really think we off the deep end with all this. Simple is key.
In my personal opinion, manned space flight (launchers, spacecraft, in space operations) has little technical overlap with solid fueled ballistic missiles.
We automation engineers are really good with the bailing wire and duct tape.
What Comes Next is the Future: A documentary about the Web
I really hope you're still reading this thread.

This study says that owning a cat makes if more likely to have Toxo.

Wikipedia, which the grandparent node quotes, said the opposite. In fact, Wikipedia, correctly links to the study and then gives a summary that's 100% opposite of the actual findings.

numerous studies have shown living in a household with a cat is not a significant risk factor for T. gondiiinfection,[18][40][46]
The exact nature of various FPS gaming engines from that era kind of gives me a massive headache.

Still, the point stands that this isn't unprecedented. John Carmack's has, in the past, just helped out potential competitors before.
The rejection letters at the interview stage have often included detailed feedback. It's rejection in the earlier stage (not getting an interview, based on your application) which doesn't get detailed feedback (usually; I've seen some cases where it did, usually after questions in email).
Google, probably. Facebook, not so much. It could disappear tomorrow and people would get on with their lives much as before. Though cheap hosting providers and flickr would likely see an uptick in usage.
The White House Big Data and Privacy Review
> Plus the Android tooling is horrible to get working reliably - most problems being solved by "restart eclipse"

Try Intellij IDEA / Android Studio. I find them quite reliable.
>but I find the idea that businessmen own everything a programmer works on just because he's an employee abhorrent.

Just to play devils advocate here, sometimes it is the businessman with the idea and the programmers who implement the idea and create the tech. Should the Idea man get the rights or the "workers" digging the trench.

A lot of large companies have policies that anything you make in your off time is owned by them. I can see why they do it my company has probably spent thousands on training and employee development and they want the return.

It may not be a popular thing for some people (including myself) but I see why they do it.
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Exactly. "IDE" is tossed around as a glorified editor these days—whatever happened to the integration with the languages beyond autosuggest and coloration?
Also, in the case of YC specifically, there have been some exceptionally good founders (and partners) from (more Oxford than) Cambridge, I think.
I hope all the people who object to your methods and rationalize that they wouldn't work for you anyway, realize the hypocrisy of their statements.
512K pagesize? Wouldn't that add a ton of IO in a lot of scenarios? Like every 1 byte file would now require a 512K event? Large pages (2MB/1GB) is for specialised use where you know you're not going to be paging things in/out too often, right?

IIRC Linus was quite dismissive about having larger-than-4k page sizes as the default.
Trusted execution environments enable the kind of automation that addresses these complaints.

A government opt-out defaults database would partly address the 2nd objection. (Only partly)
Hey thanks for going above and beyond of sharing an experience you didn't have to. Cheers to you!
TTF to Bitmap software BMFont is now open source
The author didn't indicate that they weren't able to buy the gift cards, just that the sign existed.
I'm a complete noob when it comes to kernel development -- but this seems super interesting. Anyone care to explain what's going on?
I hear some US company make you sign off your right to write anything on your own. Meaning, you agree that any code you write belongs to them by default. Sometimes, this is even a problem for Open Source contributions.

Paul Graham himself warned about this: he basically said that if you're thinking about launching a startup and are currently employed, you shouldn't write a single line of code, if only to be safe.

This state of affair is obviously twisted and wrong, but in this world, corporations have more say than the people. Of course they will push in that direction.
I really hate the technical choice TC39 made with the arrow function. IT should have been a replacement for ANY kindof function. This is a total let down. Coffeescript syntax makes way more sense.
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Consul 0.2 UI Demo
People think Weird Twitter is weird, but it's no competition for Weird YouTube.
Design, in general, is an approach to problem solving. Often conflated with visual or graphic design.
Oh, my. Suddenly I want to go find one of these things and hitch a ride on it.
Box Said to Hold Off on IPO Until June as Tech Stocks Tumble
Matloff has a blog? Awesome.
I'm wondering also - anybody know if there is API access to these stats?
CoderQuiz: sharp coders' skills by questions and quiz.
At least in the US "a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment" is called "work for hire" [1], and the employer is the legal author for copyright purposes.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire
Thank you so much for introducing me to that channel. The Internet never fails to surprise me with how strange it can be.
Yeah... they're testing compression for 7 months 24/7 or what? It seems odd. Like they forgot to turn it off.
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