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While "police officers knocking down doors" over crypto export restrictions do not exist, that's not what Debian's wankfest over OpenSSL is about.

They think that the advertising clause in the OpenSSL license makes it impossible to use with any GPL programs — despite the fact that the OpenSSL developers think it's fine as a platform library and tons of upstream developers of GPL software choose to link against it. In Debian's world, they'll only allow you to use it if you get every contributor to agree to a special exemption clause appended to the GPL.

Through their absolute fealty to the most draconian interpretation of the letter of the law, Debian does more to further the cause of software patents and non-free licensing than any other organization. They choose to demonstrate how idiotic such ideas about IP are by implementing them to their fullest — by being idiots.
For my first major corporate project this year I looked into many different Bug tracking tools. Tried many open source, trac, redmine, but nothing was as polished as JIRA. I really enjoy using JIRA (note, 1 user project).

They also seem like an enjoyable company to work for.
The most promising approaches for neural nets these days involve learning generative models using Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs). Geoffrey Hinton at UToronto has some good seminal papers on these, like http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/ncfast.pdf. See http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/ for excellent videos of digit generation / classification.

As a note, this approach outperforms all others (sans tweaks), whereas neural nets used to be beaten by SVMs and the like.
Yes. They would re-classify him as a permanent California resident with a temporary residence in WA, which would make him subject to CA franchise tax. Not paying his taxes would then be illegal.
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Integration with Atlassian's tools should be very exciting. For a while now, I've been thinking that Atlassian should try a code hosting service and integrate their code review, code coverage and source exploration tools. Hopefully it works out as well as I imagined it would.

I also want to point out Atlassian likes both Mercurial and Git:

http://www.atlassian.com/summit/2010/presentations/developme...

Disclaimer: I'll be working for Atlassian next year (and now I'm hoping to work on Bitbucket sometime).
Numerous casual projects?

Host them yourself by tunneling git over ssh. It's easier than you think.

I just made a tool to help streamline the process. http://grit.hackyhack.net
There's nothing new here. The truth of the matter is that the UI experience for computers is largely defined by what happens on the screen - be it laptop, iPad or iPhone. There's this cool scene in Gary Hustwit's Objectified where Bill Moggridge talks about designing one of the very first laptops, and the conclusion he comes to is that it didn't matter how usable or how good his physical design was, in the end the user's experience of the laptop came largely from within the screen.

That surprised him, and got him thinking about what we now know as 'interaction design'. (Incidentally, Moggridge coined the term shortly after his experience with the laptop).

He describes his experience as: 'being sucked into the screen.' Which is true, if you pause to think about it: the design of the laptop only matters when you're carrying it around with you - when you're working on it the screen overrides almost everything else.
I love the implementation . . . I feel like this is a much more likely winner than the solutions that require you to house your phone in some sort of RFID-enabled case.

Not sure how they are getting away with charging merchants only 1% + 30 cents, but it's a great deal for merchants, for sure.
Just when the prices of LCDs are dropping everyday, how can someone have audacity to sell something for 5K+? Granted they dont have 'bose' sound system but a Samsung TV + Bose speaker combo is lot cheaper.
I think that many people that post about AB tests fail to mention that one's expectations of AB testing have to align with the types of results one can get from AB testing.

AB testing isn't meant to used through the entire conversion funnel. That is, you can't measure an optimization on your homepage by sales. Sales is an indication of your entire conversion funnel. Each page of every site should have a single goal and you should AB test to that goal. In your case I would say that you're AB test was successful; however, you didn't go far enough. Once you were getting increased traffic to your signup page, it's time to AB test the signup page and improve that conversion.

The statistics behind AB testing are often lost by the hype. The tests used to calculated statistical significance require a random sampling and isolated variables. The moment you try to attribute success or failure of your AB test beyond the primary measurable goal, you're introducing outside variables that will skew your results.

All of that being said, I would argue that true AB testing is not cost effective for most startups. It takes a lot of timer and energy to test every part of your conversion funnel.
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Actually, the best recent results in this area involve discriminatively trained stacked auto-encoders using second-order algorithms (for which the code, as of Sept 2010, is still private to the group at the university of toronto), as described in James Martens's paper at this year's ICML: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jmartens/docs/Deep_HessianFree.pd...
I'm pretty surprised the police department thought they could ever win this. The best interests of the public seem pretty clear cut here.
I've been kicking the tires on DuckDuckGo for several months now, and while it is ever improving, Google's results are still more relevant.

Still, I totally think DDG is on Google's radar, and while CEO Eric Schmidt has stated Bing is their competition (and they are) they have to wonder about about DDG's logarithmic rise in popularity.
Twitter's implementation of inline media is superior IMO. With Brizzly, images are shown automatically. With #newtwitter, you have to click a tweet to see the image, but it loads up very quickly.

I'd rather not be shown every image someone tweets.
Tsk, tsk, you haven't been here for a year yet.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In your case I would say that you're AB test was successful; however, you didn't go far enough. Once you were getting increased traffic to your signup page, it's time to AB test the signup page and improve that conversion.

This was my thought at first, but thinking about it now, their AB test actually caused a decrease in conversion on the signup page. And that's the point they're making: they drove traffic to the signup page more effectively, but that traffic was no more interested in actually signing up. You can do a lot of things to massage the stats if you're only optimizing for a single step. You can make your homepage promise people a golden pony if they'll only click on the link to your pricing page, but they're not going to get there and suddenly decide they don't care about the pony and want to give you money instead.
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This wasn't detected the way an iPad should be on the website I tried.
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That helps with the code hosting, but what about a wiki? Bug Tracker? Communicating with other devs? A bitbucket or github repo helps with all of these things too.
Well if they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear ...
FWIW, Debian is probably even easier than Android (less specific hardware requirements.) However, AFAIK noone has developed a Linux kernel to run on Apple's A4 SoC, in either the iPad or AppleTV.

They would be a nifty cheap choice for a MythTV frontend (among other things), but AFAIK it would be quite significant development & reverse-engineering work for proper hardware support. As the other reply says, there are lots of similar options that run Linux (and presumably Android) right now.
I think most of this is due to the fact that most ML techniques need lots of specific knowledge to apply correctly. Many introductions focus too much on specific algorithms, for example, while ensemble methods are probably best in real-world data. The pactices of building training and test sets, of regularizing, of doing proper feature engineering, and of making structured models (for example) are more easily learned in a mentor-student relationship than by reading blogs (reading papers might take you a long way, but you won't build an intuition as to why things work and why they fail without lots of experimentation or advice from someone who already has this intuition) and/or AI books, and ML books are usually far too technical (or too superficial in the technical side, as is programming collective intelligence).
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I don't think the famous "women make 76 cents on the dollar compared to men" statistic was ever for the same job. I would be interested to know a better quality statistic (I seem to remember a study or two that put it at only a couple of cents, controlling for profession, experience, and etc).
Hi, thanks for the elaborate reply.

We clearly have had feedback from retailers that they are concerned that our widget may be too "obtrusive" or "distracting" when they were test-driving it. We are keen on building up case studies, but I think some small pivoting in the product focus is needed or the marketing/sales process is going to be tough.

About your suggestions for pivot, I honestly like both ideas, this is what I set this thread up for. We have trouble focusing on creating experiences that shoppers would enjoy because, frankly, we are not online shoppers ourselves. Perhaps we will come up with one or two plug-ins, as suggested, and we will do some customer development from there.

Thank you for your comment.
Even if he worked a ton of overtime, would you work less hours?
Or would you still find stuff to do with the freed up time?
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I had a go at using this a little while ago to implement (erlang style) message passing concurrency in PHP:

http://github.com/dhotson/phork

The main use case is something like: Let's say you've got a mysql query that's going to take a few seconds. In the meantime, you can do some other useful work in PHP while the query runs.
> courses must be prepared

Why does every professor/university need to prepare their own courses?
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Those algorithms are actually surprisingly simple to code most of the time, if you're using a high-level language and aren't worried about scaling. Scaling them is hard, but for that you can already find good, scalable implementations out there of the basic building blocks.

In my experience coding machine learning algorithms is actually easier than the hairier sorts of programming (multithreaded, distributed, very low-level, etc) if you do the math first. Most errors are come from doing the math worngly (or not doing it at all) and most slowness are due to missing very obvious optimizations (which a good programmer will pick up on sometimes even if it's not explicit in the papers that describe the technique; some papers unfortunately assume you will pick up on the obvious optimizations yourself).
Thanks for the link, I started a thread for 1kb here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737752
Thats exactly what I was thinking, besides independent contact workers (in my experience) doesn't care much if the work is boring as long as they are getting paid. Thats why to me the excuse seemed empty and makes no sense.
The whole thing is about 800 lines of C code so far, and I aim to get that lower. :) For one thing, I'm busy bootstrapping the Fexl parser into Fexl itself. It's really neat to be able to express executable concepts simply and completely like this:

# Parse a nested parenthesized expression.
\parse_nested =
(
\yes
\no
skip_char ch_lparen
(
parse_expr
(\expr skip_char ch_rparen (yes expr) no)
no
)
no
)

And it's simple to do either-or parsing like this:

# Parse a factor: either an id or a nested expression.
\parse_factor =
(
\yes
\no
parse_id (\id yes (var id));
parse_nested yes;
no
)

Even such mundane tasks as skipping white space and comments have a
satisfying elegance about them:

# Skip filler, including white space and comments.
\skip_filler =
(
\done
skip_space;
skip_comment
(skip_filler done)
done
)
Continue helping (try to get paid) and tell them about the exploit. Even if it's their project your name will still be on their lips when someone else figures it out. Also... being able to sleep at night is nice.
I think your second point is exactly what he means. He needed a CTO but no one good wanted to be a CTO for a company focused on writers rather than engineers.
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Absolutely. But for most casual projects, YAGNI.
You can change it to "courses must be prepared for" and it's still true. Even teaching a course that you know the material for backwards and forwards takes time to prep for - if you want to teach it well.
Hey, Tim Jahn here, the interviewer at Beyond The Pedway!

Nathan told me a similar story. He mentioned in our interview that they went to New York and literally talked to every Airbnb user there to get major feedback.

Thanks for the supplemental info!
AB testing isn't meant to used through the entire conversion funnel.

Wrong.

Not using A/B testing through the entire conversion funnel is a shortcut to get results faster. You sometimes get the wrong result, but you get there faster. However if you have the traffic, you ALWAYS want to measure through the entire conversion funnel.
I don't see what's hard to define about social Darwinism, especially since you did a pretty good job expounding it in the parent post.

The reason everybody is against it (except the children of rich people, generally) is that it's not much more than post-facto rationalization for the nineteenth century. I know I didn't come of rich stock, and yet I think I'm pretty smart. I can think of a couple of examples of the stupid rich, too. Lots of them, lately.

I'll grant that richer families have better educational opportunities and you could perhaps make an argument based on cultural transmission of "beneficial" behavior - but the primary trait that causes wealth is ruthlessness, not intelligence, and it's no way to run a railroad.
> "That is, you can't measure an optimization on your homepage by sales."

Sure you can. If you are holding all other things constant and randomizing people to A or B on the homepage, there's nothing to stop you from using "sales" as your outcome variable in an AB test. It's probably what you should be measuring, in fact.
Great review, and I'm impressed with the results of my first searches! I found what I was looking for everytime.

Also like the interface. As I scroll down, it loads the next page, just like Google and Bing should and could, but don't.

Also like the bang:
http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

But what I find missing are cached results. I use this Google feature once every few weeks.

I also don't understand the business model. If they aren't keeping results and aren't doing ads, are they going to start charging for it? So they claim not to be competing with Google, but aren't they? Google is a freakin' giant. I don't see how you compete with that, unless you are a large company like Microsoft.
Is this the AppsLib people? I'd stay away, it's disgustingly amateur. Tell them the exploit and walk away.
Csallen -

Thanks for the suggestions and the feedback, I really appreciate it! Reflecting back on the interview now, I do agree that there were a few additional useful snippets I should have included in the final edit to round out the story.
And this does not include postdocs. CS is unusual that some people can go straight from grad school to professorship - I've seen it happen many times - but most sciences require at least one postdoc. I can't speak for engineering.
Ask HN: What are your tricks for using your environment to influence yourself?
I came across the John Cleese video on creativity recently, and his comment about setting up boundaries in space and time to allow yourself to be creative without distractions really struck home. I wrote up my own thoughts here (http://www.intellectualpornography.com/2010/09/one-oclock-daily-controlling-your-environment-to-control-yourself.html) but if you don't want to click, I'll copy and paste my top three below:

To do lists: they're great, but, in particular, I always write things like "catch up on Facebook" and "read my RSS subscriptions". I don't know why, but for some reason this lets me resist the temptation to hit the refresh button throughout the day. Refresh is the mind killer.

Coffee shops without a laptop: when I really want to work through a problem, I'll camp out at a local coffee shop, and leave my laptop, and even my phone if I'm feeling adventurous, at home. It's amazing how little pull the internet has when you're physically distant from any means of checking it.

Having other people depend on me: I value my word very highly, and so while I might slack off on things that only affect me, I'll go to great lengths to uphold even implicit promises that I've made to others. That's why, whenever possible, I try to take on new study projects alongside a friend.

So what tricks do you guys have for manipulating your environment in order to help put yourself in a particular frame of mind?
Point is make sure you're optimizing around a QUALIFIED action.

EG - in the Skirtter conversion funnel - you're not disclosing it's a paid service until checkout.

That's doing two things:

a) Creating a jarring experience for users that are genuinely interested and didn't see any $$$ requirement before investing in watching a tutorial.

b) Sending lots of non-qualified people through the funnel.

You’ve got some great content here: http://www.skritter.com/pricing - maybe incorporate a little of that?

Alternatively use a testimonial to disclose $$$ like: "I learned more during the past 5 months than the past 3 years – best $9.95 I ever spent!"
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The search in confluence is absolutely horrible. What use is a wiki for a 1000+ people company if it's not searchable.

Jira, and maybe this is my companies setup, takes way too many clicks to do simple things like reprioritize tickets. This could just be my preference but I like to treat tickets as an ordered list/stack with the most important at the top.
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In this situation I would recommend A/B testing to signup. Because that is the first hard decision that people have to make.

If you're A/B testing to actual sale, I have two points to make. The first is that you should be aware that it is OK to run multiple A/B tests at the same time. The second is that you should pay close attention to whether there is a possibility that your change will compress the sales cycle. If it does, an apparently positive result can be meaningless.
All the parent comment is really saying is that "young, childless women" aren't an equivalent demographic to "young, childless men." In addition to the arguments already stated, I imagine that more men than women in the relevant age group are childless in the first place (since men are typically older than their wives). This alone means that a young woman's childlessness says more about her than a young man's does about him.

Nowhere does the comment say that women should be earning more than men. It says that if having children wasn't as much of a liability to working women as it currently is, then childlessness in women would be less associated with career-mindedness, which would cause this particular statistic to equalize somewhat.
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Hated Jira and Confluence? Compared to what? Given that I find Jira to be perhaps the finest issue tracker I've ever worked with (compared to Remedy, Vantive, Scopus, RT, bugzilla and FogBugz), I would genuinely love to hear what tool you think is better than Jira? Particularly now that they can do advanced searching with JQL (Circa 4.x), I don't know of any tool that compares, particularly out of the box.

And, while sharepoint is a little more feature rich, and has better Office/IE Integration than Confluence, it also doesn't play particularly well with alternative platforms like firefox - I'd like to hear what your preferred Wiki platform is. I'm kind of a TWiki bigot personally, but if I had to drop a new wiki on a for-profit company tomorrow, it would probably be confluence.
In defense of academics, it's quite common to first notify the vendor so that they can prepare a countermeasure for when the exploit is published. In general, publishing without making a reasonable attempt to contact the vendor is irresponsible at best and often down right unethical.
I hope my company doesn't switch from git to mercurial now since we use atlassian for jira and confluence :/
I used to be a Bitbucket customer but moved to repositoryhosting.com a few months ago. This is great news as I will likely return to Bitbucket. I stopped using the service this year because I needed many small repos (<15mb) and didn't want to pay upwards of $20-30 per month. Repositoryhosting.com offers unlimited repositories for $6 flat per month. If you require additional space you pay for that.

I really don't get the pricing plans for companies like Bitbucket and Github. $5-10 per month for personal projects is fine but up past that? Do these companies think for single user accounts all these repositories are active at once? How much more does it cost Github to store an additional repository for me (not to even mention gists which are stored as repos) because they are charging $1 per month to backup a few mbs. I would love to know the average repo size.
On one side we have Paul Graham who has started two successful businesses in disparate industries. On the other, we have Michael Arrington who started one successful business in another industry and launched a complete clusterf*ck of a partnership in another (CrunchPad). The old saying about "data not being the plural form of anecdote" applies. But I know which person has a lot more evidence to suggest that he's an expert about business. In fact, one could argue that by being a VC, Paul Graham has his hand in a lot more successful and unsuccessful businesses than Arrington. He could probably teach him a thing or two about both.
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I wasn't flaming you.sifting through your follow-up, I find a few interesting items. First, indeed who did fund them? Have you asked the investors if they are unhappy? Ifnthe investors are unhappy, what went wrong with the governance? Why are we even assuming management is to blame? How do we know what happened? Maybe the finders wanted to generate cash flow but were nixed by the investors who wanted growth at the expense of revenues in the hope of being bought by Google?

Another thing. What is this responsibility you speak of? A funded startup exists to find an equilibrium between the needs of the investors and the needs of the founders. Nobody else gets a say in what happens. They have zero obligation to do what you want them to do if you aren't sitting on their board.

It sounds to me like you have strong opinions about what is and isn't the right way to do a startup. You might be right, but still there's something disquieting about taking a culture based on disruption and revolution and writing rules for what is and isn't the right way to revolt against the existing business structure.