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I made a relatively anti-capitalist comment last night and got voted up. I dislike the 'finance industry,' yet I voted your above comment (the second one, not the original) down.

It's about how you say it, not what you say. Also, you can't particularly be upset if the vast majority of startup founders are super pro capitalism; this is sorta ground zero for all of that, eh?
He has an available penis. That's the conclusion I got - deprived of better hunks, she settled.

Maybe she deserved it, being shallow and horny. But that doesn't speak to the morality of it at all.
I'm in a similar sort of position, but I'm a developer working at a software company:

My goal is to automate deployments, boost efficiency and introduce "force multipliers" to get the highest bang-for-buck ratio: basically getting rid of the roadblocks between the guys and them churning out awesome stuff at a terrific speed.

On the other hand, the company loses money (in the short term) when I automate things; if two-hour deployments are reduced to 15 minutes each, they can no longer charge the client that extra hour or two for every batch of work. Projects are generally quoted and charged by the hour; if the client's reasonably content with the cost and the resulting work then there's not much incentive to get things done more quickly, regardless of how wasteful we're being.

Sometimes I can clear roadblocks. Most of the time I can't. It's taken a year, but I've come to realise the company's and my own goals are orthogonal, that I'm becoming an Example #1, and that it's time to move on.

(Thanks for posting the article; it's nice to see these negative qualities clearly laid out.)
Moral values can go by percentiles. What you do is punish officials in the lowest percentiles of legality and thank and reward the officials in the highest percentiles of legality. Over time, there will be a shift toward the higher percentiles, and then you can raise standards.
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The choice of a search engine does not rest on your geographic location; you may be forced to go with Comcast but you're free to use Bing, no?
If your server is "business critical" and you have budget you should take a good look at Zeus's Traffic manager.

http://www.zeus.com/products/traffic-manager/index.html

It's faster than anything out there, easier to set-up than anything out there (except the one-button Apache on a Mac) and can accelerate Apache up to 100x just by sitting in front of it. It will do the job of Ngix + Varnish as well as controlling a whole server farm. It's a truly amazing piece of software that sadly gets very little mention in the world. For instance, this is the software that runs the Firefox download sites and the BBC news site. Joyent and Amazon Web Services use it to.

(Disclaimer: I used to work for Zeus 4 years ago. I don't have anything to do with the company other than having friends in the dev team. ZTM is still my baby, though)

As many of HN's readers run web-app companies I recommend you take a look and at least play with the downloadable VM. The software, while expensive by free standards, is remarkably affordable by business standards.
The blog post he refers to --- http://simonwillison.net/2003/Oct/6/betterDateInput/
Printing money will never create wealth. Printing money creates more money.

Printing money may enable the creation of wealth (by reallocating existing wealth) but is not, itself, wealth creation.
Thanks so much. I needed to read this after the not stop down votes I have been getting. NO matter what I post.
hahahahahahahahaha. ha.

(No, seriously, I've worked in jobs where it's socially acceptable to get tipped. Unless you're a waitress that makes less than a minimum wage, nobody reports tips.)
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What kind of ads are you running? I guess I am not in one of the 5 niche countries and they aren't being served to me.

It sounds like you may be doing some click jacking and may be kicked off then ad networks soon, but keep getting it while you can.

Also, what the heck has Obama done so far?
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well at least I have clue now who has been down voting me non stop.
Supposed to, yes. Until my ISP moved to GMail and hugely upped the spam filtering without telling me (not impressed), I had much the same observation with Thunderbird - its junk filtering was getting less accurate, not more.
Yes, but his real position isn't 10%. It's 10% plus a stake in Weebly, Wufoo, and a dozen other companies that are still alive. Discounting those to $0 isn't exactly accurate.
This isn't really a bug that originates from PHP's handling of types. If any floating point variable containing this number crashes the process, it doesn't matter whether the type declaration was implicit or not. Also, since you're using JSON as an example (why?), it's worth noting that type-safe languages require some sort of mapping for JSON fields as well, any of which could be FLOAT or DOUBLE and would thus be vulnerable. Until today there was no reason to assume the floating point types weren't safe, either. Finally, it has already been pointed out that the problem is caused by a GCC optimization bug, so the implication is that any recent GCC-compiled executable may be vulnerable to erratic behavior upon encountering this number.
Reading the section entitled, "The Jerk," got me to wondering if OP will be ever write the obvious follow-up post, "Why We Promote So Many Jerks".

I have done work for over 100 companies ranging from SMB to large enterprises. Independently (I'll tell you why in a moment) I just made a list of the 10 biggest assholes I ever met the other day. Eight of them were the #1 person in one of those companies. Seven of them are, not surprisingly, out of business.

(The reason I made the list was because I watched "Undercover Boss" for the fourth time the other night. The first three times were great. This episode, about the CEO of Norwegian Cruise Lines, was horrible. All I kept asking myself was, "Where the hell did they get this jerk?" He had no idea how anything happened in his company and had people and functional problems in all 4 departments he worked in undercover. One employee even remarked that he had a problem dealing with women. That's when I made my list.)

What is it about our processes in business that seems to favor assholes? I realize that my experience may not be the norm, but some of the things I've seen done by the President or CEO:

- getting drunk and firing the security guard
- throwing a phone book at his secretary
- belittling vendors until none wanted the business
- routinely yelling f words at employees
- firing other executives on a whim
- begging these executives to return to work
- committing crimes with the books to earn a bonus
- ignoring company saving advice (that would make them look bad)
- sexually harassing subordinates
- committing adultery (& other crimes) in full view of subordinates

I even witnessed a CEO of a Fortune 50 company break down and cry at a Tony Robbins event because he couldn't complete a routine task.

If I sound like I think that our leaders should be held to a higher standard, it's because they should be. Hell, I'd settle for any standard.

I'd love to hear OP's take on the other side of the story, when smart people decide to stop making sacrifices for the assholes they got stuck working for.
Yes. And one of the techniques is Try to Find a New Technique
It's true, but with their 'maximum exposure' policy, and the fact that they've said they've still got the banks, other private industry, and the EU all lined up, I think it'll be a while before we see more stuff from WikiLeaks about non-Western countries.

Then again, maybe not.
Nice writeup, certainly helps in organizing your thoughts.

It reminded me of the Feynman method a bit though :)

1. Write down the problem.

2. Think real hard.

3. Write down the solution.

More seriously, the classic book by Gy. Polya "How to solve it" is also very useful:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Aspect-Mathematical-Method/d... (non-affiliate)

http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Aspect-Mathematical-Method/d... (affiliate)
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No. It does not encourage flaming. Being able to downvote posts discourages it because:

1. Downvotes give an outlet for expressing disapproval without incorporating a mechanism for ad hominem.

2. Flames tend to get downvoted.

3. Flamewars tend to get shut down quickly via moderation.
Some economists do define it that way, but that wasn't my argument. However, I do see your point if we define inflation as strictly the rise in prices, which certainly is the most common definition. My reasoning was off.
why such a great idea no one has have before. it is a need to all people that this idea was introduced since money become power to all people. what majority is doing with this idea will sign the future of our all. so do not dismis this opportunity. child in time the good old ones who brought money into our all lifes must except this idea the vision about the system of viewunity is the solution to many things whats up all about money in exchange to consumers all around the world. http://www.viewunity.org
IF you want to see some of the fun things you can do with it and get some idea of it's power and flexibility (especially the TrafficScript programming language it comes with)take a look here:

http://knowledgehub.zeus.com/articles

The article explaining why TrafficScript was created it especially good: it explains the inner workings of the software.
That law has but Sarbanes-Oxely, which has caused Facebook to avoid an IPO and Google not to, was much more recent.
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Kenya Police website hacked for Mark Zuckerberg!
On the official Kenyan Police website,all you see is a message saying I'm CEO BITch!
This has been do for the last six hours!
Ok I am taking notes: when you have, enough point to do so down vote all newbies who are learning the ropes and discourage them from feeling welcome or posting. Right? That is a question by the way.
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On his third day, we gave him a project that was scheduled to take one month. Roger completed the project in 3 days with nearly flawless quality. More specifically, he completed the project in 72 hours. 72 non-stop hours: No stops, no sleep, no nothing but coding.

I know this is against the Silicon Valley philosophy, but that guy just put in almost two 40-hour weeks of work, not three days. It might have done him well to take the next 11 days off.

Edit: I realize he was on drugs, but I think that's a different discussion altogether.
XiTi (now At Internet) used to make some of the best stats for the European market, like this: http://en.atinternet.com/Resources/Surveys/Browser-Barometer...

Since it became At Internet they stopped doing it this way though.
That just gave me a crazy idea: measure browser usage by company and use it for stock investing. Ie you could see how quickly they can adapt new technology and processes.
Although I respect the author's opinion, I use ubuntu everyday for my web development work and I find it very useful for that. Maybe it didn't fulfill his expectations, but it's not entirely "unfinished" or "too buggy"; there are very mature tools for everyday work.
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I am a 30 year old American, lived in America all my live, but have been in Taiwan for 9 months and I absolutely love it.

There's not much of a 'lower middle' class, but there's a sizable 'upper middle' class. If you can get there, you can live very very well.

There's less foreign population than in Beijing (can't comment on Shanghai, some people like it more, some people less). I still get a lot of looks if I'm not in the 'heavily foreigner populated' sections, but you get used to it eventually.

Compared to Beijing, the air is much cleaner, the food much better and diverse, and the english ability is much much better.

Biggest problems: Learning chinese is hard, hot humid summer

Having said all of that... I have no interest in living in Mainland full time. The air is too dirty, the people are too rude, and the great firewall is too annoying.
I haven't had this problem and I've owned Blackberry's since they were blue.

Charged thousands of times - MicroUSB is an easy connection.

That being said, I really like the magnetization of the macbook power connector and would happily trade microUSB for something with a magnet rather than a push.
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Samsung + Google = Google music?
> and there is an opportunity to create real public enthusiasm [about FOSS software]

Sorry, there really isn't. And if there ever was, a mobile phone isn't going to do it.

Most folks don't know their phone is running Android, they just bought whatever interesting-looking smartphone was in their price range. They barely care about the software their phone is running, let alone the tenants and ideals of a bunch of software hackers regarding their craft.
Um Royce it's not click jacking it's A/B testing. I'm running text ads and all I'm doing it changing a gui based on certain variables, their are many companies in existence that manage this very task. Yieldbuild comes to mind.

Also I forgot to mention that I'm spending $25 a day on targeted traffic from various sources (8 sources) to make $300.

So $50 daily for $600 and $100 daily for $1,200! That's without counting on viral confetti's/increase in organic traffic.
Is there a list of confirmed speakers anywhere?
To cite one example, the Alton Towers theme park in the UK has a ticketing system that allows you to pay more for "fast track" tickets.

Fast track tickets allow you to join a separate queue. The number of fast track tickets available are limited so the queues remain very short, and actual boarding of each ride is controlled so it is never dominated by fast track ticket holders.

The fast track ticket prices vary depending on which rides they are usable on, and how many times you can re-use them.

The system seems to work very well. Those who assign a high value to getting on every ride can opt to pay the extra for a more intense day. Those who are happy with the slow pace of a day out with some queueing can still afford the regular priced tickets.

There doesn't seem to be any moral or social stigma attached to those using the fast track system, but I think part of the reason is that it is perceived as fair, and everyone has the option to participate if they choose.
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Guys my reason for posting this (was in fact to be illuminated on a next step for bringing engagement to returned users) but more importantly to STRESS the valuable asset of persistence coinciding with patience and the need to fall in love with data and know her every ways.
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As an American who has lived in India, I am with Guelo.

The "everyday folks" the parent refers to--for most of us, (relatively) wealthy people with white-collar jobs living in rich Western societies--constitute some 5% of the world's wealthiest people. Most human beings living today are not in a position to blow $20 (Indian gross income per capita, per World Bank, 2008: $1040/yr) on a perk, let alone a bribe for something as simple as applying for benefits or starting a business. That's where the outrage comes from.

Education is an important part of changing that culture, and they deserve your donation.
The system would have to take that into account, for example by considering the proportion of stories upvoted that have led to such success.
Are you sure? Look at the flowchart again.
It doesn't matter if stupid people get more children.

In just a few generations, we will certainly get designer kids, where the parents mix and match genes. The world will then get really pretty people which are awesome singers -- and intelligent.

More seriously:

Body sizes were larger during the ice age which tfa talked about (not only for Neanderthals). I'd like to see data for how much that influences brain size?
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I wrote something similar for an app that used Titanium. All javascript, of course, with select-state images and a 1x42 pixel background. I'll see if the company I wrote it for will let me release it as a snippet.
Welcome to the on-going privatization of government services, and the plan to have all of .gov outsourced and privately hosted, and with the registration processing services having been bid out and presently hosted by Cyberdyne Systems domain registration services.

As part of this, Cyberdyne Systems will be running .gov-wide grid services in the background on the .gov hosts, so please ignore the skynetd daemon that will now be running on your servers.

But seriously, this is how outsourcing and privatization works. It's how Xe Services is an extension of the military, how Corrections Corporation of America runs private prisons, the Kelo case in Connecticut, the 1% claims settlement between BofA and Fannie Mae, and other cases of privatization.

The government does what the population and the corporations ask of it, and the private entities then provide the rest of the services on behalf of the government; it's how government itself gets outsourced.

And yes, government-outsourcing makes following the accounting and the budgets far more difficult. You just don't easily know how big a military effort might be without finding those other line items in those other budgets, for instance. Or when some private entity effectively holds the keys to some large tract of government services or security.
That's me currently.
I would hope this constitute anticompetitive behavior. If only intel can decrypt movies and studios only make them available for intel procs, this can seriously hurt all other chipmakers.
Are you sure you are being voted down like you claim ?

In my experience HN'ers are quite restrained in their downvotes. Apart from a few of your comments in this thread that got downvoted I don't see any major downvoting trend going on.

And about those comments: I do not have the karma to downvote anyone and I haven't till before this thread felt the need for such rights. But some of your comments did come off as immature and needlessly argumentative, to the point of refusing to listen to what everyone is saying to you and blaming everything on being a newbie.

Just my thoughts.
I would be surprised to see them suffering for optimising the algorithm to try and trace the original source of content though. With the sort of sites we're talking about, by definition that original source will be more up-to-date content which the user could reasonably expect to be presented preferentially. At which point - you're welcome to make your business from rehosting public content that originates elsewhere, but if you expect us to primarily direct people to your copy rather than the original then I think you're onto a loser.

Let's put it another way. I could conceivably build a valuable service by taking content from StackOverflow and Wikipedia (or wherever) and automatically linking the two to enable people to get some more context around some questions, maybe reformatting pages to enable side-by-side content or something similar. It wouldn't be a trivial service but it wouldn't be impossible in the least and it could plausibly add value. As such it wouldn't be unreasonable to preferentially direct users in some cases to that source rather than the original, as algorithmically optimised content - the preferential ranking would be a result of the value of the linking algorithm. Without this though, by what measure am I conceivably superior to the original source by having an out-of-date copy with fewer legitimate inbound links and more irrelevant content (adverts)?

Being a monopoly isn't illegal. Using your monopoly power in a way that might harm another company isn't illegal. What's illegal is doing that unreasonably and capriciously, as Microsoft were with Netscape in that trial, or DR and Lotus in previous trials.
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This is extremely impressive! It always surprises me how
far people can go with web scripting languages like
JavaScript and CSS.

I hate to be the one who pisses on this nice looking project... but you guys do realize that this is not a "simulation of an ipad".

This a couple of jQuery plugins and ~200 LOC of JavaScript to make it look like the iPad interface.

Did anyone actually look at the code?

I'm not even sure I understand what the point of this is.
I was referring to the 1,200 new likes in 2 hours.

Thank you for mentioning Yieldbuild, I will check them out.

I hope it continues to scale for you with those returns. One suggestion would be to have an easy way for people to add/suggest their own reasons for rocking.
On the back-end I built a small app that showcases a attractive young seductively sad female asking one question "Do I rock?" their are two buttons with an answer...YES & NO clicking on either well let's just say I was able to get 1,200 facebook likes in 2 hours....ok so I can make this thing viral at my choosing...CHECK.

Are you saying that you made it so that clicking either the yes or no button resulted in the clicker "liking" your site on Facebook?
It's easy to think that everyone accepting (or even demanding) bribes just decided one day that they wanted to be evil. In reality, they may very well have been pressured into it by their environment, or from fears that their peers will rat them out if they aren't participating.

I'm not saying they'd be right or should be pitied, but it'd certainly be possible for them to be shamed.
Incredibly minor legitimate value while introducing significant noise and complication thouugh.
It looks like they're already working on addressing this issue by having Verisign operate .gov: http://domainincite.com/verisign-takes-over-gov/
Yeah, but that better lower the usage rate, otherwise it won't last longer...
This comment makes me wonder why you are here at all. If you haven't been here for 90 days non-stop, how do you assume you know what would interest this community?

This leads me to believe that you are just attempting to build karma for some reason without adding any real benefit to this community.

Reviewing what you have submitted, I think it would be to your benefit to look at what type of stories are highly voted on and, more importantly, commented on. Then maybe you will pass over the YouTube video and add something of value.

Just my $0.02...
Aggregate all the posts for freelancers that say, "This should be an easy job for someone with the right skills. 10 hours tops."
Yes but they knew about the opt in I called it a "game"...the disclaimer was in a jquery popup.
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I read an article a few years ago with the legitimate television manufacturers predicting this exact situation... Visio was using really cheap compoments (like knock off capacitors) and taking whatever shortcuts they could. They predicted that these components would have a very short life, resulting in dead tv's after only a couple years.

After reading that (and having experience doing my own motherboard mods), I knew to stay the hell away from their products. So I spent $75 more. TV's are NOT something that should be dispensable- they should last as long as possible. They are environmentally invasive and the resources they exploit are too precious to just throw away.