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I don't charge $50 an hour :-)
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Here is what I noticed, feel free to take any of this however serious you want to:

The app feels like a proper Mac application. I like its look, similar apps tend to look much worse. (Except for, I’m sorry, the icon.)

I don’t like the keyboard shortcut for zooming out, backspace just feels wrong and always seems to be so far away from my fingers. Other shortcuts are missing altogether.

Since your users won’t be typing anything you could use keyboard shortcuts without modifiers across the board. I would use + and - for zooming in and out, command+arrow for moving through the history and the arrow keys for moving the selection. (At the moment the arrow keys just do nothing.) You should also throw in shortcuts for showing files or folders in the Finder and for moving files or folders to the Trash. (Are there any good reasons why it is currently not possible to directly move files or folders to the Trash from your app?) Whatever you do, add plenty of logical and easy to remember keyboard shortcuts.

Besides a better keyboard shortcut for zooming out, you maybe also need some sort of mouse-centric way of quickly zooming out. Moving all the way up to a toolbar button to zoom out feels clunky in the age of Google Maps. I don’t know what would be a good solution in your case, others use gestures or scrolling. You might want to look into that.

Zooming out needs to animate. Currently there is no indication which folder the user just zoomed out of which confused me many times. Animating zooming out would provide users at least with a hint of their place. You could also automatically select the folder the user just zoomed out of.

I don’t know how hard that would be, but QuickLook and file previews would be nice additional features.
Let's just say that if I see a resume on my desk and the _main_ accomplishment of the candidate is writing detailed documentation, that person probably won't get the job as a lead developer.
Wow, that was fast. It's like buying concert tickets.
DF is a bad example, because of the learning curve. There are things that the UI could've done (especially if it left ncurses) that could make the game more approachable for new players.
You're right, I hadn't noticed that the text was a different colour. If you change it to 222222 that completely masks the karma score.
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PanMan, ping me. I run Hackers and Founders Silicon Valley. We have 2,500 members. I'd love to commiserate. iamelgringo@gmail.com
> Anybody who believes that the government (not just the GOP but the Democrats as well) is working for the little guy, is a sucker.

Correct. It's the big corporations, out of the goodness of their hearts, that accomplish this generous task.
Accenture also has lot of offshore employees whose billing rate is around $20 to $30 per hour.
The BBC's mission is to broadcast content. Clearly that future is digital content, I'd argue equally clearly that future is in Internet-style streamed distribution over CDNs rather than in classical broadcasting.

This puts the BBC as having a major interest in both optimal storage and transmission of streamed media. Why on earth is it not in the BBC's interest to investigate means of improving its service offering and lowering its cost base through use of improved video storage and transmission technology?

To get back to the original point as that's about maintenance of existing content, I agree 100% with those who are saying this is purely political. We have a strong strand in our commercial media which will push relentlessly for the BBC to be cut on all possible fronts because it's impinging on their ability to profit. I'm sorry, but that's rubbish. I watch more BBC than commercial content (and have done for many years) because it's better. You don't have to go very far back in history for the ITV franchise operators to have been lumbering behemoths viewed as a license to print money. The merged ITV that came out of Carlton and Granada was hardly a weak, minor player, nor is the RTL Group backed 5 family or the News Corporation backed Sky network. All are quite capable of building a serious, large-scale rival to the BBC, but they seem to dismiss it as too expensive compared to running repeats of imported clipshows.

What the BBC is doing here is absolutely wrong, but they're doing it in response to (government-favoured) self-serving political pressure from their commercial rivals and out of largely reasonable fear that if they aren't seen to do something like this themselves something worse will be forced on them. That is the core problem - excessive political attention being paid to low-quality competitors who think they have a right to the extra profit they'd have if the BBC didn't exist. They don't; I gladly pay a comparable amount for the BBC as for Sky's vastly lower quality subscription offering and the commercial media outlets need to realise this and raise their game.
Really, you don't "need" YC to build your own startup...

This is personal, but I've been running of side projects/webapps that make decent revenue from ads and (in one case) a freemium pricing model.

I'm all of 17 this year and have been doing this for about 4 years now...

YC is only nice because it gives you (1) Lots of investor and public interest via TC and other blog articles. (2) Great advice, tips, and help via pg, harj, jessica, and the rest of the gang as well as the (pretty large now) alumni network of successful YC-funded startups.

YC admits teams that have no product yet to those with several years of experience in their market. It's going to be a bit more competitive now that everyone knows about them plus the whole big-money-addon deal by Yuri Milner, but if you have the skills and believe you have a good MVP to pitch to YC...fly on over to Silicon Valley.

Again, IANAL so there are probably plenty of stake-holders rights things to deal with if you're not of the age of majority and other little things that might be a barrier, but I'm waiting to hear what pg and others with more experience have to say on the matter.

tl;dr 18.
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Was offered a spot out of undergrad and I don't for a second regret going (though I had a fellowship and scholarship that covered nearly all my expenses). As an engineer, I looked at problems from an engineering standpoint and not 'how do I build a business', the MBA changed that. The key to getting the most out of it is to not follow everyone else. I asked the second years what professors and classes were worthwhile, made up my own major and took only those classes. Also never forget the primary purpose of an MBA, networking.
Actually IPOs are at an all-time low in the US (Facebook is the new model); so much for the "transparency" argument. Additionally, big business is almost unanimously using pre-dispute arbitration clauses now, so much of the action happens independent of US courts.
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals is Pirsig's second book which is described as the defining work of the Metaphysics of Quality (MOQ).

I loved ZAMM, but Lila is a much better book and even more though-provoking. I've read it 4 times through, and I still don't think I could write a complete review of it.

So if you liked ZAMM, definitely pick up Lila.
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People keep on getting hacked. Is it really that hard to prevent that from happening, or is this another case of widespread incompetence and "It won't happen to me" thinking?

EDIT: I've commented here before about the scary potential of the /b/ crowd if some of them ever tried to organize and become activists.
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Thank you very much for your feedback. Would you mind looking at a significantly-reworked version in a week or so?

I totally understand your point about hacking. I was sending out versions with hacking mainly to startups and without it to other places. Your advice makes me realize that it's high risk with little reward, and that the entire section basically adds nothing.
Not every business chases the majority of the market, and aforementioned businesses do just fine. I'm convinced there's always money to be made offering quality content, without having to rely solely on selling ad space.
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It's actually not all that difficult to measure the data of a painting in computer terms: get a high resolution scan and store it as a JPEG. Of course, this is open to some reasonable disagreements about what constitutes a "high resolution", but the basic principle applies. I'd suspect that it won't make a huge difference, since audio recordings take up roughly an order of magnitude* more space than still images, and video roughly an order of magnitude more information than audio.

* I have no substantiation for this, but it seems about right: a JPEG is a megabyte or 2, while a single movement of a symphony is 10 or 20, and a short movie at reasonably high quality is easily 100 MB.
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Actually I didn't know about that article, but is nice to see the origin of this technique. Mostly took inspiration from HTML5 Boilerplate (also Paul Irish), and previous articles I read. But yes, Paul Irish is awesome, and deserves lots of credit.
Hmm. Some of these sites look like genuine losses, but most are just promo sites for BBC series, at least some of which have been cancelled for years (and some of those looked to have only lasted a few episodes). I think fairly few of these deletions can really be compared to erasing and re-using the master tapes for those shows.

I'm ambivalent. I'm generally pro-preservation, even of ephemera, but I feel rather worse for the people getting the axe than, say, the sunsetting of the pages promoting the Concert for Diana. (After all, do we gain anything more than mild amusement that http://goo.gl/sd4xD is still up after ~15 years?)

As for the worthier sites, it looks like people should take it up with the BBC that those sites are vanishing while BBC promo fluff like http://www.badwolf.org.uk (warning: may still have sound) isn't on the list, yet.
Labor in general has large national boundaries. These are lowered slightly for knowledge workers.
Wow I'm really impressed with the layout and how clean it all is.
While some of these issues will happen from time to time, all of those exceptions will not occur all the time, so it really isn't an accurate assessment. This is more like the worst possible bounds of a successful consulting company.
What I was responding to: "When the government invests hundreds of billions of dollars into the market, by way of dumping money into the financial and automobile industries,..."

CWuestfield and I were discussing actions taken by the government during the bailout, not a business plan the UAW and GM entered into in the 60's.

During the bailout, the administration funneled billions of taxpayer dollars (many of which were paid by people earning less than UAW employees) to the UAW. In the process, they also screwed over bondholders (and ignored the rule of law) who had a legitimate claim to part of the proceeds of GM's liquidation.

That's an example of the government screwing over the rich (and middle class) for the benefit of the upper middle class.
Can you give some examples of HTML/CSS-compliant layouts or layout features that were broken by changes in Chrome or Firefox?
Beautiful. The individual demos are also very impressive. The only thing I didn't really get was the variable sizes option, where the sizes seemed kind of arbitrary (for example on the elements demo, I expected it to be proportional to something, such as the abundance of the element).

Small note, on Chrome (d10) the option highlights on the Elements Complete demo are broken. Buttons still work but the highlight doesn't update correctly.
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Interesting, because I really did like ZAMM, but I've never heard of Lila. I'll check it out.
Orwell is revered precisely because he was both simple and correct. Whoever told you that Orwell was supposed to be some sort of intellectual challenge or deep philosophy did you a great dis-service, because that's entirely missing the point. He cut through complex or pretentious intellectual bullshit like a chainsaw through butter.

Imagine your job was to explain the Bolshevik revolution to humanity. Not to intellectuals, to everyone. In the most clear, straightforward and plain way possible so that the greatest number of people could read and understand what you wrote. Now try to imagine a book better at that than Animal Farm.
This seems like a neat plugin, but I don't understand all the mega excitement.

What am I missing, why is this so earth shattering (read the other comments in this thread)? What is justifying people saying $37 is a "frictionless" price?

What are you planning to do that makes you so excited by this?
I get a blank screen on my blackberry bold 9700 running all the latest updates and with javascript enabled. Sadly, blackberry neglect is common for these "mobile" frameworks.
The short answer is that it is that hard to fully prevent it from happening. For practical purposes, IT security's job is to make it not worth the effort to break in.

And even if you've built a really secure system all it takes is one user with their daughter's name as their password to make it all moot.
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I think it really is that hard to prevent it from happening. Every organization/system is going to have vulnerabilities from time to time. If you are drawing the ire of those who want in, it's just going to be a matter of time. I really think the best way to secure yourself, is not to piss off folks like Anon.
forgive me if i'm wrong, but i couldn't help but feel like the documentation for upgrading addons from 3 to 4 was extremely scarce and scattered. i pieced together several documents from MDC, the developer forum, and the Mozilla blog, and still couldn't get a full view of the changes that affected my addon.

revisiting the submission process itself is welcome and seemingly necessary; but i'd be willing to deal with an inefficient submission process if the upgrade was well documented.
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When things are no longer relevant, I have no problem with them going away. If it means a lot to you, make yourself a personal copy.

Humans often have a hoarding instinct, and it's hard to shake that temptation. How many of us keep every email ever sent to us over the last 10 years? How many of us have 1TB of personal storage on our PCs. and we're running out of space? How many of us have the phone bill from 5 years ago filed neatly away in some box? Let some stuff go.
I think Ayn Rand is writing to an audience who already fundamentally agrees with her ideas. A lot of her writing strikes me as clarification of her philosophy, rather than a justification of it.

I didn't get that same sense from Pirsig, but while the ideas he presented were interesting, I didn't feel I was getting a novel perspective on them.
I think it is irresponsible to condone priorities like this.

I wasn't necessarily condoning Andrew's priorities, but I don't really find anything wrong with them either. Mixergy is clearly very important to him, and I think he's lucky to have something he cares about so much. I've found it can help to take your mind off a bad situation by thinking about something you're passionate about, and I know if I was in a hospital bed right now I'd want to be working on a fun programming project, not worrying about the here and now.
Great feedback,
I know what you're saying about the icon, I've cobbled all of the design elements together myself, but I'm no designer.

The tree view could use from better zoom logic, and I agree that a seamless neverending zoom in zoom out would be perfect, but right now rendering is very expensive. I keep thinking this app might be a good excuse to dive into OpenGL.
A word of caution regarding "ultimate font stacks" - most of these are an utopia. Not all fonts have the same height and x-height (read - the same letter size and general visual appearance) at the same pixel size. Most notably, Constantia just does NOT work as a drop-in Georgia replacement. Nor does Calibri work as a Verdana substitute. They needs either a different font-size or line-height.

In other words - stay with a conservative font stack or do on the fly font detection and restyle the document respectively.
*reminder*

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There needs to be some way to show what is tappable but I don’t think that making all that look like buttons is necessary. If you look around iOS (especially on the iPhone or iPod touch) you will see that very few tappable elements actually do look like buttons, they don’t have to. Only potentially risky actions are brightly colored and look like buttons, for example “Send” or “Delete”. I would argue that it wouldn’t matter much if you were to ditch the gradients and shadows and just go with bright colors and rounded corners.
I understand what you're saying, but I think you're marginalizing what was a pretty solid article. The author heard a questionable figure, sought the source for it, and reconciled the quote against reality. As a lesson in thinking for yourself as opposed to just believing what you hear -- something people are not often accustomed to doing -- I thought it was good.

That said, the title could have been much improved.
You think the unemployed are mostly young? I would have thought that union type manufacturing jobs mostly employed older people? Or to put it a different way, manufactures haven't hired in so long that most of the people being displaced by layoffs are older. I would also think that young people are more likely to have a college degree and the unemployment rates between people with and without college degrees varies by quite a large value. Plus young people are generally cheaper to employ.
I think you would always offer the user the ability to edit automated input.

With the right zipcode db you could also offer a drop down of available cities if there is more then one.
I thought this was going to be a travel website that gave you the best time of year weather wise to visit a particular city. Your idea is cool anyhow :)
Here are some thought provoking ideas for computer hackers that he discusses at some length:
* Is it a good idea or bad idea to listen to music while working? Why?
* Do machines have souls, and can they?
* Why do machines frustrate me so much? What happens when I get frustrated? What role does frame-of-mind play in productivity, and how do you control it?

A lot of the negative comments I see here are perhaps expecting too much from the book. It's not like God wrote it and provided all the answers to life. (And even if that did happen, probably a lot of people would hate it.) It's just a very interesting and thought provoking book.

And with regard to the comparisons to Ayn Rand, it's nowhere near that level. The book is very short compared to what Ayn Rand writes. It's not preachy at all like her stuff. It's also far more practical. Ayn Rand writes about how civilization as a whole should live. This book is far more personal and contemplative, and not preachy at all. Ayn Rand might talk for 45 pages about how socialized medicine is a parasite on the productive people. Persig might talk for 3 pages about how if you keep working on the machine when you feel frustrated, you're just building your frustration into the machine and making it part of it. Totally different in scale and practicality.
While fiscal issues and a good dose of gov't ineptitude are obvious, I see nothing pointing to a fall back into the abyss NYC was in ~20 yrs ago. What do you think has changed in the past 3 years that leads you to this conclusion? The gentrification of Brooklyn?
Since my company is building a plugin/extension for firefox, news like this makes me shudder.
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@GoogleIO Twitter confirms, sold out in 59 minutes.
There's a difference between a work being a result of philosophical genius and a work producing in the reader a philosophical experience.

As someone who studied philosophy, I felt that his proof for the existence of quality lacking. He appealed to a small sample, his class, in order to ground the existence of quality which is simply a hasty generalization.

However, I did feel something of a philosophical experience when he raised the issue of classic vs. romantic. He took pains to give examples and I feel that we all have to figure out this problem.
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What about users who like to use the mouse? I’m not sure whether keyboard centric UIs are inherently superior to mouse-centric UIs.
Deduction leads me to believe that she's talking about the UK. It's another English speaking country which likely has been exposed to her and her work in some form. Secondly, it has notoriously harsh libel and slander laws. I think that pining for laws like that, as a writer, is horrendously self-sabotaging as it is akin to call for truncations in the First Amendment.
I'm in pretty much the same boat as you, I have been running projects for a while to pay my way through school and I understand that to start a startup we don't NEED YC, the point is we WANT YC onboard.

I have (or will have in a couple of days) another two founders on the small team working on the project and they are both significantly older than me, so hopefully that could help towards solving a few of the legal issues, the question is, would pg/harj/jessica and co. accept a young founder in a team of older founders?
I see Gizmodo also changed. As such i will be removing Gizmodo off my daily reading list.
Twitter says they sold out in 59 minutes but it seems like it must have been closer to 20 minutes.
I saw the point was something like this: you can deduce all of some values by logic, and you can some of all vaules by logic, but you can't deduce all of all values by logic.

It also had a nice, short, well written take on a lot of philosophy by a fairly smart guy who geeks tend to identify with.
I always thought the hardest part of the learning curve was understanding the game itself, not the interface. What each workshop does, why that dwarf have been in bed for two months, what pissed the elves.

Not saying it's perfect either, but what do you think the UI could have done better?
The smallest possible step in the right direction?
Ask HN: how much does a user cost FB yearly in operating costs?
Roughly?
The decrease in crime in NYC over the lase few decades is just remarkable. I remember reading about the problems of AIDS and crack, and just thinking there was no hope. I would have never thought it could turn around like it did. Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" had some pretty good evidence that crime can be thought of as an epidemic. I'd love to read more on the subject if anyone has suggestions.
Not really the answer to the question, but this was the result of social engineering -> http://pastie.org/1535735

So, even if it was secure, in this case it would have happened..
It is difficult. In this case I am sure they knew Anon will come after them and they were SURE they were secure. But when you play with fire you gona get burned
I am a PostSecret Addict, I built this to ease my Addition.
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What if you only have one "user" who only logs in through SSH using port knocking and all of the server's other communication with the rest of the net is through encrypted binary data in UDP packets with fixed-size fields?