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Powering off is not the same as putting the device to sleep.

Windows offers a menu option to the user to sleep the device during the update. That is a design fault.
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"In its "highly critical" announcement, Drupal's security team said anyone who did not take action within seven hours of the bug being discovered on 15 October should "should proceed under the assumption" that their site was compromised."

This quote is not about the people who knew about the vulnerability before the patch was released on Oct 15th, right? I'm sorry but I still think that if the outcome of the release of the patch is 12M sites hacked this isn't a good outcome. I wasn't aware of the 5 day window but maybe a bigger announcement should have been made. I never heard of the issue (and it wasn't on HN) prior to the release of the patch. The Oct 10th announcement wasn't proportional to the size of the issue.

It's trivial to find out what a patch affects but it's not necessarily easy to find out what the issue is unless the patch actually addresses the specific bug. I'm talking more generally than this specific exploit. Let's say there's an OpenSSL bug in AES/128 implementation. You could release a patch to the AES/128 code or you could release a patch disabling AES/128. The former is an open invitation to hackers. The latter still leaves a potentially large task of figuring out what exactly in the AES128 is the issue. I'm not saying this is always possible but I'm pointing it out as an option which should be explored (and I've never seen utilized). By all means just feel free to give the hackers the detailed attack vector as a lot of the latest releases/patches have done.

EDIT: So referencing this:
https://www.drupal.org/PSA-2014-003

Oct 10th: Announcement of some security update without detailing the implications:

Oct 15th: Patch released

7 hours after patch release mass attacks begin.

Oct 29th: If you didn't patch within those 7 hours consider yourself hacked. Until this release this didn't really get many eyeballs.

Nov 1st: Story about scale of hacks hits mainstream media.
I'm sincerely asking since I work alone.
The Palestinians are kept intentionally stateless by most of the nations in the area. It's not just about numbers.

The Arab league policy is that granting Palestinians citizenship or otherwise integrating them in the population would effectively give Israel carte blanche to depopulate Palestine by driving the population into exile, and so it's strongly frowned upon, with the result that Jordan is the only country who have granted citizenship to a large proportion.
WOW, this is scary. I'm from India and thinking of getting my MS in CS next year. I hope i don't end up like this.
I think the way it has to be explained is that, sometimes I'll read a book but my phone will be there. Just near me so I'll tap the on button, no notifications, back to reading. Tap the on button. Read. I didn't check the time. What time is it? Tap the on button. Ignore the time. Read. Turn the on button. I can never just read. Its fun but not exciting.
Check out Pocketcast - http://www.shiftyjelly.com/pocketcasts I use it on Android and it's awesome. It has tons of features but automatically downloading the episodes and playing the audio at faster speed are my favorite options. I listen to almost all of the podcasts at 1.6-1.7x speed.
> What happens if you power off an iPad (or any other device, for that matter) in the middle of a system update?

You don't. During the critical period, it won't let you. I mean, you can hold both power and home for several seconds to force it off, but if you're regularly powering off your iPad that way, something is seriously wrong...
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Something to think about: it's possible you have more than one named disorder (though they could be related in chemistry). When I first started ADHD meds I had a similar reaction as you, though I wound up in actual panic attacks from the anxiety. When I treated the anxiety with an ultra-low dose then everything came out perfect.

I've since stopped the anxiety med and feel I've trained myself a little more on how to handle it. I have my moments but have the skills I need now to recognize those moments and bring myself down. Luckily one can do that with mild anxiety, unlike ADHD...

The biggest non-medicinal benefits are absolutely sleep, nutrition, and exercise -- you're right. Without a good foundation, nothing can be built.
Wow, terrible situation for any parent.

> “I like to believe what Susannah said,” he says, going back to his daughter’s theory. “That when I said ‘I love you,’ that broke through. That he was still delusional, but that did break through, and the old Gus heard that. Not the old Gus — Gus.

I do wonder about this. That his idea of his son was someone who wasn't delusional. That the illness was not the "real" Gus, or even the "new" Gus but that it's some other person. I wonder about treating these things as external to the person.

I wonder if Gus thought the "real" version of himself had delusions. I never met him, but I would think you'd need to accept, on some level, that those things really are a part of you.
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As bad as some of these stories are, H1-B is way better than an L1 visa. Talk about indentured servitude. With an H1-B visa, an employee can at least change jobs and find another employer to work for. All the other employer has to do is transfer the H1 sponsorship, which is a few thousand dollars in fees but no legal hassles and not much delay. So with H1, you have decent job mobility. With the L-1 visa, which is almost never discussed in the media covering immigration, there is ZERO job mobility. You can only work for the company that got you to the United States from abroad where you were working for the same company. And for Indians who are here LEGALLY, the wait for a green card can be up to 9 years. A lot of companies make their employees wait before even applying for a green card. So they get a good 10 years of indentured servitude legally here in the United Sates.
Classrooms look the same today as they did in the 1960s. Help us change that at Clever (YC S12)

There’s a lot of great educational software out there - think Oregon Trail, Math Blasters, and Carmen Sandiego - but teachers can’t use it in schools. Teachers would love to use programs like these, but synchronizing data between their school’s database and external software applications is a huge problem that results in wasted time at the start of class and frustrated, bored students… which leads to software being abandoned entirely. 80% of K-12 teachers would use more software in classes if getting students logged in weren’t such a hassle, and a quarter of all class time that’s supposed to be dedicated to software is wasted on logins alone.

Developers have a similar problem: they love clean APIs, but in the education industry, they haven’t had one. Most K-12 schools house their student data in ancient legacy databases that make integrations a nightmare. If you’re a five-person startup and you’ve built an app that revolutionizes the way third-graders learn fractions, there’s simply no way to get your product in front of students.

Clever (YC S12 - clever.com) is solving these problems by building a modern, developer-friendly API for schools… which we give them for free. Developers love being able to plug into schools without having to write a complex integration for every single district they’re working with, so they pay us for access to the platform. This business model has helped us grow quickly; we’re now in 1 in 5 schools in America (over 30,000 schools), and our product is used by millions of students every day.

Our goal is to become the education identity company. The first step in that direction is our Instant Login single sign-on platform: a universal login that allows students to access all of their learning applications in one place. (This is a big deal if you’ve ever seen a second-grader try to manage fifteen different usernames and passwords.)

Right now we’re a team of 40 people (17 engineers) based in downtown San Francisco. We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you.

Other stuff we like:
-Tech talks. Every other Tuesday, we do “Clever Talks” during lunch where one of us will give a presentation on anything he/she’s interested in. Recent talks have covered exoplanets, neuroscience, hacking big-company customer service interactions, and what’s wrong with American high school history education.
-Bughouse chess. We play pretty frequently, although not always with Magnus Carlsen: http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo
-Picking up new skills. We offer unlimited Amazon credits for learning.

Check us out: https://clever.com/about/jobs

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.
There're things I agree or disagree on with author (for example, I still have NerdTree installed, but find myself almost never using it, instead I use tree -f in separate terminal window) but probably only one thing I'm still not sure about:

I don't use buffers explicitly at all, only tabs instead, like in any IDE. Sometimes vsplit. I even have custom mappings for ctags to open stuff in new tabs instead of buffers. I treat hidden buffers as legacy needed mostly for technical reasons. Yet I keep seeing other people using multiple buffers, switching between them. So, should I reconsider, maybe? And why?
Hardcore History is fantastic.
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics -- another good choice.
This is disgusting on so many levels. Hopefully us Indians can now stop being so starry eyed over working abroad and see it for what it is.
I'm sure trickle-down medicine works just as well as trickle-down economics. Which is to say it wont, except for the rich people buying their way into clinical trials, of course.
> was the world of radio so different 8 years ago?

Absolutely. Ad rates have fallen and the number of outlets that you can listen to radio in are fading away. Clock radios are being replaced by smartphones, and kitchen radios are something your mother had 15 years ago. Go to Target... Clock radios had 16ft of shelf space in 2004. Today, there are like 8 choices on a single shelf sandwiched between Bluetooth speakers and cordless phones.

AM radio cannot afford local talent or local news. So it's mostly devolved into the crazy political stuff and infomercial style programming. The few stations that make an effort to have local content are often pushing mobile apps for listening more heavily.

Podcasting is growing because we've saturated the population with smartphones, and people are figuring out how to produce a professional sounding show cheap.
I took a small dose of shrooms few months ago; it made me closer to nature, and it got rid of my porn/fapping addiction. I really think that psychedelics have the potential to "round" people out.
You know, it's certainly possible to have a better mental health care system in the US. The barrier is we don't want to pay for it. Discussing this on a place like HN with a strong undercurrent of glibertarian fyigm is wasting your time and energy. See, for example, any of the threads discussing the many negative effects of the tech boom on sf; the idea that we live as part of a community and have shared responsibilities is anathema to HN.
Since I suspect not many artists lurk around here, let me just say this: the newly updated pressure curves make a _huge_ difference. It was one of the few complaints I had with the device. As it is, it's an almost perfect tool for artists. Say what you will about Microsoft, but this is a fine machine.
> "I don't have a short attention span and I'm not hyperactive"

I thought these were the defining characteristics of ADHD? I'm sorry, please forgive my lack of familiarity.

> "When things lose my interest or are pointless they become tedious"...

I don't understand how this is considered a symptom of anything. To me, this is entirely normal. Things that you aren't interested in should be tedious. The mental barrier you speak of is internal honesty - you don't find importance or interest in X, and consequently, motivation doesn't emerge.
It's splitting hairs, IMO. One form breaks out motivations and one presents an external view. It's a writing exercise more than a useful diagnostic.
These are people whose main aim is to exploit the system, and they are doing there best to game the system the best know.
The companies taking advantage rely on their marks/employees being naive, so you'll be fine once you know to be careful:

1) Get direct employment with a reputable US company instead of via a contracting company.

2) Don't sign any contracts that have any penalty for quitting. You may want to hire a lawyer to review any contracts.

3) If you are in a bad contract and your employer sues you, make sure you hire a decent lawyer. The biggest victims were those that ignored the suits or tried to represent themselves and lost their cases by default.
A modern, well-architected site build works wonderfully with the aforementioned tools. In fact, I have a demonstration VM (Vagrant + Ansible) that you can use to bootstrap a Drupal site with a given install profile/configuration in a few minutes using a Drush makefile: https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-dev-vm

Sadly, most Drupal developers and development shops either don't know about or don't care to take the time to build sites in this manner (instead of schlepping databases and file dumps all over the place, export everything to code)... but if you do, team-based/large project Drupal development becomes so much more sane.
This doesn't happen very frequently in California. Its much more prevalent in other states.
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Join us on this incredible journey to become a market leader in the social media display and aggregation space. We have plenty of interesting engineering challenges to conquer and relationships to nurture with big brands with endless opportunity for personal growth along the way. Some of the tech we work with: MySQL, Redis, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Marionette & Backbone.js

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Viable Startup. No connections
Hi All,
I am a bit worried. I have a viable startup with some small traction & growth. I built the startup by myself. The problem is I have no co-founder & I just graduated college & I don't have any "serious," network connections. Iv'e exhausted my network. What would you recommend I do? I don't want this startup to fall through the cracks because I am the only founder. Also-It's late to apply for a majority of incubators. What would you recommend I do? I'm committed to the start up but I don't have any real connections
Why innocent people plead guilty
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This article's premise is built on an incorrect understanding of "treating" or "fixing" or "losing" (symptoms).

If: baseline x is underwhelming to the point of painful boredom
Else: baseline y is higher and therefore satisfyingly stimulating

Then the fundamental problem of a lacking reward system for "normal" (x) baseline activity remains unresolved.

I have ADHD and decided to try medication for the first time only a few years ago (in my 20's). Sure, keeping things "interesting" and "new" can trick one's mind into paying additional attention towards the daily grind, but not for one second does that mean that ADHD would be resolved.

To make a more clear point, let's apply this thinking to another context: Murderers would be cured if there weren't anyone to murder, right? No. You're supposed to solve problems, not symptoms.
Thanks, I agree it would be best to get a few more years under my belt. How did you get into startup surfing?
People in countries where it was not going to be outlawed, or customers who planned to use it for illegal purposes anyway.
The problem with 0% inflation is that people with money have no incentive to risk it.

IMO you need a cycle of inflation between 2-7% to keep things healthy. Dollars stockpiled in some account are not doing anyone any good.
Would it be possible to get an invite?
Facebook, Microsoft and others do end up using consulting firms like Cognizant, which generally provide them H1-B immigrant workers. The conditions of their employment, at least in my eyes, are similarly predatorial in nature.
>Cost per transaction of $19 is a fair amount of friction

Haha, I have no idea what that chart is talking about. It might be in cents. Even then, it seems expensive.

My phone client uses a ~$0.05 fee, I think.

All fees are optional. Your transaction might just take longer without one.
You brought a very good point. Thank you.
Great references, I'll definitely read. Thank you.
Duplicate post: this article is currently on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544775
Got hired by one. They didn't have enough people so I added about a dozen acronyms to the resume. After it cratered I picked up a job based on those acronyms. Rinse and repeat.
Your advices are constructive and practical. They're great. Thank you.
Yeah, It is the interesting part. Because with sufficiently large inputs (even from different sources) the networks are going to be looking for the same patterns.
Humans have a constantly changing view of things, so any adversarial examples from one angle quickly change when viewed from another angle.

This issue can be framed in another way, something incorrectly classified could become easily classified with very minor changes in perspective.
I'd be interested to hear what Alan Watts would think of this self dialog.
There's some saying about rich people being cheap is what made them rich in the first place, but I'm not super convinced this carries over into business.

It is extremely frustrating that a lot of tech companies have ended up like so many other companies : caring only about that dollar metric, and not considering the human aspect. So what if it costs more? At least you can feel better about yourself for not treating people as slaves.

For a while I was naive enough to think that SV, being so awash with cash, would not feel the need to become filled with money-grubbers.
That's enormously high salary for 2 yr experienced Dev. You must be working for Facebook for such high salary.
Care to mention company name at least ?

I know at least 10 - 20 people in CA with four times more experience than you working on 70% of salary of yours.

Don't want to sound venomous but what you are getting is nothing but "bubble" salary.
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Totally have to agree with this. I've tried a lot of other editors, but keep coming back to Vim. Drew Neil's "Practical Vim" really helped me increase my leverage on using it well, and its tag line is of course, "Editing Text at the Speed of Thought."

Whenever I find myself repeating something painful, it is almost always solved by searching the resources in the Vim community for solutions.
I have heard that Ubuntu works "OK" (which I interpret as "barely tolerable") on a Surface Pro 3. Does anyone have firsthand experience with that or another Linux distro on that hardware?

I have also heard of people running Ubuntu via VirtualBox or HyperV on a Surface Pro 3, which I'd expect to work as well as anything else.
The prosecution doesn't really fear losing a case. If the prosecution actually lost more cases that went to trial they would be far less aggressive when seeking plea bargains.
I think they did an offer to change this later.
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Interesting. I never thought it this way. They're still correlated though right?
As an artist, I still found the surface pro 3 heats up after using it for longer than 30 minutes, making drawing on the screen uncomfortable. I still have my surface pro 1, and it's usable with a glove, but I generally don't like drawing with gloves.

It's not a problem that I have with my Cintiq Companion Hybrid. I hope Microsoft fixes the heat issue at some point.
Just an extension of the scummy tech recruiter industry we have currently.