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Informal apprenticeship programs are how SysAdmins are made. It runs deep in our culture... A BOFH isn't a real BOFH until he he has a PFY.

I don't know why this is missing from programming culture. Perhaps the education one can get at school is sufficient?

It's hard, I think, to learn some aspects of the SysAdmin job on your own with your own hardware. You need larger clusters of systems and real users, and nobody is going to let someone without experience touch a large cluster without supervision.
Beautiful site.

Unfortunately, the background took 45 seconds to download on a slowish DSL connection, and was very distracting as it progressively loaded. That's not surprising, considering that the PNG is 3MB. You can definitely improve the responsiveness here.

I like the concept quite a bit, but wonder how useful it will be if used according to the "page 99 rule." Unless you're wanting sentence or paragraph level evaluation I'm not sure that the feedback would be all that helpful. By page 99, any fuller evaluation would depend on knowing the contents of pages 1-98.

For instance, a reader sees page 99 full of things like "Thou art a despicable knave, wench!" Reader sends feedback saying, "The language is really awkward, even for a Tolkienesque fantasy." What the reader missed, though, is that page 99 is part of the school play written by a DnD fanatic teacher and is absolutely hilarious in context.

I'm definitely not writing off the concept, but would hope that there is a way to add more context to the page.

Also, the domain bugs me a bit. Is page99.com available? Seems more memorable and less spammy to me.
http://www.google.com/search?q=nike+zoom+rotational

Shows a whole pile of results from 'google shopping' for me.

Are those really the top results?
I have to give kudos to your designer. This is probably the most well-executed web design I've seen on YC in the short time I've been participating. I like all the small details. And the overall feel is the warmth of a book, something that I think it really hard to execute on a digital medium without being cheesy.

One tiny thing: On the sign up overlay, the input box margins seem tighter on the right than the rest. This is what I mean: http://i.imgur.com/iD8TL.png I wouldn't be so particular if I didn't think the rest of the wasn't already looking so good.

It'd also be nice (though not overly essential) if the logos denoting where you were mentioned were clickable so that I could read the writeups.

Otherwise, great work and I wish your team success.
It's unfortunately not easy to do with Chrome either (with or without extensions). I wound up downgrading to Firefox 3 from beta 4 to get back to the more mature plug-ins that make this light work.
I decided to look through your comment history to see what postings you've been downvoted for. There's a decently common theme. Usually they have flippant remarks and/or curse words.

"Microsoft what have you been smoking?"; "You are so fuckin wrong"; "OMG so much stupidity."; "Windows Phone 7 is a really good vapor-ware. And ridiculous patents + broken patent system are the key to success" (when Windows Phone 7 had already shipped to OEMs); "I guess if they get killed, they had it coming."; "(YAWN) You could have written that code in most languages with most databases years ago!"

We're looking for a level of respect that isn't shown by those phrases. The Hacker News Guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) are a good place to start:

* Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

It's common to bash people on the internet, but we tend not to like that here. We do disagree here. Recently there was a large thread on Ubercab and whether their service is so ethical and responsible. Lots of people with lots of differing viewpoints were upvoted. They raised issues (rather than just being blindly for or against someone). It was enlightening to see the nuance and insight that lots of different people brought to the discussion and how complex the issue was. You can disagree without attacking a person.

* When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Comments that include things like "OMG so much stupidity" just make people feel attacked and defensive. The statement doesn't add to the discussion and just makes things more combative. It's as if you're trying to discourage people from disagreeing with you because you'll call them stupid if they do. "I think this is important to consider"; "OMG, you're just so stupid". It isn't helpful. Plus, there are plenty of places on the internet if your interest is flamewars.

* Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
I've still got one of these in a closet somewhere. I suppose it could be called a laptop, depending on the size of your lap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable

(edit: on second thought, it most likely requires at least two laps.)
"Fabric" : A programming language to Weave Security Into Code
What algorithm blows your mind? (Reddit compsci)
DNA Computing
Witty, well-researched commentary.
Why the best entrepreneurs are both cheerleaders and scientists
How long have you been using it?
I drank Flor De Caña when I was in Nicaragua in '96. Haven't thought of it since until you jogged my memory. Thanks.
Dream versus reality. Your idea always starts out as solving some supposedly critical problem, but sometimes you're the only person with that problem. Or, the idea evolves over time and takes on bloat. I interpret dcancel's comment as: find a demonstrably critical problem that people have, then focus like a laser on solving that one thing. It's damn good advice.
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That was the case some years ago (and still for some old services). But a lot of new "DVB-RCS"-like services (e.g. , Newtec Sat3Play or Hughes broadband) now use the uplink as a return channel (usually in Ku or Ka band) instead of regular phone lines.
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Clang's diagnostics and static analysis? Take, for example, https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/36060/, a serious problem in the kernel that was recently discovered. Given the size of Linux, it would be highly inefficient to manually find and fix every instances of this issue.

Currently, Clang doesn't support the work-around option that GCC provides to prevent the aforementioned issue. I could just implement the GNU work-around, but with Clang, it's far easier to write a scanner which will identify every place in the Linux source code where those dangerous semantics appear.

Clang might not be mature enough to compile Linux for distribution. The difference between GCC and Clang is that Clang is not a compiler. Clang is a modular API that provides the tools to build C language front-ends to the LLVM compiler infrastructure. The Clang compiler driver is just one implementation of an application built using the Clang libraries.

Why would one want to do this? Well...

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=2010http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20101007001758.6bcd3d3b%40Pegasus1007001758.6bcd3d3b%40Pegasus

http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/libIndex.html

http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/#LENS

http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/#spedi

Think outside of the box :)
You are right, but you gave the context in the last sentence, and I - reading too hastily - had made my mind based on the generic-sounding assertions that you gave before that. Sorry 'bout that.
"I've found it much more effective to just turn the brightness down at night"

Same, but I just use Compiz Negative for that. Here's HN side-by-side, with Negative activated on the right, deactivated on the left:

http://imgur.com/HMAgn.png

You can toggle it instantly with whatever key combination you want to use, and can also Negative your entire desktop with different shortcut.

Compiz Grid + Compiz Negative are what keep me from moving to Xmonad or Awesome, <3 them.
works for me! i wonder how many accidental 911 calls will be made from trying this...
Toward a new corporate form
I'll probably release a new version later this year. Most of the changes will be in news.arc, which is now pretty solid. Maybe I'll actually make an effort to make it installable without having to understand the source.
What's wrong with relying on GNU? It's Free software that will love on as long as the concept does. You can be assured that GNU will never have the rug pulled out from under it by a corporate affiliate, anyway.
I'm dealing with this exact problem right now. I'm looking at MongoDB, CouchDB, and Postgres.

I agree that Postgres can do this - I've done it before. But I think you're a bit wrong to dismiss document databases so quickly.

Firstly, the subtree update problem isn't a huge problem. MongoDB allows dot notation to update items within a document. Yes, it is may well have to do just as much work as a SQL database in the update case, but I don't care. I'd prefer it is implemented in the database than something I have to do myself.

Secondly, the schema-free nature of a document database is a killer-feature for me. I have truly schema-free tree data (different levels of the tree have different, unknowable-in-advance data stored against them). Yes, I can implement this in a SQL database schema, but it's going to be an ugly schema (eg, I'll have to use rows to store things that should be columns). It will also be slow because of the hierarchical walking needed in the queries. (Although Postgres helps some here with hierarchical query support).
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Can anyone recommend a good commercial or free Git GUI for Mac. Thanks.
The company I work for is currently looking for a Rails developer, and I'm first-line in the screening process. A Github profile is a huge plus, and if there's good code in there and/or decent open source activity, it's a major, major bonus.
It was mentioned, that the battery life for MBAs was measured using stricter tests. Maybe difference is not as bad as it looks?
Here's what's going on there: Google figures, from your query, that your intent is probably shopping. And those are the top 4 results from the shopping corpus. If you click on the "Shopping results for..." link, you can see the full shopping corpus.

I don't really know how the product corpus works, but AFAIK Google is not being paid anything for those results. They're compiled from a bunch of commercial sites across the web. Google gets paid when you click on the ads, which are clearly marked at the top and right hand column.
What ever happened to Rails Dispatch. It was a great resource when Rails 3 was still in beta. Then it died. EY always has great blog posts, I wish they would get back on Dispatch.
I'm not sure why he was downvoted. He appears to the author of the linked email. You can see at the bottom of the mail, he signed of as "Bryce Lelbach aka wash".
Nothing better out there in terms of news or community that I've found so far. I'm sure I could find nicer people, but it wouldn't be a constructive use of my time.
GitX http://gitx.frim.nl/
I'm playing around with it. Right now, my spare-time project is filling out the blogging software that came with the language. I am finding that it's a lot of fun to work with.
Why are people still upset about this? By now it should be clear to everybody that digg shifted to a more publisher based article listing. Either that's fine with you or you go somewhere else. Why all the complaining?

From a technical perspective though I wonder why digg would add all these bot accounts, creating clutter on the site, when they could also easily achieve the same effect by some background tweaking
Contacts can have URLs, does clicking one of those open Safari?
Azureus (Vuze) is one of the most popular bittorrent clients.
I do a lot of C++ template metaprogramming, so I end up running into 3-5 Clang internal compiler errors (In my circles, "ICE"s) a week, if not more. With GCC I maybe run into 3-5 a month.

The difference is that I can pinpoint the error. Clang dies gracefully, with a stack trace, source file location, and, for parse errors, the tokens that are currently being parsed. The problem might not always be easy to fix, but I never have to waste time trying to find it.

If you want a more stable Clang, then build one. ;)
Don't forget that Tokushima has Awa Odori, one of the biggest festivals in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awa_Dance_Festival
It's a social choice. It wouldn't be difficult technically. Historically the origin of the custom may be slashdot.
I was saying that the OP ("hammer carpenter") is taking the metaphor too far, which is why the phrase "hammer carpenter" sounds silly, and we seem to agree on this.

I have no problem with the conclusion that the tool matters less than what you're building.

I'd go farther and say that there is a certain tendency for C projects to "look the same" and that lispy projects "look the same" in a different way (e.g., surprisingly extensible, incorporating a language).
On the surface, this follow up post is pretty damning http://ltgenpanda.tumblr.com/post/1404511358/second-confirma...

The pattern of diggs from the suspect accounts stopped not long after digg was notified of the blog post and before it was made public.
Yeah, you can compare the results here:

http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=computer

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1342...
It's what the frontpage would look like if only the votes of users who joined in the first year counted. I made it to check if the site is declining. In practice it's usually just a slower-changing version of the frontpage.
It is untenable, the community will disintegrate if this place keeps getting invaded with marketers and MBAs who've never actually built anything and nobody has any constructive criticism.

I mean really, the instant youtube/$SITE_WITHOUT_AJAX_SEARCH thing is just the beast parodying itself and doing my work for me.

The complete lack of any real sound discussion or criticism regarding the absurd fad is exemplary of what I'm talking about.

If the goal is to gather, educate, and grow people who might build something soon as well as groom a community of hackers, then yes, it is untenable.

To claim otherwise is disingenuous.

I don't give a damn if you're polite. I care if you're correct and have something to contribute.

I could detail and log the ridiculousness, but there's no point. Take a gander through my comments and look at what of it has been downvoted, that'll give you some idea.

Do you want me to register a domain and build a site documenting the circle-jerk conversations here? It's not like anyone would care but me.
In my experience, it's the people who don't feel comfortable about what they can do without getting into trouble who most reflexively cite the rules. Think of the teenager who stammers and calls a manager at any mildly out-of-the-ordinary development.
JDownloader bundles the SWT libraries, but I don't know how much of its UI is written in SWT.
Oct. 26, 2005 - Zuckerberg and the very early days of Facebook (Mark's Video)
Anyone ever seen the 30 Rock where she goes to her reunion, and the whole time, she thought she was bullied in middle school and high school, only to find out that everyone was terrified of her, because she made such cutting remarks?

"Hey, Liz, how's your new telescope?"

"I don't know Kelsey, how's your mom's pill addiction?"

I think a lot about that episode, and I thought more about it reading this blog post. I knew there was a reason Patton was one of my favorite comedians.
I really think neither OS X nor Windows has the upper hand on the other, so I'll offer my top gripe for each.

OSX:
Window/File Management. I've been told it's the "mac way" to open a program to create a file. I'm reliant on the OS/Finder to do this. Also, just basic window management is confusing to me. Perhaps Lion is addressing this.

Windows:
No terminal.
It's not completely negligible--even if CPU usage is negligible, it does add latency during SSL negotiation that might be unpreferable for some apps. The testing burden is a lot higher because one wrong link to http:// in CSS, HTML, or AJAX will cause big scary messages. And there is the IP address problem, you can't vhost as most people with Apache like to do.
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Former spy & 'open source intelligence' advocate Robert Steele reviews an incredible amount of books and encourages people to use his reviews as a library of its own. You will have to do some searching through this large directory of his positive reviews:

http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/07/worth-a-look-re-mixed-boo...
The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I interpret this to mean that the planning process forces you to understand the problems you face, and that understanding is what lets you adapt to changes in circumstances.
I don't think he meant there's anything wrong with it, only that clang/llvm might not feel like implementing certain GNU C extensions.

Besides, pluralism is always good, right?
Adobe is an unusual large company, in that it has successfully managed the transition between closed and open before. Starting with the fonts for postscript printers, just a few years after Adobe was founded.
Flash itself was also (somewhat) opened a few years back, to successfully fend off open source alternatives - though I don't recall if it was still owned by Macromedia at that time.
They've also known when they could successfully stay closed despite vigorous open competition, as in Photoshop vs. Gimp.

So Adobe probably understands the issues of open/closed better than anyone, and has an organizational structure that has proven able to adapt to it.

[ Though it's worth noting that MS made an incredible sacrifice to ship windows for netbooks at a massive discount, to fend off linux. Although I use a linux netbook myself, I have to admire their foresight and fortitude. Another company is Intel. Although I don't have a specific story for them, Andy Grove wrote a book Only the Paranoid Survive, and also has a blurb on the cover of The Innovator's Dilemma ("lucid, analytical - and scary" he says) - they know the danger, and have lasted a long long time, as the driver (and proposer) of Moore's Law. ]
Actually there was more business-oriented boosterism when we first launched. The site was called "Startup News" initially.

The top stories don't seem visibly worse than they were in the good old days, whenever those were. There are more dumb and/or mean comments than there used to be, but they usually end up at the bottom of the page.
…but it still can't compile Ruby 1.9 :-P
I've always been meaning to check it out, but the barrier of entry has been too high (likely due to my laziness). IMO: an installer would be a good idea, availability on aptitude would be the best.
As Sam Ewing said "Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork."
Thanks for the reminder, otherwise I would have totally forgotten! It was a great experience doing a talk last year.
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I was actually surprised that it could compile our stuff at all, and that it runs mostly all right. We do use a lot of the language, and we need at least gcc version 4.2 for example.
We'll soon be cursing HTML5 for powering too much unnecessary animation on the web: ads, restaurant websites, etc. Adobe's tools will make it so easy, that people are bound to abuse their power.

That abuse of power has been the main problem with Flash, on Windows at least (Mac+Linux have relatively poor implementations of the player).
Austin Startup Drinkup 10/26
Wanted to bring together all the people hacking / making things in Austin tomorrow night. Free Lone Stars on me.

RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148675261843137
Smishing - nueva forma de hacer fraude en Internet
as i love to remind others, people are not your most important asset....the right people are your most important asset (pretty sure that's jim collins right there)

partially for research purposes: anybody familiar with or use a tool that aggregates the collective decision-makers' sentiments when evaluating candidates?
Have you ever had the chance to drive in a third-world country?
Extend compcache http://code.google.com/p/compcache/ to cache disk reads/writes to a block device (SSD), use LRU or ARC. Look at cleancache (2.6.37) and integrate from there. This will allow for compressed ARC/LRU based caching similar to zfs's l2arc.
Actually, the 13" Air has an option for a 2.13GHz CPU.
We actually have these: http://www.geekdesk.com/

They are pretty awesome, but the full size ones are pretty huge.
Beware the Protectionist Temptation
Quora shows who voted up an answer among the people you follow (presumably you value their opinion). Makes a lot of sense in that context.
Sites like reddit can garner thousands of votes on a certain comment. Keeping track of these would further decrease reddit's already slow response time.
Is the number of question marks really relevant to the point one is trying to make?

Let me rephrase that. Is the number of question marks really relevant to the point one is trying to make???

edit: Downvoted. I guess I don't have to keep arguing my point. :-)
I don't agree on "only" - another way of putting that is that the Air weighs less than half what the Pro does. The Pro isn't that heavy in absolute terms, but the Air is still going to be nicer to carry about the place - I'd seriously think about that if it was going to be a secondary computer.
Four days in the life of HN
It would be interesting to see this tried with a consumer SSD. Intel claims their X25-M will last 5 years if you write 100GB per day. That's 170TB. Write speeds for the G2 X25-M are around 100MB/sec, so it should take three weeks of constant writing.

If SSDs weren't so expensive I'd be tempted to test this.
I fixed the bug - it should be working again.
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Settings > General >Accessibility > Triple-click Home = White/Black

See "White On Black" @
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html

SMS looks great when at the movies this way or reading in bed.
After a quick glance on the OP's comments, I don't think it's that his posts lack content or insight, but rather are expressed in a style and/or tone some find unpleasant.
Generally, watch out for older sites or sites made by people that haven't learnt much in this area which may store some kind of account id in place of a key generated on each login. In that case just because the website invalidated/deleted your cookie the hijacked cookie would still be good.
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I spent a week in Tokyo last year from Christmas to New Year's. What an amazing experience. I had originally planned to travel on to Kyoto about halfway through my week, but Tokyo had too much to offer to leave early. I really would love to spend a few days in a more normal (non-hotel, non-Shibuya) setting and travel around.