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I would believe that if (a) the kinds of people we're looking for weren't so generally hard to find in the market and (b) we were tending to hire people with some kind of professional track record. Neither were true. If my pipeline of candidates was "people who would otherwise have gone to work for Dropbox", there'd be something more to this argument.
WordPress uses libcurl, according to a google search there are 74,652,825 sites using WordPress. How many unique visitors do you think these sites get? I would guess over a billion.
I'm not sure I follow.

What exactly do you mean by: '...resolve the whole networks of debts, funds and obligations between all market entities?'
My take on eruv is that it's one of several elements in Jewish law designed to create and foster communities. Community is crucial to Jewish survival. So among other things:

- You need 10 adults to have many important prayer services

- You need to eat kosher food -- which is only feasible when there's a critical mass of other Jews around

- Women need to go to a ritual bath once a month; it's only feasible to have such a ritual bath if you live near other Jews who help to fund it

- You can't carry on the Sabbath unless you have an eruv around your community, in which case you can carry within the community.

These, together with other rules, have the effect of encouraging Jews to live near other Jews, which helps to strengthen the community more and perpetuate the tradition. I think that much of Jewish law is aimed at this underlying goal. When a rule conflicts with this goal, it's considered desirable to find a way around the rule, such that the community's centrality and strength win out.
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I was about to ask about coreboot as well, but I am pretty ignorant about this part of the hardware stack.

I came to know about coreboot thanks to Chromebooks. If one is security conscious, what laptops with good coreboot support do you recommend? A Chromebook Pixel? New Thinkpads seem not to be supported.
> He's an offensive lineman. It wouldn't surprise me if there is less head trauma in that position than in others.

I'd be very surprised if that was true. I got my bell rung more than a few times when I played in high school & college.

Keep in mind linemen are making intense physical contact every single play of the game. If it's a run play, it's unlikely receivers are getting knocked around, but linemen are.
The greatest lie ever told is that athletes and rockstars are 'dumb'.

All serious musicians I know are nerdier than most denizens of /b/. You have to be if you have to devote 8+ hours to an instrument (in the case of athletes, that instrument is their body).

They just manage to do a very good job of masking it.

Honestly, I might have had a different career trajectory had I known that you could be nerdy and still be a cool rockstar or athlete.
Ask HN: At what startups are the best engineering teams?
The question is pretty straightforward: I'm exploring my options to move to a new startup and I'm wondering if anyone knows any engineering team that has awesomely smart people/team.
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You simply missed the substance that is there. You're saying 'I didn't get it, therefore it is not good.' A little humility is good sometimes.
I'll play devils advocate since no one else is. Why does the company's product(s) have to be the advanced technology? The successful "latest web app" startups have created tons of tech they build on top of. Scale leads to technology.
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Why the focus on monads? There are many other types that model effects, like arrows.

Erik Meijer of course knows what he's talking about, but whenever I see someone talking at length about the benefits of monads I can't help but feel they're spouting a lot of nonsense about the currently fashionable buzzword.

I think the wrong thing to do would be to convince users of other languages to stop and say "should we be using monads here?" Monads are irrelevant, it's just about being explicit with effects, so I wish the focus wasn't on monads.
I highly recommend the book _The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience_ for those interested in serious scholarly research about Ayahuasca and its subjective effects.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Antipodes-Mind-Phenomenology-Exper...
Ah, very interesting. I wouldn't have guessed that tackles (11) have almost twice the risk of guards (6) -- maybe they tend to get farther downfield on run plays? I looked through the 11 tackle concussions listed, and only one said what type of play it was (a run play); another one was from being kneed in the head.

Centers (3), OTOH, have by this estimate about half the risk of guards (6). This guy should move to center. That's where you want someone really smart anyway as centers have to set up blocking assignments at the line. Also I see the scouting report recommended him for center based on his body type and playing style.
Judaism is a throwback to ancient times, in which there was no distinction between your nation and your religion. Joining a nation meant joining the religion; moving elsewhere meant (often) adopting another religion.

Jews, after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, found ways to keep the religion going even in the absence of national sovereignty or a centralized religious authority. But the notion of a "people of Israel" kept going, such that anyone who converts to Judaism is considered a 100 percent member of the people, not just a convert.

Jews who meet up with other Jews around the world have long seen one another as long-lost members of a large family, with a common language (Hebrew), history, and tradition. Even when you meet up with Jews whose practices are different from yours, the feeling is one of mutual respect and excitement at meeting another member of the tribe, so to speak.
I'd start with `vimtutor` and http://tmuxcheatsheet.com/
Reducing the number of commonly used planes from dozens to a handful is a great idea. Reducing it to one is not.

But there already are fighters that are widely used. The F16 is used by practically everybody, for example. It's a perfect backbone for a small air force, and still a very versatile fighter in a large air force. But some missions require something more specialized, and it makes sense for a large air force to have more specialized jets for those roles.
Let's take a simple network of three parties A, B and C. A owes B 100$, who in turn owes C 100$, who in turn owes A 100$.

In theory, the debts cancel out each other... and the same can be done e.g. with debts of states. What I don't get is why we prefer to pay debts and especially interests when we could just take the debts and cancel them out where possible.
The hypothesis is that the geographical North Pole was in the Atlantic 1 million years ago, and rapidly shifted to where it is now.

The problem with the hypothesis is it doesn't answer the question (quoting from page 7):

> What started off the first Ice Age cycle?

> “We know that during the past million years, the world has swung back and forth between ice ages and weather like today’s,” Ewing and Donn told me. “Before then, the whole earth was much warmer. There were no zones of extreme heat or cold; palms and magnolias grew in Greenland, and coral around Iceland; subtropical plants thrived within eleven degrees of the North Pole. Why didn’t the Arctic Ocean-glacier ‘thermostat’ work then? What suddenly turned it on one million years ago?

(We now know there have been multiple periods of glaciation. We are now in the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation, which started 2.5 million years ago. The previous, the Karoo Ice Age, was 360–260 million years ago.)

It only explains why there are cycles, but if the planetary conditions were the same 3 million years ago, and there were no cycles, then the hypothesis would be in error.

Remember, in the 1950s the new theory of plate tectonics was only just coming into wide acceptance. The quote from the Harper's piece assumes that the crust moves a lot faster than the evidence found though the successive decades of research.
for someone who likes melatonin but wants something stronger to aid sleep that's not medication/pills I recommend valerian root, it'll put your right to sleep reset your stress, like clearing your bodies ram.
I found the games to be not challenging enough, and they seem to crank out sequels far too quickly with too little changes to justify the price tag. This just rubs me off wrong, with sim titles like that I expect to sink several years into them.
Gigantic? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/us/politics/pentagon-plans...

Have you considered the gigantic military requirements that are placed on the United States? By treaty alone, the US is required to defend almost all of Europe, Japan, and South Korea. These are not easy requirements to disentangle from; if Japan alone were allowed and required to rearm, it could lead to an arms race that would destabilize all of East Asia and either stall or undo the tremendous economic gains that have been achieved in that region. If it wasn't for US obligations towards NATO, most of Eastern Europe would suffer the same fate that Ukraine is facing from Russia. If it wasn't for the US Navy enforcing freedom of navigation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_navigation#United_St...), tinpot dictators could shut down international trade by making and enforcing illegal claims on international waters.

Maintaining the Pax Americana is a hard, unappreciated task.
"Run by robots" in roughly the sense that McDonald's is "run by minimum wage workers".

They're not talking algorithmic trading or any particularly sophisticated investment methodology (in a lot of cases their methodology is in their prospectus); it's just a slightly different programmatic weighting scheme. This has existed for a long time.
I can measure myself just fine at the table tennis table, thank you very much, and with far less risk of injury.

(I played football in high school too. I sucked. No, really, I really sucked. Pretty funny to look back on now, though it wasn't at the time.)
I would agree with "debugging". I used to stare at the screen just wondering/trying weird things without knowing why. Now I attack the problem, rip it apart and look at everything. Not getting hung up on these things has made me much faster.
Actually, there's a famous story in the Talmud of a rabbinical debate in which the rabbis argue about whether a certain oven is kosher or not. At the end of the story, one of the rabbis is told that God's reaction to this debate is, "My children have defeated me."

The Jewish attitude is that God wants us to debate these laws, and that if we come up with interpretations that seem counter to the literal verses in the Bible, then that's totally OK. The rules were given to people to interpret, and now it's up to us to do that as accurately as possible.
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Understanding Angular 2.0 by creating a simple Todo app
At Packetzoom we're building up a networking protocol specifically designed for mobile networks. We've discarded the TCP/HTTP stack completely and started from scratch. The idea was to go back to the drawing board (to the lowest level possible) and ask this question:

How would network protocols on mobile work if they were being designed from scratch today?

And that's what we've done. Results so far are pretty amazing (yes, we're out in production with private beta customers).

And oh... sorry but we're not hiring right now. We have a small, tight-knit team and we plan to hire very slowly with only the exact right fit of people.
Yes, that I don't have 100% Gmail open rates reported in Mailchimp. Indeed, open rates barely changed at all (they went up just slightly since I guess everyone now has images enabled by default).
He wrote this recently: http://www.theplayerstribune.com/why-i-play-football/

"I have no desire to try to accumulate $10 million in the bank; I already have more money in my bank account than I know what to do with. I drive a used hatchback Nissan Versa and live on less than $25k a year. It’s not because I’m frugal or trying to save for some big purchase, it’s because the things I love the most in this world (reading math, doing research, playing chess) are very, very inexpensive."

Refreshing to see such a grounded athlete get press. I'm sure there are a lot of them out there, but typically you don't see a lot of stories about them.
These principles are very similar to those of the Alexander Technique. Its hard to describe because it deals with a subtlety that you aren't normally aware of, and so language around it is very vague (it often gets dismissed as wishy washy crap because of that). Its good to see some science that backs up the ideas.

http://heatherstegmaier.com/blog/2013/9/27/ask-and-you-shall...
The first company that can crack the full operational cycle of homomorphic crypto will get a license to print money. As long as they don't squander the first-mover advantage, it will take quite a long time for the eventual second-mover to take over.

It's not just doing the computations in an untrusted cloud environment, although that's a big promise. I would say that an even bigger part will be the eventual ability to run computations on multi-party data sets. If you can provide a provably secure zero-knowledge service that still manages to compute results from multiple sources of opaque data, you will have every single financial institution and insurance giant banging on your door.
The article seems to muddle the two, e.g., after showing that the method to render virtual DOM elements has been called for each cell it says:

> React’s whole thing is that it doesn’t do unnecessary DOM manipulation, but clearly it is here. What gives?
I thought so at first too, but here it is on my AT&T branded Moto X: http://bitraf.no/~mortehu/skrot/attwifi.png
The term "work" is a very inaccurate (but popular) translation of the Jewish legal term, "melacha." There are certain categories of said "work," and rabbis throughout the ages have tried to figure out how to apply those terms to new situations and inventions.

Whether operating electric lights is work is a new problem, but boiling water and cooking have been forbidden by Jewish law for at least 2,000 years.
Not having a real air force is not the same as not having real air defenses. And the A-10 may be a juicy target for air superiority fighters, it's very resilient against ground-based firepower.
Hi Rawdreeg -

If you were actively involved in making this site, I think you'll get a better response if you post it as "Show HN" rather than asking it as a question. Doing at as "Ask HN" makes it seem like paid spam, whereas showing people what you've created yourself is more welcome. If it isn't your site, it would be better to have the post done by the person who actually made it. Also, there appears to be a typo in the site in the title, which makes it hard for people to find. I'd suggest deleting this one and trying another. Good luck!
That was why I passed up playing Division I tennis in favor of my studies (math & physics) - in retrospect, I should have probably at least tried, since competitive athletics comes with people surrounding you who do their best to make sure you get your work done, and the intense exercise would have been great for me.

I have a lot of respect for college athletes who pursue difficult majors.
Didn't expect this at all. When I first saw it go viral I thought they'll have no problem selling it. So I guess this reinforces the importance of execution vs idea.
Kudos to Armin and the team for taking on a project like this.
We missed at least 60,000 bots in our first analysis so will write up after we get the rest of the relevant input data & rerun. If you do infoviz, please contact and I can explain more :)
I don't see Ryan Lochte in the list?!
There is 0 enforcement of this.
Unlike what the Wikipedia article says, the main advantage was not the square pixels. Although that was nice, the killer features were double buffering and hardware scrolling. Double buffering allowed you to draw to an off-screen buffer and switching to show it instantaneously after rendering, and hardware scrolling allowed you amazingly smooth arcade/console-like game backgrounds.
Not allowed by whom? The New York Times documented, in its famous "Target knew someone was pregnant before the rest of the family did" article, that the non-numeric information is used:

"Whenever possible, Target assigns each shopper a unique code--known internally as the Guest ID number--that keeps tabs on everything they buy. 'If you use a credit card or a coupon, or fill out a survey, or mail in a refund, or call the customer help line, or open an e-mail we've sent you or visit our Web site, we'll record it and link it to your Guest ID,' [Target Stores statistician Andrew] Pole said. 'We want to know everything we can.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
Fun fact: Her sister graduated Harvard Law and works for Peter Thiel's late stage growth fund Mithril Capital.
Please post the link to your website, I have problems finding it.

It seems an interesting idea, for most people Africa is just stereotypes and mystery. I would look at it.
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> AirBnB is more about exploiting cost differentials by avoiding regulation, isn't it?

That's a story one-side uses and in SF that can certainly be the case.

But, in some cases, I think people would rather stay in places that are less "developed" or taken over by hotels and stay at local BnBs.
What was copied? I flipped through my copy of Expert C Programming and didn't see either of the diagrams.

If instead by "straight from" you mean "similar to", well, there is only a handful of ways to explain this material so of course they are going to be similar.

Please don't throw around accusations of copying lightly. I would like to see more material like this shared, not less.
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BitTorrent is just the file transfer protocol, but you could very easily write such a library on top of it.
> What I don't get is why we prefer to pay debts and especially interests when we could just take the debts and cancel them out where possible.

Working capital.

Perhaps you borrowed $100,000 and are obliged to pay that back at 10% interest. If you happen to have $100,000 in your pocket, perhaps you're better off using that $100,000 to generate additional revenue, which would hopefully show a better return that 10%, thus effectively covering the 10% interest on the loan and a small profit margin.

If you used the $100k cash to pay off the $100k loan you'd have no working capital, which would likely stymy cashflow and hamper further growth.

That's the theory anyway. You need money to make money and the one way to obtain money is borrowing.
Is the Cobra still in service? I had no idea.
> Besides, it's used by ... pedophiles as well. Think of the children.

Someone already is!

But seriously, I wonder how any law involving VPNs will be responded to by corporations.
A third party (HB Gary) — not Palantir and certainly not its CEO — suggested the 'offensive' campaign against Wikileaks.

Palantir — and specifically its CEO — immediately disclaimed involvement or interest in both that plan, or anything of its general type.

How do you justify to yourself slandering a company by claiming nearly the exact opposite of what happened?
When ever I go to the US I'm surprised at how water inefficient many places are - hotels with square flat basins that need a huge amount to water to fill to a usable level, to toilets that just seem to flush gallons down the drain.
I had a phone interview recently, the first stage in the interview process. They explained they used Hacker Rank, so I challenged them and asked them if they found it was a good way to hire candidates, as its not likely to be like the day work. (Didn't change anything).

In the end I couldn't be bothered filling it in.

I would say there was a 50/50% chance I would have done it successfully. Sure I could study up and practice to make sure I passed, but I have been developer for 12 years. I don't need to fart about with algorithm trivia when the stuff I build is at a higher level for a different market.

I'll spend that time on my side project. At least I can use that again when the next company asks to see an example of my work.
MaidSafe (http://maidsafe.net) recently raised over $8m from one of the first ever cryptocurrency-based rounds of financing. As the company approaches beta launch, they are looking for a front-end Qt Developer to create applications to sit on top of the SAFE Network, a secure and fully decentralized data management service made up by the individual users who contribute storage, computing power and bandwidth to form a world-wide autonomous system.

http://maidsafe.net/careers

"Know any #QT (C++) developers who want to help change the world from our Scottish HQ? Please ask them to get in touch: careers@maidsafe.net"

https://twitter.com/maidsafe/status/578961937981161472

Features of the SAFE Network:

- Self-authentication: users can create accounts and log in from any computer without the need or knowledge of third parties (http://systemdocs.maidsafe.net/content/en/system_components/...).

- Farming: this self-regulating network lets users offer spare drive space and in return delivers anonymous, super-fast internet (http://systemdocs.maidsafe.net/content/en/system_components/...).

- Examples of apps that can be used on the SAFE Network: cloud storage, encrypted messaging, websites, VoIP, social networks and any existing service that runs on the Internet (http://maidsafe.net/applications).

- Safecoin is the currency of the SAFE Network and a mechanism to incentivize and reward farmers and app developers as well as provide access to network services (http://systemdocs.maidsafe.net/content/en/how_it_works/safec...).

If you have any questions about the SAFE Network, please ask them on https://forum.safenetwork.io.
On HN, do you read the comments before you actually click on the link?
On HN, do you read the comments before you actually click on the link?
For the purpose of "better utilization" there is no difference between residents and tourists. Airbnb puts more people into the same space.
There's a saying that goes something like:

The only person you should be comparing yourself against is your former self. Always be better than them.
Apple and Android devices connect to fixed URLs[1][2] to verify the connection. Some captive portals whitelist only those URLs, so you only see this behavior when the captive portal creator wants it to happen.

1. http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html

2. http://clients3.google.com/generate_204
An athlete can't exercise all day and week long, their body would collapse. During the downtime, they can party or they can study.
It sounds very wise, after this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/window...