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I think its because the job market favors CS degrees, so the best students go for the CS degree

There are very few companies that do pair programming. It will really close down your funnel if you make pair programming experience a requirement. I would wager less than 1% of programming jobs do any significant amount of pairing

yea following sports games is one of the biggest use cases for twitter and something they are the best at.

I'm interested to see how well this works. Seems like most of the good analysts currently post on twitter instead of facebook so that could be a limitation... but if they get a bigger audience on facebook now, that could drive them to change.

If apple disabled the end-to-end encryption in imessage, it wouldn't let the FBI spy on everybody's convos. The conversations would still be secure from device to apple via SSL.

It would just allow them to get a warrant and wiretap someone's convos.

Hipchat can grow a lot, I really think every organization, tech or not, will eventually start using a tool like hipchat or slack.

Couldn't an equity crowdfunding investor spread their money around hundreds of companies as well, making smaller sub 1000 dollar bets. Or is there a minimum investment amount for this?

The main reason I'm skeptical of this approach is that I think the most promising companies won't do it, so the pool of companies doing equity crowdfunding will be low quality

This article is very misleading when it talkes about interest rates.

Look at the pictures of the app on google play, one of the example loans is borrow 3500, repay 3500 + 384 4 weeks later.

That is only 11% 'interest' , but it is over 1 month instead of 1 year as we commonly call interest. So really, the rate is more like 130%+.

This is not radically different than a payday loan which will typically charge 10$-20$ fees per 100$ borrowed.

One big skill learning to code teaches that is overlooked I think: how to look stuff up online, research, and find answers.

Twitter moments could be so awesome, I have a feeling they will get it right, but its not quite there yet.

Especially for sports, when I'm watching a game I usually have twitter open to see people's jokes & analysis. Sometimes, I look at the moment the day after just cause I'm curious, but the moment doesn't reflect my game experience at all.

Here is the twitter moment for the 1st day of the NBA season. https://twitter.com/i/moments/659130295396896768 -- its mostly just pictures from official nba and team accounts. There are no jokes, and there is very little analysis. It has some random highlights from games. But the biggest highlight of the night ( game winning block on Lebron ) is missing for some reason.

Same with this moment on the most recent GOP debate: https://twitter.com/i/moments/659492422137827328?lang=en There are no jokes at all. There had to have been at least 1 donald trump joke out there that should have been included.

I think they are working on curation tools so anyone can curate moments, and I think that will really help if enough interesting people take the time to do it. But I really think it could be the newspaper or the 'reddit' of a lot of topics.

congrats ya'll, what happened in the past couple months to spike the number of patients funded? Would love to hear more about 'growth hacking' a charity like this.

Wow, that was by far the most comprehensive and best article I've read on this subject.

Rivals anything I've seen in the wsj or other papers about the deal. I haven't seen a longform article like this on a16z before, very neat.

Totally, I agree, I think someone1234 is describing a UK law that provides these basic bank accounts to everyone. I think the underbanked will be helped more through laws and regulations like that than by a new company or something.

I have some experience in this area. From what I've seen any company involved with lending to the underbanked is going to operate pretty similarly to a payday loan company... A lot of these new companies want to appear different and go out of their way to never mention payday lending. But the terms are pretty similar at the end of the day.

Lending to this segment of the population is fraught with write-offs, its just not possible to give a great deal on loans with that kind of risk unless you are a non-profit. If it were possible, one of the payday lenders would do it and corner the market.

the NBA league pass service is also limited because you can't watch nationally televised games ( any games on ESPN, NBAtv, TNT, NBC, ABC, etc etc )

You won't be allowed to roll through a stop sign at 30kph.

Yielding in this context, means slowing down, and going very slowly through the stop-sign, assuming its nobody else's turn to go. Every cyclist I've seen pretty much does this already if nobody is around. But the current law is that you must come to a complete stop, even if nobody is around, before going.

Ycombinator funded one back in 07 too: http://techcrunch.com/2007/11/05/draftmix-faster-fantasy-spo...

Also to be fair, is it proven that Tor's most popular use-case is something other than criminal activity? I know there are legit uses for Tor certainly, but it wouldn't really surprise me if criminals were the primary users

Anyone have an idea what percentage of networks and hosting providers drop spoofed packets originating from inside their networks? What are the downsides of dropping them?

anecdotal counterpoint :) -- squatting aggrevates my lower back. I think its because my hamstring flexibility is terrible which causes my squat form to be terrible. I'm working on that.

For people questioning the valuation,

There is already a public company that is very similar to airbnb called Homeaway. They are profitable with a 3 billion dollar market cap. It doesn't seem far fetched to me to say airbnb is an order of magnitude more valuable than homeaway based on number of listings and mindshare I see online.

could he get access to a graphing calculator possibly? That would be a good environment to learn coding and wont allow him to connect to the net or make calls.

I have a few comments/questions about the post:

1) Why is a mobile phone random number generator good enough to generate encryption keys, but not good enough to generate one time pads? What extra weaknesses do one time pads expose?

2) For their 2nd point, Zendo has said that the pad exchange happens locally ( device to device ). So you would need to be in the room to eavesdrop. So the transport mechanism they choose there is a little bit less of a risk I think.

3) Their 3rd point also doesn't seem to be that big enough of a deal to warrant the tone... if sha256 is broken, a man in the middle would be able to corrupt messages, but not in a meaningful way ( ie switching yes to no ), it would just look like garbage to the other person...

I think #1 is probably the biggest issue, I'd like to understand it a bit more.

The way these end to end plugins work, the website never has access to the plaintext message, it all goes through your browser extension first.

I think he really is just trying to convince the jury that it might have been someone else who ordered the murders.

That should shave decades off the jailtime.

So the attack is due to the fingerprint of the key being smaller than the actual key and therefore theoretically possible to find another key with the same fingerprint..

Doesn't textsecure and threema have the exact same problem? Both show a fingerprint to the user instead of the actual key.

If its free to go to a community college, won't 4 year universities have to keep their prices lower or people will just decide to go to community college for free.

Whatsapp right now hides all of the encryption from the user, doesnt have a way to do key verification, so its trivial for the whatsapp server to do a Mitm on your conversations. I know they are working on that and I fully expect whatsapp to be the best messenger out after they are finished. But right now, by an objective measure, it would seem like telegram is more secure

in the reddit nootropics forum the other day there was a post from someone who almost accidently OD'd on caffeine.

Alot of the users there use caffeine powder, and he had his bags of powder mixed up with his vitamin c powder and almost drank a drink with multiple grams of caffeine in it. He realized it at the last second and stopped.

moral of the story: caffeine has a fairly low lethal dose and can be dangerous when using the powdered form

I had a similar idea for pool builders. Find streets where the majority of houses have pools and sell lists of the people without pools.

I don't really understand what this is, is it a vpn?