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While I've done very little with Gentoo, Arch's packaging seemed to me like running OpenBSD's ports tree from cvs, but without the option of an updated-every-six-months super-stable milestone release. It's inherently a "bleeding-edge" distro, which is not necessarily true for OpenBSD. (I run OpenBSD from snapshots/source and update a few times a month, but I also maintain some ports.)

I've only experimented with Arch, though, and I'd also like to hear from others who know both well.
How about Xbox, Xbox Live and most recently Kinect? Xbox Live crossed billion in revenue and Kinect also is expected to sell millions hitting billion mark in a few months?

Also Bing came around doing extremely good. I wish people look at the positives as much as the negatives. No one talks about failure of Apple TV or the failure of Newton etc
http://thecaseagainstapple.blogspot.com/
Nay, not a compiler. I wrote a set of libraries in Common Lisp that auto-generate the text of COBOL programs. It uses a combination of template selection and textual substitution, all based on a spec written in a spreadsheet. I work from home, where I am free to Get Things Done with no need to be seen poking away on the standard 3270 terminal to be considered working.
It doesn't seem that the post paints Google as being disrespectful to engineers. If it is unfriendly to engineers, then it is unfriendly to everyone.

Some points here:

The key point that starts off #1 is more or less a side effect of any company where you hire folks who have a need for stability in their life. The unpredictability that he refers to is little different than how startups need to pivot. The only difference is that at a big company, it's management's job to hide that from the masses, and there's a limit to how well that can be handled.

Now as startup folks, you may find this abhorrent, or as big-company peons, you may still find this abhorrent, but all the organizations I've seen, from 200-man high school volunteer clubs all the way up to multi-billion dollar corporations, all of them have to deal with this. It's just that a tiny startup where people feel like they're on the same boat and have the emotional fortitude to handle it, then it may be better to be direct and honest.

The no-interviews bit is mildly troubling, but every engineer who's thought about company culture has probably come to this question eventually: if it's not to one's own benefit to interview engineers, then doesn't it seem likely that interviews would devolve into intellectual hazing sessions?

Points #3 and #4 are typical at any company larger than about one or two hundred. My hypothesis is that once you have more than 3 layers of management, the folks at the top who've been there and know what they're doing can't help your direct manager when he needs it. And again, as I see it, this is little different from how startup folks have to go through the process of finding the right company, the right founding team, and so on. People want to go to a big company and think that it will suddenly all be magical but of course there is no shortcut for the biggest challenges in life.
Ask HN: What is a good lead founder's salary?
If one obtains a seed round of funding, how much should go to pay the founder's salary versus other needs?
But would you, after reading his description of applicative functors, notice that you should use it while you're in the middle of programming? I don't think so. I think all you get is the ability to write definitions for <$> and <∗> on the blackboard, which is better than nothing, but in the end, useless.

RWH shows you when you apply all those things with weird names, rather than just showing you how to define them and come up with contrived examples.

Anyway... good reading? Yes. Actively harmful? Nope. The absolute best way to learn Haskell with the intent to write programs in Haskell? Nope.
Not sure I agree. Its not about technology or familiarity. Video is not (yet) a comfortable medium of communication for most people. They won't be confident on video, and most likely will come off less perfect than they really are. I think it could potentially be bad for employees as well as employers. Comfort is critical if an employer wants to truly evaluate someone's skill set. Maybe video becomes a comfortable medium in the future, but that would perhaps be another generation.
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I must admit, I railed against adding Flouride for many years, mostly from a liberty / choice perspective, before finally accepting almost a century of scientific evidence and becoming a supporter. I need to know more about the science, both positive and negative effects, before doing the same here, but it is a nifty precendent.

As with fluoride, I wouldn't want my community to be the first to test it - perhaps if I can convince my neighbours to support a local nuclear power plant we would be spared being guinea pigs on the lithium issue.
Serenity?
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...and one of the authors reads HN, so that should count for something.
FWIW, this is almost exactly what the 1040EZ looks like. Except they save you the percentage math and give you a lookup table instead.
The YCommonApp is a first step, not the last. Anyone who applies will have plenty of opportunity to learn more about the companies' products, cultures, etc before deciding which companies they think are good fits.
Maybe they should check, or already have, if small doses of lithium make citizens more compliant and less critical of authority, especially with increasing the dosage of lithium in the water :)
Can you elaborate a bit on "genes are not ascii sequences"? My understanding is that genes are regularly computer stored as ascii sequences e.g. GATTACA.
From the rules and judging page

> This contest is open to United States residents only.

Why do this? Surely the aim is to make something cool. Why limit to the US ? Wufoo is not limited to the USA only so why apply this to the comp ?

People in other countries also understand REST you know !
2 and 3 seem relatively obvious to me. The mailing list part of 3 was new to me, as I wasn't really aware they existed, but keeping things up to date and upgrading when they're not seemed pretty common sensey.

Regarding #1 though: How do I know what I can and can't turn off? Obviously turning off Apache or something like that is wrong, but there could be less obvious things I may miss.

For the things that need to stay on (and I'm mainly focusing on the AMP in LAMP with this), are they generally good-to-go out of the box with minimal "extraordinary" configuration, or are there good resources to securing them that I should be reading? I guess what I'm asking is, beyond following the slicehost/linode tutorials, how much do I really need to know and where can I find it.

Beyond all of this, I'll address your first point regarding the inherent incomplete security of things: While you can't make anything 100% secure, you should still try your best to prove that statement wrong. Plugging all "known" holes in your security is still a lot better than being ignorant of them.
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I have the exact setup for Marrily.com: http://marrily.com/blog. The main site runs Rails 3RC, and any requests begin with /blog will get proxied over to the WordPress site running locally.

Basically I have Apache running on port 81 locally, and I setup the WordPress to a "blog" folder underneath the DocumentRoot.

Then within the server { } configure block in nginx, I have

server {
# your server settings, like "listen 80;"

location /blog {
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
#add_header X-Marrily-DEBUG "$Host"; # turn this on to test the header
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:81;
}

}

You will have to update the WordPress config to tell that it's installed in a sub folder and not at the root. It took me a while to figure out (all other articles online will tell you to update the wp-config.php file to define the different constants, but it's not the right spot for WordPress 3). You'd have to update the wp_options table as well to fix the path. Here's a screenshot: http://cl.ly/468cab133aca48eea173

Good luck!

(this post should go to StackOverflow, but since I just went through the exact same experience, I thought I'd share it)
He also mentioned investor money. Investors tend to invest in sites that have tons of users even if the site is unprofitable at the time of investment (see youtube, digg, facebook).
"One person's right to drink lithium-free water is no greater than another's right to drink lithium-enhanced water."

Um... If you feel this strongly about it, then go put lithium in your water. Don't make me buy bottled water. I've been on lithium before. I'd prefer to spend the rest of my life as far away from ingesting it as possible.
What is half of what you're expected to earn? Have you asked what range would be 'proper salary based on performance'? Are they doing things that you are interested in? Will you acquire new skills that will be useful in your career?

If you are considering this offer, can we assume that there are few offers at this moment? Depending on your situation/skills/experience, maybe it might be worth giving it a try. 3 months isn't a long time.
This is a bug report, not a feature request, but I couldn't find an obvious place to put it. I appear to be able to upvote comments an infinite number of times: if I click the upvote button once, it disappears. But if I hit enter, the vote keeps climbing. I have some screenshots of this in action.

Unless Hacker News has an (undocumented?) feature that lets regular posters / certain karma thresholds / whatever have a large or infinite number of votes, this appears to be a bug.

I'm running Firefox 3.6.8 on OS 10.6.whatever is latest.
Actually, I would answer that question with "Compass". Blueprint, etc. are CSS templates and themes, not a "framework" as used in computer science and else where.
> BTW is that how we quote text here?

There isn't a strong consensus. I've seen e-mail > quoting (as I used), italics, "quotes", etc. It usually isn't a big deal, unless using several kinds of quoting makes your intent unclear.
So I'm just wondering if any of these companies hire foreigners?

Specifically Canadians. But if there could be some info up to let people know if they'll consider applications from outside the US that would be awesome so then some people don't waste time submitting a resume.
Another way is to use bibop memory organization (Big Bag Of Pages).

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Exactly. I always read BSD discussions and think "what a bunch of licensing fanbois". I guess since the OS and the license have the same name...

Anyway, here's why I support Linux and the GPL: the WRT54G. Linksys would have never released the source code for the router's kernel without being forced to. But when they did it, an amazing thing happened, third-party developers made their product one of the most popular wireless routers ever. With open source, everyone benefited -- users got better products, hackers had fun, an d Linksys made more money.

If Linux was BSD-licensed, the WRT54G would be a long-forgotten relic of the past.
I've used them, and yoga balls, and I've discarded them and gone back to a chair. I'd recommend looking into a standing desk; I've heard great things about working while standing.
No, it's not, but the current situation smacks of systemic job loss rather than cyclical job loss. It's a problem. What happens when people absolutely can't find new jobs? Self-feeding demand destruction?
Thank you for your inputs. Yes, it's becoming increasingly evident that the copy needs some reworking. Back to the drawing board on that!
I think you should just charge $99 as a one-time fee and forget about the monthly payment options. Just make the service worth it, that's all.
but then you'd miss nuggets such as this:

"Paul says that he only stumbled on the contract when the cops arrived at his house to arrest him for allegedly defrauding the customers of his wood-pellet business. That arrest got him looking through old files, and, low and behold, there was a contract saying he owned 84% of Facebook."

"“The work [Mark Zuckerberg] did was really good,” Ceglia said. “He could code. I’d hire him today as a coder.”

Ceglia said he looks forward to a day when he might employ Zuckerberg again.

“If at some point in the future I start running Facebook, I guess I’m going to have to hire him to keep running the company,” Ceglia said. “I really don’t have much interest in it.”"

"Another guy has entered the picture, Andrew Logan, the founder of a company called StreetDelivery. Logan says Ceglia was working for him at the time the Facebook contract was drawn up, so that if Ceglia owns Facebook, then Logan actually owns Facebook."
More like Equilibrium, given the effects of lithium. Of course, we are talking about really small doses.

It does beg the question though. If small doses are effective, why do people only get prescribed massively higher doses?
Your precious bodily fluids are about as impure as it gets. I mean, dude- what other aqueous solution can you think of that's 80% water and can stand on it's own like a pair of month-old socks?
There are estimates that 80% of the world's data are processed by mainframes.

Pretty clueless estimates I'd have to think.
I have no idea, but if their business model is selling PPVs for $50 and keeping $25, I don't think they'd be thrilled at the prospect of the UFC selling streams for $10 and giving them $5.

My guess is that it's not the UFC that has a problem with it. I'm sure they'd be happy to throw a $30 stream on the Web and keep all the revenue. But keep in mind that they would be nothing without their PPV partners, and they will need them for a long time still, so there are a lot of issues.

Also, keep in mind that the PPV partners are in the same group as the music industry, newspapers, book publishers, etc. They are going to try to hold on to this model as long as they can instead of embracing the new one that's obviously coming at them a lot faster than they'd like. The UFC might not like it, but they still need to play their game for the foreseeable future.

I'm just speculating though.
Ever see the movie 'Equilibrium'..? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_%28film%29

I think we need to make changes to how we live our lives before we resort to using drugs if we can avoid it. What's next? Dieting drugs in our water?
A prescription is an intervention, and uses higher levels to achieve dramatic change over a short period of time. This is proposing small doses because the target range is lifetime
That was almost immediate. The quantity was lower but it was less than a week for the new domain to be returned by Google.
I've heard first hand descriptions of driving in China, Italy, and Pakistan. In Pakistan, they have problems with people obeying stop lights!

This all just supports my point. If Houston drivers are pinheads that feel like they can cut-off a train that out-masses their vehicle by a factor of ten, what are Chinese drivers going to do about these massive tunnel-things going around when they have to drive underneath those things? It's begging for a lot of accidents, I think.
I was thinking about proposing something like a mixer (after reading these threads today), and now that you've mentioned it - why not have regular mixers for hiring YC companies and interested hackers?
Last I checked it is still possible to send an email from inside a Rails controller, or to update a bunch of database records in a tight loop. You can't do these sorts of things at scale, which a lot of people are still learning the hard way.

Part of an app server like Django et al being flexible is giving you the ability to shoot yourself in the foot. It is much harder to screw something up royally when you are working within the CouchApp constraints. That's what I meant by fragile.

Google App Engine gets this mostly right by enforcing draconian timeout limits and other constraints, so it is much harder to write an app that is gonna fall over under a big wave of traffic, as the sandbox will complain right away.

CouchApp is even more picky. The programming model doesn't have operations that could block on remote IO, so you can't even go down the bad path. Of course, when you do need to send an email, you've got to rethink how to do it. (Actually in a real app you'd do email from an asynchronous task as well.)
It's not like this is an anti-obesity drug to fight poor life choices and life styles. I really hope you don't feel that the majority of suicides were by people who simply made 'poor life choices' and needed to change how they lived.

And, even when the condition can be remedied by life changes, good or bad (is moving to Seattle and suffering from depression deserving of criticism?) doesn't it make sense to buy time by treating the major life threatening symptoms, i.e. trying to kill yourself?
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You could say the same about Windows XP.
Is Calfile or ReadyReturn open source ? This would be a great asset in deploying similar systems in... say.. developing nations.
Hi Exline,

I always wanted to have a number between $10 and $15 so that it's more like a casual price that won't make people cringe to fork out their money. In my survey (http://marrily.com/survey), $10 - $15 is also the range that people are willing to pay as well.

A few response said they want to a price in the $5 - $10 rang, however, this price is too low, and in my opinion, it would affect user's perception of the application. They would think "you get what you pay for". Having a low $7.99 or $6.99 will probably hurt the app more than helping with cheaper price/higher volume. Based on my own experience (I was a paid customer to 37Signals basecamp for the longest time), at the end of the day, the difference between $7.99 and $12.79 isn't that much. I was willing to pay 37Signals $12 as much as I would if they priced it at $5.00. However, it's a huge difference in terms of revenue (a 37.5% loss in potential revenue).

I read somewhere that prices that end in 9, .99, and .79 work best. The Appstore probably an amazing demonstration of this: 99c apps do sell, and so do $9.99 apps for the iPad. However, I want to go with a price that works and not as as common. So I pick .79. And I'm superstitious as well, 13 is a bad number, so I don't want $13.79 (furthermore, (1+3+7+9) mod 10 = 0, not sure if it's good or bad here). $14.79 is a bit high (I probably have to do A/B split tests once the site got more tractions to test this price point though), while $11.79 is a bit on the low side. $12.79 is the perfect number.

However, all these come from a guy who has never sold anything in his life. So don't count on my words. I'm still in the experimenting phase, but I'd love to share my results afterward.

Cheers!

Edit: For 13.79, the sum of all the numbers mod 10 is 0, in baccarat, that's the worst hand you can possibly have. So definitely not $13.79 for the price.
Also, I highly doubt anyone has done a study on what tiny amounts of lithium ingested regularly would do to your kidneys. There is a reason your doctor wants you to get semi-regular kidney function tests if you're on lithium.
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I'm not sure off-hand which ones are open to this, but my guess is for a good engineer plenty are (particularly the larger ones). We'll try to find out for you.
Yesterday and today, I quickly wrote up a Ruby interface to the API: http://github.com/Pistos/ideone-gem
What are the majority of suicides caused by? (I am actually curious.)

I'm merely saying that living a healthy, active and happy life would produce good results and help to avoid needing to take drugs. Is that wrong? Naive?
I am reminded of one of the companies from Neuromancer. Was it Maas-Neotek? Gibson described most large companies as being composed mostly of flab, with a few hard bits of "edge." But there was this one large company that was all edge. It was a predator amongst its peers.

For awhile Apple was just eating everyone's lunch because they were the only ones who understood end-to-end User Experience.

Apple's stated strategy for quite awhile was having the computer as the "digital hub." The target was clearly a merging of all media with the computing experience. Can you imagine what Microsoft could've done with XBox if they had UX and vision in the same league as Apple? It was like they already had troops dug in place in the key strategic spot. Apple would've been crushed. Instead, Apple walked all over them.
Started to read through RWH (paperback, not the online version [1]), than read some chapters in LYAH, and now I'm reading Hutton's "Programming in Haskell." The latter, while a slick book (~ 170pages) is really a nice read, but if I have to recommend a book on Haskell, RWH is the one I'll mention for sure; you'll learn a lot about functional programming at large, the book includes a lot of code examples, and it's (mostly) written beginner-friendly.

[1] http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
Interesting that he's so gung-ho about STM when the Microsoft paper sounds so pessimistic:
http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/01/03/ABriefRetros...

The more I read about these new approaches to concurrency the more I suspect that there's going to be no free lunch. Concurrent programs are going to require careful, bottom-up design with concurrency in mind and concurrent design is going to remain a difficult thing.
The VM controls the creation and manipulation of doubles, so beggars and nasties do not have the ability to create a non-canonical NaN.
> To close this, everything he said in his "hard to read" could be applied to any languages with mutability.

Really? I dare you to make Python code as hard to read. It has mutability, too.

Hell, does C code have that same amount of overloading? The worst things C offers are function pointers and preprocessor hijinks* , while C++ proudly adds whole new categories of ways to make code hard to parse or reason about. (To say nothing of compile times.)

I learned C++ before the STL, too. For what the STL accomplishes, I'd rather just use OCaml. C + Lua is also nice - the division emphasizes their strong points, and each seems to keep each others' complexities in check.

* http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b507c/ask_reddi...
But, really none of those are very compelling and a couple are negatives

For you, that might be entirely true. We're not fanatics; we have no trouble accepting that for some people FreeBSD isn't the best OS for every task. There are FreeBSD developers who are perfectly happy using Linux, OS X, OpenSolaris, and even Windows on a daily basis.
I've been using FreeBSD and Linux side by side for about 10 years. FreeBSD appeals strongly to the developer side of me: a typical install puts the complete kernel source code in /usr/src, includes a compiler and other build tools, section 3 man pages, and Makefiles for 20,000+ software packages (the ports system). On Debian-based systems at least, these are things I have to ask for later, and there always seems to be a bit more struggle involved in any given developer setup...it's almost like there's a velvet rope separating users from developers.

Maybe other developer-centric Linux distros have caught up in certain ways; I'm actually quite interested in hearing more about them. With FreeBSD though, the low barrier to development has always been there, and when you dig deeper, you'll start to feel like part of a great tradition.
The article seems wrong since it seems to based solely on the scientist's press release but the press release doesn't say anything about the fish "turning" from prey to predator, it doesn't use the word "adaptations" and it doesn't imply that something new is going on. The scientists just made some observations about what is going on and reported it, they didn't make any comparisons to previous behavior of the fish.
More like 'fuck other people over" money.
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