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3G keyloggers. Data egress is completely bypassing your network. (There are pwnie express boxes that include a 3G data link for bypassing target networks when sending results back.) I guess you could add physical scans for unauthorized radio transmitters to your security routine. Opsec is hard.
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Somewhat of a dissent: A law that protects dealers from being screwed over by manufacturers and distributors is a good thing, but the court said that the law protects dealers for car maker G from being harmed by the actions of G, not the actions of car maker T. But if car maker T can act in ways that harm dealers for other car maker G, then some protection is probably needed.

I would expect that the standing issue would be different if dealer for G could show harm by the actions of maker T.

This article gives more info about the decision:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/15/us-tesla-motors-ma...
Hopefully, they'll also be captioned so that deaf entrepreneurs like me can also watch. They've set the standard by funding non-profits, hopefully they'll also set another standard by building an accessible lecture series.
> Yes, UNIX has a bunch of nice ideas, but that is all.
Ouch, that actually hurts a little.
Yes, the kernel team at Microsoft is the real deal, but I'll not go into that.

As to "a bunch of nice ideas", I'd suggest you take a look at the concepts that Plan 9 from Bell Labs brings to the table. The everything is a file concept there is something I wish would have taken over the more classic approach to devices, networking, etc. Want to open a remote shell on another server? Easy as opening a file handle. Accessing the CPU and running programs? Same story. Now if you call that just a nice idea, I rest my case ;-)

Microsoft even explored some of those concepts in their research OSes like Singularity and Midori. There has to be something about those ideas that they appeal even to MS, that's just my view though.
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I found some better sources and cleaned up the links. Thanks for pointing that out. The purpose of the links is to shed more light on what is happening and the relationships among the companies and government bodies.
And if the police were unable to locate them?
A top sales engineer? You'll love working here
HackerRank - we're building a platform for hackers to hone their skills and companies to streamline their recruiting process making the whole technical recruiting process meritocratic.

A ton of top tech companies - amazon, facebook, vmware, yelp, linkedin, bloomberg, etc. use our enterprise product (hackerrank.com/work) to streamline their recruiting process.

We're growing incredibly fast and our annual recurring revenue graph is like this - http://d.pr/i/qJ5U; growing at 80-100% Q-o-Q

Our product sell typically involves selling to recruiting & engineering org and we're looking for sales engineers who can help our customers with all technical issues.

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If the "sample work" only takes a few hours, then I think it is okay.

As an interviewer, I would much rather this than ask candidates a bunch of technical questions which probably don't relate too much to the actual job. I also get to see how they write code, use source control, etc. Then the interview time can be spent determining if the candidate has good communication skills, is a nice person, etc.

As a candidate, I would much rather a "sample work" test because I am a pretty good software engineer but often fail the brain-teaser technical questions. I would much rather have an opportunity to prove that I have the technical capability to perform the actual job.
It's interesting that this is inside of the computer science department and is limited to engineering students considering YC has really been expanding the companies it's accepting. E145[0], an existing and highly sought after technology entrepreneurship course, is just a general engineering class and isn't limited to traditional engineering majors, as far as I'm aware.

Tons of great founders of tech companies come from disciplines outside of engineering and manage to learn enough on their own. I would wonder if it's a function of keeping it from getting oversubscribed or possibly a way to allow the curriculum to be narrowly focused towards how to build a scalable software business.

Exciting stuff regardless!

[0] http://e145.stanford.edu/
Yeah, Tiny Tiny RSS self-hosted on Heroku.

Here's the link to how I did it: https://projectdelphai.github.io/blog/2013/03/15/replacing-g...
Unsure why this is HN-worthy. It is a startup website that lets you log into companies you are visiting.
YC is on a tear.

I have a feeling these guys were testing a model up until this year, and now they are just ready to get started and blow things up.
OpenSMTPD is ridiculously pleasant to configure, without sacrificing features like "I don't want my password in the configuration file".
Uber is the stepping stone to self driving cars. Their valuation will drop when investors realize that anyone can purchase a self-driving car with financing. There is an ocean of mobility demand out there, and its naive to think its going to be captured by Uber because someone installed the Uber app first.
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Like you, I discovered Linux in 1998 and have personally used it exclusively since. I get as many people off the MS and Apple treadmill and onto Libre/OSS as I can, especially in SOHO settings. I've yet to not be able to do something I needed done in Linux, even if it did take a bit more time or effort initially.
Judging from the comments I've repeatedly heard from Europeans, Americans are generally a lot more friendly to strangers than the average European. They are a lot more likely to reach out and strike up a random conversation with someone they have never met and will likely never meet again. Apparently, Europeans a more binary -lots of communication or none at all. Being open to any communication is the norm in America. Implying otherwise is unusual and indicates something is wrong. In practice, it's not expected that a very loose connection will actually say a whole lot, but the channel is never closed without strong reasons.

From all that, saying "stay in touch" is just being polite and making sure the other person doesn't get negative and assume you are thinking "I'd prefer to not speak to you again." -which would be an overly strong rejection (even if it's true).
Let me also plug this short essay "Entrepreneurs Need Strategy" -- very helpful in thinking about startups.
http://mbasys.lingnan.sysu.edu.cn/resource/upload/upkimg/201...
Alibaba's Governance by Politburo: Corporate Governance and Value
I've no idea what wizardry they use to reduce latency, but I do know it is 100% real time. You hear everyone, just like you would in studio.
Sorry for this, I have re-enabled visual controls for the deck.

Though swiping should have worked too.
That, and you can actually turn off third-party cookies.

There's absolutely NO reason you should have them on, and I've been surfing the web just fine this way for 15 years.
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> I cherish Microsoft for its work in Windows, it is the only mainstream OS that can save us from UNIX monoculture.

I tend to simplistically reduce this choice between:

- Everything is a file (the unix way); and

- Everything is an object (the windows way)

Both choices have the potential for great results. In practice, however, the documentation and composability in the everything is a file paradigm has shown to produce better results. Unix ecosystems are more alive; it is easier to replace system parts and create operating systems out of your own choice of replaceable layers. The monolithic nature of Windows is a reflection on the failure of the object oriented approach to operating system interfaces.

Mind you, I don't think it is an intrinsic fault. It may be that it's a fault of this implementation of an OO operating system.

This is the main reason I dislike what the Gnome folks are pushing down Linux's throat. The Gnome way is, today, at odds with the Unix way.
Apologies for using a metaphor. Let me try to clarify. Batches allow you to look at a bunch of companies at roughly the same point in time. So you now get to look at the companies against the backdrop of all the other companies in the same batch. Rather than having to make a one-shot decision about a single start-up you make a decision about which N of the 100's of applicants you like best which will give you a statistical advantage.

But it is possible that YC now has crunched enough data and has enough people in the alumni network that they can abandon the batch model and get the same kind of quality without having to use the batch model.

The 'late' applications were a hint in this direction, if they get rid of the batch model entirely they will have potentially a huge benefit both in load (batches will create temporary overload) and in total throughput.

So instead of having two 'strokes' per year they'd be moving at an ever accelerating pace until they run at the maximum rate at which viable applicants can apply and be processed.
As always:A matter of perspective ;)
You know whats sad that Qt as build by the open source community! and those developers dont get a penny! Boycott digia!
Just an update from the Google side: As discussed below, any Android users on 4.4+ or running Chrome are not affected. For earlier versions of Android, we've shipped patches for AOSP:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/webkit/+/...
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/webkit/+/...

These are in the AOSP branches for jb-dev, jb-mr1-dev, jb-mr1.1-dev, and jb-mr2-dev.﻿
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Or, less far off in the future, will the rise of paid ridesharing change how cars are designed? Perhaps they could be more businesslike in the back where the passenger sits, and more sparse in the front.

(I just realized I effectively described the car version of a mullet.)
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Both OSX and Win8 have app stores now.
There are reasons for their heavy-handed update policy that have nothing to do with malfeasance. Look at the world distribution of Android OS versions in the world for a case study in what happens when you don't force people to upgrade.

So I guess they have three options:

* Release upgrade, people complain

* Don't release upgrade, people complain

* Allow any random OS release to be installed, people complain

Every single one of these options have their own pros and cons. Apple seems to have just selected the first one.
Despite Qt being built for the last 4 years by the open source community this is shot in the back! boycott digia
Just wonder whenever someone had experimented with use of constructed or just uncommon languages for such purposes. Such approach is certainly not consumer-friendly, but fun nonetheless.

Say, a geeky enough person could use Esperanto or Lojban to control always-listening home automation without worrying too much it'll accidentally get unintended commands. Or, maybe, not a general purpose conlang, but a specially constructed one tailored just to quickly express the necessary concepts to machine.
> Siri and Google Now are simply not yet ready to exist

After reading the article: Dustin's ideas are simply not ready to exist.

And somehow he hand-waves toward the ever-enlarging group that uses Siri and Google Now all the time. Sports, weather, directions, etc.
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> The number of times where you deal with things that are guaranteed to be perfectly represented by powers of ten are relatively few.

For a physicist, a few. For an accountant, all.
If you are a Bank you can even get away with money laundering (with a fine, but the money laundering pays it itself): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves...
I find it suspicious when something is posted by someone at the company and immediately receives a bunch of upvotes, with no commentary.

Maybe there is useful discussion to be had about the product, but let the democracy of the HN voting system determine that, before having a bunch of employees upvote it to the front.
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"He the describes, with pride, the look on her face as he showed up at her new house."

Is that describing a man who's happy he's rescued his children, or happy he's re-established dominance over somebody who attempted to escape?

Is the child-rescuer or the dominator more likely to be an abuser?
if you apply to yc and get accepted into their program and your startup happens to be physically located in another part of the country, how difficult is it to find a place to work out of and/or a house to rent? or does yc or the yc alumni network help with finding accommodations too.
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Context for those who don't get the reference:

Blake Masters took notes for Peter Thiel's Startup course at Stanford. [1] The notes quickly become popular.

He actually released a book on startups with Peter Thiel today. [2]

1: http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup

2: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804139296
I use feedly and this self-hosted application to read all sections of Hacker News: http://gianlucaborello.github.io/rssify/
This is really powerful and good for the world.

If you work incredibly hard over a short period of time and watch these videos, you are emulating quite a bit of YC.
Personally, I would never do sample work, but perhaps I'm not the target candidate.

I've been working remotely for ... 8 years now? I've worked for startups through that time and it's always been companies that were already aware of my work.

I don't think I'd ever go through a proving process, but I've been doing this a long time. Perhaps for someone new, it makes sense to do that.

To me it feels insulting, and I've heard stories from friends that they've done sample work that has been used within the company, but they didn't get the job.
Yes. Feedly. Constantly...
Great list. One thing I want to add/emphasize is to consider the remote worker's motivations.

I'm personally not driven by money (it's just a means to an end). So a shortcut to getting bites on a job posting is to understand that there are people working in your field who may very much like to work with you. But they are deterred by past experiences in the office that drove them to work remotely in the first place.

Here are a few things to consider with freelancers:

* They are often most productive outside normal work hours

* Roughly half their time is spent doing research and keeping up with the latest trends

* They probably left the workplace to bootstrap their own startup someday

* Their productivity usually goes down if they are on call or interrupted often

* Beware loose specs and feature creep or you might burn them out and lose them

* Their productivity is limited more by time and money than challenge

* Sometimes they solve problems completely differently than you imagined and that’s ok

* Their short game might stink in some areas so balance them with administrators that take care of formalities

* Self-actualization can be more important for them than recognition

* Perks and benefits probably aren’t in their vocabularies unless they have families to support

By them I mean me, so YMMV..
Sad. I mean, for sure blazing speed needs some limitations, but I use a lot of matrices in my stuff.
nice! i'd read somewhere that the dealership model was actually a key aspect to universal car ownership in the US (wish i could find the link). manufacturers apparently had to lobby state legislatures to allow them to set up auto franchises and had to entice franchisees to set up dealerships (this is where all the complicated kickbacks apparently came into play).

now the franchisees are understandably lobbying for the opposite to keep manufacturers out. i'm sympathetic to dealers as small business owners but i'm no fan of (most) car salesmen. will be interesting to see if this means dealerships become more competitive (better customer service?) or get pushed out. i've also heard that most dealerships make their money on service, but at least with teslas, that's not a big business (and it's more IT than auto mechanic).
See my comment at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325701

Another employee sponsored post that could not have legitimately gotten upvotes outside the company.
This makes the most sense. Two companies offer competition to help drive down costs and a backup plan if one can't deliver.
Which is only tangentially related to Uber, unless you're confusing change now with "wouldn't it be nice if we can make self driving cars reliable sometime in the future".
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See also:

* http://qdb.us/latest - more active than bash.

* http://quotes.burntelectrons.org/browse - quotes from irc.mozilla.org , mostly Mozilla-focused.

* http://www.xkcdb.com/ - covers #xkcd and related channels. Randall Munroe participates sometimes.
Eh, yeah, I'm just not sure it's that simple.

In the article, he points out that Tesla's been given a lot of taxpayer money plus a lot of incentives for buyers to make their product more attractive. And now they now get to skirt around the market rules that other companies have been stuck with and had to build infrastructure and procedures to deal with more effectively.

Maybe Tesla's handouts should be pared back as they grow and are allowed to bypass the old rules.
Hi HN, Philantro's Nonprofit Social Aggregation Project pulls the data from nonprofit's social media accounts in near-real-time (Near for server sake).

It allows the world to get a well rounded view of their favorite nonprofits, find those with similar mission or location, find hashtags that are buzzing in the nonprofit world and provides a treasure trove of data.

It's part of a bigger project I'm building. Thanks, Give Always.
> Their valuation will drop when investors realize that anyone can purchase a self-driving car with financing.

While personal purchase of self-driving cars will be a thing, one big value proposition of self-driving cars is a drives down the relative cost of cars-for-hire compared to personally-owned-vehicles because you no longer need an operator in the vehicle whenever it is available for use (which means that the per-trip fee no longer needs to be enough to pay not only for the maintenance on the car and the operator's time on the trip, but also the operator's down time "on call" to be ready for the next trip.)

Uber might not win the space, but I think its naive to think that self-driving cars don't shift the balance more in favor of for-hire cars.
So, can we expect another edition of Operating Systems: Design and Implementation.
:)
In fairness to the celebrities accused of being cheapskates, I thought it was the case that the trip record in the dataset didn't include a tip amount if it was paid in cash.
I ended up writing my own using SimplePie. Here's a multifeed demo:
http://simplepie.org/wiki/tutorial/how_to_replicate_popurls

With the demise of many of the Craigslist national search apps, I ended up taking SimplePie into that realm and produced a 418-CLfeed search engine for personal use as a collector/hobbyist ...OK, hoarder. Works!
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I'm not sure why we would care. The senate made the rules; they should be the ones to care if the rules are followed. There's not much justification for secrecy, but it's hardly scandalous.
I think it does mean you're likely to get involuntarily unemployed people vs. employed people. Good or bad, I don't know but you are self selecting for people who have less value for their time.
As far as I know, all the modern processors follow the IEEE 754 standard, which is a serious and reliable standard, so if anything like that happens, it shouldn't be a processor issue.

The implementations of the languages are something else, however. I suggest the fine article by Bruce Dawson:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-...
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You're saying it as if having a bunch of nice ideas that have been practically implemented is a negligible thing.

To add on to what a previous commenter said, Plan 9 is proof that Unix's nice ideas are more than a few. In fact, the ultimate irony is that some of the most fascinating OS design has emerged from being more Unix than Unix itself.

Plan 9 has also become pretty much the only breath of fresh air from an architectural standpoint in Linux, what with procfs and all.
I've heard that bands get a higher profit margin from merch than their actual music. Any truth to that? (I ask because, if true, you're doing a big favor to bands!)
Other than risk of facing sanctions (lowe-case s), what is the incentive of say an Ireland to comply when their tax code is such an important reason why businesses go there? All else being equal, won't this hurt the development of many emerging markets (not just tax havens but even Asian countries where businesses have chosen not to re-patriot income - incentiving them to invest locally)
Thanks. Url changed to that from http://www.pddnet.com/news/2014/09/court-tesla-motors-can-se....
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One of the reason such proofs are hard is that there is no reason for these numbers to be rational, it would be a huge coincidence. Proofs typically happen when there is a good reason for things to be a certain way.
Cool. Probably compares more favorably with them than you are letting on. The volume you seem to be implying sounds very impressive.

It does make me wonder if the world should have just gotten better at state machine construction. This seems like if you kept it simple, things would have been straight forward to scale. (Not necessarily easy.)

Which is all to say that I do question how QNX really helped here. Seems more a side detail that neither helped nor hurt the effort.
This talk is not about "transpiling" Smalltalk to JavaScript. Smalltalk is just used as a handy example to drive the presentation. I have added the slide to avoid confusion.
The most attention grabbing part of your comment was when you quoted him as saying "women = user friendly" and "put on a leash". His actual comment contains "I'm old enough to marry and put on my leash", referring to himself.

I understand why you didn't like his comment, but that doesn't justify the misquote. That being said, if you couldn't read his comment well, I understand. His comment's hex color is almost matching the background.
Or the fact that the board design is not open source, unlike the BeagleBone.
I just updated the post to include some more context:

> The test should only take a few hours. We want to be cognizant of everyones time. If it is more than a few hours we always pay the candidate for their time.
Students need to embrace version control systems to become better programmers