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They have these in the Adobe offices. They are all about being "green". Anyways, something never set quite right with me about them... something about the piss just sitting there, not being washed away. Not that regular urinals are clean either.
Thanks for reporting the FF issue. The site's been updated and tested again.

We've obviously got a bit to go from our internal build farms to things that are easier for other contributors to play with. Documentation for developers is still being written.

Forgetting everything we know about the things we've been doing for a while so we can explain it to people who haven't been doing it has proven to be a bit harder than we initially thought. :)
Agreed. Where I went to college (Germany), they also had waterless urinals. The biggest problem seemed to be that people would throw cigarettes and stuff into them.
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Also: "Radiohead makes most of its income by touring, so even if they lose money on the album, but get more popular, they can just go on tour." is false and misleading.

Radiohead makes money if the average price paid is more than the average bandwidth and hosting price. And hosting is very cheap nowadays.
That's what I do, I bought myself a trimmer and give myself a #3 buzz-cut about once a month. I haven't been to a salon in ~4 years now so have more than paid for the trimmers.

I still use shampoo & conditioner though, seems to be better for the scalp but I expect that it's partially down to habit.

It helps that the style suits me otherwise I wouldn't do it.
memcached actually uses libevent.

Edit: oops, JoachimSchipper beat me to it
Ask HN: Review my idea: "Organize the world's queues"
This is big, even if only one battle in a larger war.
Apple kills fonts in iBooks, strikes blow to standards
As an aside, a recent case ('03) is pretty on point regarding this issue (also topical, considering the terrible Jonah Hex movie just came out). Here is a decent summary of what went down:

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=11551
Even where you have a lot of cheap water, sewage still has to be proccessed.
It's not a fork. We've done a lot of work on memcached to allow it to support multiple backends on the same network interface. Part of membase is a new memcached backend.
Seriously? You thought that was good analysis?

"That extra number was labeled in the add_vote function as “eid,” which frequently stands for “employee ID” and could in theory allow for behind-the-scenes vote manipulation by an OWN employee."

Sounds like speculation and rubbish to me. If they'd read the code they could have followed through and found out what the eid was.

"but it largely corroborates with our own independently collected data. It shows that, mathematically, it would fit nearly perfectly with for that mysterious coding to have given Phyllis two free votes every time Zach received a vote, in addition to the votes Phyllis otherwise received. But while the math seems to work well for most of his time window, there is no way to confirm this algorithm was actually implemented, especially now that the coding for the button has been reverted to its original form."

Yeah, except that say Oprah's people wanted to do that, they could just do it on the back end without changing the add_vote functionality to send through the mysterious eid.

The only interesting thing is the spreadsheet screen shot, but I'd like to see the source of that to understand what's going in more fully.

"Yes, it turns out that in theory, coming in first or second doesn’t actually matter at all in terms of whether Zach would eventually get his own show or not. But in practice, there would be a much bigger backlash if Oprah anointed someone other than Zach to be the winner of the contest if he was in first place than if he was in second or lower, whether that person was Dr. Phyllis or anyone else."

And now we'll make up a tenuous reason why she needed to be in first place.

But the most bogus thing: the claim is that by changing the JavaScript that's executed when someone votes for Dr Phyllis that causes a vote for the other guy to create extra votes for Dr Phyllis. Huh? How does that work? Surely you'd change the other guy's voting JavaScript?
Google Apps adds multi-domain support
The parts that aren't technical are unsubstantiated rumor.

The parts that are at least somewhat technical are also clearly wrong.

I fail to see what part of this would be of any interest whatsoever to hackers.
I'd argue that this is a wonderful example of civic hacking, but then again I'm biased, as I work for the guy who built this.

http://www.google.com/search?q=civic+hacking
If this prediction holds, Apple could add an awful lot of value to MobileMe by providing a sort of answering machine service to subscribers.

I'm close to wireless for most of the day, but when I'm not it would be nice to have FaceTime callers that couldn't reach me leave a video message that got delivered via email.
I had the questionable pleasure of using Fortran90/95 at university, for HPC of course. Ignoring its history I would have said it was a reasonable stab at an array manipulation DSL, but I think it's terrible for structuring of any kind. I haven't read the full article, but it seems to throw around numbers in the 1000 LOC order of magnitude, which is the size of undergraduate homework projects these days, not serious simulations. As soon as you go beyond a simple grid of scalar values, you desperately yearn for something better.

I always figured people stuck with Fortran because they literally hadn't used anything else other than maybe bash scripting or MATLAB since they switched from CDC 6600 assembly. I find it surprising that people researching languages would reach this conclusion. Okay, Fortran is a first-class citizen in MPI and OpenMP land, but still.

Another thing that struck me was that considering the only substantial contemporary use of Fortran is in HPC, the compilers do a terrible job of optimisation. Function inlining, even of trivial built-ins like the dot product, doesn't seem to work reliably. (this was with Intel and/or Portland IIRC)
It appears the commenters do not understand the claim of the article, is without these frequent "optional" updates, the phone will self lock.

Seems like the sort of thing an unlock/hack will easily fix though.
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The problem with opscode is that it still does take work to scale due to applications needing to be reconfigured in order to allow multiple servers (and this is the main issue with scaling: work). Currently I'm working on a very very similar project that does almost exactly what opscode does but it scales with zero configuration (where's my 11 million) meaning you could simply create an instance with your normal 1 server configuration and when the time comes scale to as many you want with no changes whatsoever. Maybe opscode does this as well.
I am curious whether the final release is as buggy as the Europe and Galileo releases were. With Eclipse, you should always wait for 3.X.1 ;)
I love the simplicity of this. A breath of fresh air!

I don't have an iPad, but I would buy it. Though, for $9.99 I wonder how many people would still purchase this app if it wasn't by 37signals.
Yes, but I'm sure it's ultimately their choice. Does the board of directors or stockholders send the CEO a memo that his car is not in the parking lot long enough for their liking?

If the CEO wants to work him/herself into an early grave, that's his/her choice. But to force employees who, let's face it, aren't going to be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor like the CEO will, to give up large portions of their personal time to improve the wrong metric? That's unreasonable.
It seems there is no etymology: According to the creator, "I first used the term ‘amorance’ then changed it back to ‘limerence’... It has no roots whatsoever. It looks nice. It works well in French. Take it from me it has no etymology whatsoever." http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001708.php

I also find myself feeling slightly uneasy when confronted by a word without etymology. Knowing it was consciously made up is somehow reassuring.
Good job, guys.
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They have these at the Owen Business School at Vanderbilt University. They stink.

Literally.

They smell like urine. If we are going to use these on a wide scale then I think that men need to drink the water that is saved so that they have less pungent smelling piss.
Felt it in Cincinnati, OH, too.
To make the end-run complete, Apple would have to convince carriers to treat text messages (IMs basically) as data instead of SMS.
That's fantastic news, Occipital are fantastic guys who struggled to raise investment after TechStars but went on to kick ass with their product. That gives me a high bar to live up to!
Sounds like this guy must have had an unfortunate convergence of: A late-night viewing of Glengarry Glen Ross. A fight with his wife. A bottle of JD.
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I laughed a little when I read that they reached a compromise with the plumbers by continuing to require the plumbing to be in the walls (in case they want to switch to standard urinals).

Smart compromise - not wasting water, and the plumbers keep their jobs.
He specifically mentions this A List Apart article in the post: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
I'm from Europe and was able to have a great week in SF. But I planned my trip around some events that were happening, and luckily managed to arrange a visit with Reddit and ICanHasCheezBurger. Maybe try contacting some interesting startups?
It is just a business, nothing personal :-)
> You presented evidence that he didn't hurt the company so badly that it didn't grow, but not that he didn't hurt the company.

Since no one has presented evidence showing that he hurt his company....

In my book, you don't get to complain about the quality of someone else's evidence unless your evidence is better. And no, "self-evident" doesn't count. YMMV.
IE9 JavaScript Engine

Features Available

Support for ES5 specification in IE9 Standards mode, including support for

+ Enhanced Object Model - Accessor properties for JavaScript objects, Object.defineProperty, Object.defineProperties, Object.create, Object.getPrototypeOf, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor, Object.keys, Object.seal, Object.freeze, Object.isSealed, Object.isFrozen, Object.preventExtensions, Object.isExtensible

+ New Array Methods - indexOf, lastIndexOf, forEach, every, some, map, filter, reduce, reduceRight

+ Other Computational Methods and Functions - String.prototype.trim, Date.prototype.toISOString, Date.parse, Date.now, Array.isArray, Function.prototype.bind

This just made my day
I recently started my first Posterous blog and so far I am a big fan, though I would like the founders to answer the very first question posted in the comments:

"Um. And… what about simple ATOM import/export? The standard way to do all this stuff, I believe. "
"Everything has a cost. YAGNI has a cost of rework later if it turns out you do need it after all. Architecting For The Future has extra up-front and maintenance costs, which is wasteful if it turns out the future wasn't as you saw it."

Isn't that why we write good unit tests and refactor? It gives you close to best of both worlds. Writing unit tests is helpful anyways, and gives you peace of mind when you introduce patterns later on when you actually need them.
They have waterless urinals at most of the motorway service stations in Germany. They seem to work well, but then they're kept spotless, probably to justify charging 50 cents to use them.

Ikea (in Austria at least) use them too; they're not kept as spotless, and I've seen them out of order occasionally.
MongoDB was ruled out because auto-sharding is still alpha (though it should be out of alpha soon, I'd prefer to wait and see what the community experience is with it first.)

Between Cassandra and Riak, I chose Cassandra because it can run on windows while Riak cannot. I needed it for a data store for some cluster computing work I'm doing, but for various reasons needed my test environment to be windows only. I think I can get rid of that restriction; perhaps benchmarking Riak vs. Cassandra for my particular use case is in order.
I was thinking something similar.

In the startup world we know that the strongest motivation is internal, and that despite the cultural expectation of long hours, we can't really force the issue. Instead we have to hire people that are internally motivated by passion for what they do, and a desire for greatness. If, in a startup, you have to crack the whip you've probably already failed.

In the corporate world you don't have the luxury of hiring only the best and brightest most internally motivated people. There's the law of averages for one thing, but also there tends to be a lot more grunt work, bureaucratic overhead, and the individual has much less opportunity to make a difference anyway. There are good reasons for these things; once you have a profitable, repeatable business, bureaucracy and processes ensure the money keeps coming in and mistakes are learned from on an institutional level, there is less incentive to innovate because the risk-reward structure is completely different.

Despite the fact that we know this is bad for morale, we don't know that morale and intrinsic motivation were getting this company anywhere. It's entirely possible that the low-level employees were losers (in the Gervais principle sense) with no personal stake in the company other than to milk it for a paycheck. If that's the case then perhaps motivation by fear is a legit management strategy. In other words, even though it may be true that brilliant hackers would never put up with a managerial environment like that, maybe they never would have worked there anyway.
I'm astonished these guys haven't raised more and sooner. I think they're a huge thunder lizard that will absolutely be one of the big, ubiquitous companies through this decade.
Does this mean I can grab it for my Nexus One and install it now? Or are they still pushing out things via the Over the Air updates?

I'd really like tethering...
Show us some for your work (homepage, graphics, audio samples, anything), so that we can better judge you and offer you guidance. That's also a better way of attracting possible recruiters.
The assertion in this headline seems completely unsupported by any policy cited in the article or in the comments here on the article.
I'd really like to know what the YC community thinks as this our first 'break out' post on our new blog.

Thanks!
My priority is comfort, both physically and socially, that means if I'm somewhere decent, or important it's compfortable to be dressed properly. OTHO I work from home and during the summer time I'll be damned if I'm wearing anything besides shorts and a t-shirt.
Firefox update includes plugin isolation to stop flash crashes
I check the "many people" rule too. But sports, acting and science is big enough to find good places to stay. In my experience in the electronics sector, everybody wants to do "robots" and "lasers", so you really have to compete with a lot of people for the limited job supply, but you could do great things that are required but not so demanded.
Do you have a portfolio ?
We have these in our office building too. They're fine but our building management has them cleaned twice a day, otherwise they stink up the place.
I am often tempted to make my own. I am held back by the fact that there are so many out there and I am unable to articulate what is wrong with them exactly. Which leads me to believe that I am not really looking for that kind of tool - I just think that I am.
It's okay.

http://github.com/scottgonzalez/figlet-js
Yes! Apple is indeed responsible for disavowing ALL PLAUSIBLE threats they could be involved in! BURN THEM!
I think this is extremely interesting; not because of the supposed "rigging" but because of the uproar and sleuthing of the community as a result of perceived misdoings. I mean, just think that this random guy Zach Anner has all these people behind him because of one video. And then something fishy starts happening and they all flock to it.

What are they more interested in? Catching "Oprah" in the act of allowing someone to effectively cheat or do they genuinely want this guy to win?
Shaving takes time, but not shaving for a week itches. I'll take the shaving.
Congrats Jude and Immad :)
What struck me about the memo, is the constant references to 'the problem', without ever defining what the actual problem was. People not working long hours might be a symptom of a problem, but it is not a problem in and of itself.

You ask how we'd tackle the problem, but I don't know how anyone can answer that without knowing what the problem actually is.

This might have been communicated, or evident, outside of this memo, but it sounds like he's trying to fix a problem that doesn't necessarily exist, based on questionable metrics.
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You've got a bug in your extension there. Doesn't happen on stock Safari 5, it works perfectly.
One reason this won't work: Tumblr users don't read the Posterous blog ... Perhaps they can set up a tumblr account and promote it there? That would be true guerilla style.
in past 10 years the stock has grown at an annualized rate of 19%, weathered 2008 crash extremely well and has doubled since crash. The guy is also still at the helm at the age of 60. He might be the worse a*hole possible, but whatever he's doing seems to be working pretty well.
He also visited the Apple Campus: http://twitpic.com/1zcizj
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But isn't it interesting that she gets her child to make a comment on HN instead of writing it herself?
Irony(?): it's priced high relative to "professional" pure-play drawing apps like SketchPad and Brushes, but by omitting needless features like color and brush controls and adding the one feature of collaborative diagramming, it's probably going to be more valuable to me than either of those other apps, which I mostly use to goof around with my daughter.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the EID has nothing to do with anything and it was a coincidence that the javascript changed when the vote cheating work on the backend was changed.
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I remember being really excited that this would happen around 2005 when the N700 and N770 were released.
Yeah I bet you're right.

We all just have to suck it up now with AT&T but nobody is happy with the status quo.
I agree it's probably possible to maintain them well, but it seems it's still a cost. If nothing else, you have to pay for better maintenance workers, or more oversight of them.
I stayed 30 seconds of the page and I didn't really understand what taskforce could do for me as a developer. Here's what I think it does.. maybe it will help you make the main page clearer for others.

First, I'm not sure if it's a mac application, iphone app, gmail app.. all of them?

Second, in the gmail screenshot, there's a kind of window on top of the email, does it look actually like this? Is it the application that parse the email..? I didn't get it.

Third, what's the flow of the operations..? I mean, I register.. is it an app I download or a web app? Then, I create a project.. and I add other developper in it? How they join and use my project to view tasks?

Fourth, say I don't use my email to assign task to other developpers, what taskforce does differently?

As you see, I'm a bit perplex about what taskforce does :D
What's the font story on the Kindle? Is this guy asking for a pony?
From the comments, by Jason Fried, "We might add yellow to version 2.0 in 2012."

Kind of sums up a big part of their design philosophy right there.
Those aren't exactly questions I know how to phrase for Google, nor are highly published or easy to find.

...

And that's exactly why no one is going to give you that information free even in a friendly community like HN.

this is literally the first hour of research I've put into this.

And in that lies the reason why the person who has the answers views your request as an insult.

Have some understanding for your fellow human being.
I don't have work for you, but I have ideas. Contact me and let's talk.
I kept looking for the give away that this was some kind of sick parody. But no, it seems totally sincere.
Funny tweet: @tedroden: 37 signals releases MS Paint for the iPad... will probably sell millions.
Websockets are still missing though. :^(
I don't see why Apple are making the effort. It looks like they won't be making any money from FaceTime directly, so then it's just a nice feature to help sell more Apple kit. Why not save a lot of development and infrastructure cost by pre-installing a (custom) Skype?

(I realise that that doesn't make it exclusive to Apple, but I don't see Apple beating the network effects that Skype has working for them, either)
Wow, this is a tremendous piece of news. Not only is Canvas supported, but a huge list of other impressive standards-related stuff as well.

To boot, there will be support for ES5. I'm not up to date on where the other browser-makers are at this point, but could it actually end up that Microsoft will be the first out of the gate with a widely-distributed ES5 implementation?
So if memory serves (IANAL, but I did take a class on court procedure a long time ago), they can appeal this to the district court of appeals. I believe that SJ motions are dispositive, so they can appeal it immediately, too. Viacom almost certainly will, too. EDIT: I was confused. It says they dismissed the whole case, not merely a part of it. So yeah, Viacom will almost certainly appeal ASAP.

So this is still pretty far below the Supreme Court (which might or might not be willing to grant cert; they don't have to hear just any old case) and there's likely to be quite a bit of legal wrangling to go through. Perhaps even years worth, unless they can settle.

Google has been smart from what I've seen in terms of pointing out that the relevant part of copyright law is whether someone has permission to post something, and that's not something you can determine algorithmically. Even Viacom's lawyers screwed that up, after doing due diligence, and had to remove Viacom-posted clips from the case. Twice.
Instead we have to hire people that are internally motivated by passion for what they do, and a desire for greatness.

I think you're missing an important part of the picture: Startup employees generally want to get rich too. If the startup they work for does phenomenally well, that should happen.

In the corporate world, not only does an individual have less opportunity to make a difference, they usually get pretty much no payout even if they do something really outstanding.
"practice" or "experience" are the terms missing from this discussion! An experienced person can iterate less and has a better design right off the bat.
This answers my question, Why doesn't Apple or Google just buy a carrier? Because they intend to put them out of business.
$10?

Adobe Ideas is free. http://blogs.adobe.com/designandweb/2010/04/adobe_ideas.html
The article is not claiming any lockdown command by AT&T. It says that the phone locks down when it can't get a "mandatory" update. And it won't get the update if it's not on the "right" carrier.

At least it seems possible. If Alpha is right we will know soon.
"Not just"? Awesome!