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In regards to summer internships:

I'm just about to intern for a second year Electronic Arts. If you saw a resume with two consecutive internships at the same place (same position and team, too), would you think better or worse of it as compared to someone who did two different, fairly big-name companies?
> Basically the incentives of the typical purchasing department are not well-aligned with the interests of the corporation as a whole.

I don't know about "typical" purchasing departments (or personnel), but in the example I was giving, they actually are working in the interests of the corporation.

My point was that the interests of the corporation -- in this example -- are different from the interests of those who devote more of their time to their computers.

Here's one more anecdote: this same client recently replaced my inexpensive, well-tuned, up-to-date, carefully-configured OpenBSD firewall for their network with an off-the-shelf SonicWall device. That annoyed me, to say the least, and I'm of the opinion that the move has made their network less secure overall. On the other hand, I also realize that now they have a device with a simple, easy-to-understand interface, so when they choose to replace me with a full-time employee, they won't have to worry about whether the employee has any OpenBSD experience. It also guarantees that I'm not hiding any funky backdoors in their firewall, and hey, if there is a network incursion, then they can go after the SonicWall company ... versus not having anyone to catch the fault in the case that the OpenBSD box gets rooted.

I don't want to come across as mean here, but honestly, if someone can't understand why corporations aren't using more open source software, then they don't have much experience with corporations.
@hristov I'm sure if you get creative you can come up with ways to have "an enormous number" of captcha's. If you take the Dish Network example you could say "what is quoted text" + this "number". That just one example that comes to mind. @paraschopra I think you have a good point my mind set is annoyed when I have to fill out a captcha.
I'm not keeping myself from working on the site to write this, but I would want to write one down just so that we can focus on the objectives of the site and everyone involved with this project is on the same page.

Plus, I feel that actually writing down a formal structured plan would give us a clearer idea of what we should do and how we should do it (not just for development, but marketing as well)
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This is actually included in the in-app web browser in my Hacker News iPhone app. It's especially useful on a small screen where every pixel counts.

The app: http://michaelgrinich.com/hackernews/
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To summarize in two words: antitrust threat.
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Just because someone makes a trivial mistake does not invalidate their argument.
Perhaps. Could also be that iPhone owners are more likely to use their smartphone to browse the web. Anecdotally, I still see more Blackberries than iPhones.
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So you're telling me that it is (prohibitively) difficult to maintain a couple of free-form text areas where users can list interests, past jobs, etc. for their FRIENDS to see without linking to public pages? I know this isn't beyond Facebook's engineering or infrastructure and it stinks of agenda, not evolution.
> I won't fly to most places any more. ... I would have really liked to visit places like the US and Japan some time in my life (I live in the UK).

I wonder about this.

Do many people outside the U.S. think the way you do? It appears to me that many do. And yet, we don't hear the U.S. tourism industry screaming about people staying away.

Why not? I can only conclude that people are, by and large, not staying away.

And again, why not? Possibly the decline in the U.S. dollar vs (say) the Euro in recent years has offset the above problem somewhat, so that, while tourism is less than what it would be, it is about what the industry is used to (?).
"since space and time are interconnected"

Last week I saw a Ted Talk by Prof. dr. Wubbo J. Ockels telling me that space and time are not connected.
http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/2009/video-wubbo-ockels-on-time...

The more I read and hear about space the more I get the feeling we don't know nothing about it...
> In osx you get print to pdf, reorder pdf's, remove pages from pdf's, add pages to pdf's, etc... for free out of the box.

Wow, I've been missing out! I use PDFLab to do all but the first of these tasks; I didn't realise OS X had a built-in solution. How do I do it?
How is this even true? The IE8 and IE9 teams have been making great strides to get back into the game. Again, it is only "standards" groups and the DOJ that forced Microsoft's hand out of innovating the browser space. Just look at IE's filter or behavior system(s), if you are unfamiliar with or have forgotten how IE innovated long before we had all been told to wait for a standard to be established -- every bit as "standard" as the now -moz, -o, -webkit key-prefixes.

Besides, the question was whether IE has held innovation. They have not. They were asked to stop for deliberations; they did; we are still waiting. It's hardly Microsoft's fault IE6 was so innovative that "NOW" browsers have yet to move against IE like IE moved against its competitors during the years of IE4 and IE6 (IE5 Mac).

The point being, waiting for "standards" to be signed, sealed, and delivered is all that has been holding back innovation. Once out of that rut, we can start pushing cool technology. ECMA CLI in browsers? Now that is innovation, snuffed.
I end up getting demolished on every round. Starcraft 1 was so long ago.....
You can call air travel lots of things, but it's not exorbitantly expensive.

NY to LA is $325 by train. It's 175 to 350 flying on Virgin America.
I think one of the reasons I switched to Linux is to prevent myself from playing this game when it comes out. We'll see if it works.

Boy did I waste enough time on battlenet.
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I'm not qualified to give advice to anyone on business matters, so I won't. However, I will say that your current approach is opposite of what the current popular mindset is in building web startups. (Whether that mindset is actually correct in any way or not could be a matter of some debate.)

You almost certainly are going to change your project's direction over time. Things that seem do-able now, or seem to be good ideas now, will be less feasible or less shrewd six months or a year now. So, if you lock yourself into this formal and structured plan, you might be foregoing the ability to maneuver quickly and change direction later on; and if you don't give those things up, then you're wasting some resources on something that you might be throwing away later.

In terms of marketing, your best bet is to advertise what you actually have, not what you intend to build, so again, the business plan doesn't help there.

That said, I can't disagree with having some direction, some goals, a roadmap, and a well-defined project to start with. But, those things don't need to be "formal"; a whiteboard (if everyone is local), or good project management software would accomplish that just as well.

Now that I've done my utmost to avoid answering your question: one of the few business development books that I actually found helpful before launching my own business was "The Six Week Startup" [1]. It does a nice job of breaking down the entire business launching process into digestible, well-defined bits. If you really want to go with the traditional business development strategy, then I think this book might be what you're looking for.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Six-Week-Start-Up-Step-Step-Achieving/...
This is relevant to my interests - I had two consecutive internships at Yahoo.
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The idea is that a free press protects society and protecting people/sources who publish things that the powerful don't want published facilitates this.
What's the big diference between government secrets and company secrets? Just that one is more tawdrier and of less consequence?

These days companies are getting so unaccountable to anyone that I'd rather not have reporters make any such distinctions.
If I interned at the same place, position, and team two summers in a row, I would certainly hope that it would lead to a full time position there.
I tried to watch the video - but I could only make it to the point where he, in-all-seriousness, compared himself to Galileo...
Not mine... Sigh.
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How was it stolen? It was lost. The finder tried to return it and when he got turned down with no success, he turned around and sold it. The person who did the wrong doing was the finder and not Chen.
Microsoft has had print to Postscript since at least NT4, and would love to include print to PDF. However they know Adobe would kick up a massive legal fuss if they tried (like they did when MS tried to include save as PDF in office 2007). That being said you can easily download save as pdf for Office 2007 from Microsoft's homepage, and there are lots of very nice free print to pdf option available.
So in China somebody actually gets paid for writing fanfiction.

I have to say I like the guy that just printed the lord of the rings with the names of the main characters changed to harry potter characters. He truly understands how the global economy works. He is like one of those contractors that charge you 1000 hours worth of work for dirt cheap price, and you think you are getting a great deal until you realise they delivered some GPLd software with the license terms removed and the file names changed.
A different mode while looking at ads? What is "ad mode" then? Doing the dishes while ads are on TV?

Ads work on a subconscious level :)
"Obviously stolen"? Where is this reported as being true?

And even so, would it have made a difference to you if it was on Wikileaks instead? Be careful what you're choosing to condemn in your support of Apple.
A German startup is doing this, too: http://www.captchaad.com/

IIRC Microsoft even tried to patent this. The article's claim that only one company is working "as the middleman between advertisers and webmasters in order to display CAPTCHA ads" seems slightly exaggerated ;)
I'm pretty sure that's just a real "psytrance" song at half-tempo.
If he claims having had the intent to return, the act of disassembling the phone will not have helped them.
But it still takes the attention back to the computer.
Agreed. We purchase an Oracle driven enterprise app that would probably be the target market for this. We would hold billions of records if it was economical to do so - the problem is that 80K is a lot and it is probably cheaper to pay me to do 3hrs a week maintenance/backup.

The other area we might have used this is somewhere we have about 40 billion database entries (several TB's of data) and growing. However, like Google et al, once you get to that scale it's not worth paying for a proprietary service because cheap/comodity hardware on a FOSS stack is a lot cheaper.

However, there is almost certainly a market here for "enterprise" type businesses (you know, the sort of grey faced telecoms-style place). The problem is supplanting Oracle...
I don't think you an ad playing on TV makes any sense if you are playing sudoku at the same time.
The flying spaghetti monster said "let there be light," and there was light. Then light instantly reached all the corners of the singularity. And he said "whoopsiee, gonna have to edit that out." So he moved a slider on his touch screen to change the properties of dark energy and there was the big bang, and obviously light intensity was another slider.
Correct, and all I am presenting is that it is very shortsighted to suggest IE hasn't, doesn't, or won't innovate. And frankly, and again, the IE4 through IE6 era saw more innovation (and speed of innovation) than we have seen since. It's hardly Microsoft's fault they were asked to stop innovating, after IE6, and it is much less their fault no one has been "innovating" until just recently.

Flash filled -- fills -- a lot of gaps.

ECMA tried to make a splash with CLI.

Me? I stopped support of IE6, outside of what is easily hidden in libraries / wrappers, which means I can support almost everything still. As well, I use, support, and contribute to Chromium.
Did I say that?
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From TFA:

> Google’s protocol buffer, Facebook’s thrift, Apache avro, etc. Why another one?

I wonder why ASN.1 is never included in lists like this. Is it that old, or that cryptic, or ...?
good job. looks good. thanks for doing this. I'll definitely be tracking it. I like HN's style and structure and glad to see somebody emulating it but with a different topic focus, while still being hacker/tech/geek/entrepreneur material.
Damn you Blizzard, for making games I love to play.

I just got myself off WoW.

Now this, and Diablo 3 coming later...

In other news, the Korean economy is expected to contract from August.
Having very low traffic relatively speaking helps like that. :)
Hopefully that will change though.
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Well, yeah - Twitter, Facebook, etc. should be done as an open protocol, like email or the web.

It's just a pity that the main site that's using their software (identoo) won't let me login or register...
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I just got up to grab a bag of chips. I feel fatigued. Think I hit the major muscle groups I was after. I have just achieved my optimal lean exercise goals. I might want to consider refactoring my body a bit.
Thanks for the link. I will waiting for this game to come out.
If a journalist has to pay to get a revealing interview with somebody, are they "stealing" something? Apple wasn't deprived here, didn't Chen give the phone back?

Say apple was the chinese government, and the iPhone was a disgruntled official who was involved in the "let's hack google" thing...the new your times pays the disgruntled official for an inside scoop.

Is that the same? Better? Worse?
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Luckily, this community isn't oriented toward corporations.

However, this is probably true to a lesser degree for start-ups as well.
And the fact that you don't allow changing this behavior (not even with extensions, as Firefox does) is what keeps me away from Chrome...
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I wonder if Wolfram are going to claim copyright on all tunes that it's possible for this code to generate? ;-)
Dr. Pamela Gay and Fraser Cain (of Universe Today) covered this topic really well on their awesome Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/the-big-bang-and-cosm...

Their "What is the universe expanding into" episode went further: http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/episode-28-what-is-th...

I've been listening to an episode of Astronomy Cast every night for the past two years now - can't get enough of it :-)
On a side note, I'm still very much waiting on Diablo3. One day...
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Ask HN: How did you learn about search engines/text processing ?
Any good videos/books/code ?
If you embed a readability button you could adjust it to capture those metrics for you.
I'm having a hard time finding it, can you point me to it?
The DOJ settlement hardly forced Microsoft to stop innovating or investing in the browser.

Microsoft did that on their own, and are now finding it hard to just pull even with everyone else.

Nice revisionist history though, the DOJ is a nice scapegoat to cover for the fact that they did nothing with IE until recently.

Why did the DOJ decision not affect recent innovation, then?

Right. Specious argument. Gotcha.
This is awesome.

You guys should set up a Twitter feed or something for noostr so we can stay up to date on when it gets released to github.
Ah yes, hope springs eternal :P
I've been in the beta for a while now and I can confirm this is the case. I actually laughed when I read your post, because I definitely play 2s to relax after an intense 1s session.
But you fail to account for all the starcraft 2 related projects that will crop up and the revitalization of starcraft related businesses ;)
Yea, last time I flew to Glasgow I literally paid more for the taxi to and from the airport than I did for my flight to and from Scotland.
I would feel reluctant to use 3th party services like e.g. recaptcha or the example mentioned on a business website because I have a feeling it might come across as unprofessional.
Er... could you explain this?

I don't get it, I'm afraid =\
Ha, I almost posted this about the same time you did- I got to this page earlier today when I was led on a hunt started from a post on HN about hiring- I wanted to know about hiring CS students as they were undergrads and this post was in google search results.

I thought his shot at Facebook in one of the opening paragraphs was funny- just in general it's interesting to see how so much has changed in just a few short years to where a leading blogger could be so wrong about what was to come (nothing again Joel).
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The Xiph.org test linked to isn't Theora vs H.264, it's Theora vs. Youtube. It's made abundantly clear in the text that this is the case, that they were responding to a claim made by a Google employee and they successfully proved that claim to silly.

People seem to get really annoyed that Xiph aren't making whatever argument they wanted made, c'est la vie.
I'm starting to get a disconcerting feeling because of these ubiquitous ads in everything and everywhere. No wonder we become desensitized - it's the only way our brain can cope with the information overload.

A short film (Logorama, Oscar winner in 2009) that explains it much better than I ever could: http://vimeo.com/10149605
How about, instead of throwing away your drink, you either finish it before going through security or wait with buying the drink until you've passed through security. That's what most people do and it leads to a lot less waste. It's not like you don't know about the drink rule ahead of time.

And about the lines at security, have you tried flying to and from smaller secondary airports? Sure it might add some time to your travel time to and from the airport, but in my experience it shaves at least an hour off of check-in and security and the people there seem to be a bit more laid back than the people and the major airports.
Successful advertising actually makes you feel something. This is just another example of an uninspired ad stuffed in someone's face.
> During April, only Internet Explorer and Opera failed to show positive growth.

It would have been quite a feat for them all to show positive growth :)
How much is your rates? Can you do a prepaid plan like Onesuite? Onesuite rates is good for both medium and low volume users. Also how about sending international fax?
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Thank you. Yet more sound advice from the HN community. The C Puzzle Book is good fun, and based on comments in the C threads, I cannot wait to get my hands on CII. I think I'll get my hands on this Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Edition) by Stephen G. Kochan and Erica Sadun's iPhone Developers Cookbook in due course.
While paying a source for information is ethically questionable and on the level of the tabloids, I think it's fairly clear from the article they posted later that Gizmodo's intent was getting a scoop.

On the flip side of what you're suggesting, does Apple having the cops in their pocket like this open the door to other companies getting police to arrest journalists for outing "trade secrets"?

Gruber always finds an angle to defend whatever Apple does, regardless of morality.
I agree. I think that there are all kinds of lessons to be learned from the Opera experiment, which is why I asked the question.
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>So you always had to have IE or Netscape handy.

That's a very interesting point. I guess when Opera first came out, it didn't quite work right, IE and Netscape were the 800 pound gorillas fighting it out, and Firefox simply inherited the mindshare of Netscape. Opera was simply a third dancer in a waltz.
Introduction to Information Retrieval by Manning et al is a great text on the subject: http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.h...
We don't want IE "innovating". If the W3C and anti-trust investigations achieved that then great. You seem to think that GMail on my phone or linux machine is somehow thanks to Microsoft trying to tie the web to ActiveX, and therefore Windows. What it is really thanks to is guerilla standardisation by the other browsers, reverse engineering the dominant browser to deliver value to users while Redmond slept.

Please don't mindlessly repeat Microsoft's line about having to wait for standards to be signed, sealed, and delivered. It's just spin. They have a broken development model (and a financial interest in holding back the web) and that is no-one's fault but their own.
Explaining a regular captcha is hard enough. I can see my-self explaining this:

Me:
You see... you need to enter the quoted text in the small box below.

User:
The text? Oh ok... (enters: Dish Networks)

Me:
Oh no, I'm sorry I meant the "quoted" text, below all the fancy graphics and logo. The one with the quotes. You have to enter it without the quotes.

User:
Oh ok... So, I just enter the text without the quotes? I thought I did that already.

Me:
No, no. Just enter the letters within the quotes. i.e: "Hello" you need to enter Hello.

User:
Oh I see...

User:
Ok, so I enter the quoted text, without the quotes in the box below? (user clicks on the black box where it says: ENTER THE QUOTED TEXT

Is not working. I does not let me enter the text. What's wrong?

Me:
Actually is in the empty box below, where it says "Your Answer"

User:
My answer? My answer to what? Nobody has asked any questions? Do they want me to says yes or no to the discount?

Me:
... wait one second... (calls developers: take the captcha out of the form. Pronto)
They don't use quorums. So I guess there will always be 2 replicas and in the case of failure a (Zookeeper-like) master will reconfigure the system.
It absolutely makes sense to make your fallbacks independent from one another, but implementing fallbacks at all is expensive.

In evolution, you're pretty much guaranteed a breakage at some point that can't be fixed.
That's not quite as true with software - you're still guaranteed breakages, but you get to fix them, and fixing dependent systems is a whole lot more economical.

I think the best analogy is interfaces. You code to an interface with multiple implementations, and if a problem occurs, you switch implementations. Next, if you have vulnerable and complex components, you make sure they each have a custom implementation, so the inevitable bugs can't be widely exploited.