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My memory's a bit foggy about what's in each one and how much of an acid trip they all are, but I'd say episodes 6-14 are kind of the sweet spot you're looking for. The next several, from 15-19 cover some good stuff but are getting really wacky, and beyond that could be good if they weren't so damned weird.
Stand up to the shit the NSA is doing. Eject those fucking bastards who operate the NSA listening posts in Germany.

Seriously, everyone who works for the NSA has lost all my respect. You're undermining civil rights for everyone including yourself.
Take a look at http://ringcentral.com
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Anya Groner: The Heart You Save Won’t Be Your Own
For languages with exactly one useable implementation, the distinction is rather academic. In the case of C++, as far as I know, every production-quality compiler produces code which runs circles around code produced by any Java compiler.

In addition, some languages have features which cause them to be more difficult to optimize. (See, e.g., the restrict keyword in C99.)
The problem is that everything is inflating except wages, which are still under extreme deflationary pressure due to outsourcing and automation.

Stagnant or deflating wages means stagnant or falling consumer spending, resulting in an environment where there don't seem to be any good growth investments (no customers). As a result, you get bubbles in "safe" assets like real estate and bonds and lots of trendy speculation.

I'd say both inflation and deflation are happening. We're getting inflation everywhere it's harmful, and deflation everywhere it's harmful.

We are in a depression.
Publicly traded stocks have SEC reporting requirements. The lottery has a well known expected return of 0.
Publicly traded stocks comply with SEC regulations, which have a lot of provisions about properly informing the public, reporting on material events, etc. There's no ban on the general public making private equity investments either, if the company is willing to register the offering with the SEC and comply with similar requirements.

What's at issue here is just an exemption from those requirements. If you have relatively few investors and they are all deemed to be sophisticated investors, Congress has decided that you can waive the usual investor-protection rules, cut out the SEC's involvement, and negotiate your own conditions directly with the investors. The rationale is that if you have relatively few and presumed-to-be-professional investors, those investors know how to negotiate appropriate conditions on their own, rather than relying on SEC protection, so are allowed to do so. Sophisticated investors often have a "term sheet" they offer (vetted by their lawyer), or else have a lawyer on retainer to negotiate terms with you individually. If you're offering an investment to the general public, on the other hand, the assumption is that they probably don't have a term sheet handy or a lawyer on retainer, or really any knowledge about this whole sector at all. So in that case you need to comply with the regular disclosure and investor-protection rules. But you aren't banned from taking on non-accredited investors, as long as you're willing to comply with standard SEC terms.

The practical problem is that registering your offering with the SEC and complying with the disclosure requirements has pretty high fixed costs, so is often considered prohibitive for small companies. Therefore there's kind of a rule of thumb that you should avoid non-accredited investors in order to fit in the exemption, at least until you grow bigger, which is where I think the myth that you literally can't take non-accredited investors originates. (My own preferred solution to that would be to streamline the system to reduce cost of compliance for small companies, rather than expanding the definition of what constitutes a sophisticated investor.)
There is almost no appropriate scenario for you to waste your life with law school. I'm in a top school now (T6), and I've never regretted a decision more. I will owe nearly $300,000 before I'm done, having sacrificed my youth and health in pointless competition for brutal work conditions that very few of us will be lucky to have.

If you win this BigLaw competition, you'll work impossible hours for as long as you can. Typically that's two to five years before you burn out/get fired and search desperately for any other line of work. Nobody makes partner anymore unless you have connections to make it rain. The traditional escape routes of government work (which is difficult and way underpaid, but at least provides a more reasonable workweek) or public interest work simply don't exist anymore. Between austerity and poverty and desperate competition by established attorneys, we no longer have a chance at a decent living over the course of a lifelong career.

If you "win" at law school, you get to join BigLaw firms that consume you, body and soul, for a handful of years. Only the tiniest percentage of graduates can earn these jobs, mostly the upper tier of the best schools. The middle tier at these schools can try for second-tier firms which pay two-thirds of the salary for exactly the same brutal hours and terrible conditions of BigLaw. The bottom tier, or virtually anyone at lower schools, gets nothing at all.

My local Starbucks has a staff of about eight people, two of whom are freshly minted JDs. And the future is coming for us. I strongly endorse reading this article (http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_2_machines-vs-lawyers.ht...) to understand the future of legal practice. Important quote: "Discovering information, finding precedents, drafting documents and briefs, and predicting the outcomes of lawsuits—these tasks encompass the bulk of legal practice. The rise of machine intelligence will therefore disrupt and transform the legal profession."

Don't do it. I wish I had pursued computer science instead. HN will eat law alive, and it'll do a vastly better job of it than human lawyers have. If you must get involved in the field, do it as a hacker in the fields of electronic discovery, contract databases, or intelligent query research. As it stands, most legal questions are assembled from disjointed queries into truly awful Westlaw/Lexis databases by tech-illiterate lawyers, harried by their enormous workloads and failing personal lives. The field is crying out for better data sorting and search. Fix that problem and get rich, but don't join the hopeless masses of law school graduates.
Obviously. My point was that a show about a spaceship and a company that launches spaceships are close enough that you could imagine it was some kind of marketing tie-in. It's just plausible enough that it wouldn't necessarily be thrown out as absurd, and that's usually enough to scare off most startups (since going to court over it would be much more detrimental to the small startup than to 20th Century Fox).

I can imagine they'd want to tread lightly and not name one of their spaceships after a spaceship on the show Firefly.
>> - the chips used (32kb 90s-style smartcards AIUI) are simple to read and save, making chip and pin readers susceptible to the same social engineering attacks as magnetic stripe cards (btw, in the UK there have been skimmers for chip and pin for some time)

Erm, while it is simple to read public data off a smart card, you can't get at the private keys etc, this is pretty secure.

I work in this area and while I am aware of a couple of weaknesses in the scheme (Static Data Authentication is a big one, but only affects some cards), I am not aware that even a PoC 'skimmer' exists.

AFAIK (and as I said, I work in this industry) the only key-recovery attack so far involved an electron microscope.

>> - most terminals on the market transmit the pin in the clear from one part of the unit to the other, so it is trivial to doctor a legitimate chip and pin unit

This depends on the card, not the terminal. All parts of the system in a terminal must be secure, we have stringent standards to stop tampering.

>> it is difficult for the consumer to verify the trustworthiness of an unfamiliar chip and pin unit

This is true. A fake unit could me made pretty trivially.

>> in the UK, people often still try to walk away with my card, just as when we had magnetic stripe

This is less of a concern.

>> IMO the main selling point of Chip and PIN to UK retail banks is that they allow banks to reassign liability to for fraud to the customer. When your signature is forged, existing law clearly says you are not liable. When you PIN is discovered and used to send transactions, existing law is unclear and currently this allows banks to convince the customer to accept the liability.

100% false.

The liability transfer was to the merchant, not the customer.

>> In the UK, Chip and PIN seemed to cut fraud for a while, until attacks like skimming were applied. Now fraud is back on the rise :(

Please provide sources for EMV skimming attacks, I'd love to read about them.
I wish this app had more support for PGP
a language without types, without extensive research? Then, why not C/D/Pascal. i strongly believe for universities sml/ocaml/haskell or even rust are far better choices. I prefer sml.
Excerpt:

“Working with Social Services is hard and the stress is tremendous,” one man wrote. “You hate it. They make you feel like you’re nobody. Cow dung on someone’s shoes.”

“Social Services is very disrespectful,” complained another. “They put you in a low category, which is not fair.”

When clients lost their patience and became loud or violent they were escorted to the sheriff’s office, conveniently located in the same building. As a client pointed out to me one day, the proximity felt like entrapment.
"just because I'm not rich?"

Yes for your own protection.

Because if you don't have money then the rest of society often becomes the "clean up the mess" of last resort if you make a mistake using one of your last dimes to invest in a potentially risky venture.

"but I'm not allowed to benefit from those investments in certain ways"

The chance of "gambling" is much higher if someone perceives a payout. Not to say there aren't many ways that people throw out their money (QVC, Casinos etc.) but those are grandfathered and part of a different discussion. (And the fact that they are allowed whether the same or different doesn't mean something else should also be allowed).
You have to take into account where the game industry jobs are, too. I work across the highway from id, and around here I wouldn't be shocked to find out entry level programmers make $60k/year. It's low, but not unreasonable considering the glut of people who seem to want in to the industry.
Fantastic. They seem to be handling this better than the debacle that was the 4.0 release. Kudos to the team for all their hard work.
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Publicly traded companies are required to regularly make disclosures to their investors and the SEC. Not that most people read these disclosures ... but in theory, there's less of an information asymmetry than with private companies.

The lottery is usually a state-owned monopoly, so in theory, society as a whole back the cost of gambling. Or the state is simply unwilling to give up its own cash cow.
Yes, you're right, so crowdsourcing is appropriate to say. The second option, "If a user asks enters a product that is already in the database and you already have a better price, notify him in a mail a few minutes later that you have a better price and he will be impressed", is a little longer than a few minutes right now but we will improve that very soon.
ok now please implement this interface over the ethercalc api =)
iOS 8 beta 3 activates WiFi calling feature for U.S. T-Mobile iPhones
"The solution to this dilemma, of course, is simple. Private equity firms have become large and rich enough that they should do their own damn recruiting at colleges to hire junior personnel."

This is already the case, at least at Wharton. A number of the PE megafunds recruit undergraduates here, specifically Blackstone and Silver Lake. I only really know of one or two offers being extended per year, but that's because private equity shops simply have fewer entry-level positions -- they can therefore afford to be picky.

I'm sure that PE middle-market companies also recruit here (my knowledge here is more limited, as I gravitate toward the technology portion of my education rather than the finance portion), but it seems likely that students would take a bulge-bracket investment bank over a middle-market PE shop.

It's simple supply and demand.
A Tor user at Harvard was successfully tracked when he sent a bomb threat, since he was the only user on the Harvard LAN using Tor at the time the threat was issued.

That wasn't proof, of course, but it didn't need to be proof, just a good lead for law enforcement to kick-start their investigation.
Perhaps it's what you're familiar with and the intended use case. I personally can't stand the way APT won't let you override certain behavior. RHEL / CentOS have always favored stability over being bleeding-edge, and in my experience EPEL provides enough newer software to make the system usable for most cases, although if you're wanting the latest frameworks, etc.. I can see that being incompatible with your needs. I have very rarely had any problems with broken dependencies in Red Hat repositories except for the occasional 15-minute hiccup. SUSE seems to have more problems, but still has never been enough of a problem to make me question using it in production.
so this is a complete misuse of the concept of inflation and deflation.

The correct way to phrase this is: Our inflation rate is on the upswing (so that's like a third derivative), but workers are getting screwed because their wages are under downward pressure.
Yup. The author obviously have seen it all.
> Analysts know that the internal track will end at the associate level (or, more likely, they'd be booted out after two years with no internal promotion to associate at all)
> What's interesting is that a similar thing happens after two years as a private equity associate, in that almost all PE associates are booted out after two years

Many PE shops, VC funds and banks do this because they want you to get an MBA. This is why many of the associate hiring positions are described as pre-MBA associate and post-MBA associate. Post-MBA associates are the ones that will go onto internal promotions and potentially the partner track.
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Yes. A lottery ticket is one dollar, and people know that the chances of winning are infinitesimally small.

The difference is that a cold-call from a a convincing enough salesman can get someone to invest too much money in what is essentially a different type of lottery in the best of circumstances. In the worst of circumstances you have: pump and dumps, Ponzi schemes, etc.
As long as the job of a programmer is to be a business subordinate, it will not change and we'll see crappy code forever.

Mainstream business culture conceives of management as a greater-than relationship. You're a lesser being than your boss, who's a lesser being than his boss, and so on... It also is inhospitable to the sorts of people who are best at technology itself. Finally and related, it conceives of "working for" someone not as (a) working toward that person's benefit, as in a true profession, but (b) being on-call to be micromanaged. The result is that most programmers end up overmanaged, pigeonholed, disempowered, and disengaged. Shitty code results.

If you want to fix code, you have to fix the work environment for programmers. Open allocation is a big step in the right direction, and technical decisions should be made by technical people. Ultimately, we have to stop thinking of "working for" someone as subordination and, instead, as working toward that person's benefit. Otherwise, of course we're going to get shitty code as people desperately scramble (a) up the ladder, or (b) into a comfortable hiding place.
But that's precisely what he/she needed to insinuate. That claim is worthless to the users it's targeted towards.
Neat. I'll be interested to see how access restriction by user is handled? Obscure header key or URL? Something authenticated? I guess I will have to sign up to find out. It doesn't appear to be documented publicly.
Both are very heavily monitored and regulated while the companies you might angel invest in have essentially no oversight at all.
Because no matter what your age, if you're poor, the SEC treats you like you're five.

If you are not already rich, the SEC feels it must protect you from yourself, as if you were a child reaching for a hot stove. No matter how many degrees or professional-certifications you have, nor how much domain-expertise you have, nor how wisely your wealth is portfolio-balanced, nor how excellent your credit-score, when you don't pass a firm wealth-test, the SEC is still allowed to discriminate against you as a poor person.

On the other hand, if you've inherited a million dollars, you're obviously brilliant and self-reliant! Here, run through Demo Day with these diamond-plated scissors and your checkbook!

Remember, if you're poor, you're still allowed to buy no-money-down houses at cyclical peaks, or public stocks on deep margins, or derivatives that expire worthless. You may donate all your money to projects you like, with no expectation of monetary reward other than a t-shirt or other symbolic trinkets. You may also max your credit cards and buy state lottery tickets! In fact, you've probably already enjoyed our emotional, misleading ad campaigns encouraging you to do that.

Just no private equity with any chance of recouping any value for you. That's for the Lords, not you poor peons.
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I see a lot of people suggesting books on design patterns.
Congrats on getting it done to this point. You underestimated how being on HN affects your traffic so it's a little sluggish. ;)

You have too much tiny text. Your signup form is not distinctive. Even adding a class of "bg-success" to your div with the id of "signup-form" (that will give it a greenish background) would be somewhat helpful. Spend some time reading http://getbootstrap.com and you'd be surprised how much you better you will get in a few hours once you understand which classes are available to you. It has a lot of decorator classes that will transform your colorless UI instantly.

Since you provided no test user credentials and I am not willing to skew your metrics by registering, I can't evaluate how the site functions for a registered user.

You featured a blog post very prominently and wrote it in a self-deprecating style. While I appreciate the creativity, that does not help in increasing conversions.

My biggest concern

I am not sensing product direction besides your innovative mailbox that filters by intent. This feels like "I wanted to try building a dating website and didn't think about a unique hook".

I agree that traditional dating sites have abysmal messaging. This can be a good hook.
>> $10K is an unreasonable amount of money to cite here. Heck, how many of us even have credit limits that high?

I've bought cars using plastic before. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one to do this.

Frankly I'd rather deal with the odd bit of CC fraud than carry a gun, but then I'm British.
> I can not believe this is the normal legal process.

It's not.

> There must have been some extraordinary circumstances that I am not aware of.

Possible, but so far, the case is mostly sealed (refer to the above statement). From what we know, Microsoft identified some botnet(s) using noip's service as part of their infrastructure. Nothing points to noip knowing about the botnet, so we must assume until we know otherwise that they had no knowledge. This leaves us with a US company waking up one day to find their property seized by another US company, supposedly with the backing of a US court.

> Given that Microsoft probably hasn't got more legal rights than anyone else, could No-IP do the same to Microsoft?

Probably not -- Microsoft has a history of helping Law Enforcement track down botnets -- in the past they have literally marched into data centers and seized all the servers from a company without their knowledge (they even did this overseas outside of the US once). It's unlikely if noip were to bring suit against Microsoft, that it would go anywhere.

(It's as scary as it sounds when a private company is leading Law Enforcement, instead of the other way around).
Ask HN: Email from the future.
I read a story not that long a go, about how Google is testing D-Wave 2 quantum computer on verge here is the link.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/19/5824336/google-s-quantum-computer-just-flunked-its-first-big-test

This got me thinking of quantum computers in general, the next day I came across this story from the New York times about how scientist's reported
finding a reliable way of transferring data by quantum teleportation across 3 metres here is the link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/science/scientists-report-finding-reliable-way-to-teleport-data.html

This then got me thinking what if you had the quantum computer with the quantum teleportation and where able to send information not across a distance but to the past.

So instead of sending a person back in time like back to the future which will be extremely complex you just send 1's and 0's.

The best way to send those 1's and 0's would be an email.

So the earliest you could send it would be 1974 if your father worked for the military or worked at a University. Or when email became popular in 1990's. This means history can only be altered from this time on.

What would you send?
War has always been a game of each side adapting their offensive/defensive weapons to their opponents' defensive/offensive improvements. I expect that to continue. But that doesn't prevent me from admiring clever optimizations along the way.
Wow, this is the definition of nanny-state. This rule should be removed, not tightened!

What's next? I don't make enough to trade stocks? To gamble? To spend above my means?
> If you "win" at law school, you get to join BigLaw firms that consume you, body and soul, for a handful of years. Only the tiniest percentage of graduates can earn these jobs, mostly the upper tier of the best schools. The middle tier at these schools can try for second-tier firms which pay two-thirds of the salary for exactly the same brutal hours and terrible conditions of BigLaw. The bottom tier, or virtually anyone at lower schools, gets nothing at all.

It reminds me of that great Alec Baldwin monologue in the movie version of Glengarry Glen Ross: "First prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anybody wanna see second prize? Second prize: a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."
How is this legal? Let's assume he lost the money, how would this show up in the companies books?
We have shitloads of them. Squarespace, Blogger, Wordpress, on to new hotnesses like Macaw, Dreamweaver, on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...it's really pretty insane to argue, in 2014, that we have some kind of lack of simple-to-use website-creation things.

If your response is, "Sure, but they can't do anything complex/building interactive experiences is still hard" well, we had Flash, etc, but also, at some point this is moving the goalposts so far as to constitute meaninglessness. If what you're asking is, "why isn't there a simple-to-use WYSIWYG editor that I can use to build anything I want," then my answer is, "it's riding on the back of my unicorn."
More direct question:

Our team uses virtualenv and pip install from requirement lists. What additional benefits does Docker offer?