skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither of those platforms had extensive application support for their external user account login (facebook connect). Furthermore, they did not have the social graph integration with other sites for features like instant personalization. Not to mention a user base of over 500 million people. They are apples and oranges, both fruits but different kinds.
we're talking big company PR tactics here...
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> offshoring strategy.

When I worked at Linuxcare, we had a reasonably successful time doing just that. We had an extremely bright group of people (including antirez and several others of that caliber) that didn't cost all that much, all things considered.

I still wonder why more foreign shops don't set up some of their operations in Italy - there are a lot of bright people willing to work for a lot less than they would get abroad. Sure, it is bureaucratic and run in an illiberal way, but it's not so different from other continental European countries. And the climate is nicer, with great food and a stunning amount of natural variety. The important thing is to avoid Milan:-)

I think less capital-intensive activities like R&D are best. If you're running your money through Italy via sales or something, that's probably not an ideal strategy (Google is in Ireland in Europe for a reason). However, having a bunch of smart people working on a project that requires some ingenuity and hard work is perfect for Italy.

Fabrizio Capobianco has more to say on the subject:

http://mindthebridge.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-italy-see-fabr...
It's owned by BMW Oracle Racing, which is a separate company whose mission is essentially the same as an F1 team's - get their sponsor's names in everyone's minds by winning stuff on TV.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/9/17/

Can someone please explain this one to me?
Correction: "Facebook employee says Facebook has the potential...."

I think it's fairly silly. Google is profitable because people searching for things on the web are trying to find stuff. They have intent to buy/visit/signup etc.

What intent do people have on facebook? Wasting time? Playing games? Chatting to friends?

It's in a different league.
Although based in the UK I used to do a fair amount of work in Milan - why would you avoid it? I thought it was a pretty nice place, although even when I dressed smartly I still felt pretty scruffy compared to most of the locals. :-)
There is Solaris x86 (x64) now, but it was always the red-headed stepchild, badly supported, minimal HCL, no work done on the compiler to optimize for that architecture, lagged behind for patches, both from Sun and from vendors like Oracle.

A world in which you could have Solaris on your Intel boxes and your SPARC boxes and compile fat binaries a la NeXTSTEP that would "just work" all the way from the desktop to the datacentre is a compelling one. But Sun lacked the courage to invest in Solaris on Intel until it was too late.
I didn't notice it was lacking this option until this reading. Like most other people here when I see my desktop background it means I'm shutting down the computer.

Funnily though, the Google folks are silly enough to give people the ability to add a background image feature to their that-many hits/day search page, but not the user's own desktop..
I've been using www.SMEstorage.com for this. They support multiple storage clouds as back ends, and have DropBox style tools that give me automated sync between multiple machines (and mobiles). Keeping all of my 'work' data safe and in sync between my desktop and laptop is costing me cents a month.
That thread was hilarious.

"Definitely thinking of going back to firefox over this"

"Stupid Google; I set new backgrounds more often than I download pictures by far. This is not bloat.
Breathtaking arrogance and disrespectful attitude toward users."

:-) are we sure this isn't some kinda 4chan joke?
Twitter should establish a bounty for security vulnerabilities in its system.
I can think of a few things that would make Facebook worth a lot more money. The biggest is the "Instant Personalization" idea.

You say, rightly so, that Google's ads are more targeted than Facebook's, because users show purchasing intent. But Facebook knows a lot more about users overall than Google knows (Google only knows a search term). Right now, this isn't such a big deal, since Facebook isn't really exploiting it. But pretty soon, Instant Personalization will give any site you visit a lot of useful information about you that can help them sell you stuff. This is something companies will pay a lot for.

Let's take a simple example. Let's say I have a friend called "Tom" who has a birthday next week. I visit Amazon's site (just looking for something for myself), but right there on Amazon's front page, I see a huge ad, with a picture of Tom, saying "Tom has a birthday next week. Why not buy him this book from his favorite author?" Obviously this is just a quick first example, but I'm guessing ads like this will drive up sales for Amazon big time. How much would Amazon pay Facebook for making ads like the above possible?
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4015
The next 6 mins you spend learning Continuous Compression CPR could save a life
You're doing the right thing. Even Microsoft agrees you should start features on "-100 points" — http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2004/01/12/57985.aspx

You can't please everyone by trying to please each person. You have to look at what everyone really wants, and count the small negative utility of having an unused feature across all the people that don't use it.
I've noticed this too. A lot of demos claim to be pure CSS but not so when view source'd.
It's relatively expensive, big, crowded and polluted, and yet wages are still not that high for programmers. I like living in Italy, but if I wanted a big city, I'd rather go back to the US where I'd make more money in a place like San Francisco, which is a nicer city than Milan.

My opinion is that you get a good mix of "things going on" and "Italian lifestyle" in the mid-sized northern/central towns like Padova, Pavia, Verona, Trieste, Bologna, Firenze, and so on. But that's just my bias in life...
This is the best js book i saw in last few years. http://amzn.to/cf6I8S

it takes you from basic stuff to more advanced and optimisation tips. Worth a try ;)
+1 for JavaScript: The Good Parts
The problem with your implied argument (that competitors that aren't part of the collusion will make the collusion irrelevant) is that there are often significant barriers to entry in many markets that favour encumbents.
Start with GET variables, eg. example.com/?bla/something/whatever

Use a .htaccess file to re-route every 404-resulting request (eg xyz.com/bla/something/ doesn't really exist) to index.php, then you can explode() the $_GET variable (look at what $_SERVER outputs).
Any decent rails book will have a section on common security flaws and how to avoid them. There are plenty of web tutorials on the same topic. All the flaws in the linked article are very basic and should have been avoided if they took the time to RTFM.
>there is only one elective in English at Bocconi focused on entrepreneurship and having taken that elective it leaves a lot to be desired.

Even in the U.S. my impression is the majority of universities don't teach entrepreneurship or teach it poorly. I think for within an engineering college (not b school) the technology entrepreneurship center at UIUC is great http://tec.illinois.edu/ and other universities probably have similar programs, but nothing that compares to Mixergy + Hacker News.
Because Ruby uses PCRE, but Perl uses its own regex engine which handles cases like that a lot better. That pattern is rejected right away by Perl's engine because it sees that there isn't another X in that string:

anchored "X" at 0 floating "X" at 2..2147483647 (checking floating) minlen 3
Guessing start of match in sv for REx "X(.+)+X" against "=XX==============================="
Found floating substr "X" at offset 2...
Contradicts anchored substr "X", trying floating at offset 3...
Did not find floating substr "X"...
Match rejected by optimizer

Changing the pattern to /X(.)X/ will cause Perl to do real work. But
it'll complete it in 0.003s while Ruby will just hang.

I wrote an article a while back about the differences between PCRE and Perl's engine: http://use.perl.org/~avar/journal/33585
one sentence that I think will eventually kill any social network that includes everyone:

My mom is on facebook.
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You forgot the hideous weather, winter in Milan, especially if commute is involved, is something that should be avoided at all costs...
Startup creates first real money iPhone/iPad poker site
Chrome's philosophy is self-consistent, and that's probably the only objective metric, even though this means that they produce (to me) a useless browser. (I use set image as wallpaper all the time.)
For those of you own an iPhone or iPad and play online poker, you'll know that there is unfortunately where to play poker (for real money) using it.

I've been reading HN for over 2 years and seeing the number of great web apps that have been created by 1 - 4 person startups here gave me the push I needed to get a small team together and do something about it. Earlier this year we decided to create the first real money poker site for iPhone and iPad users.

The user interface currently falls short of the standard set by some of the HNers here, but I'm working to improve it.
Please give me your feedback. The real money tables won't be launched for another two weeks, so there's still lots of time for improvement.
As an Italian currently living in Milan and planning my escape, I agree. Also, as a southerner, I recommend you avoid South Italy, because there is less support for entrepreneurs.
The Pixar company originally sold hardware and then software, before it became all about animation. Even on the animation side it was doing adverts to bring in money. So it wasn't a charity project with the aim of creating great art, it was just an unsuccessful technology business until the Disney deal.
What does your IT guy think about SaaS?
> When you have no wallpaper, you do not like to look at your desktop that much

Because the browser is the only/best way to set your wallpaper? :-\
Santa Barbara Hackerspace: Great Start, Growing Fast
I'm proud to say that Santa Barbara Hackerspace is coming along GREAT! We now have 30 Google Group members and regularly have 5-10 people chatting on IRC. Last time I posted here, two months ago, we had a grand total of two members -- the co-founders... Here's what we're up to.

Projects

Underwater ROV: We've begun constructing an underwater ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) capable of surviving depths of 150 feet. It will house a camera, plankton catching net, and connector for future scientific payloads. Its primary purpose is to collect plankton samples for later analysis of species, population, and other factors.

We're writing a Python script to take the joystick data and feed it to the laptop/netbook which will then send it to an Arduino on-board the ROV. The Arduino will be programmed to read the joystick data and control the motors accordingly, adjusting the orientation of the craft. More ROV info -- http://sbhackerspace.com/wiki/index.php?title=ROV

For other Project info, check out http://sbhackerspace.com/wiki/index.php?title=Projects.

Software-wise, we've got 2 Linux servers up and running. SSH access is granted to all General Meeting attendees, which occur on Saturdays. For more meeting info, check out our calendar at http://calendar.sbhackerspace.com.

Classes

Our two weekly classes are...

1. Intro to Hardware Hacking (meets on Thursdays @ 6:30pm)

2. Ethical Hacking with Linux (meets on Fridays @ 6:30pm)

For more information about each class, see http://sbhackerspace.com/wiki/index.php?title=Classes and the calendar at http://cal.sbhackerspace.com.

Contact Info

0. Blog: http://sbhackerspace.com

1. Email: sbhackerspace@gmail.com

2. Twitter: http://twitter.com/sbhackerspace

3. Facebook Page: http://fb.sbhackerspace.com

4. Google Group: http://gg.sbhackerspace.com

5. IRC Channel: http://irc.sbhackerspace.com (#sbhackerspace on FreeNode)

We hope to hear from you soon! At least a couple of us are always in IRC so feel free to drop in and say 'hi'.
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As a side node if someone is interested, some recorded lessons of that should still be available on youtube, completely agree, it leaves a lot to be desired.
I agree, if I met similar problem in real life I'd easily call it impossible. Maybe that's arrogance, but it's good to do these every once in a while to remember that even if something seems "impossible" there still might be a solution. And the solution might be simpler than you think if you can just get rid of the tunnel-thinking.

Also, in real life problem you usually agree that there might be no solution, which makes you give up even quicker. Here I knew (99% sure) that there is solution, but still I managed to miss it.
I took entrepreneurship and classes at UNC Chapel Hill for my undergraduate and it was a great experience taught by former entrepreneurs and PE-people.
My point is not so much that there are only few classes in Europeean b-schools but that these courses get a lot of things wrong, that they do not prepare people to become better entrepreneurs.
I am pretty sure that tptacek does mean buying vulnerabilities. There are quite a few unsophisticated hackers offering exploits for sale ("serious buyers only") (e.g. on the Full-Disclosure mailing list), and the occasional debate about publishing/selling to "good guys" like Zero Day Initiative/selling to "bad guys" suggests that these sellers are, indeed, unsophisticated.

(Which is not to say that your way wouldn't work too.)

EDIT: Mention Full-Disclosure somewhere.
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Uncrate's logo (http://uncrate.com) is set in Clarendon. :)
You might have to build another block or two to avoid triggering its special ability. I have yet to test this though, with how infrequently I run into creepers.
I agree that one of the most untrue stereotypes of Italians is that they do not work hard, because most people I have met are willing to put in very long hours.

Unfortunately I have also found the "Italians are not that effective" stereotype to be somewhat true. In a university context people are willing to meet and study all day long but often there is no agenda, no direction poor preperation and people being late. Basically I think Italian systems should focus more on brevity and precision, then they could also take some more time off and get the same amount done :)
wasn't that Mark Twain who said/wrote "20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do"?
The site is currently dumping this on the screen:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /nfs/c06/h02/mnt/97481/domains/leyzi.com/html/ome_library/Plugin.php on line 37

Even if this is just an early iteration, I'd suggest you take a few minutes to do some basic config on your server e.g. Log the errors, don't display them.

Unfortunately, I've been unable to use the site beyond that as all I see is a JS dialog with the message "Load Error" once the basic page design comes up (Chrome/Safari/Firefox on OSX) Hopefully this just means you're a victim of some success here at HN and you're working on a fix, but for now I'm afraid I can't provide any more useful feedback as I can't try your site out.
Great article, the whole analysis is spot-on. In a country where risk-aversion is intrinsecally rooted in the business culture, it's difficult to be serious about any business plan that dosen't lie in a well established market, but not impossible. Unfortunately, the university system (engineering, for my experience) is focused on producing well-manned corporate consultants whose main goal is to get an open-end contract, climb the ladder and wait for a bigger paycheck. Entrepreneurship isn't considered a prerogative for the 20-something 'kid', that's why it isn't taught or discussed in university classrooms.
There is lots of room for improvement, David's petition could be a first little step in the right direction.

(This is a comment I originally posted on Jesper's blog)
>my commitment will be questioned as well

Why? If they laid you off and then said "oh, we found the money and we need you to stay" would you doubt their commitment more? It should be the same before as after. We work to make money, you didn't marry this company.
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Sort of.

From the FAQ:

1.3 How do I mount the file system?

You can’t… at least not today. While we have ported the majority of the ZFS code to the Linux kernel that does not yet include the ZFS posix layer. The only interface currently available from user space is the ZVOL virtual block device.
I really love Mark Simonson's fonts. Anonymous Pro is a great fixed-width font, and I really like Proxima Nova and Mostra Nuova. I'd much rather give him my money than Adobe.
It works just as well when you're 23 years old, fresh out of college, and wondering whether you should put off finding a job for six months while you go backpacking around Southeast Asia.

What are the odds that I'll I find myself living on the street in 10 years, begging for spare change and cursing myself for having taken that vacation instead of immediately finding a job? And what are the odds that in 10 years I'll find myself with a house and kids, wishing I'd taken that dream trip while I had the chance?

Incidentally, it works just as well if you substitute "startup" for "dream trip".
For someone without data, you sure are inferring a lot.
Congrats -- that's great progress. Go for it!
If you want to start a startup in Italy, checkout h-farm, which is a startup incubator near Venice.
The page doesn't load correctly for me in either IE8 or in Chrome. I get an error message reading "Load error." Also, I see php-generated error text "login.php on line 37".
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Well, the UK is currently testing the opposite ridiculous notion - that by laying off lots of government workers (when there already lots of people looking for jobs), reducing benefits to everyone (which hits the poor far harder, of course), and cutting funding to education and research, you'll somehow help the country recover from a recession faster and better.
Research funding: Making the cut
And he didn't even upvote my answer. :…(
I always compare this to football (or 'soccer') fans who always seem to know an impossibly large amount on the subject compared to me. I guess it's just what you're in to — I suppose the same goes for music and movies.
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I had my doubts about Diaspora, but now I know for sure: it will be a complete fiasco. Those are horrendous errors that show that those guys have completely no idea about web programming - and I can't see them learning it quickly (certainly not before planned release date of the final version).
Sad thing.
Ask HN: all the signs of a Facebook IPO ramp up?
Allright, I will indulge in some frivolous talk here ... but when I see Facebook/Zuckerberg in Forbes, Oprah, NY Times, bigger than Google this, new Facebook phone, youngest billionaire that, one (or two) movies ...

I'm no genius, but is this round of buzz for Facebook testing the waters for an IPO?

Or perhaps a true ramp up to it?

Just sayin' ..
What I'd love is for the L2ARC system built on top of ZFS to be ported as well. That's a killer feature for web applications. Basically, it can extend your cache to include an SSD, but manage that all internally, so you just use your database as usual on top of ZFS and let it handle all the caching and moving less used data from SSD to disk and vice versa, and of course the usual filesystem caching in RAM as well.

Though you could get similar functionality by using membase at the expense of being limited to get/set operations (it's a K/V store).
Twitter hacks: lessons for users and Twitter
You're free to go home
Where are you now, and is there a chance of earning a scholarship (to avoid the neck-deep debt part)?
Usually it is when the investors pull the plug is when the failing startup goes dark.

But for a self funded entrepreneur it is easier said than done. After spending a year or two working long hours, the separation between a private life and the working life is non-existent and the urge to put in just a bit more time and effort is inescapable.
This is why I always find the Apple hate from Google fan boys amusing. If Jobs is evil, what are his goals? It can't be money because he's literally throwing away billions. He wont live long enough to take over the world. I think he just wants to go down in history as providing the best user experiences so he's doing what he thinks will make that most likely. You may disagree with how he's trying (I do myself on some things) but I think he believes in it.

Compared to that, how benevolent is Google actually? Not that they need to be. They don't owe that to anyone anymore than Jobs does. So I wish conversations about Apple/Google could drop the good/evil nonsense. It's about trade offs and results. Why they do what they do is their own business.

EDIT: Removed unnecessary sentence (made an irrelevant call on Google's benevolence).
I think you underestimate the "social" value that FB brings to the table.
For the last 10 years, every time you were looking for some information regarding places you should visit, things you should buy, you were going to Google, typed your query and filter through its results to find something you might like. For serious purchases, you'd go to review sites, forums and other user generated content sites.

Today, most of your friends are on FB. Let's say you're planning a trip to Italy and don't really know the places you should go, and hotels you should stay at. If you ask that question on FB (which thus replace Google), some of your friends might give you recommendations based on their past experiences. If your best friend stayed in a nice hotel in Firenze, and was satisfied by the experience, his recommendation weights much more importance than a random guy on a random forum.

A significant part of ad dollars that would traditionally go to Google, would fly to FB. Hunch and Quora play in the same league. Google is dethroned from the number 1 destination to "ask for information".

Facebook questions + credits will certainly bring in a ton of revenues for FB but I doubt they'll make FB worth $25 billion one day…
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Compared to that, how benevolent is Google actually?

http://www.google.org/
An update on the Memcached/Redis benchmark
I don't know the situation in the US (I'm from Israel) and frankly last time I was employee of someone others company was 8 years ago. But several times I was hired before it was like this:

* If you know a person who hiring you - you shake a hand and consider it done (you sign employment, NDA and stock options contracts on the first days of your work).

* Otherwise you don't give a notice at your current place of work, until you sign a contract. Contract specify a mutual notice period, which can be somewhere from 2 weeks to 2 months. Usually it's 1 month.
Once both sides signed the contracts, even if they don't hire you at the end - they owe you the notice period salary.

Going to lawyers is never a good solution - better to explain to them your situation and ask for some compensation.