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show me a christian that grok'd the entire bible before calling themselves a christian, and i'll show you a developer who reads the entire behavioral specification of a library before using it.

your idea works for libraries that are small, it's appalling for libraries of any significant size.

the point of a readme is to provide a useful summary that is quick to start using for the critical path use cases.

if you look at a web framework in a language you don't know as an example, and try to find the introductory use cases in the tests, this should give you some idea of what you're suggesting.
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The intro video does not have any playback controls. I'd like to see some standard play/pause and volume control buttons. Also, once I close the intro video, the green "First time here" banner disappears and I have to hunt for the link to re-play the video (which is located at the top right corner).
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I agree that there is a strategy here. However, every strategy needs to be evaluated relative to the cost, and from my point of view, the price that Intel is paying to execute this strategy is too high.

If we look at MFE's peak earnings from FY2009, it's $173m. So a $7.7b price tag is just under 45x. In other words, it'll take 45 years of FY2009 earnings to merely regain the initial investment. Now let's be more generous and give Intel a low discount rate of 5% and assume that those earnings grow compounded 10% each year. It will still take 25 years for Intel to make back that investment.

Of course, the investment gets better if there are synergies that will provide additional boost to Intel's earnings, but what are they? I don't really buy (2) since Intel has shown that they are capable of getting their software onto your computer when they want to (see their integrated video drivers that download through Windows Update).

But even if they couldn't, they could have just continued collaborating with McAfee without buying them. That's essentially the exact same thing as what's happening now, minus the big transfer of wealth from Intel shareholders to McAfee shareholders.

I suppose that I'm just not convinced that Intel couldn't have rolled their own solution for less than $7bln. Even if they really needed to buy McAfee, a 60% premium over the market price is pretty steep, and it's hard for me to see how that adds more value to Intel shareholders than a 7% special dividend or buyback. So far, I haven't seen an argument that's made me think, "Oh yes, that IS something I'd pay $7 billion for."
Google does require certain things in order for it to get the Google branding. Currently this seems to be limited to including the core Google applications, but if google deems the rise of handset-specific frontends to be an issue perhaps they could expand the license requirements?

I, for one, don't see the proliferation of Motoblur/SamsungSense/HTC-Whatever to be a negative thing. It is an additional factor that consumers can use to differentiate between phones. One reason I own a DroidX is the great hardware, but another reason is I think the moto skin adds a lot in certain areas (it's calendar widget, for example).

In other words: let the market decide.
Maybe it isn't China: Declining US manufacturing employment
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Why does a particular city need a "startup scene"?

As a startup employee, a practical reason to live somewhere with a "startup scene" is so that I can get another job easily if something doesn't work out. I don't want to have to move from Valley Forge to Orlando when DuckDuckGo tanks.
this is a libertarian fantasy and nothing more. Wages for most people have been stagnant or declining while energy prices are steadily rising. This is a huge problem
Microsoft held a launch event for the original Xbox back in Fall of 2001 for retailers. It showed what it was all about, let people play almost-complete versions of Halo and several other launch titles, etc...

One of the speakers started talking about demographics, such as who they expected to buy the console. One point of their market research jumped out: The average male Xbox consumer in the (approx) 18-25 year old range expected to be a millionaire by age 30.

Hmmm, that's me! (I was 21 at the time) But this would be an impossible goal for 99.9% of us. At the time a lot of paper-millionaires were recently minted in the dot-com boom, likely throwing off my perception and that of others.

It turns out I felt "entitled" to be a millionaire by 30. But in reality, entitlement usually disappoints since it discourages hard work, dreams get shattered, and expectations are eventually lowered. It's a chronic disease best avoided.

Fortunately this triggered a wake-up-call and encouraged me to work harder. Being a millionaire by age 30 isn't as important anymore. Instead, being intelligent enough and positioned properly by age 30 to do great things, and maybe eventually become a millionaire, is far more important. The goal of money is still desired as it brings elevated freedom, and the sooner you get it the better, of course. But it can be blinding if that's all you care about.
TLDR version: We took a corpus of 25k comments from HN, analyzed them to infer semantic similarity. Next we came up with a seed of 18 words out of the 40k words in our corpus, scored the corpus of 40k words based on similarity with those 18 words. We then analyzed the 25k comments to score them based on the scores assigned to the 40k words. Major weaknesses: [1] words not in the corpus are dropped, so technical text with (relatively) obscure words may not score well, and [2] our seed of 18 words was highly subjective and put together in <5 mins.

Also, there are a couple of dynamic links at the bottom of the post, for those who want to play with the mechanics, search for themselves and others, etc.
For Jessica - UPDATE
This is an update for the highly upvoted story a month ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539833
About $35000 here in Thailand gives me a lifestyle that I think of as lavish and decadent, but I guess the OP would consider frugal and cautious. 120sqm condo beside the sea, eat out every night, tennis and language lessons. I could probably cut the budget down to around $20000 in a pinch and still live comfortably. The major downside is that there aren't many hackers about.
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I've mediated for ten years.

My grandma started practicing zen meditation in the 1950s, when it first was introduced to the US. She taught my mom, who's now a teacher, and introduced me to the practice when I was sixteen.

Meditation, I find, confers a number of benefits. It's energizing and relaxing. It improves my sleep. It hones my listening and observation skills. It makes me more aware of the thoughts in my head -- which can be deafening at times -- and will help me quiet them.

I find that the time and effort I spend meditating is tremendously valuable and enriching.
Another challenge is the difference between volume of traffic, and diversity of traffic. Naively set up load tests tend to be really good tests of your caching mechanism, and non-tests of other parts of your system.
The CouchDB group is hosting CouchCamp September 8-10 in Petaluma, CA: http://www.couch.io/couchcamp It's quite cheap ($600, including room and meals) and should be a great chance to learn more about CouchDB from the original sources.

I've not signed up for it (yet) myself; I'm concerned about a schedule conflict, but I may go ahead and do it anyway.

Even if you don't plan on using CouchDB directly, it's worth a look just to see how neatly they've implemented RESTful APIs.
Do not mention your grades on your resume. About half the people won't even ask or care. The ones that do will ask and that is the time to explain what you got and why it was low.

When I was graduating they told us that if you got above 2.5 put it on there, below don't put it on there. Now that I've been out awhile I think that's probably a decent rule of thumb. Personally I don't put it on there even though I did fairly well.
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This is an update for the highly upvoted story a month ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539833
I doubt it. Once the manufacturers start loading their crap on these Chrome-based "open" tablets and the tablets start looking like the crummy Windows computers you get from HP and Dell that have 20 icons of crap on the desktop, discerning consumers will continue flocking to the iPad.
"refuses to put grades"

Well, sure when you put it that way it sounds bad. It's extremely common to see resumes without grades (and is often advised by career services for people with low grades). It sounds like your boss cares more about grades than someone who'll do a good job, and then that isn't a good fit for this person anyways.
Direct advertising Vs. remnant advertising
Which one of the two is better?? advertising directly with advertisers (e.g: buysellads, isocket) or using traditional ad networks such as adsense, adbrite..
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Please tell me which point I'm wrong on. Do most people not live in larger houses, enjoy greater automation of housework, enjoy larger and better entertainment technologies, and benefit from medical procedures which did not exist in 1967?
I haven't been able to find such a quote from eight years ago, but the same logic doesn't apply to the iPod... You can play any MP3 file you want on an iPod without Apple's approval, and playing MP3s is arguably the iPod's primary function. In this respect, it's just as open as any other MP3 player.
I would love to see some way to relate test cases with sections of the README. That way you could see code coverage of your README. It's difficult to retroactively write a README after you've written your code but it can also be difficult to write all the code described by your README.

The README shouldn't hold every detail of your implementation but it would be a good starting point for developers trying to find where described functionality is located in a library.

Also, it would provide the inverse: You can see what test cases you have that are not described in your documentation.
The minute I saw Rapportive I started using it. The idea and the implementation are just great. Not that it does something revolutionary at the moment, but it's simple and useful and I believe there's a potential. Great job, guys!
And the Dutch wonder why they have a reputation for being cheap...

[disclaimer: I am Dutch myself... :-) Now living in the US though.]
the iPad nano is called the ipod touch, and they're expected to introduce a 7" ipad later this year.
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> they actually ship products they announce

I'd argue that—most of the time—Apple announces products they're ready to ship.

This has been somewhat less true for the iPhone because of FCC certification requirements, and iPad because they needed developers to build compelling apps in order to sell the device.
I've definitely seen it used in both Nor Cal and So Cal to slow traffic down. They do it on I-5 fairly often during rush hour, of all times.
Even in that window of time if the underlying pattern is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bacterial_growth_en.svg

40 years doesn't tell you much about the next 10.

Growth rates in recent times have depended largely on finite resources, many of which are now becoming scarce. It may be that we innovate around all of this, but it's far from certain.
Hopefully no one will take this as a challenge...
That's not even imaginative enough. We'll be living in space and the rich will own whole solar systems with strong AI civilizations dedicated to working for them and worshipping them. The poor will barely be able to afford immortality and a space ship for going to work. Your great-granddaughter will complain, "Dad, why can't our Spaceballs One even move a diddly little gas giant while those people have whole solar systems to play with?" "Oww... blame our great-grandfather, he spent all his startup money on a measly 4000 sq ft house 200 years ago. Douchebag thinks he'd only live for 90 years."
Screw that. I want to retire rich at 23.
Occasionally I'm using a terminal which can't open an editor for one reason or another. In those situations I use -m.
Duh, I meant local maxima, of course -- at least, that's what those drivers are trying for. What they get most of the time are more like minima, of course.
Java's now 2 orders of magnitude below Visual Basic? Do I smell a reflective relationship in there?
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Nobody thinks of Valley Forge as a "startup city", but there are tons of tech firms and other firms in need of technical people there. Glenside, PA, population less than 10,000, probably one of the most backwards suburbs I've ever had the pleasure of living in, is home to Newgrounds.com. Regardless, this is the GD internet, you shouldn't have to actually be in Orlando to do good work for a company in Orlando. My employer currently has clients on the other side of the country. Neither we nor our client is ever going to admit that a full country's worth of distance and a 3 hour timezone disparity has a significant impact on the quality of our services. Even when I lived in the middling town of Chambersburg, where the first sizable city was Harrisburg at nearly an hour away, there were always options for programming employment in town. I took a 4 mile walk from Glenside to Ambler one Saturday and walked past 3 tech firms along the way.

That's the thing, can anyone in any industry in this age afford to not have a sizable interest in computing and internet technology? Even Doodie Calls couldn't get away with running a paper business, and all they do is drive around in vans and scoop dog poop. If you're big enough to have employees, you're big enough to have tech need that can't be filled by your 15 year old nephew for weekend soda money. Maybe in 1985, when the vast majority of the population had no idea you could even link computers together nation-wide, it made sense to band together to take down the few companies that had tech need. But today is completely different.
When I lived in the Valley I bought a 1986 Toyota MR2 for about $6k. It had hilarious 80s-era retro styling with angles reminiscent of Tron, and it admittedly has been through an engine and transmission rebuild in the last 24 years, but it still runs great (for the friend I sold it to) and doesn't cost much more to maintain than any car of that age would cost.

It is marginally less fuel efficient than many cars, despite its tiny size, and one does go through tires when one is tearing off the starting line at the entrance ramp to 101. Fast cars are more expensive than regular cars. But not necessarily much so.

Of course, if your definition of a fast car includes the word "Chevy" or, god help you, "Porsche" I take back everything I said. ;)
But the speed of RAM is still at least one order of magnitude faster than the SSD so there is still an advantage even with a faster fixed disk.
Or some sort of data-driven machine learning algorithms to do the testing.
I think you're making a mistake trying to apply something like Moore's law to a middle class lifestyle. Niche technological advancements don't necessarily translate to higher standards of living. If you're thinking the middle class life will simply scale the way hard drives and TV resolutions do you're in for a big surprise.

I understand that many of the things we think we "need" or want become very relative over time. But if we include basics like needing food, shelter and then add in middle class health care, mobility, security, leisure and luxury, you are talking about an expensive ticket. Yes we have made impressive advancements and maybe someday we'll have things like 100% robotic aggregation/farming and no longer need to think a lot about how we'll get our food. But I don't think the middle class life will simply becoming the default option anytime soon.

What about overpopulation? Increase demand from developing nations for this "middle class"? What about our numerous energy issues? I'm also not sure what your frame of reference is for the past. I must be stuck in the rebound towards an up trend because I know for a fact that a houses were much more affordable for my parents who lived on one carpenters paycheck, even while I make a higher salary after inflation and have the assistance of my spouses income.
Or late night orgies. What is so bad about that? Sex is pleasure. Everyone should be able to have the pleasure if so they please.
Paywalls for scientific research are evil.

http://209.20.67.195/misc/sastri-identification.pdf

(I intend to do this regularly; see bio.)
I would imagine its hard to hire a good external product manager.

I once worked at a small company where the product manager was a new hire, but most of the developers had been around for a long time (4-5 years). In the "food chain" the manager was higher, but after years of experience working on the project and under the founder the developers had a better eye for what worked when it came to implementation.
Not too hard. "Scala Scala Scala" is enough to round up to 100.0%.

It did say this (legitimate) comment of mine was 99.57%. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599910
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I sometimes use --amend, but it's good to get yourself into the habit of just making a new commit, then squashing it with git rebase -i.

I use magit.el for Emacs which makes this really easy, and if you screw up getting your data back from the reflog is a lot easier than if you just had a bunch of --amend fixups.
Obviously profit share is the most important, but in consumer electronics it is very hard to keep high profit share with low market share. Electronics have a lot of efficiencies of scale so the people with higher market share will eventually start making their stuff much cheaper and thus they will be able to both lower prices and improve their margins, which will really squeeze your profits.

And eventually you will have to be content with selling the same hardware as your competitors with your brand and your own software on it. Sound familiar?
There were plenty of implementations, at least on the demo level using Websockets & similar.

Here's one example: http://chat.nodejs.org/
Is anyone else a fan of the reporting Wade has been doing on this batch of YC companies? I've really enjoyed the in-depth articles - a nice contrast to the typical ADD of the Internet echo chamber.
> And good hackers are desperate to find good startups. Why does this have to be such a hard problem?

Both have a recognition problem.

Also, there are multiple definitions of "good". Cool problems are great, but if you're offering below market rate compensation, you can't offer below market rate risk.

Many hackers can do arithmetic on equity. 1% after dilution is >$1M only on a >$100M exit, which is relatively rare.

We've no objection to you getting rich. However, it isn't worth much to us either.
Is this how Rapportive works? Because the idea sounds very useful, but do you really want to build a business around altering the appearance of someone else's application? Particularly troubling is that they are removing one of the few money making parts of Gmail.

If it really starts to catch on, are they in for an arms race with Google?

Plus, with this focus, it appears that this company may be left with only one exit strategy: acquisition by Google.

Like I said, this sounds quite useful, but I'm not sure that I'd like to get in the middle of it...
There's something funny about the whole rapportive story, google at some point will notice, then they have to make a decision, allow this to set precedent which will open the floodgates to similar trickery or build a 'rapportive detector' in to their system which will most likely result in stopping rapportive from working. I have all kinds of questions about this strategy.

I'm sure that rapportive has thought this through, but is there any official response on this?

And the other side of the ledger, what if google does decide to go after them, how will they deal with the backlash from their users (that goes for both rapportive and for google)?

Plastering something across someone else's adspace seems somehow not the most fair thing to do, blocking ads is one thing, but replacing them with other content?

Is that ok? Is it ok to replace the ads with other ads? Do we all agree that functionality trumps ads and therefore rapportive is in the right on this?

What if the party wasn't google but a much smaller one depending on those ads for its income, would it still be ok then?
The quality always goes down at the weekend.
Is a $225K microscope supposed to be expensive or inexpensive for achieving this? Seems weird to mention that in the introduction. Why not include that they work in a $10M research building?
Drivers and antivirus are not comparable footholds on desktop computers. Enterprises don't buy premium drivers. They don't select vendors based on driver brands. And, as Intel seems to have found, they don't pay premium prices for desktop chipsets based on remote access drivers.

McAfee's gross revenues for the last 12 months total over 2 billion dollars; that's many many hundreds of millions of dollars worth of enterprises specifically selecting McAfee software as part of their standard build and as part of the mechanism by which they track and secure their computers.

Is MFE worth the premium? I have no idea. But the "synergy" here is not very fuzzy. Intel has a clear path towards both integrating and bundling MFE's value propositions into their own hardware, and to generating lock-in both based on MFE's brand (which may command north of 40% of the enterprise market) and on a combined AV/hardware security offering that won't be available from any other mainstream vendor.

I don't want to sound like a booster for this acquisition. I'm not. I'm just saying that it's nowhere near as crazy as some people (particularly the "what's Intel going to do, implement AV in ASIC?" crowd) seem to think it is. This is a straightforward vertical integration play, along an axis in the industry (enterprise desktop security) that is natural for Intel to be exploring given their last decade's worth of investment.
Ask HN: Does anyone actually make any money from Affiliate Advertising?
I have been using commission junction and link synergy for over a year to advertise products in addition to adsense, but not one sale have I experienced.

Am I an odditity, or is this pretty normal?
The challenge is to engineer a non-geeky comment that can stack up against the others.
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Kids are expensive w/o doing all that rich kid stuff. With three kids I have Tae Kwon Do, Abacus, piano, Kumon and they go to public schools. Add on school supplies, clothing, shoes, good will bikes, etc and it gets expensive fast w/o even looking expensive.
What's strange is the most of the article is begging Google to act like a benevolent dictator and tell the carriers and hardware manufacturers to take a hike if they disagree, then he quotes an article in which someone claims that Google is telling their OHA partners that it's their way or the highway and yet spins this as somehow even worse.
>>your idea works for libraries that are small, it's appalling for libraries of any significant size.

Really could you see a developer reading the entire .net or java standard library test suite before using either Java or C#
Alternately, if you use a high-level-language like Haskell that can compile into machine code, you can rewrite something like regexp matching (like regex-tdfa[1]) and get better performance than what the stdlib gives you on some inputs.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Regular_expressions#regex...
Once me and a friend did an explanation of the WWW in less than 100 words (in 1998). Quite a lot of fun.