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Nicely done, not sure what video's I'd use if for though.
> share with people exactly like you

No thanks.
Are these things really radiation-hardened enough to go into a "hot zone"? Won't that seriously mess with any semiconductors? Various manufacturers make radiation-hardened microcontrollers and so forth for going into space, but that's nothing compared to a nuclear reactor... or am I wrong? I guess you could encase the motherboard in lead or something.
Clicked on link, just saw a huge ad and no obvious way to dismiss it.
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Thank you, that's completely and exactly the idea here. I hope the implementation has been good, but it has changed the way I share things with my friends for the better (unless my friends think I spam them a lot more now!). Thank you for the support!
He's testing if you can think in binary. Label the bottles of wine with binary numbers, 0000001 to 1100100. Give the first mouse every other bottle of wine, the second mouse every bottle of wine with a 1 in the 2's place, the second mouse every bottle with a 1 in the 4's place, etc. If a mouse dies, the poison lies in one of the bottles it was given. If a mouse survives, there is no poison in any of the bottles it was given. Since every combination of mice is associated with a unique bottle, you can read off the digits formed by the dead and live mice to determine which bottle it was.

And then hope none of your guests call the SPCA.
With that cover, Sarah Lacy learned that you can sell magazines if you treat founders like rock stars or athletes. (This was not original, viz Fanning on the cover of Time 6 years earlier.)

Tech trade journalism has become about having a pat narrative that fits the current mood, not insightful commentary or facts. It's on a spectrum somewhere between sportswriting and trolling. The business is not to inform, but to mythologize.

That's why they are always either cheerleading or hating. That is why they call anyone who disagrees, or questions their integrity or competence, "haters". That's the mindset. It's how they've trained themselves to view the world.
"Explorers" don't usually set out for actual certain death.
If the story is true, then he went up in a space vessel that he knew would not survive because he knew it was poorly built. And he told them it was poorly built. And nobody fixed it.

That's not exploration, that's murder on one hand and self-sacrifice on the other.
Too bad you can't reply to those old posts. ck2 asked if it was an "all or nothing" phenomenon and no one even mentioned the Shubnikov phase in type 2 superconductors.
Most of these have been pretty well known or obvious, which is why those that do them have little excuse. But I disagree strongly that #1 is a problem. Some things, like the header in his example, usually should be full width. While others, especially columns of text should be of a fixed maximum width to improve readability. Who cares about blank bars to the sides of the screen? Or at least, who cares as much as they do about struggling to read too wide columns of text?
I don't agree that Twitter is a very low cost-to-switch environment. Its value only comes with scale - I think it would be difficult for non HN users of Twitter to see enough value to make a switch, at least, not without something new or quite compelling...
You can patent the process for creating superconducting materials:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=superconducting+patents&...

Presumably, that's what is being release into the public domain.
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What kind of site is it? Could you just ban troublemakers, regardless of their age?
Repeat after me: A website is not a startup.

It's bad enough that everyone with half a business idea calls it a startup, but now everyone with half a website prototype is joining in.
Short interesting post that brings up a good lesson, not for job seekers, but for recruiters. The Dunning-Kruger effect, for those unaware of it, states (paraphrased) that the more competent you are, the less confident you are in your competency. Inversely, the less competent you are, the more confident you become in your ignorance.

Recruiters almost always want to hear someone tell them "I'm the best of the best" in an interview, but generally the only people who think that are middle of the road at best. Recruiters should know this sort of thing and look for the guys that say 6-7 instead of the guy claiming to be the Michael Jordan of computer programming.
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Yeah I met up with them a month or two ago. Great guys, and they seem to be doing well
Getting standard-issue equipment that you need to do your job? I don't disagree with the overall premise but getting a computer isn't that unusual and you need one anyway.

I think 37signals gets it (more) right. A company credit card with which you can buy any training or educational materials you need to become better at what you do or to help you with your work. Now that's a perk. (Though a personal secretary/PA to handle all of the non dev BS would be even better..)
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Thanks for taking it graciously. I just came back to edit since I was worried it might have come across a bit strong. And no offense was intended, it reflects criticism I've got of myself in retrospect.

Best of luck with whatever road you head down.
There's no absolute truth about whether the "work gap" or whatever will affect you. It's all about who you approach and how you spin it.

Theoretically, when I got my first job at 21, the fact that I'd never worked for anyone else, never had a set office schedule, never worked in an office at all in fact... would have been a detractor. But I wrote a beautiful cover letter explaining just how well freelancing prepared me to be a take-charge, self-motivated, self-managing and flexible worker.

See what I did there? You do the same. Plus you obviously demonstrate staying power.

There are never enough good people to fill tech jobs.

Finally, why would you feel disloyal to someone who was disloyal to you? You clearly tried to put more into the relationship than he did. You can only do so much. He decided the tone of your relationship, he decided how (little?) much you were worth to him, and that's that. He made his decision - exit with a clear conscience.
Someone has to say it: this site is full of bad writing and logical fallacies. Can we please stop linking to it?
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It's harsher than it sounds (Adam admits that too), but I think that's been up there since forever. If you come by (maybe interview?), you can find out for yourself if you'll be a good fit.
Ironically, the part of us that insists so strenuously on its uniqueness is a rather boring, standard-issue part, kind of like our livers if the liver were concerned about itself. I think that's why these discussions are so predictable: they're all the same because our egos are all the same. Not on the surface, of course -- we put care into how we clothe them -- but structually and behaviorally.

This ought to lead to a tremendous efficiency in life: the minute you detect an ego reaction you can know what you're going to get and react accordingly, i.e. bail. Unfortunately the seduction of getting embroiled in these useless things is hard to resist.
Did that with my girlfriend when I was in the US for 6 months. Worked pretty well, except for timing issues such as phones ringing, bathroom break, oh and time zones :(
Since the author is the one who submitted it, why should you think the title here says anything that is not "his intent"?
Thouh the numbers could have been exaggerated, its a fact that digg could have been much more profitable had kevin thought of selling when there was a market for it. Its one of many examples of how founders enamoured with their ideas tend to push the startup past the prime. Groupon just did that a few months ago. I can see myself reading a similar headline about them a few years from now.
The fact that this occurred at all is still unacceptable, and we’ll be seriously evaluating and adjusting our processes to ensure an error like this can never happen again.

I'm not aware of any theorem provers for Apache config files.
I do like the idea, but agree it's not very polished. It lacks a certain degree of professionalism: it could've been done 5 years ago and we wouldn't have noticed. $30 templates go a long way.
Well done. How much was the domain?
While I think I understand the localization goals of this project, I find it interesting that the project makes use of contributors from all over the world.

Like it or not, we are a diverse global community and we all benefit from each others skills and abilities.

Food, energy, replacement parts, etc., are all good localization goals. Locomotives, aircraft, sea vessels, automobiles, farm and construction equipment, and such, are a different matter.
I think it's mostly just the usability perspective, like was mentioned in the article. If you don't force the vertical scrollbar and this causes elements that should be in a static position to move, you've got a frustrating usability issue. (Like on sites that have forward/back buttons that jump around so you can't repeatedly click the same button. How frustrating.)
Does this mean that the social new bubble has finaly burst with reddit down to one person and digg winding down?
That lyric, in isolation, isn't anti-intellectual. But it's followed by "and I don't wanna talk to a scientist, y'all motherfuckers lyin' and givin' me shit".
UGC site. Part of the issue is that we weren't proactive about doing it as it started to become an issue.
A simpler point I didn't see emphasized is that even when you "own" a home you do not own it. You're renting it from the government, home owners association and utility companies. Disagree? Stop making payments to those three entities and we'll see how long it takes for men with guns to come and evict or arrest you. Owning is renting. Free your mind.
It shows the highest readings away from Fukushima. Why?
Number three is interesting, especially if we consider what Canonical have done recently with Unity and moved scrollbars outside the window[1], freeing-up the screen real-estate that they permanently occupy.

[1] http://design.canonical.com/2011/03/introducing-overlay-scro...
If this evolved into something like ninite for servers I would pay for that. I mean, install and configure apps that I select, secure the server, etc., also give me a file with all the passwords, configs, etc. that the script made so I can understand what it did.

I'm a developer, not a sysadmin by any means and it's daunting for me to setup a new server and then remember what and how I have re-configured. Usually I just follow my host's tutorials and never come back to tweaking anything.

Maybe something like that exists already, I've no idea.
I think flash is just a stopgap until something faster and native comes from android. Both MSFT and AAPL are not supporting it on their mobile platform. Android only supports it because they don't have any other options.
> What configuration error (technically, by definitions from some IEEE guidelines, mistakes) did they make to have this happening?

They edited .php file on a production server and made a typo, so the file, containing sensitive information started with "i?php" instead of "<?php".

My guess that happened because someone used vi/vim and hit "i" twice.
A fine opening, because not only is it the stupidest algorithm that could possibly work, but it also tees up the obvious follow-up questions: "How efficient is your method? How much time will it take in the worst case? How much in the best case? How much in the average case? Can you improve on this?"

These follow-up questions, and the fluency with which the candidate navigates them, are actually the point of the exercise. Well, that and to learn whether or not you're talking to someone who can't properly state any algorithm, and to help gauge your candidate's level of primadonnatude. [1]

[EDIT: Okay, I typed this up before people stated the version of the question with the 2-mouse-lifetime time limit. That version is, IMHO, an awesome puzzle but too damn hard for an interview question.]

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[1] There is no one ideal level of primadonnatude. It depends on the business, the role, and the company culture. Steve Jobs is, arguably, the prima donna assoluta of computing, and that seems quite appropriate for his job. On the other hand, a good second grade teacher, the sort of person who enthusiastically spends every day for fifty years instructing students in the subtraction of single-digit numbers, probably has very little primadonnatude.
Good point. I recently learned that WP theme marketplaces also carry generic HTML themes. Here's a set from a family member: http://themeforest.net/user/Parallelus/portfolio?x=15&y=...
Very cool, I registered. How does this differ from jtv?

In addition, needs voting for room members for next video, or to change video. Is that implemented and I just missed it? Otherwise it's just... the Internet on rails.

Could be very cool, needs some/a lot of aesthetic polish and features that make it actually social besides a chatroom and a "tweet this" button (ESPN has "tweet this" buttons as well as chatrooms with real-time game updates. I don't think anyone would call that "social" though.)

I like the concept, needs to tie in more with other concepts of social applications. Also a javascript bookmarklet would be great. Say if I want to show a buddy this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L64c5vT3NBw, I click the bookmarklet on that page and it creates a Frozenhot URL that would take the user into a chatroom and spin up that video automatically. Something like that.

Seems like most of the comments are ambivalent about your idea, and maybe it's been done before, or could've been done 5 years ago, but this could be cool for a lot of people. I can see you getting traction here. (Especially once you overhaul the layout!)
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Ask HN: A completely e-mail based support helpdesk
Hi,

Reading the recent thread about the launch of Freshdesk from a HN comment made me go back and read that entire HN thread. While thinking about what a better helpdesk system would be like, I remembered a line in a recent post from Paras Chopra of Visual Website Optimizer, wondering how to cut time on support.

So here's my theory:
Early stage startups typically can't afford to have dedicated support guys, so they usually have one of the founders or the developers doing support also. Also, a founder/developer (in such a startup) typically has much better ways to spend his time, than answering support requests. So what if there is a support helpdesk which acts entirely through email?

Imagine:
When a support request is sent to support@foo.baz, the email is read, automatically categorized depending on predefined categories, tagged, indexed, and then assigned to a particular person depending on predefined criteria. An email is then fired off to that person with it's content being the original text of the support request, a list of 5 similar support requests previously handled (numbered 1 to 5), and the actions performed and responses given to those previous requests.

The developer can then simply reply with a command verb such as 'reply 3' to tell the support desk that the same response as the third request in the suggested list should be sent back to the user. Or, if none of the suggested responses match, they can simply type out a new response to that request. Or, if they are working on some crazy awesome new feature, they could simply reply with 'reassign' and the system would reassign the request to another person and send them the same email. The responses are then indexed and tagged and sent back out to the user who first asked the question.

This way developers/founders answering support don't have to deal with clunky interfaces, and they can save time by quickly responding to a query without having to search through a knowledge base or something similar. I realise that this is probably not the way you would want to handle support as your company grows, so there would be easy ways to export all your data for use with some other service too.

So what do you guys think of such a system? Does it already exist? If not, is there a good reason it doesn't already exist? Most importantly, would you use such a service? Why or why not? Also, how much would you be willing to pay for such a service on a monthly basis?

Regards,

chaosprophet
It's sorta like youtube meets IRC, isn't it? :)

Things that I wonder about:

1. where will you get the actual video content from?

2. I think that voice would be better for this type of stuff, atleast with friends. Typing is slow and not that interactive.

3. Have you thought about focusing on educational videos? Those strike me as the best candidate for group watching because discussing actually makes more sense than during, say, a movie.

4. So what's the deal with the name? :)

5. The design needs work. For example, I found the voting process to suble.

I too have thought about making video's more social but honestly I'm not sure what the value is in adding chat. But maybe the idea needs to be fleshed out more?
Don't hold your breath.

It's not the temperature that makes HTSC a problem, it would still be fantastic if they were usable at liquid nitrogen temperatures. The difficulty is that most of these materials have a very low maximum field, in anything approaching the sort of fields you need for an MRI or even a motor the material stops superconducting. They are also difficult to form into wires.
If you want to grandfather in users who have behaved, then I think you need to consider rewriting the TOS to include an option for doing similar in the future. Let me suggest that since it is an age-based issue, your wording of termination should not be along the lines of "get lost, you broke the rules" but more along the lines of "we look forward to seeing you back when you hit the magic number: 13".

But given your description here, I would ask some hard questions and consider redoing the rules so that what you are enforcing is something that actually makes sense:

1) Why did you put age 13 in the TOS to begin with? What was the specific goal? Is age really directly related to the stated intent or was it being used as a proxy for something you felt was too hard to directly quantify?

2) Since some kids under the age of 13 behave well enough that you are considering letting them stay, what does that tell you? What specifically are you trying to accomplish here, in terms of site environment/site development?

3) Why is this coming to a head now? Is it, for example, a numbers issue such as there being a higher percentage of younger kids now? If so, is there some other move that could improve the situation (such as trying to attract more older kids or changing how you advertise the site to avoid attracting more young kids)?

4) If you do just wholesale remove accounts, please be polite, professional, firm, "unapologetic", unemotional, and impersonal: These are the rules. The move is being made to get the site in compliance...etc. Don't let yourself get dragged into emotional crap. If the emotional crap matters to you, seriously consider some of the above ideas first. And accept that there will be some fall-out and it will take a bit of time for things to settle down. That's okay, if it's not excessive.
The future will be a framebuffer. We're moving to a GPU-on-core future. The graphics card simply becomes a framebuffer at that point - ala video cards from the 80's and 90's.

So the likely future? x86+gpu extensions or arm+gpu extensions.
> Probably because I haven't touched PHP in 3 years.

we should start a support group
because you get greater ROI by getting more traffic, getting more ways to monetize it, and owning what you produce. Posting on another site has benefits but it still is sharecropping.
It has all the hot buzz words! "realtime", "social", "video"! Best of luck with it!
> Wouldn't this mean that coasting down a long hill in gear would cool the engine and in particular the catalytic converter, potentially causing some operating hiccups and a big emissions spike when eventually reaching the bottom?

I have observed precisely that. I have coasted down a hill in gear and have noticed the engine temperature (in my diesel engined car) begin to drop, which worried me a little at the time. This surprised me a little at the time because it happened in a matter of minutes, which I hadn't been expecting.
This is true relative to their own ability. A highly competent person may consider themselves to be more skilled relative to average than an incompetent does, but the highly competent person will most likely still be under-estimating his ability and the incompetent over-estimating their ability.

This is critical, because it means thinking you suck doesn't imply that really you are good. A 95% percentile person might think they are in the 60th percentile, and so might a 5% person. Both have the same opinion of themselves.

Another critical point is Dunning-Kruger hypothesized that for highly skilled individuals this effect was due to their lack of awareness about how relatively unskilled others were. When they were given a chance to look at other work they were able to more accurately assess their knowledge.

One possible control is instead of asking individuals how good they are would be to show individuals existing code and ask them how good _it_ is. Dunning-Kruger would suggest that incompetent people would be too ignorant to accurately assess it, and most likely over-estimate its skill, whereas skilled people _are_ able to accurately assess fault in others' work.
Thank you for reminding me of this. I gave it a try a while back and thought it looked promising.

I recall having a couple of very small gripes with it (they really were quite minor and were likely due to my own misunderstanding), but I honestly can't even remember what those gripes were anymore.

I'm going to give it another shot.
PG, sorry, but I am a little confused by your answer.

Is your "yes" in response to "do you still feel comfortable with the suggestion to build companies on top of it?" Or, to the fact that you would now recommend other companies and startups be "cautious about building anything on Twitter after" the new Twitter TOS and other policy changes there?

Are you removing http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html from the Y-C suggestions?

My team and I were hacking on our site to launch http://tweeplayer.com at SXSW exactly at the moment the new TOS came out, and it freaked us out at the time. But, the gist I got from people in the know was that as long as you are helping Twitter get content they wouldn't get on their own, they will likely be happy with you.
I'm certainly more likely to feel like I'm signing up for something magical when I'm faced with big pretty happy-looking form elements! :)
The financial aspects depend a lot on where it is. In and near the large urban areas, no, owning a home does not make financial sense. But in small towns, well away from the large cities, it is a different matter. Rents vary from one area to another much less than home prices do.

I moved in 2001 from the DC suburbs (College Park, MD) to Cumberland MD. The duplex I rented was about a third what it would have cost in College Park. Later, I bought both sides of the duplex, for less than a sixth of what it would have cost in College Park.

From what the Places Rated Almanac said, that sort of variation is normal across most of the country. Note that in my case I even stayed within the same state, so I didn't benefit from the regulatory and tax changes that occur in some inter-state moves.
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