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Even More Amazon Censorship
Why Entrepreneurs Don't Need VCs
Website Backup in HDD with Email
Also recommended reading are Bruce Schneier's book "Beyond Fear" which provides a great mental framework for thinking about security (mainly IRL, but with applications in computing)

http://www.schneier.com/book-beyondfear.html

and his blog:

http://www.schneier.com/
Should Colleges Ban Laptops in Class?
Glassdoor: How Are M&M’s Made? – And Other Weird Interview Questions
I like the way the article is sponsored by Shell.
Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions Of 2010
The release of Hackety was fairly large, I got LifeHackered, TUAWd... 50k uniques, 100k pageviews over three days. Heroku's free account didn't blink.
I'm in the same situation. I'd kill for a four-day week. My commute is approximately 2 hours door-to-door each way, assuming that the mass transit system doesn't suffer any delays.
Skype has a setting to sign-off after a certain period of time when it runs in the background, and the default non-infinite setting is most likely what you're seeing.
Remarkably uninsightful; contains every bit of overused pablum usually contained in articles about Apple since about 1990.
http://www.comicfuckingsans.com (my little parody of the comic sans hate)
I always kind of wondered if your points on HN were taken into consideration if you apply to YC. If nothing else I think it reveals a lot about you, like what interests you (links you post), how knowledgable you are (providing help), and if you know how to communicate to better achieve your goals (asking for help).

...but I might be wrong :)
In cities with good public transport, many otherwise-would-be-cars are buses. Here in Helsinki many school children use public transportation, and none of the buses, trams, trains or subway cars have seatbelts, and as far as I know, nobody has ever suggested them to be installed.
Android mobile malware has botnet-like traits
I don't trust Google's gmail spam filter because of the issue with false positives. And I get a lot of spam, so it's impractical for me to go through the spam mailbox.

I'm very happy with my paid spam filter service (SpamStopsHere.com) which reduces the false positive rate, possibly at letting slightly more spam through -- but that's how I'd like to prioritize it.

I wrote about it a few years ago: http://normalkid.com/2007/08/21/my-spam-solution/

(Also, I get an absurd amount of spam. My MacRumors address gets 400,000-500,000 spam emails a day, which are blocked.)
Just to let you know why I've downvoted you twice: Twitter has millions in revenue a year.
Here is the link for best paper awards for 3 more conferences from NLP/CL area: http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Best_paper_awa... .
aw man, I opened this in Fx and Ch, hoping they'd done some html acrobatics and got it displaying completely differently in each browser but, actually, their site looks exactly the same in every browser...
Puzzle-Like Game Helps Solve Complex Genetic Problems Around Disease
Depended on the institution, but in general males were predominant in management and programmer positions. Operators were split about 50/50 at the places I worked, and I never met a male keypuncher.

I/O control staff (who gathered input data, scheduled batch jobs to run, and distributed printed output) were mostly women.

If you were male, you wore a tie. Those of us kids who didn't know how to tie one (or who operated drum printers and high-speed decollators) were forgiven for wearing clip-ons. I worked one place where men were required to wear ties, and the women all wore a uniform dress.
You pretty much nailed it, but one additional factor is that application "bundles" in OS X frequently include all the required libraries required to run the application, rather than linking against shared libraries. The only shared libs you can really count on are the ones provided by the OS, so if you need something newer, or different, many app developers simply bundle the library with their application.
This seems to be a basic personal economics issue - would you rather work 40+ hours a week at a job that paid X, or 20-30 hours at a job that paid X*2?

That's the rationalization a lot of professionals are making.

Similarly, if you're offering a rare/unique service that is in high demand, and that only you personally can provide, and you start to become overworked, do you raise rates? If you want time off, would it not make sense to raise rates until you have a better work/non-work time balance?
All of these dictators were supported by Intellectuals taking a stance diametrically opposed to own their government's.
Not just software patents, but intellectual "property" in general.

Boldrin & Levine: "Against Intellectual Monopoly" http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
New Startups Too Often Make Deadly Hiring Mistakes
the site sure loads like it's on a 60's internet connection... :)
I have often wondered about the difference in accident rates between professional and other drivers, anyone know if there are any studies done on this?
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Bloomberg v. Blizzard: How Strong Is the Mayor's Defense?
I can just hope that the people in the front seats realize that you are effectively risking their lives by your stupidity before it's too late.
How to be a Programmer by Robert L. Read [pdf]
And? How is them giving you free software proof that you're not getting free software?

That's like saying Apple gave me a 16GB iPhone, but I want a 32GB version, therefore its not free.

Of course we're talking about Microsoft so bizarro logic now applies.
Thanks for cheating (down-voting me twice).

10 million, or something like that.

From ONE customer. who could well drop them.

So, they're breaking even (for now).

And all this while they have raised 360 million in VC money (crunchbase).

And nobody has a clue how they will make REAL money.

Or do you?
Is 2011 The Year Of The Blockbuster Tech IPO?
Reminder: if you try to become friends with someone for any other reason besides you're a friendly person and like meeting people? They're going to figure you out eventually.

So instead of "targeting" people, I'd just hang out at the right places and get to know folks in general.
No I'm not a woman, I've just gotten lucky with the women I've dated. For every guy who is intimidated there are 5 others who due to the anonymity of just walking past her on the street will feel compelled to say something.

That compulsion increases with however hot they are, though it tends to jump dramatically when they are at a certain level of beauty, normally a level where no matter the circumstance they are usually always considered beautiful by anyone around.
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Yes, with the exception of sites that allow user-generated HTML, you could be fine. My take is that having strict validation on the users' side does not add any value to my projects. text/html works just fine.
In my culture, a refined critique is something to savored like wine. Careful skepticism is favored over blind boosterism as well.

I am going to guess that you were raised in a more typically middle-class American manner.

> but they hasten the downfall of a wonderful community. So thanks for that.

Melodrama. You should know better than that.
Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'
I flagged this since we don't need a new one of these articles every day...
For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas
His words are self-obsessed and shallow. I am expressing my thoughts in the hope that those words don't fairly describe his character. Maybe I can make him aware of his behavior before he starts buying into his own bullshit even more.

>His friends who know him in person can and will judge him for the person he is.

Or they'll stick around in the hopes of getting beer money for mowing his lawn.

>Did you write this because you have some kind of preconceptions based on people you know?

No.
... there’s nothing fundamental in Android that would get in the way of a industrial-design and user-experience rock-star team, whether at Google or one of the handset makers, testing the hypothesis that these things are central to Apple’s success.

Which is to say, it would be sort of surprising, but not that much, if this time next year, dirt-cheap iPhones were competing against Androids that push the user-experience lever farther than Apple or anyone else ever has.

I keep hearing this argument that Google simply has to assemble a crack team of UI experts and they'll inevitably match or surpass Apple's offerings.

Presumably Apple will equally at some point assemble a search rock-star team and push the search level farther than Google or anyone else ever has.
how much does Google earn in a quarter in the US? 1.5 billion? 2 billion? Bing + Yahoo is about 20% of the market, or 1/4th of Google (in the US). So, 500 M is good, but 100 M means it would take years and years just to earn back what they have lost online in all these years, don't you think?
Yeah, I guess that is why Malcom X hated white people
In the PDF it links to http://1wt.eu/articles/2006_lb/ which is the paper in html format. For those that don't want to download the PDF, good read =)
In my culture, a refined critique is something to savored like wine. Careful skepticism is favored over blind boosterism as well.

The comment I was replying to was neither a refined critique nor an example of careful skepticism. Whether you agree with Sebastian isn't the point at all; comments like the one that zuckerborg made do absolutely nothing to raise the level of discourse. Which is probably why the HN guidelines are clear on this point:

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

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."

PG has said elsewhere that one kind of bad comment he tries to keep a lid on is meanness. I don't see any way that zuckerborg's comment wouldn't qualify, as it was aimed at the author's character, rather than this particular essay or argument.

I am going to guess that you were raised in a more typically middle-class American manner.

Finally, thanks for this jab at my (obviously inferior) background. It's always nice when someone you've never met or spoken to feels the urge to make assumptions about your character and intellect from a few sentences you wrote on a forum.

Maybe mattmaroon was right about HN.
I don't know what comes over people when they are faced with the prospect of interviewing someone. For every interviewer it seems there's a unique crackpot theory on how to hire people. And, to be honest, I myself have given some dreadful interviews to candidates in the past based on whatever happened to be my current favorite theory of how to weed out the good from the bad.
26. How many times would you click "View Answers" before you say, "Fuck this" and close your browser?
unfortunately, AFAIK, T-Mobile is the only major US carrier to offer such no-contract/unsubsidized discounts
It's depressing to see a respected and influential software industry icon resorting to patent trolling like this. I expect it from lawyers and corporate-raider types, but was surprised to see Paul Allen doing it.

To cherry pick a quote from Dvorak's article: Paul Allen says he has a patent for a "Browser for Use in Navigating a Body of Information...".

On the other hand, corporations love a monopoly, and I guess Paul Allen wants to be involved in another one.
It's not going to be a good world if Fox News is allowed to intimidate Amazon into censoring whatever it finds inappropriate.

Not at all.
Mark already applied: http://instagr.am/p/vIqz/?ref=nf
I agree, there are obviously elements of the iPhone OS user experience that no other high tech company has a chance of ever matching.
These are all pretty great, but I admit I'd likely blank on most of them. One of my favorite questions to ask when I interview people is "what would you do with $10 million cash right now?" It's a question that exposes a few key things about the person's set of values. There is no right answer but if the candidate starts off by telling me what clothes or car they would buy, they are the wrong person. I want someone who would start something in the same field they are interviewing for and a series of follow up "why" questions usually puts us on an interesting path.
Will my iPhone become old next week?
I think it's from a while back (it's Dan Cederholm's push to help people get over that concern).

Also Firefox and Chrome almost certainly aren't the browser people would be worried about in such a case. Break out a vm and try an older version of IE.
It's not cheating. You made two comments that added nothing to the discussion. They're offtopic and just full of vitriol.

They have more than one customer, first of all. They have two. ;)

But seriously, if you can't imagine how a company that's collecting real-time data about the thoughts of millions of people around the globe might make money, you might want to pay more attention to Google...

Cheers.
I would love to read a technical discussion about the structure of these snowflakes. There seems to be something about hexagonal shapes that mother nature likes. You see them in several of the images. These images are stunning (to me anyway)!
'Buy from here' and 'just click here' have the opposite effect.

If Google can't differentiate between the two cases, that's their loss in the long term as somebody with better algorithms could step in.
34 years after Bill Gates' open letter to the "pirates" and decades of heavy propaganda and legal actions from the BSA, RIAA, etc, the general public still isn't convinced that copying bits is wrong.
If after decades trying you can't change people minds, it must be that you're wrong and they're right. Intellectual Property must die.
Android Trojan with botnet capabilities found in the wild
Recommending default outline style is the same as recommending a default blue link style. A designer will know how to make the focus style match the site design.
Usually "design vanity" or total ignorance of accessibility.

That's a pretty ignorant statement intended as fact. When designing and developing applications with advanced functionality, it is sometimes necessary to override the outline in favor of the intended user functionality. That is why you can set outline to zero or none.

Just peruse jQuery and stop being a standards fascist.
BizSpark is nothing particularly unusual.

Most commercial software vendors have similar programs and analogous offers available to developers, and seemingly most featuring the "for development and testing purposes" restrictions.

If you're operating within the particular vendor's realm and particularly developing over a longer horizon, these programs can be reasonable.

But these programs are also sticky-traps or "free samples" leading to addictions or vendor lock-ins or whatever analogy you'd prefer. (Which is why they exist; duh.) Once entrenched on (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, EC2/S3, hosted services, whatever) porting out or switching from development to production use can get costly.

Looking forward, consider if the end-users are even particularly going to know or care what software is running under the hood in a few years. While it's a now very successful model, what are the growth trends in three or five years? Between hosting (Azure or slices or otherwise) and virtual machine guests and embedded clients, the operating system and the bag of drivers that it provides is becoming a component of your application, or something you (or somebody else) runs for your customers.

Pick your bag of drivers and choose your particular software addiction(s) appropriately. If that's BizSpark, go for it. Just don't get dazzled by the word "FREE!" from any vendor.
Yeah the page is clearly built for SEO purposes and the links out are designed for padding the page view numbers.
You've created a nice little strawman there.

Microsoft offers free versions of their developer tools with the various Visual Studio Express editions and Sql Server Express.

If you're looking into more enterprise-y software, Microsoft offers free time-limited versions of pretty much all their server and productivity software.
Rob you continue to appear to lie on this thread (or are using very sophisticated doubletalk). The devtools are free. You never need to purchase another MSDN license if the current toolset does the job.

Quote me a single line that says thay the dev tools you have a license to must be purchased after BizSpark.
It looks like it's already been moved to EC2 and switched to Varnish cache and Nginx for static files. I think the decision to tie the "user" view to the main FQDN (http://threewords.me/joe) will come back and bite hard if this project turns into a large user base.

It would have perhaps been better to setup a wildcard DNS/vhost and set it as http://joe.threewords.me. It can still be done but the earlier the better. Time is of essence here.

Regards

Joe
Just because the public wants something doesn't make it right.
About the only condition is that your startup cannot simply be a hosting provider. Meaning, I'm selling IIS7 web hosting accounts with SQL Server available as a backend and free Exchange Email, and all that I'm using the Bizspark supplied software for is that generic hosting.
And to top it off, a link bait title "Top %d %s of 2010".
I would hope, and hope is a strong word, that having multiple carriers (plus MVNOs) on the interchangeable LTE bands will encourage some competition that is sorely lacking due to incompatible frequency allocations.

Every spot in the US will be covered by 4 (5 is they ever find a buyer for the D block) licenses. In some locations, one carrier already has 2 of the licenses (e.g. VZW). I still see room for competitive behavior.
That was one of the worst comments I've read on HN in a while -- like a week or so. Seems like the time periods between exceptional dirtbags posting keeps getting smaller and smaller.

I think there is a difference between somebody that is easy to criticize and somebody that should be criticized. Sebastian is easy to criticize, mainly because he has such an open and friendly style. I like what's he doing with his blog.

When you're 15 and still in school it's common for insecure people to pick on somebody who stands out -- for any reason. Hopefully this was just some pimply-faced teenager in his mom's basement and not part of a general trend towards easy sarcasm.

And yeah, all the upvotes bother me more than the one jerk.
I think that lots of times, someone who is capable of making something remarkable is someone worth having around. So often, things will work out that way.

Actually, it already does : people invent things at companies, and the companies then own the intellectual property.
How to Avoid the ‘Peter Principle’ in Your Startup
Usenix?
>comments like the one that zuckerborg made do absolutely nothing to raise the level of discourse

I disagree, I think he artfully illustrated why some people find blogs like Sebastian's so repugnant. In doing so, he even managed to run down a laundry list of reasons.

Wasn't poorly written, either. Would you share an example of how better to express what zuckerborg wrote?

>And thanks for the jab at my (obviously inferior) background.

Inferior? I grew up in poverty. I haven't really seen this kind of behavior outside of the American middle-class.

That is, the blind boosterism that is a plague here. Not to mention the rampant Me-Blogs that get posted and cheered here, absent substance.

I'm exercising a great deal of restraint, too.

Your intellect and character aren't at question here, it's your aesthetics. Stop looking for an excuse to feel indignant, you don't have one.

Don't paste me the guidelines, you just got done decrying the "Fall of HN", something that PG has chastised people for in the past. Don't add hypocrisy to your involvement in this discussion.

>Maybe mattmaroon was right about HN.

Cut the meta bullshit and sideways complaining.

Do you care so little for sobriety and humility that you would defend a "blog" like Sebastian's?
Congrats on launching something, that first hurdle kills more startups than anything else.

As far as the product goes, I agree with the sentiment in the other comments - I don't see how this is any different to email? Perhaps you could have a feature matrix on your landing page comparing facebook, iddhis and email to show the similarities and differences
so, now it's three down-votes (but it's perfectly ok on three comments :)

They could perhaps be useful (I personally do not find much value in the "real time web") - to either Google or Bing.

So, one of the following is going to happen:

-Google buys them

-Bing buys them

-Google and/or Bing continues to keep them afloat

-none of the above, and the service gets either shut down, or bought up for a fraction of its current valuation.
A different way to phrase this might be: to some bleeding edge tech people, their iPhone will become old every week. Looking only at Android, if it continues to grow like it did in 2010, it is not unreasonable to think about 50 or so major Android-enabled phone releases in a year. Each one with perhaps a micro improvement on an iPhone feature. Jobs can only update the iPhone every 12 months, more or less.
And the South would still have slavery.

You need to ask the supposed victims of said crime, not the beneficiaries of it.
Sorry but that's nowhere near "huge" in terms of server load.

Even a small machine can trivially handle 150k pageviews per hour, even with ruby strapped around its neck.

Spiky traffic is an issue of its own, but it sounds like Mark's site is growing fairly steadily (albeit steeply).

I agree with latch that heroku becomes (ridiculously) overpriced the further you depart from the free plan. If a stopgap is urgently needed then it may of course still be a valid choice. But in the midterm, if you're pushing serious traffic, look elsewhere.
Interesting. I'd love to hear more about this. You don't happen to blog about this process do you?
Even I have donated!!!

Some people can't donate but most have them have contributed in form of content. Wikipedia can find a way to monetize it. Red Hat is doing it, Ubuntu is doing it, Mozilla is doing it.

Maybe they can publish a book, journal or something. Also, they can show ads to registered people who have no issues with ads. Google Chrome's or Microsoft's banners are not that vivid and we can deal with it. I still visit wired, lifehacker, engadget despite the ads. [Again this could be kept optional]

* Just my two cents :-D
I think this comment has explained a lot about why people don't mind Sebastian here.

It seems that his friendliness covers for the tasteless egotism and arrogance. (The tastelessness of his blog alone is something I could make a 5-page long The Oatmeal'ish infographic about.)

I guess people here are extremely charitable as long as you don't express any negativity or criticism.