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Don't panic!

The internet is not a delicate little flower needing careful tending by wise regulators. It is grey goo.

Any traffic tiering or preferencing schemes that are tried which don't feed overall capacity and delight users with new possibilities will be swept aside by new alternatives in a matter of 5-10 years.
In other words "evil enough so it cannot be rationalized away" in the face of "free lunches"? -- Probably not.

Worse things have been rationalized away by people...
You need to read that post using my over-the-top ranting voice. No offence to your parents.
So why not have another rollout? Sponsor some contests? Hold more demos in tech conferences? Build a Wave-to-Twitter gateway? Build a demo site which gives every HN article it's own wavelet, or whatever?
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er, is Yelp hiring?
The reasons for not using exceptions are covered here: http://golang.org/doc/go_lang_faq.html#exceptions
Manhunt? Would you really want to work for any company that would judge you for working this unnamed potential employer?

Think of it this way, you're looking for Mr. Right Now in terms of your next position. And it just so happens that Mr. Right Now happens to be a gay dating site for men looking for Mr Right Now. I find the irony to be spectacularly hilarious.
My neighbor has a "HALO" plate, did a double take and then had a nice laugh.
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The major reasons people frown upon the adult industry is because of exploitation or religious bias; therefore you're subject to the same scrutinization by association. You can't really get away from it. A lot of the criticism stems from the assumption that females are degraded, but what's ironic is that the adult industry is filled with female executives running the show. Nevertheless, I can visit almost any major porn site and see banner ads and videos with people that LOOK under age. This is a problem for a lot of people.

So IMO, it really comes down to you. Would I do it? No, I don't really feel like photoshoping a bunch of male parts all day because our job roles would likely be different. And furthermore, it's not something I could showcase in a portfolio. If my head was buried in code all day and driven by analytics, that would be a slightly different story.
Loopt has a pretty good rep on HN. Other YC companies would probably hire you. Might want to try that new service where you can apply to 25 YC funded companies at one time.
It's quite likely these type of agreements will become common place among large companies and VC-funded startups ("Today, Sequoia announced a deal with AT&T, giving its partners special access to..."). Microsoft and Apple aren't going to let this advantage last long, and the internet landscape could look quite different in two years.
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I've always wanted to get a plate that somehow represented my PGP fingerprint.

Although, it'd be hard to fit all 16 bytes into it...
The announcement leaves open the possibility that the live collaboration and/or wiki functionality could end up in Gmail soon enough anyway: “We … will … extend [Wave] technology for use in other Google projects.”
That's funny - a friend going to college this fall asked the exact same question yesterday. I recommended matte to her, and I will to you too.
I've had both: the colors are fine on matte, and glossy gets smudges like crazy.
Would you care more or less if Wave was made by a startup instead of a massive existing company like Google?

New products fail all the time. When the company making the product fails to even explain what the product does and just heaps buzzwords together I don't feel any sense of loss when the product goes away. This wouldn't even be newsworthy if it wasn't Google behind it.
I am likely a minority voice on HN on this topic and with so many strong feelings about this I will likely be down-voted for these arguments, but in the spirit of bringing out another side to the debate so that a full discussion can happen, I'd like to bring up a few thoughts against the court-ruling.

I rarely hear about how state-approved same-sex marriage will impact freedom of religion. Personal feelings aside, religous groups should have the freedom to practice their religion according to their conscience. They each have a right to preach their interpretation of right and wrong, and shouldn't be forced into the current policially correct view.

For example, I could see a pastor or rabbi or other religous leader feeling uncomfortable about marrying 2 people of the same sex, and then being sued for a civil rights violation with the full force of the state to back up the couple's lawsuit.

Another example that comes to mind is religous colleges that offer married student housing being forced to let a same-sex couple live in the housing; in this situation the school could be sued for discrimination and potentially lose tax-exempt status unless they comply.

These 2 examples are compelling to me because they are realistic scenarios post-today's ruling and they represent a power-grab by the government over a religion's conscience-driven decisions about what is right and wrong. We shouldn't hand over these religious decisions to bureaucrats.

It seems that by officially sanctioning same-sex marriage, we are heading towards a collision course between church and state, which is troubling from a religious-freedom perspective. In an ideal world, marriage wouldn't be a state-driven issue at all, but left to the religions themselves to define. Obviously this isn't an option; at the very least we should be careful about how much more power we want to give the government about our individual conscience-driven religous choices.
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Well isn't that the same policy that governments are trying to impose through wiretapping our phones, emails, etc.?
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I am a big fan of Evernote, since I prefer typing. The fact this it is also cross platform, supports tagging, and does some basic OCR on pics I take with my iPhone (whiteboards mostly) make it my favorite.
He isn't saying it would cost millions to replace that piece of software. He's saying it would cost millions to replace the hundreds or thousands of ActiveX controls in use, with that being an example of how absurdly pervasive the technology is in the UK government.
For me, it's just an appliance. I read stuff off the web, e-books, comics, and light gaming though I do watch movies and TV shows on it. For everything else, I've got my XPS laptop.
Hmm, based on the fact that every recent Node.js demo I've seen recently without exception has had pervasive XSS attacks, perhaps the Node.js community should build themselves some safer HTML generation and handling libraries stat, and crown them as "the way to do HTML".

Not that there's anything even remotely unique about Node.js on that front.
As long as you don't make or appear
in porn you should be fine.

Most people that do porn use pseudonyms. This is actually less safe because he'd presumably be putting it on a resume.
The company is quite profitable though keep in mind that the majority of revenue comes in from more traditional consulting projects. My estimation is that the software arm accounts for only 10-15% of total revenue.

There are a few other things going on here that I haven't mentioned yet:

- We've already pulled one client from the brink of not renewing a contract by developing a much simpler, web based version of our main offering. IMO this should be the general direction of the product but some users would legitimately miss some features.

- Management is well aware that the software is problematic. I believe they've been resting on their laurels for a while due to monopoly position. Things are changing though; competitors are catching up.

- it bears repeating that users are not happy with the product at all, but they are forced to use it by our true customers: their bosses. Those higher-ups do recognize that without ROI, however, the investment is simply not worth it. Now, the actual value of the product itself is another thing entirely...
I think relating this so called downturn to the Depression is impossible for any of us (and media) to do. From the stories I heard from my grandparents and others, I'm not sure if the generation today would do so well in a true great depression.
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I don't understand CSS optimization. Who actually notices a page being slowed down by CSS? I've never once had this problem, is there a certain audience that frequently would?

Anyone here actually using SASS etc specifically for performance?
Oh I get it now, Google by doing this will cause Verizon to raise their prices, and thereby paving the way for them to come in with their own ISP and eat the telecoms' lunch.
$182M for a bunch of widgets? Looks like Google is getting desperate here.
> but suddenly God knows how many people are out for this fellow's blood.

It's propaganda, in aggregate. The stated rationales don't matter. All that matters is that the idea gets lodged in the public mind, that Wikileaks is a legitimate threat, an enemy of the state, a rogue organization. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It doesn't matter, so long as enough people believe it.

Why I don't know. What's the next play? When I heard the term "cyber warfare" in the past, I wouldn't have thought of this, but here we are.
Matte. Just bought it refurbished. Previously had a MacBook. Won't go back to glossy.
Pretty cool that you are based out of NC! How did you get the attn of SV. Are you sticking around NC?
>Is money better spent feeding/clothing a bunch of Africans and preventing aids _or_ on research, bio-engineering, space/ocean exploration, education etc. here at home?

With that much money you can do both.
I don't know if this really adds anything, but I have a friend that as a young tech entrepreneur was on the cover of Forbes and made a cool few mil. Then he blew it all, did porn sites, and was pretty poor for a while. Now he does consulting and makes a living (is in his mid-forties)

So he says he regrets going the "porn" route because it wasn't ultimately profitable. But that's not really what you're asking. That, I have no anecdotes for.
Can money replace seeing your vision for realtime collaboration die twice?

There is another way of looking at this. Let me rephrase that for you:

Isn't it nice that Google gave us all that money in order to let us try our idea a second time? Just look at all the lessons we learned in preparation for the third time. Google may even open-source all our work so we can take it with us.
And here it is:

http://code.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/GoogleWaveUnd...
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Suggest to outsource what's not the company core competence (buy a product or hire a sofware development team). Or fight for the resources and do it yourself.

Or start to manage the software development, if you think you could do better. Keep a spreadsheet of the bugs/feature requests. Send emails asking for dates, do QA and test releases before they hit the client.

Or stage a mutiny and displace the bosses.

But anyway it looks like you can't do anything about the situation, because you're not the development boss. Sometimes it's better to accept that there things you can't control, and life goes on.
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I guess you can inspect the value given to panic to distinguish between errors, but without standard types, it would be ad hoc and limit library interoperability.

I do find it interesting, however, that the manual error propagation scheme is functionally identical to simple exception handling when followed rigorously. Without standard error types it has similar problems; pattern matching of some kind wouldn't go amiss.

The alleged advantage of using error codes (aside from explicit code flow, already hurt by panic) over exceptions is similar to Java's mistake of exception specifications, encouraging people to deal with errors at a low level (usually wrong IMHO) and making it a pain to pass the unobfuscated error up the stack for logging / user display.
Fact 19 from the findings of the court, emphasis mine:

"Marriage in the United States has always been a civil matter. Civil authorities may permit religious leaders to solemnize marriages but not to determine who may enter or leave a civil marriage. Religious leaders may determine independently whether to recognize a civil marriage or divorce but that recognition or lack thereof has no effect on the relationship under state law."

How this fits in with college housing, for example, I could not say. I will say, though, that the situation you're describing sounds awful discriminatory.
I didn't mean any disrespect.

Although I'm not in a position to give away large sums of money, I don't believe in _just_ investing in people.

Investing in their economy, industry etc. makes more sense in the long term than investing in food/water and short term solutions.

Of course, It is very easy to talk about this sitting on my couch with a full stomach.
>> They seem to be the first US company to happily surrender to the
>> telecoms.
> Google exists to make money. If surrendering to the telecoms makes
> money then that's what they'll do.

That's a rather naive view of a complex question. Google has to balance short-, medium-, and long-term gains. If my only goal is to 'make money,' then I could make a ton of money if someone paid me $1-million to inject myself with the Ebola virus, but that's probably a fairly short-sighted decision...
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Depends on what you'll be doing with the laptop. If you're a graphic designer or gamer color matters. If you're in spreadsheets or surfing the web it might matter less. If you're planning on watching lots of videos - color matters.

If you're in an environment where you can control the lighting around you then glossy works just fine - otherwise matte might be necessary.
I can't speak for others, but at some point I'm going to start hiring people to work with on various projects, and if they tell me that one of the reasons that they left (or chose not to work for) Google was because they were disgusted with Google failing to do its part to "Do No Evil" and support Net Neutrality, I would be much more inclined to hire them.

That's someone I respect. Someone I'll get along with, and probably someone with a strong moral sense and therefore someone I'm more likely to trust. I don't want to hire people who just come for the "free lunch."
You're conflating incentives with prohibition.
What are you talking about? I'm using Chrome and it seems like the page has loaded, but all I see is the <h1>, <h2>, "If you think..." and thumbs up button (plus the spread the word stuff on the bottom). Am I supposed to see a link to a Wave embedded in the page?
It doesn't quite fit the bill of replacing TechShop, but you should check out Alpha One Labs (http://www.alphaonelabs.com/). It's a community hackerspace in Brooklyn that follows radical inclusivity – anyone is welcome to join, and as soon as they outgrow their current space they find a bigger one.

It's just getting off the ground, but there's a interesting group of people there. Drop in for one of the weekly meetings, tuesdays at 7.

And they just got a laser cutter (which they'll also let you use it just for asking!).
Their bottom line is hugely dependent on the goodwill that they've built up over several years, which will take a big hit if this story is accurate and the deal goes through. Switching default search engines is easy.
The problem is when "getting ahead" becomes the only way to gain freedom in a society. With economic freedom as the primary form of liberty, people must effectively compete for freedom, or in a way "earning" it as an indentured servant would. The majority of the citizens of such a society would live under absolute tyranny and serfdom; those who owned nothing would be slaves.

The most certain way to guarantee freedom is through democratic* empowerment in a community that controls its own resources, where one's decisions directly effect changes in his/her own life. In this way all people are guaranteed control over their own destinies.

* (I'd rather see participatory democracy in small communities than the republican form of representative democracy that the U.S. constitution specifies.)
Unless it's the tradition of entrepreneurship and hard work.

One could say it's a meta tradition; ok.
stackoverflow.com wasn't established early on and doesn't have a great UI and it's doing fine as well.
While it might not kill their influx of talent to zero, I'm sure it'll put at least some dent in it (however minor it may be). There are people that will not be able to rationalize this away, and at the very least there will be a lot more people that will have their view of Google major-ly tarnished (even if they are still willing to swallow their principles and go to work there).
"We believe that coupling exceptions to a control structure, as in the try-catch-finally idiom, results in convoluted code. It also tends to encourage programmers to label too many ordinary errors, such as failing to open a file, as exceptional."

To me, that comes across as "We don't like traditional exception handling because languages that use exceptions for error-handling encourage programmers to use exceptions for error-handling." Well, yes, that's what they're for.

Python's exception system is far from perfect - it would be nice if there were a standard way to annotate exceptions, and if exceptions weren't quite so inefficient - but it's much easier to design or learn an API when there's one error-handling system consistently applied, instead of two independent ones.
Microsoft/Bing could win themselves a ton of goodwill if they were to take the opposing stance to Google on this. (Though I question whether Microsoft leadership is savvy enough to capitalize on this opportunity.)
Where's the evidence?
Depends on liquidity preferences.
I agree. This type of thing happens all too often.
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Matte, unless you don't have lights or ever see the sun.
I thought that mesh networks were largely proven to not have the scalability needed.
As an "adult space" startup, I say go for it. The only folks that really frown at me are banks and public institutions (schools, small government, etc.).

It's fun, almost always very professional, and very progressive. Go for it! Have fun! Be passionate!
The analysis makes sense on a micro level. To any one consumer, it is possible to prefer one bundle of goods (groupon quantity at groupon price) to another bundle of goods (standard quantity at standard price) even though the first bundle lies outside of the individual's demand curve.

However, relative to the quantity desired by any one consumer, the number of units required to activate the groupon deal is quite high. The pressure any one customer feels to buy more to ensure that the deal is activated would be negligible. I would expect that the number of units sold at the groupon price to coincide with the market demand curve.
I just reviewed a resume that included many adult entertainment references. Didn't diminish any from the candidate's chances at all and as a bonus it was fun to checkout out his previous work.

If I was a stereotypical blow hard though I definitely would have tossed his resume in the trash. There is zero apparent cost to eliminating a resume.

Based on your next potential employer, just make sure you remove the reference if you're applying to BYU or Bob Jones or something.
To be fair, the point is that you'll spend less energy doing so. And I don't think temptation or whatnot is a mitigating factor, I'd say that's geography agnostic.
PS. Feel free to contact me, we're really eager to develop relationships with other industry startups - I'm sure we could work together.
I wouldn't want to work for a company that would refuse to hire me for working on a gay porn site. Especially considering that I'm gay.
Would you really want to work for any company that would judge you for working this unnamed potential employer?

Principles don't pay bills.
Light on details, but the youtube video description credits kegbot.org for the Arduino software.
Ironically, Google just enabled multiple sign-ons, but I'm not sure it would have helped.

There's too much tied to my GMail account already.
It's didn't help that google's response to user feedback was "you just don't understand it" rather than improving the product.

I mean, we still have to contend with a broken, nonstandard, useless scrollbar in the product.
This is very sad. I thought it was a great product but suffered from lack of good marketing AND positioning (as in it wasn't good enough to do what Google wanted it to, and it was never marketed adequately to fill a niche). In particular:
- It isn't a good replacement for email because there is no integration with gmail or other established mail systems.
- It isn't good enough for creating documents (blogs, company documents) because there was no security (ability to make something read-only to certain people).
- It isn't good enough as a collaboration tool because after a few people edit a Wave, it looks so confusing - you lose all notion of it being a single consistent document because it looks too much like a complicated chat.

I also wonder if it was just too heavy in terms of Javascript and network processing.

Either way, this is a big shame - I was very much looking forward to Wave taking a greater part in my tech life.
That's a bad analogy. Nobody would pay you to do that.
English: native.

Spanish: oh-so-close to native. Varies from day to day. I mean, I've spent 20 years in Chile, but it is not easy to stay bilingual. I'm not even sure it's possible to remain completely native in 2 or more languages permanently.
What's with the intentional misspellings of Groupon?

GroupOn?

group-on?

You reek of bias when you take little jabs at a company by misspelling their name. It's immature and distracts from your more substantive points.

I had to stop reading Mark Cuban's blog when he kept writing about MicroSoft. I'd like to think that HN is more mature than this...
This is just baffling. Google is willing to stand up to the freaking Chinese government, but Verizon can force them to pay Danegeld? What happened to all that dark fiber they were buying? Are they looking at scary internal projections about iPhones on Verizon and Facebook's search engine?

I really hope this story is wrong; otherwise it says disturbing things about the stranglehold we've given to user-hostile oligopolies.
> When you know the identity of your informants was compromised, you should remove them from the field immediately.

I sure hope you have enough space for the huddled masses of Afghanistan in your house since an awful lot of them are "informants".
They took it down because people were defacing it
Interesting - I never heard anyone equate the internet to an unstoppable self-replicating technology before - but by God I hope you're right.
I wish that was true. But don't forget who owns, operates, and maintains the actual cables. Telecoms.
What's ugly about it? There are some warts but overall I find it refreshingly clean (compared to e.g. Reddit).
I saw the question more as, "Would having a dating site with a more 'red light' angle on it hurt my resume?" (i.e. less about the 'gay' part and more about the 'porn' part, though I'll admit that 'gay porn' is probably a double-whammy if your resume hits some ultra-conservative hiring manager)
"Who is really culpable for the release of these names?"

The person who released the information.