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>what the WBC does is harassment

no. I'm not a lawyer, yet i'm pretty sure that what WBC does wouldn't fit harassment criteria. I suppose for the harassment the specific action needs to be targeted at the person being harassed. Without specific targeting, they just express their opinion, wrong opinion at the wrong time and place, yet not illegal.
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At first I thought you meant "use 'ipconfig' instead" and I was like, "Whaaaaat?!". Then I checked the man page for "ip". Thank you. It looks rather useful. I don't mess with routing or devices too much but I have in the past and only knew about ifconfig.
You know what? I agree with you completely, and I'm going to stop using @whoever. It made sense on twitter, when your tweet as "at whoever". But it doesn't make sense anywhere else.

I liked Audrey Tang's habit of referring to people as "person++". It's positive and looks nice in conversation: "This release is thanks to foobar++'s excellent patches."
According to friends, you can buy beautiful houses in Detroit for $100 a pop. It's the Warren Buffet strategy. Buy long.
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"A universe where on average, each employee produced $425,450 in profit in 2010, after deducting their salary and all other expenses. (Or alternatively: $1.2 million in revenue.)"

Wait a minute, you generate that much profit and then you don't get paid even half that much? Sounds like why I left Apple.
Does anybody find it ironic that this guy from the TOR project (great work by this guy) uncovers this and we take it at face value that the IP address that this attack appeared to be coming from is the actual attacker? The attacker couldn't possibly have been using a proxy, could he have? </sarcasm>.
Automatically send behavior-based email campaigns
So many cool things come from Microsoft that lack the story and passion of some of the more well-known open source projects. It's truly disappointing.
You don't need to give up vim and grep on windows. gVim works great and since vim has the built-in vimgrep command, you can use that. You do lose the awesomeness of a shell like bash or zsh.
They forgot group buying.
I got married at age 19 to a guy who only wanted to be career military. I had lived in the same house from the age of three and couldn't go anywhere in town without running into someone I knew. I graduated high school with folks I went to kindergarten with. The first duty station was very, very hard for me. We were there 18 months and I probably hated every minute of it. The second duty station was also difficult, especially at first. It took me some time to adapt. Eventually, I was more hot to trot to see what our next duty station would be than he was. But I was quite slow to adapt.

These days, my life is pretty portable. I don't own much stuff, my adult sons still live with me and none of us have plans to part ways any time soon, and a lot of my social activity and hobbies and such are online/on a computer. When I go someplace new, one of my biggest concerns is what is the food like and where can I get what I need in that regard? Some special items I order online. My ex husband was a gamer and when we first hit a new town one of the first things he did was try to find a gaming group in order to have a social outlet.

While I was still a military wife, when we moved, we would start making our "to see and do" list before we got to the new duty station and every long weekend was spent seeing local tourist stuff. I've read (and noticed) that a lot of folks don't go see local museums and the like but will travel elsewhere to go see stuff like that. I don't get that mentality.

You might try to figure out what you are "homesick" for. You might make a list of personal needs and what is being met and what isn't. You might try writing down what you expected of Cali and why you feel it isn't living up to those expectations. You might try setting a target date and decide that you will make a decision at that time and will just stay put until then and not decide before then (this last one is an approach that has stood me in good stead on many occasions).

I liked Cali when I was out there. But I had already made a few moves by then. We were in Cali the last two duty stations of our marriage and divorced out there. I was there about 7 years, part of it in Southern Cali and part in The Bay Area. But, again, our first duty station bombed with me and it took me several years to realize it wasn't Texas' fault that I was so miserable there and to finally "forgive" the state of Texas.

Good luck with this.
Why [programming] job postings always looking for “rockstars?”
An Australian roommate once told me you need 9 months to really feel like you have lived in whatever location you have found yourself.

You need to give it time if you want to give it a fair shot. Two months is not adequate.
Heh, I had an unfair advantage: I didn't trouble to familiarize myself with the WBC.

But by my reasoning, the difference would be legal precedents stating that pickets are legal (irrespective of what you use them to promote) and repeated unsolicited telephone calls are not (irrespective of what you say).
redhat has been in business for almost 20 years. They're traded publicly. They have over 3,000 employees.

I'm pretty sure they have a repeatable business model.
Git up Perforce with git-p4
EC2 has this already: http://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/
It is more about the "how" and less about the "what".

If I called you 500 times and simply said "Hello, hello, hello", that is still harassment. The WBC people apply for permits and protest on public property. What they say isn't relevant.

In general, your actions and intent are more germane than the content of your speech. That's a concept critical to free speech -- controversial or offensive is far more important to protect than typical conversation.
I had a thought the other day because one of the women I'm working with was showing rather a large amount of cleavage.

The thought was that it must be great to be a woman in IT because all you need to do is dress a little tarty and you get the red carpet rolled out for you.

Then I thought about why that was the case. And I realised that basically the only reason that dressing slutty gets you favours is because the industry is so thoroughly male dominated, or, in the words of the article, a boy's club.

So now, I don't begrudge them the advantages they accrue from dressing that way, I just enjoy it instead :D
How Twitter should make money
It's simple... contextual advertising. If someone tweets "I need anew computer" then Dell should be able to immediately do a promoted tweet in their stream or somewhere on the site.

Maybe they're working on it, I don't know. Maybe they could work something out with Google who already has this type of technology. If they want a huge revenue stream, this is what they have to do.
Considering Google takes all of the risk, and creates an environment where it's much easier to create value than on your own, I think it's more than fair.
Actually I think they talked about that too "it eventually plans to offer businesses a self-serve platform for running deals"
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Some of us moved from entirely different continents, leaving friends and family behind...hang in there, that is how you grow as a person... 2 months a definitely too short a time to make that determination..it seems you are just homesick which is not a valid reason to want to go back home, if there are other problems then maybe, but homesickness by itself would be a childish reason to run back home... Join a meetup group, join okcupid and look for dates (saying you're new to the area is an easy way to get dates)...definitely don't lock yourself in the house programming, it wont help, get out and meet people.
I definitely agree; it's just a matter of finding the right people.

Anecdote: attending some of the tech talks that companies give at Tech, there is always a gradient of people, from the people that are there for free food to the people that are there to ask questions and get something out of it. These tech talks are thinly veiled recruiting events, and the latter set of people are always approached afterwards for interviews or networking purposes.
That's not entirely true. You can't write "God Hates Blacks" (per the Racial Hatred Act) but you can write "God Hates Fags". There seems to be no logical basis for this difference.
Ask HN: HN Plugin a few months ago to see twitter followers?
There was a plugin a few months ago that let you see your twitter followers' icons by their HN posts. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about, and if so can you share the link to the post or plugin?
Was anybody able to find the android app? They don't link directly to it and searching for "color" is too generic. Which, btw, is a problem with their name.
A couple of things stick out from this numbers wise:

* 7 founders (~14% split evenly, unlikely though)

* 41M raised

* Staff of 27 (obviously get some equity)

Some valuation math:

(Dilution) Pre-Money Post-Money (Founder dilution from ~14.28%)

15% 232.3M 273.3M 12.1%

20% 164M 205M 11.4%

25% 123M 164M 10.7%

30% 95.6M 136.6M 9.99%

40% 61.5M 102.5M 8.57%

50% 41M 82M 7.14%

I realize the percentages are essentially a wild guess, but I feel its a good data point to add in.
I think you are missing the point and holding her to a standard you cannot meet yourself.
Wow, 3%. At $7.99 a month, your credit will be 24 cents.
The documentary he may be referring to is Startup.com

I've intentionally not watched 'Social Network' due to the blatant inaccuracies.
If you like the NYT enough to read it, just pay for it.
The thing that struck me about the emails in question was that by including the name, it makes it more personal, which makes it seem as though they are trying to presume a closer relationship than they actually have, which makes it seem scammy.
Yeah, I ain't Rockefeller.

But the biggest reason I haven't done it is the city government. The above reasons not to invest in Detroit are clear - taxes, unknown assessments, liability. Allowing some of the land to go fallow or zoned agricultural or a long property tax holiday would help tremendously. The most expensive thing about living in Detroit are the taxes and the regulation if you can live through the crime.
It is coming out later tonight. I tried looking for it as well.
No wonder they invested $41 million… It's the perfect app…
I'm curious how a proximity-based social network is going to keep from placing me closer to my upstairs neighbor than, say, my brother on the other coast.
Any "there isn't a bubble" believers want to comment on this one...?
I use it a lot, it's great. Use it on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android. I scan all my receipts, bills and statements into it. Quite handy.
That could be a good way but I guess it may the case of a journalist thinking about his audience; she wanted to put the "we look at the founder" mantra down in the interview piece because there may be still many people who have not heard that super punchline!
But what if it's "thanks to Notepad++++'s excellent patches"?
I can see how people would find this valuable, but what does the company need all that money for?

Do they just have a mean, scalable roadmap that we are unaware of?
This is a bit of a mess. I wouldn't trust the revocation to work, since that involves a request over a network that has already been compromised.

Interesting to find what the Chrome team did to fix this:

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/base/x50...

Good reason to upgrade!

(Edit: this happen a few weeks ago, it has apparently taken the browser makers 8 days to issue an update while in the interim there were rogue signed certs out in the wild)
I think it's worth noting that while Google has a vortex (cool employees go in, harder for them to come out), Facebook has seen so many people leaving and doing innovative things that it's got it's very own mafia now.

Perhaps because it's possible to do something new and crazy (and unrelated) in Google, and not so possible to do so in Facebook.
Yeah, based on what they said they have some much more ambitious plans than just photo swapping. Unfortunately (but unsurprisingly) they were vague about what those plans entail — they made some references to heavy data crunching, but I couldn't really get a straight answer as to exactly what they were crunching or what it would be used for.
Murph Jr. really doesn't make more money, as other costs have skyrocketed since that time.

The early 80's were the tail end of the era where a single income could purchase an average home. So while my income is about 50% higher than my father's at the same point in his career, I'm able to live in a similar type of home and have a similar lifestyle, although I'm in a small city where costs are far lower.

If I lived in the same neighborhood where I grew up in NYC, we would only own a home if we were renting the downstairs.
It probably is viral and paradigm-shifting too, based on the description. It really is the perfect startup - hits every buzzword, founder with a previous exit, all-star team, etc.

Too bad startups aren't checklists to tick off.
I just clicked around the NYT and opened about 20 articles to get the paywall to come up so I could find my own way around it. Couldn't even trigger the paywall.

Does it come up when a 3rd party site links to an article or after a certain amount of usage?

Given how difficult it seems to be to actually GET to the paywall I can't see any point to all of this.
Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Mulls a Return to Twitter
Not to move this more towards Reddit, but it would be nice if there were a separate tab for rating startups. That seems like such an important aspect of HN, I'd like it to be called out more. And upvotes on that get double karma or something.
It's pretty difficult to search for this on the iPhone App. Store, I went through pages and pages on a search for 'color' before going to color.com and clicking the link. Will most people do this though?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the mode and median cost to develop an app is $99 (for the Apple Developer program) since programmers can do it themselves.

The $35K quote came from a guy that advised Fortune X companies (blanking on reference). These were big brands, big companies hiring agencies.
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Nitpicks aside, I think the basic idea is spot on.
I think the question is more: is there room for more than one RedHat?

They're by far the biggest and most notable "Linux company", and all the other companies like them have had a way of either getting bought to become a mere division of a corporate giant (like SuSE to Novell), or else losing money until they become irrelevant. It's important to have at least one or two corporate sponsors of Linux that won't "sell out" or screw the community in favor of their proprietary offerings.

If Canonical can get to where they are comfortably profitable and growing for two or three years, then I think we can say that RedHat's repeatable, but until then we'll only have the one example of a sustainable and successful independent Linux company.
Important things to consider:

Vesting Schedule. Do you plan to be there long enough to get the whole allotment? If not, figure how much you'll really get.

Tax Consequences. There are very real situations in which you can wind up with a tax bill and a bunch of illiquid stock. If you get a significant equity or options grant, run it by a tax accountant so you can avoid gotachas that may be coming in the future. The strike price can be a significant amount of money - make sure there's a way to handle that. This is especially troublesome for contractors (as opposed to employees).

Salary. The more you want, the less you'll get in equity. Note that it is not automatically bad to ask for money. Equity is often worth more to founders than to employees.

Transparency. How open is the company about their cap table, bank account, and income statement?. The less info you have, the less you'll be able evaluate your equity, which makes it less valuable to you.

Investment. Who has invested and what are the goals? Long term cash flow? Flip? IPO? This has a big impact on liquidity, its timing, and the form it might take.

But the real answer to your question is "get as much as you can, and make sure you cross the t's and dot the i's" there is no magic formula.
Skyscanner 24H Hackathon
We're beyond the 'small startup' size now, but I thought this might be of interest to some of the Hacker News crowd.

Skyscanner is having a 24-hour Hackathon at the moment, which started at 12 noon GMT on Wednesday

The plan is to design, develop, launch and promote a free text Twitter search API, so that anyone can send a flight search tweet to @flyscan, and the results will be sent back to you as a reply.

The service is coming together here:

http://twitter.com/flyscan

And there's some more information in the form of a blog and some overview videos below:

http://www.flyscan.org
http://www.youtube.com/user/SkyscannerLtd

Glad to answer architecture/tech/other questions if anyone would like to know more!
You usually can't use C-s because it's bound to stop.

$ stty stop undef
Should work on the articles, do you have any that don't work?
Mac OS X Trojans in the making
What city did you move to specifically? And no, two months is not enough time.
Is anybody else actually able to use the app? I got past the "take a picture of yourself", but now I just see blank white screens everywhere.
I don't care what it does, $41 million at pre-launch for a mobile app is ridiculous.

I sure believe they've hired a staff of 29 very talented people. But even if you give each of them a salary of more than 1 million dollars it would still take a year to burn that money.
Single, dual, multi-blade or electric? Seriously, do you go for the clean contoured shave or multifaceted polygonal surfacing? Is a shave effectively different from peeling?
The article makes it seem as if Color hasn't launched yet but it actually has (presumably today). I downloaded it and am pretty stunned at how confusing of a UI $41 million can buy you.
Speech is not free it cost many people many things, and my friends do not die to protect unquestionably wrong speech. I believe most of the people that think of right and wrong in such a black and white way have never in their lives had to choose right or wrong when it meant something other than hurt feelings.
Sometimes learning to enjoy (or endure) a new place is as simple as finding like-minded people to hang out with. Find some other ex-pats like yourself and meetup every now and then. Just being around people that think like you and have similar experiences will soften the culture shock.

I went through similar thoughts and feelings when I moved to Houston from semi-rural Appalachia. (Except I've had no desire to ever move back, just further away.) Most of the early friends I made here weren't from Houston, or even from the United States. That wasn't by accident.
Gold is susceptible to global adversary (government) attacks. You can't have instant payments over internet with physical gold -- you need some kind of virtual banknotes to change hands instead, and to be redeemable in physical gold sometime later. That would be perfectly fine in a world with small, reasonable governments, but in the real world we live in, it's not. Two problems arise:

1. Sending physical gold for payment clearance, especially though state borders, is problematic (just plain illegal in some countries, may be taxable, etc). Doing it often and in small portions is also economically unfeasible [you need economy of scale to lower security costs, logistics, etc]. The usual market solution for that is creating big clearinghouses, with branches everywhere, etc. But:

2. Running a big clearinghouse for gold makes you effectively a bank. Running an unregistered unregulated bank is a crime in most countries. So you have to register, get all the licenses, keep all government requirements fulfilled, you can be subjected to all kinds of inspections, etc. On top of that, in some countries gold payments violate legal tender laws or something else, and since you are already on gov radar, it's a non-starter. After E-gold crackdown, we know these are not purely theoretical concerns.

Bitcoin is free from these limitations. Instantly redeemable, no vulnerable physical storage, distributed, no need for high profile points of failure, etc. Bitcoin still lacks one of the standard requirements for commodity money, though ("must have some non-monetary use/value"). How critical is it? We'll see :)
Agreed. Some people choose to leave Google to start their own companies. Some people choose to stay in the situation they have at Google. Choice is generally a good thing.
Thanks for your input guys,

@DanielStraight - I guess it just comes natural for me to want a degree - having grown up in a private school until college they drive down your throat - you finish high school, finish Undergrad and work on Masters. And I guess I never realized it until now - but you are right I do have a drive to learn I just don't think of it as learning because it is so fun at times.

@mfrye I am located near Philadelphia, PA. I am going to try to contact the county commerce offices - maybe find some one close by to work with for free.

If anyone in Philadelphia area happens to read this - I know .NET, HTML/css (not the recent 5.0 stuff though), PHP, MySQL, Java, I am currently learning Common Lisp(halfway through Siebel's and Grahams books), and I can read C++ but do not have an active interest in learning to program in C (so far, although I am sure it would be a nice learning experience as it seems like a good number of robust applications are in C).

For now I think I will continue to try to become a Comp Sci major - even if the piece of paper has no meaning. But if an opportunity arises with a job I will definitely jump on it.
Creepiest part- "it uses the camera to check for lighting conditions, and even uses the phone’s microphone to ‘listen’ to the ambient surroundings."

The auto-social network based on proximity is awesome, though. I can't wait for this and the creep factor will be gone in five years anyway since we are all moving to a more open society.
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I agree, it's an interesting problem.

Thinking about it maybe there's a kind of bathtub curve of photos that I'm interested in

- I'm highly interested in photos around me and of close friends

- I don't really care about photos of acquaintances and people I went to school with but haven't seen in years, etc,

-I'm highly interested in photos of people I am close to but that live far away.
I'm a big fan of ack, I love the --output feature, which is super handy. Unfortunately it is hardly ever installed when I need it. It's considerably slower than the highly tuned GNU regex code, which only really matters when you're grepping through a ton of material.
Not to mention the boatload of crapps dragging down the financial success rate.
i might see if I can get colorapp.com for £3.50
The start date for the paywall is March 28th.
It's sort of annoying, actually, that Google is hiring so voraciously in Waterloo. It's making it extremely difficult for us to hire awesome Waterloo grads partly for this reason.

So, while we continue to hire from Waterloo where it works, we're also looking further afield for talent... Iqaluit here we come!
as far as i'm aware, you can't really write your own. I was watching the network traffic for a submit and it was pretty ridiculous how many transactions it did when you clicked "like" (about 4 if i remember correctly). Having the users authenticate the action would actually be good for sites like mine but facebook doesn't seem to provide that option.
With cream cheese frosting in a cake, they are irresistible.