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Cool infographic. Most of the little boxes seem to describe the conflicts in a way to make them seem sad and trivial. I'm fine with this, except it made one little box really stand out as extremely funny:

Hummus: Should hummus be in the "Israeli Cuisine" category, or is it a purely Arab food the Zionists have illegally occupied?
Whatever it is, it's probably lower than what GitHub provides. I mean, some of the largest and most promenant open source projects (with the most contributors) live in GitHub. For example, I read that Ruby on Rails 3 "consists of almost 4,000 commits by more than 250 authors".
Ditto. Glad you like it.

EDIT: Here's a direct Youtube link (to the actual performance, not the "flying typography" video in my original blog post): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4
Private. Building this taught me a lot I of stuff that I thought was 'easy' is actually pretty hard when you need to do it often enough :)

I always thought live video was hard, it turns out large numbers of images is actually much harder. That really surprised me.
Not everybody on Wall Street works on a HFT program. For every one person working in Erlang, there's a thousand more that aren't.
If you can get the same quality stuff for $10 you bought in the 80's for $10, that would still be phenomenal.
OTOH, with this feature sometimes you are going to change what you're searching before finishing it, because you can already see you're going the wrong way.

Also, it has tab-complete.
Could you please link to the actual announcement, not the front page of Google?

Google release their products incrementally, so not everyone has access to new features at the same time.

There's others in the thread who also don't have this in their locale yet and are also reduced to guessing.
That might - might - solve the first 4 points, but certainly nothing after that.
This is California, non-competes presumptively evil there, although I had the impression his sort of job might be in the category where they are allowed.
You can also press the Delete key to cut short a search. I would prefer to hit space multiple times and get the same behavior.

I tried searching for wtf. It lengthens the term to wtfismygearscore, which appears to be some WoW tool. What I don't like about the tool is that it makes my searches too specific! It doesn't know when to quit and the completion is often longer than I want it to be.

Strange.
Other submissions on the same subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672391 <- This has lots of comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672388 <- This is an explanation

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672346 <- First

... and more by the minute.
How many of these are we going to get?
I hate getting caught by link bait. "oh no SEO is irrelevant", I should read this to see why! No, I shouldn't.
Yeah, I find the whole framing the thing around the US constitution unhelpful. This is really a human psychology issue rather than a cultural history issue.

The thing that makes me curious is whether "semi" anonymity is the best of both worlds (where the person whose platform it is knows your identity but it is not published). In the example of women not writing letters to the editor because of their names being published, would they still object if the editor verified their identity but then published the letter pseudonymously?
The diagram has connection lines between all nodes; does this imply N² point-to-point OpenVPN connections, with a subnet for each connection?
Just saw this last night in SF courtesy of the Commonwealth Club. Highly recommended.

You're shown that getting results is straightforward: get rid of poor teachers and reward good ones. One stat that was particularly interesting, from a Stanford researcher whose name I forget, was that replacing the worst 6-10% of teachers would put us on the same proficiency level as Finland.

Unfortunately, the system makes that very difficult. Many teachers are granted tenure, making them impossible to fire, and educators' compensation isn't designed to allow for performance incentives. Contracts demanded by unions are partially to blame.

Also, our education system was built for previous generations' economies. Professionals, scientists, technical workers, factory workers, and laborers were needed in different proportions than they are today. Now we have more highly skilled jobs without enough highly educated Americans to fill them. SV and schools in Redwood City and Woodside are mentioned specifically.

It examines the costs of poor education, like the staggering number of dropouts who end up in prison. Their incarceration cost could put them through private school with money left over for college.

Saying the film demonizes Weingarten is exaggerating. She doesn't look great, but there are clearly a lot of factors at work.

Waiting for Superman makes clear that the way forward is good teachers.
The comments here remind me of an old Irish joke where a hopelessly lost tourist asks an old man by the side of the road "Can you tell me how to get to Dublin?". After a few minutes thinking, the man replies "Well, you don't want to start from here".

I doubt 37signals wanted to be in a place where an apparently simple change would involve so much work, but that's where they found themselves. They did what they had to do. There's no point snarking about their starting place without knowing how and why they got there.
Those were just few suggestions. Of course it all ultimately depends on the kind of site you have.

I just checked the site and I think it's a cool idea. It makes money once you can engage the users which I'm afraid it probably is not doing in its current form. Also the kind of site you have is more likely to be bookmarked and used than being talked about in blogs which is actually not that bad.

First of all the home page only gives the impression that this is some kind of product directory. What you can do to fix this is by showing some products on front page. It could be hot-sellers or anything you fancy. Don't put the user go through the trouble of typing it. Tease them with few products and then they will search on their own.

The priority right now should be to engage the users. If they are not spending more than 4-5 minutes on your site then it means you need to try new landing pages.

You can also increase the size of thumbnails that one gets on product category pages. It looks too congested right now.

In a nutshell, you Sir need a better optimized homepage more than anything else right now.
From things as simple as "git stash" to anything you'd use Mercurial's MQ extension for and beyond. Also, the Index, a concept which I initially wrote off as a frustrating extra step, turns out to be super useful for moving around chunks of code quickly.
history is composed not only of what our best guess is of what happened, but how that guess came to be and changed over time. my experience of studying modern history is that the biggest missing piece seems to be knowledge of where intellectual and political trends originated from and how they propagated. the information is there, but it is buried among many primary texts and largely ignored by "story centric" history. I don't blame historians for doing this, they must make history sexy or risk being considered irrelevant.
We are changing business model. Thoughts and considerations?
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First, I'll recommend the same free e-book here that I recommended over there: http://www.neildavidson.com/dontjustrollthedice.html

It will give you a good framework for figuring out your pricing.

If I were in your shoes, I'd be asking myself what the value to the customer is. What's their ROI going to be?

Once you do get in the door with somebody, I suspect you'll hear what they used to pay your competitors.
This is a logical extension of the trend to do ever more computation on every key press. Think spelling correction and auto-complete. But here instead of just a local process every key press invokes hundreds of remote machines, required to assemble a single search results page. It's impressive and decadant to think your cat walking accross the keyboard can light up whole racks of remote machines.
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can you tell me what the actual difference between OpenVPN and tinc is? I know OpenVPN very well and really like it. Why would I prefer tinc over OpenVPN (or the other way around)?

In my opinion, they share a lot of the same features like running in userspace, easy configuration, ssl/certificate based authentication - just the same.
Simple answer: Make people want it.

One of the ways to do that is to pay enough to make someone willing to do it. The article lists other methods that claim to work, but if the person isn't feeling properly compensated, you're going to be filling the job again shortly anyhow... And hiring people is expensive.
Heh, maybe. Tho on the internet, I'd say the hacker is doing just fine. In fact, it's OFF the internet where the Hacker is probably less influential (i.e. conference rooms, business magazines, etc).
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So abandon actual inches and just do small/medium/large.

But then just like Pizza went from SML -> L/XL/XXL without physically changing then clothes will do the opposite.

S/M/L will become "Normal/Small/Thin" -> "Thin/looking good/petite" -> "Petite/elfin/starving" .....
Funniest box in that graphic:

Arachnophobia: Appropriate to include a huge picture of a tarantula on a page about fear of spiders?
CEOs of small companies don't make $400k.

CEOs that have run a successful business before might make $250k-$300k in Silicon Valley (a high salary area, to be sure).

$250k would probably be the high end for a CEO of a 30 person company, if the CEO had not had a major success before.
I wish I could go back to thinking they were made out of cardboard.
In some sense, it's what makes us unique. Is CS the only discipline that deals with recursion on a regular basis?
Multi-factor is a big deal, especially if you ever want to deal with credit cards at all. We looked at WiKID (open source two factor solution) but building a LDAP backed VPN solution around it was going to be a fair bit of work, so we ended up using PhoneFactor, which is a pretty cheap commercial offering using your cell phone instead of physical token. Big fan.
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This sort of thing also tells me that people have an incorrect notion of what our work is really like. As a senior developer, I spend quite a bit of time interacting with people: discussing the problems our customers have; how we can make our product better; how I can make other coworker's jobs easier; how my systems will interact with other components; reviewing proposals, feature requests, and requirement documents and providing feedback to help refine them; reviewing other developers' code and mentoring junior members of the team.

I absolutely _don't_ spend 8 hours just interacting with a computer. I won't argue that there aren't any jobs in the field like that; and, in fact, entry-level positions do tend more towards "just implement this spec". But I think it's misleading to give people the idea that there is no human interaction involved in our jobs.
Ask HN: We are changing business model. Thoughts and considerations?
Since our domain is banned on HN, i have to write it here. Everything is explained in this page : http://enso-now.com/blog
Sincerely Thanks for any feedback.
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The whole basis for allowing non-competes as a matter of public policy (in states other than California) is to prevent "the first bite of the apple", i.e. to prevent irreparable harm from the first use of an employee's knowledge of trade secrets. For most of us (e.g. hackers/programmers) that's generally not a big deal let alone legitimate, which might explain how Silicon Valley has done so well in an legal regime free of them (or as I argue, it's the most important factor in SV's success; it's certainly the only unique one).

In this case, HP's claim that "he cannot perform his duties for Oracle without necessarily using and disclosing HP's trade secrets and confidential information to others" has a lot of merit. How could he possibly do his job, assuming it includes Sun systems stuff where HP directly competes, while compartmentalizing his very current knowledge of HP's legitimate trade secrets.

E.g. knowledge of HPs major customers and their pain points, knowledge of how HP sees the market and what it is developing in response; heck, knowledge of how HP is planning on converting more Sun customers to HP.

I loathe non-competes in general, but this sure looks like a legitimate exception to me.
A 1:1.5 ratio is less than 1:1.
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Isn't it time to go after the real enemy?

Corning make almost all the glass that transmits all this digital pornography around the world.

Isn't it time somebody acted to stop these monsters profiting from the evil trade in dense wavelength division multiplexing?
Just 'w' will give weather, but with an extra 'w' ww will give 'facebook.com' as the first result, that's interesting.
I am rather more receptive to receiving that email than most companies would be, and if it comes with an offer to create MIT-licensed Javascript/CSS to make the UI happen, I'd probably have it live within an hour of receiving the code.

That same test has been on my agenda since at least April, but front end is my weakest skill, so I keep pushing it back. I've got two partial implementations where I tried to follow tutorials and they just blew up on me. (I just starting scheming and dreaming about hire #1 yesterday, and it will almost certainly be a front end guy.)
My point was that lotto tickets are a bad decision that works out well for some people. Starting a startup is a good decision that works out poorly for some people.

It's just not helpful to draw the comparison; it's like hearing someone say they like a comedian, and then pointing out that John Wayne Gacy was a popular party performer. The fact that distribution A contains outliers from Distribution B doesn't mean that A and B are even roughly comparable.
Is this an old Irish joke? I thought I knew for a fact that it was French!

- "Pouvez-vous me dire comment aller à Paris"?
- "Ben si j'étais vous je ne partirais pas d'ici!"

Very French in its non-helpful but matter-of-fact way... but maybe the Irish are the same!
The internal codename for this project at Google was "Psychic Search".
I want to add that i am asking feedbacks of any kinds. I mean we are a real startup, why the heck does HN think that i am trying to abuse the system to advertise my site ?
I am just asking for other people's thoughts, which are precious for me.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672461
am i overlooking something, or is there no way to use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button now?
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You include stddef.h and use offsetof().
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If you read the letter (http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/memo.html), Gates's advice was to license Mac hardware technology to OEMs, enabling a "Mac-compatible" hardware market in which licensing the Mac OS would be feasible.

It is easy to forget that in 1985, the modern assumption that all computers are identical Intel-specified x86 boxes was not yet in place.
Hold apple or alt when clicking on a link to open in a new frame.
Is the underlying concern nonsensical?

Well there are a number of ways that can be interpreted.

Is there exploitation and misery within the sex industry? Yes but far from every sex worker is a fifteen year old Russian nanny tricked into prostitution. Many go into the field with their eyes open, make more money than they make in a mainstream field and leave. Others go in that way but get addicted to drugs or otherwise harmed. It's dangerous but so are a lot of things.

Is making it harder for prostitutes to find johns going to decrease exploitative aspects of prostitution? It seems highly doubtful to me. While I know of friends of friends who used the adult section to turn tricks, I'm far from an expert. Still, the most plausible argument is that craigslist makes it possible for prostitutes to operate in the safest possible fashion doing what they'd do anyway. If you disagree, I'd like to hear the argument.

So, is the entire campaign a political stunt that hasn't prevented a single act of child exploitation? I think the article makes a good case for this. As far as "outrage", that's also a rather nebulous thing.
I was a little disappointed, one man started it with $35k then $100k shortly there after and a $50k sale to IBM and hired his first employee already. When it sold it was a 260 person company. Still quiet a story though, he outsourced all the work he wasn't good at from the very beginning with an intern doing his website.
This is why it annoyed me that so many people were outraged (or mock-outraged) that the Library of Congress would archive Twitter. It’s exactly the fact that Twitter tends to be topical, ephemeral, trivial, and faddish that make it worth a special effort to save.

In our time, historians are obsessed with the relatively few sources we have for casual thought in the ancient world – graffiti and so on. Knowing what ordinary people were thinking on ordinary days is important. For various reasons, our time is one of the first that will be able to leave that to later times.
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That diagram was drawn like that just for exemplifying purposes.

Just to illustrate what network interfaces you would use for communicating between server processes.
Or middle click in just about every browser newer than IE6...
It is kinda amazing to me that this is up for debate. I think the reason is that so much policy presumes that government can just make a choice and pick whichever is best for the economy.

Notice in this article, and almost every other article, no mention is made of what will happen if government steps in.

Government stepping in always does damage to the economy because every action government takes has some cost, and that money comes out of the economy.

Worse the money government spends comes out of the profits of companies and indivdiuals, or via inflation which increases costs and reduces these very same profits.

So the money comes from the most critical point in the job creation process- right when consumers would be deciding to buy more with extra money, or businesses would be hiring people and expanding.

Meanwhile, the use of that money is less efficient. Propping up housing prices isn't really going to fool everyone, it will just delay that point in time where people believe the errors of the past (government errors, FWIW) have been worked out and they start to trust the economy again.

People seem to treat "government" as a magical money tree whose decisions have no consequences. This is not the case. All government actions do damage to the economy, and thus government should be limited to only those essential functions.

Trying to manage the economy is not one of those essential functions, because government can never be good at it (because government priorities are always going to be for a short term rosy economy for elections, not for a long term growing healthy economy.)
His pricing appears to be fairly random. I recall seeing aftersixty.com which I thought was a potential goldmine, 60+ being a well-monied yet underserved community, and it was priced under $100. A couple months later, it was listed again, this time for over $1k if I remember. So he doesn't appear to use a pricing formula.

Anyway, best of luck with your project... hope to see a follow up post from you on here.
What would you call tmp.c, a.out, tmp.txt and so on if not intermediate files?
The problem with this is the community-supported techie-self-righteous attitude transfers to personal dealings with co-workers in a business or management role.

This is HACKER News, but part of being a hacker is understanding the problem enough to be able to decompose it and work efficiently. The lack of business-acumen and "self-blinding" that HN does merely reflects the age or experience of the community.

As Hackers, we should try to fully understand the business roles, the management, and WHY we are choosing software to solve a problem. Before there were PCs, software wasn't a business model. Now we have it backwards, we build software companies, not businesses.

The only guarantee when you start a tech start up (or less misleading: a Software company) is that you will write software. It does not mean someone will by it or you.

As a hacker to the bone with a CS degree and no formal education in the other aspects of start up life I say we swallow our collective pride, admit we don't yet understand 95% of what other business units do, and actually apply ourselves to getting proficient at it.
When I used Chrome, typing w in the location bar gave www.facebook.com as the first choice (no local cache).

I'm sure it deserves to be there but that's a bit icky if you have no interest in it ;-)
Well, yeah. I just want it to be the default instead of having to remember to hold down the command key to open in a new tab. It's a petty complaint, I do realize. :-)
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Great, great guest.

Thoughts?
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This could present a significant barrier to reliable online shopping for clothes. It'll be interesting to see in the coming years, as more of these retailers offer online ordering (GAP is finally offering their catalog to us Canadians, for example), whether fitting will be normalized somehow, or whether each retailer will instead stick to a specific size translation table as I've seen some places.

Either that or someone will have to build a website or tool that aggregates the investigative work for us. I know I'd pay a small premium to eliminate the guesswork.

(EDIT: I wish there was a way to OpenID-ify personal body measurements for this purpose so every clothing site I visited could automatically select the best-fitting clothes for me. GAP small/medium t-shirts are wildly different from Threadless' small/medium American Apparel Ts)
This is a total ripoff of keyboardr.com.
Anyone want to get a team together? I have a few ideas and I'm open to others. Would love to do something with server push tech.

Let me know! Email's in my profile.
If you hover over a result in the suggestion list, there's an I'm Feeling Lucky option on the right.

Did people ever really use that for anything besides google bomb jokes though?
Maybe we looked at the wrong service, since the latino profile also mentioned "marines":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HispanicMilitary.jpg
The lines between the nodes were actually meant to show that those nodes use the Rackspace internal network (ServiceNet) for communication - see the colored labels on the diagram.
Do we really need this? Isn't the time it takes to finish a query the last problem on our hands? Or am I just a spoiled fast typer?
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To be fair, and I am a pretty big fan of VS, the Arduino boards cost about the same or slightly more, and their provided IDE is not a lot worse than VS for basic projects.
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