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You left off the key part of that sentence.

The point is you're surrounded by other young people voraciously exploring themselves intellectually. It's just a different experience when you try to do college at 30.

Of course you could forge your own path, and I support that, but OP sounded like he was forgoing college in order to go to work to make money. His mother's article was about how he can just make money coding. If he had wrote that he was traveling for 6-12 months to research his first novel I'd have said fantastic, can't wait to read your notes.
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I'll fix it. Thanks :)
We're hoping to overhaul our authentication system next year. App-specific passwords is on our list.
> The Freedom Act is likely better than whatever a Republican controlled legislative branch will pass

In terms of passing new legislative initiatives (modulo some appropriations stuff), the legislative branch is already effectively Republican-controlled because of the GOP House.

The big Senate changes are probably Udall's departure and Feinstein and Leahy losing their committee chairs. Udall's successor is also pro-reform but without the seniority. As for Leahy, there's a reason why the Sunlight Foundation and the other groups have been critical of his bill.

For background I wrote this last year:

http://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-senate-oversight-bill-may-handc...
...the Vermont Democrat also authored the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which is now looming over Web companies, as well as the deeply unpopular Protect IP Act. Leahy had introduced significant portions of the Patriot Act under the name Enhancement of Privacy and Public Safety in Cyberspace Act (PDF) more than a year before the September 11 attacks happened...
you may not want the enemy to know you're sending a fleet of fighter jets in their direction.
I'd argue (perhaps weakly) that Ford was the last car company started by people from outside the industry.
That would only be strictly true if the company is trading at 1x book value, which is rarely true. If the company is trading at a high multiple of book value, then issuing more shares means that current shareholders get a smaller stake in the ultimate payout, in return for a relatively small increase in current assets, which almost certainly reduces share price.

As any startup founder knows, the art is to issue just enough shares to fund the company to grow to success -- and in fact, to do this in stages, each time issuing only enough shares to make it to the next milestone.

In practice, for large companies, the quantity of shares issued is generally small and gradual enough that any dilution is factored in gradually to the share price.
> That's great to hear. Regarding the Android app having just checked it out, my first request, if you're taking them, is multiple account support. I can only log into one fastmail.com account at a time with what is here now. The reason I have two accounts is because I have two domains that get emails.

Yep, its high on the todo list for a future update.

> http://jmap.io/ seems pretty awesome, I guess I can use that to build my own fastmail app integration?

That's the intent, though we're not there yet.
When I saw the post I was worried that HN would eat this crap up. But this is the appropriate level of revulsion. Whew.
No, and it won't happen unless Apple open up their IMAP push channel.

Now that our app is released we're unlikely to pursue this further.
We have Bridgeport Village, the same situation in Tigard/Tualatin Oregon. Makes no sense to me either.

It's nearby, so I go there on occasion because they have a movie theater and an Apple store. But I'd much prefer an indoor mall for about 9 months of the year.
Hi. OP here.
The article is part of the Freedom Layer project, where we describe the research of creating a scalable and secure mesh network. (It is currently still an open problem, at least by what we know).

The first things we have decided to do is to document known stuff. Then we move on to documenting our research. We will try to make it as down to earth as possible, though later articles might get more complicated. Some new results are also going to be discussed.
This is awesome! I've been really frustrated with music lately and have been wanting something like this. Thanks for making and sharing.
Back when I worked at Boeing, there were the techs and the engineers. They worked side by side, often doing the same thing. The engineers had degrees, dressed differently, and got paid more. The techs would say that they were doing the same job, why weren't they paid the same?

The pragmatic answer is the engineers could do the math to analyze the design, the techs could not. I've never seen anyone learn math on the job. They'll learn everything else but the math.

A huge part of an engineering curriculum is math and how to apply it to solve problems. Every engineering exam I had, no matter what the course was ostensibly about, was math.
In addition, ICANN requires registries (the companies that run TLDs) to escrow their data so that it won't be lost in case they go out of business. http://icannwiki.com/Data_Escrow
It does, however, counter the parent, who said "No problem, women are better at these jobs anyway". People do think it's a problem, and there are efforts trying to counter that problem, same as with women in technical fields.
The feedback input and submit button have different bottom padding; it's really making my eye twitch.
You're right. Got my wires crossed. State of the Art vs. one of the Culture novels set in a non-Earth middle ages (Transitions?)
Boxer has a passcode to open the app? Cloudmagic has one
"The guy you're holding a conversation with probably thinks himself superior to you. Let him. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain from maintaining this illusion."

I would agree if there was some equality between who is getting shafted. SV is replete with examples of founders or employees getting screwed over and burned up by contract clauses or other financial shell games.
Also, before college, one doesn't actually know what is needed to learn for a particular career. A college curriculum provides a guide to what to learn.
I majored in math. If you're doing full-stack web dev (what this guy seems to be doing), it's useless. You'd only need math if you were doing something like machine learning or computer graphics. And like I said, there's nothing you learn in school that you can't learn online. Math classes especially tend to be taught straight from the textbook.
The GGP post describes a "personal assistant to CEO" position, in a large company these positions can be very well paid.

It's also easy to argue that discrimination in lower paid fields could actually be more harmful. Taking a $50k job rather than a $80k job is less painful than being unemployed vs taking a $30k job.
Yes but they are limited by the manufacturer as to how much of that RAM they can occupy and it also seems to be limited to only onboard GPUs.
Right but the F15E variant satisfies the rest of the remarks.
You're welcome. Welcome to Berkeley and good luck.

And I don't care about the downvote itself. There are plenty of cases where I know what I'm writing is going to be downvoted because that is what people do to other people with opposing opinions on certain topics. But I am baffled by them when I truly have absolutely no clue about why.
> We've always cared about standards compliance and client choice

Then it would be nice to have contact synchronization available via CardDAV.
You think the team creating a POS terminal at Groupon hadn't heard of GNOME?

The very first thing you do when considering customer facing names for products is a web search: first page of hits for me is filled with GNOME desktop.
But great board members, with a lot of experience seeing companies get built, are the sort of people founders should want thinking about their companies every day.

This...

I believe that venture money on it's own is not worth the price. (VC's expected rate of return is higher than most credit cards) Getting the right golden advisor - all of a sudden the credit card looks cheap.
I love the phrase "Kimchi problem". The deeper you bury it, the hotter it gets.
Why you should conduct interviews in reverse
I believe that Tinder was a fully, or majority, owned subsidiary. It's a different case.

As for Twitter - by the time a company gets that big, it's rare for a founder to have such a large stake. Google and Facebook are the exceptions, though Twitter does deserve to be mentioned with them.
Is there any way to sync my contacts/calendar such that they are available outside of the Fastmail app? For me that is the only reason I haven't completely switched over to Fastmail. There doesn't appear to exist a nice solution on Android to do that.
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The board is always in control.

The control may be overstated. Their main method to utilize the control is hiring and firing the CEO. This puts them in a tough spot, because firing the CEO can damage a company.
Wait - did Business Insider do original reporting?

I think that's one of the signs of the apocalypse.
Learning how to use calculus to solve engineering problems doesn't come from a math book, it comes from engineering classes.

Not knowing math can shut you out from many forms of programming such as (as you suggested) graphics programming.

> there's nothing you learn in school that you can't learn online

That's pedantically correct, and I'm sure such people do exist, but I've simply never encountered one in 35 years of working in the industry.
Any CalDAV connector for Android will do the job. We recommend CalDAV-Sync: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.calda...

Once we have CardDAV available, then we'll be recommending CardDAV-Sync.
Being the (literally?) Devil's Advocate... Can we imagine a situation where a company has created something truly novel, and chooses to sell their patent rather than build it out? There will be a period where it isn't being used for anything.

For example - let's say I come up with a much better way to make steel for cars. I patent it right away. Since I don't own a carmaker, it will take a while for me to sell or license it, and perhaps 4 or 5 years for an auto maker to actually use it.

Again, just being the Devil's Advocate.
Its being developed.
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I'd love to a response on Fastmail's blog or something similar regarding this. Gosh our government frustrates me :(
"Stochastic" made me hopeful - thinking hey Xenakis, sonic exploration of data, etc - and "background music" made me skeptical - thinking here comes another garbage piece of general midi mapping that passes for generative music.

It's hard for me to be so negative, but this is a bit like posting your new bootstrap site on a design forum. Not that HN is all computer musicians and generative composers, but some of us are. This might be your first step into generative music, or music in general, and please keep sharing! Some of the best advice I ever got when starting to write music was: you're going to write junk for quite a while, don't let it discourage you.

I'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you're working with algorithmically.

After listening to more of the "deep ocean" mp3, it sounds like you have a set of 10 or 15 short gestures, and the algorithm is determining the order they'll play and how they'll be stacked. Good place to start! If you aren't interested in applying systems to the material itself, a next step might be to just play with amplitude over time. You can prolly increase the overall density of samples if you apply stochastic envelopes to each, without affecting the still mood -- it might help reduce a feeling of monotony, too.
> What is the one good reason for me to opt fastmail?

It's not Google.

For some people, that's not a good reason, but for me it is. The fact that it's super fast, very powerful, and are an Australian company (I live in Australia, so things are very fast) are merely bonuses :)
I thought of that as well. Too bad it isn't a network with low latency.
Everything your professor said also applies to dividends. Why are those somehow magically OK when stock buybacks are not? As several others in this thread have explained, both are a net wash.
I lost a shit ton of money at the firm where I work right now almost a year ago. I wrote software that began issuing trades outside of where it was expected to and did not stop. In a panic, I forced the server it was running on to terminate its process but trades were still open in the market. They had to be manually closed. I feel sick to my stomach even writing this right now, that hour I was trying to fix the problems sticks out as the worst moment in my life. I am glad whoever wrote this can be so nonchalant about it, if you have a strategy for forgetting I would love to hear it.
Say you need to build an iOS app. Are you going to hire a guy with a CS degree, or a guy with 4 years experience building iOS apps and the portfolio to back it up?

I'm not saying that skipping college is a smarter choice (for most people it's not), just that it depends on your situation.
This is what happens when you're hiring a former lobbyist for the industry [1]

Also, I think Net Neutrality was a bad name. I think many average Americans wouldn't care about "Net Neutrality". I think something like "Internet Freedom" would have been a much stronger.

[1] http://business.time.com/2013/04/16/tom-wheeler-former-lobby...
Thanks for sharing. I'm just beginning to write style like this.

I also recommend Merriweather font for reading.
Any chance you could accept bitcoin? Seems like a really cool event otherwise.
I'm glad you're here to back up the other revolted skeptics.
Correction: it means they trade private money. This could be their own money, but more often than not, it's the owner's/partner's money.
The math I learned during my computer science degree has never been of the slightest use to me. The math I've actually needed, I've learned on the job from online references.
Were you able to keep your job after that? (If you're willing to talk about it; if not, I understand.)
I haven't heard anyone mention that perhaps Malls aren't just being killed by Amazon, but also by Wal*Mart. Go to smalltown America and see...
In the situation of the 10 year vest, he pays attention to the feelings of unfairness that other employees pay attention to, but ignores the feelings of fairness that other employees will also pay attention to (hey, that guy left and didn't get screwed over by our stupid 90 day exercise policy).

Notably, the direction he argues for is primarily beneficial to the founders/CEOs, the position he's been in, as it reduces dilution by getting stock back into the option pool (and then not having to expand the option pool) from employees when they quit.

RSUs? A 10 year option? Someone needs to find a better way.
When I first read this, I thought you meant mental health... that's a different story!

Constant mousing was causing me wrist pain. I have since switched to using a trackball at work and a high quality standard mouse at home. Also I try to keep my chair and monitor at proper heights, as back problems will exacerbate wrist pain.

I highly recommend investing in a good ergonomic setup. If you are going to sit at a computer all day long, at least be comfortable!
There's nothing pedantic about it. Out of all the internships/jobs I've had, the far majority of anything I ever did was learned on the job. Often it was without much help or direction, and thus I was forced to teach myself. Although school definitely has its advantages, a huge drawback is that it gets you accustomed to being hand-holded through everything, rather than forcing you to being autodidactic and independent.
I figured that stuff was determined by looking at orders to buy at a certain price? If there is a large number of orders to buy currency at 5.30 from your example you would say that it is at least likely to stay or bounce until all the orders are run through?

Correct me if I am wrong, don't trade myself.
You know what else has patterns? The weather.
Stat arb is usually not a market maker. The simplest stat arb trade is a pairs trade, so let me use that as an example.

Suppose you do want to market make on a pair A,B. You notice they are out of whack so you open an ALO order to sell A and buy B. The market moves and both stocks go up in sync. You've now opened a short position on A with no offsetting position in B. Oops.

If you want to save part of the spread, you can often do add liquidity, then the minute you get a fill you can cancel and take liquidity on the other side.

I've tried this but I haven't made it work, though my strategies are pretty amateur (I only trade as a hobby).
all shell expansions work as expected (even constructions like $(cmd)). I can't think of any other use where I start a command with a '$'.
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3D printing isn’t as radical as we thought
How about just allowing all firefox users to access .onion sites securely by default?
http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/2m1mvp/xkcd_1446/

https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta

Apparently is related with the Rosetta Mission
Wouldn't they be liable for racketeering? If it can be demonstrated that a large share of NPE lawsuits originate with IV (over a thousand shell companies), and that they actively prevent meaningful patent reform (dedicated lobbying office in washington), it seems like they should be liable.
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How about significant non-systematic ways? Going back only a few years it seems most jobs were manual to some extent. People also were more self-sufficient: grew their own veg, made their own clothes, fixed their own things.

Even non-manual jobs would be more active as you'd need to visit people, move files, gather research materials or whatever.
A tool that is designed to kill people is different from a garden trowel. Give me a break.
Hacker-hit Tibetan monks 'detach from attachments'
Sounds about right, I assumed it was similar to the sand castle time piece from a while back.
Could it be because they exercised in a natural way; by way of manual labor? In various forms such as car wash, house cleaning, walking, gardening and such.

My conjecture is that the rise of exercise/gym coincides with the rise of automated labor and as jobs moved from being labor intensive to knowledge intensive (i.e., as economy moved from agriculture oriented to manufacturing and then finally to service oriented).
Just remember, there is survivor bias. An interesting and complementary survey would be women who have left tech.
Hmm, maybe you're just really smart but I find your statement a little hard to believe. All of my mathematics education has been invaluable in coming up with approximate solutions that are easy to implement and provide good enough answer that can then be refined further. The only reason I can do this is because I spent a bunch of time studying real analysis and wrapping my head around what it really means to approximate one function with another one that is close enough and has enough structure to make certain arguments simpler.

Similarly the time I spent learning formal logical systems, differential geometry, category theory, abstract algebra, etc. might not be directly applicable but the thought patterns and problem solving techniques I developed studying those subjects are invaluable in pretty much all my day to day activities as a programmer. Being able to think on a slightly higher plane of abstraction and then lowering a solution on the higher plane to something more concrete is an extremely valuable skill that I don't know how you can learn and develop any other way.
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An economics professor is walking down the street with a student. The student sees a $100 bill on the ground and tells the professor. The professor says, "Nonsense! If there were a bill on the ground, someone would have picked it up already!"

I actually think that in this case you are probably right, though. But I wouldn't bet my life on it.
This is awful. Insurance companies are already printing money by "protecting" people from all sorts of things that don't require protection.

As a business case though, this is brilliant. Buy up all the ammunition, then charge your customers for protection. How's this allowed again? :(
There are many valid points they raise, but this one is pure malarkey:

But when they interviewed at larger companies, they had to do
these "whiteboard" interviews, where you're given a coding
challenge and you go to the whiteboard and attack it. And our
guys didn't get hired, right? They had never done a whiteboard
interview. So, in that case, is there something wrong with the
fellow, or is there something wrong with the interview process?

I hate whiteboard interviews as much as the next person, but it's not like it's a secret that whiteboard interviews are standard practice, and pretty much everyone I know that is good at them became good at them the same way; they studied.

It's pretty common advice everywhere on the internet that when you need to prepare for such interviews that you go grab yourself a copy of the well-regarded "Cracking the Code Interview" by Gayle McDowell or one of the other code interview prep books.

Failing at a whiteboard code interview is not a race or gender thing. It's a failure to do some basic research on what to expect in the interview or a failure to spend the time preparing for what you're going to encounter in the interview process.
To face the reality that there are a ton of XP deployments. It would be in Microsoft's interest to at least notify them of the problem and even incentivize them to upgrade.