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A related discussion on HN from yesterday (about a Forbes article that linked to this blog post): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2494461
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480946
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2485159

Very funny, but posted multiple times. Those are just the ones that reached the front page.
Operationalizing "startups rarely die in mid keystroke so keep typing"
They do, but the chit-chat until now has been about low-level hooks exploited for direct investigation, but from the article it appears to use stuff like browser extensions that cause the computer to report. We and the article are all assuming what might be going on, but from the sounds of it even the procedure here doesn't appear to be foolproof, say if a person has their software all up to date or uses lynx or something. One thing that seems for sure is that sniffing at the switch hasn't been enough for them, perhaps because of existing warrant limitations. It also appears that law enforcement is going to continue pushing for more and more abilities under the law than what they ever have at present.
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Feeling very sorry for Arlo and AJ. All the best to them in their next venture.
The actual PNAS article[1]. Worth a read.

[1] http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/Role%20of%20test%2...
I know which website I'll never be visiting, I just don't "like" the people behind it anymore.

Google? I mean they didn't buy like.com without knowing about this lawsuit.
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The time for Delicious may be over, but there seems to still be tons of demand. The mismanagement of Delicious created a perfect opportunity for http://pinboard.in/ to step in. I pay for the full archival membership and I highly recommend it.
Na... I love Google.... :)
um..... get married and have a family?
I don't think the author wrote the piece to fill article space because she is sitting across the dinner table from me and we've been discussing it all evening :)

The issue - which has already been reiterated above - is that the Ts & Cs that the existing service operates under are changing to a far more restricted set.

Your argument kinda meanders around being a privacy nut and sticking it the the man, then you say you are not justifying a stupid agreement then you say all agreements at all sites are stupid anyway. I've no idea what your point is, frankly.

But you do say that the new terms are totally like all other social network sites. Well the old/existing delicious is a social network (as you state) and the new terms are very much not like the old terms. Clearly not all social network terms are equal.

Besides, if one cared much about that sort of thing, chances are that they wouldn't stop using Delicious now, because they would have already stopped using Delicious when Yahoo! bought them, for similar concerns over privacy and agreements.

Except that the Ts and Cs didn't change much when Y! acquired them which is why there was no need to opt-in like there is now.
Summary: We're putting up a $1000 bounty to force ourselves to average one User-Visible Improvement (UVI) to our startup per day.

This is related to the recent hacker news discussion about "achieving goals like a mad klingon": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2497001
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I agree that giving the people who create things the tools to create and control their own destiny is a game changer. It makes me nervous when only science and math are mentioned in this context, however, as art, entrepreneurship and even computer science encompass much more than those two subjects.
That's about as sensible as saying that languages that compile to machine code are impractical because you can't read machine code on all the platforms where you're going to deploy. Which is every language, ultimately.

And you're also discounting the possibility that somebody might know multiple languages well enough to support the generated code (as is usually the case for CoffeeScripters) but are more productive one language for certain tasks.
Oh great. The last thing this country needs is all our geeks dying of drug overdose in hotel bathtubs.

How about we reward hard work and technical ability in healthy moderation? Take it to a broad base of students and make it a systemic part of our culture.

How about we publicly rebuke the Disney Channel's constant ridiculing of smart kids?

We already reward the top 1% well enough. In this project "high schoolers across the country are invited to enter" and three teams get $5K. Hopefully all are enriched for the effort.

I know this is a site devoted to startups and VC funding. But the neither the dotcom jackpot or the rockstar mentality is going to rebuild the technical talent of a country.
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Ask HN: How do I negotiate my job (salary/conditions)?
I have been working in this startup for last 3 years, and overall my salary increased around 60% since the beginning, but I live in an expensive country, and this increase does not even cover the cost of living increase over the years.

My salary is about 30% less than the market value, for my skill-set and experience level (I'd got an offer which was 30% more than my current salary, 8 months back. (40% more than my salary then)). I am doing some contracting on the side, which pays decent (about thrice as much per hour of work).

How do I go about asking for more money or allowing remote work (so that I can move to my hometown, which is much cheaper), with fallback as consulting, to my boss?

Edit - I always got very positive reviews from my boss.We are a small shop, so till now all positions were at the same level, but with a recent restructuring, I will be offered best designation amongst all developers. (Unfortunately, its just change in designation, without any monetary appraisal associated with it.)
I was actually planning to build something like this for a different purpose. I am a freelancer and wanted to use it to tell other people "when I am online". The app would basically do the same, but convert the timezones properly to the users timezone. So, if anyone asks me when I am online I could just give them a link and they would be able to see the times localized to their timezones.
I think he's making a valid point. Strandbeests are parasites which reproduce through their host organisms (human society). Its "genetic code" (the design) is not located within its phyisical structure, but it does exist, and its duplication method is carried out by another entity (people with computers); akin to a virus. "Toy" dogs are similar; I doubt any could survive or find mates on their own; they are alive because they have found a way to use humans to enable their existence (that is, by being cute). Far from "an artsy guy gushing", he draws a compelling analogy.
>Headphones: Sony MDR7506. The end.

Definitely. I've recommended them on HN before. They're the best 'pro' headphones at a very fair price that the companies making overpriced 'amateur professional' products don't want you to know about, including Sony themselves.
This is why I never sign those stupid HR forms.

When I was asked these sorts of things I asked two questions:

1. Am I required to sign this in order to maintain my employment?

2. Can you put it in writing that I am required to sign this to maintain my employment?

It never gets past question 2.
Actually, by default numeric values are doubles, which can easily handle a 32-bit int without losing precision. And as I posted above, the Lua bitop library (which is standard in LuaJIT and Lua 5.2) gives you bitwise operations.
That's exactly what we do.
Building a timezone friendly version is something I hadn't considered, but I like this idea. Embracing internationalization is most often beneficial. This functionality is something that I could see implementing.
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I just reread Disconnectinb Distraction and saw this:

Note: The strategy described at the end of this essay didn’t work. It would work for a while, and then I’d gradually find myself using the Internet on my work computer. I’m trying other strategies now, but I think this time I’ll wait till I’m sure they work before writing about them.

1) Thank you for the openness and honesty. It's somehow comforting to know the greats suffer from distraction, too.

2) What are your current thoughts about and strategy against distraction?
Good psychotherapy can heal him. I suggest "Changing Personal History" or more powerful (but harder to learn) "Core Transformation" from NLP.

P.S. There is a huge amount of inefficient and even dangerous psychotherapy schools, and there is quite a lot of inefficient stuff in "NLP", that's why I recommend exactly the above techniques.
On an unrelated note, that comment section (The Narrow, Red Section At The Bottom Where Every Word Is A Proper Noun) is the most annoying I've ever tried to read.
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It's been (just over) one year and I haven't heard anything about Diaspora in...well, a while. Jan 31 was the last blog post on their site -- has anyone heard aything outta them from some other news source?

Their Github is certainly active still...but it only looks like only two of the "original authors" have committed to it recently.
"Female erotica demonstrates how the detective agency operates—and how it differs from the much simpler male brain."

Irritating.
Some tags/different colours would be cool. Also there's a bit of a mouse bug if you click on one column, drag, then reclick on another in the same sort of motion (you get two columns/days drawing at the same time).

Would be useful to have some borders or something too (I had no idea where to click or what I was dragging first go).

Nevertheless, conceptually it's sound.
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Marco Arment had an excellent take on this in this episode of his Build & Analyze podcast: http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/22

The gist of it is that, like with RSS functionality in Safari, Apple moving in tends to raise awareness of the functionality but not go so far as to satisfy a lot of users. So Marci ultimately sees it as a benefit: more people knowing that they could use a reading list means more Instapaper customers.
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Not only is XML shoe horned for purposes where it doesn't belong to, but also people who know only XML tend to use it so badly that it brings bad name to technologies associated with it.

I work for a project that has involvement in a lot of technologies like Java, Perl, C and C++. Now the problem is somehow there is assumption that its difficult and costly to hire good C/C++ programmers. So what is the path taken? They tend to replace everything with Java. Now comes the actual issue, its easy to hire programmers who know Java. They come in volumes. Just post a hiring Ad, and thousands will land up at your doorstep next day. The actual issue is how do you separate the good ones from the bad ones?

Once you hire such programmers, you have to deal with technology addiction. Things like eclipse, XML etc the whole project begins to revolve around such things. In my project nearly everything is XML, config files, DB, persistence you name it. If its on a file its XML. This JSON in XML which is surprising most of you folks already exists in a lot enterprise code bases. Project managers seem to have a narrow vision, debates on issues like these terminate with 'It works, so we just don't care'.

I'm not against IDE's. But when your programmers can't do a simple deployment on test boxes, can't figure out even simple commands. All under the excuse of 'I only use eclipse', It begins to show up on the language community. Java in it self is not bad. But by reducing the barrier to entry to such low levels you are opening door for all sorts of toxins to come in.

I see Python is the next Java in making. Masses are flocking to it. As it usually turns out to be, most of them horrible. They just contagiously corrupt the whole community, spread the disease and once they are done destroying it they move onto some thing new.

After all you need to do something for a Job.
If you've got another offer, that is your trump card. Tell your boss you're leaving... you seem to have a lot of options, so why not leave or atleast pretend to? If your boss thinks you'll actually leave and you are valuable to the company, they'll do whatever they can to keep you. Hiring people is time consuming and expensive, and when you have a good person you'll do most anything to keep them.

Also - I don't understand what you mean by the cost of living increase over 3 years is more than 60%... did you have to move somewhere?
Such an awesome tool! Great for students and an awesome thing to have when prepping for interviews.
Completely insane!
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Its cool. Can you bring out entire discographies of artists? That would be something I'd totally use!
Nice straw man.

1) Most rock stars don't die from drug overdoses.

2) If you've ever been around elite performers at the top of their game in the music industry, you'd think differently about their work ethic.
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(raises hand) I complained about having to use an iPhone - mostly because of AT&T though. Thankfully, both Verizon moved in and I moved on from that job.
I know parsing XML with regular expressions is a sin, but when you need to get some data out a 20 GB XML immediately in the next 10 minutes. It turns out that its better to check out the layout of the XML, use combinations of grep, sed, awk , perl with pipes just to serve the need for the moment.

This is better than spending next 5 hours writing a Java program to do it. Its not a permanent solution, but either way that Java program and the shell hack are both going to do the very same.

I would rather use the shell and do it, rather than spend the next 5 hours with Java and eclipse.
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"Apparently a corporation can only be represented by an attorney in a litigation and cannot be represented by the founders or officers, even if the company cannot afford counsel."

Does this seem really out of line to anyone else?
In a way this outage can turn out financially positive for Amazon as more and more customers will start using multiple regions instead of just one region. In addition to multiple instances that customers will need to bring up, they will be paying for the inter-region data transfer costs. This should compensate for the customers they will lose because of this outage and new customers who will choose some other cloud.
> "how heavy does the lock look" to "how expensive does your bike look"

Bingo. For around town, your best bet is a an old, anonymous looking city bike. Faded paint and maybe even a bit if rust can be plusses. No gearing is a plus too (I don't mean fixed gear bikes though). Many of the fancy locks listed in the guy's comment above cost more than my town bike itself.
Maybe the Instapaper guy will break down and support Droid now. At least something multi-platform will have an edge up on Apple.
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So none of these locks stand a chance if it's a pro-thief, you are only stopping the amateurs.

So then you pay the deductable on your renters/homeowners insurance and get a new bike. Hardly a crisis in the one in a million chance that a professional bike thief wants your bike.
> I'm not sure that VCs even know how to do due diligence on such a thing.

There is a nice consulting gig for someone.
There is interesting side to this example of yours. Terseness and its power have never been appreciated by the masses. The average programmer needs a tool, that can match his level of competence. This isn't just true in Data formats but also true when it comes to technologies.

Java and Python, are loved by the masses today for that very reason. So as long as eclipse and its Ctrl-Space takes care of 'filling up the blanks' most programmers will use it. Beyond that everything is irrelevant at least for the masses.

Now one fine day a cool Perl/Lisp/C programmer comes around and shows a you how you could do all that with more compact code along with flexibility and power and people suddenly realize what fun they were missing for years.

Verbose stuff tends to get very famous for a while and then just fades away with time, never to be seen again.
Great book and it's the only one I've bothered to read about negotiating. However, the blog post didn't mention succinctly that a power negotiator makes the other side feel like they have 'won': that's what 'power negotiating' is. Keep that in perspective while studying and practicing the gambits.
Just a thought, but if the silicon is expensive, could you potentially engineer the majority of the computerized parts into a UAV that could detach at the last moment and fly back?
I am quite sure that client focused more on "3-tier" database, they never mentioned "tier 3". I designed database for the project, normalized as far as i could (80+ tables, still needs further table breakdown) but my database design got rejected. Another developer from team is supposed to design the database now. The reason my database got rejected - it was not a "3-tier" database.

Yes, I asked what they meant by "3-tier" database but i got replied with the wiki page on multitier architecture[1]. Which is what i am familiar with.

I am really confused with this term, never heard of "3-tier database". Requirements you mentioned match to what the client is expecting (probably 99.9% uptime, up to 1sec latency, things like that). I can't get the work back now but for the sake of clearing confusion I have, I would like to know about "tier 3 database". Could you please share some ideas on what makes a database "tier-3"?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitier_architecture
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For the love of god stop obsessing over Marco Arment and get Read It Later already:
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Instapaper can't hold a candle to it.
While I've 5-6 cs classes, I'm not currently a hardcore coder so I can empathize with you.

I think it depends on your time frame.

Short (1 month): use linkedin to find friends or friends of friends to network with. Emotional connections help because money alone isn't going to keep someone when things get rough.

Medium (2 months): you could try outsourcing and hiring a developer on Odesk/eLance etc. Map out your product milestones, and hire 3 developers to do the same thing to get to the first milestone. One will turn out great, one ok, and one will fail.

Long (3-6 months): attend a programming meetup in your city. Be warned though that these folks hate ppl that parachute in just looking to hire code monkeys who will work for bananas. They are there to code and learn from each other. You could try setting up an environment and coding, and slowly develop a relationship with someone by attending 3+ meetups.
Depends on what you mean by "general", I suppose, but if 'object' is a local variable in a Java-ish language, then there is a fairly straightforward data flow analysis that can do a good conservative estimate.
At first glance, it does seem unfair.

However, I'm assuming that this law was put into place because

(a) Most non-lawyers can't do a good legal job and don't know the law (or loopholes). So they are likely to do themselves harm.

(b) I think that verdicts can be reversed if it is proven that counsel was unqualified. This means that the case will need to be retried with a more qualified lawyer.

That said, I think that judges can make exceptions in some cases and let a non-lawyer represent themselves.I'm assuming that this may be true for a founder representing his/her company as well.
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The fact that those are your two options is just a testament to how absurdly unsuitable XML is for this purpose.

Your "combinations of grep, sed, awk, perl" will corrupt your data if your file happens to contain any CDATA, entities, unexpected formatting, processing instructions, etc.

Don't get me wrong, sometimes a quick hack is worth the risk. But it's certainly no reason to defend XML, which is what put you in the position where a quick hack was your best option.
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Given that you're in a country with high inflation, your best bet is to move to fulltime freelancing, assuming that you can get gigs consistenly. Otherwise, if you stay in your job, even if you get a raise now then you'll still need another in 6 months.
Was there a reason that these guys hadn't gone through the process to file for a patent themselves, even as a defensive mechanism? I suppose their suggestion that there was a lot of prior art would have made that a non-starter for them as well.

Anyone that suggests that software patents are good for innovation is clearly naive.
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I honestly think its a bit of a stretch to think that Bezos was talking about the HR department when he said that. Do you think he was talking about the people that vacuum the floors and sell sandwiches in the cafeteria too?
C++ started out as a precompiled language, and I love CoffeeScript, which compiles to JavaScript. Java and C# don't compile all the way down to assembly either. There are plenty of reasons to compile one language to another.
As HN's resident (and sole?) idealist, this line really disappointed me:

> “We love these guys, and it sucks to see this happen to them, but we can’t sign up for a lawsuit.”

I understand the logic behind it, but it still seems sort of weak to not stick your neck out when it really matters, and then turn around and write a blog post about how awful it all was after the fact.

In these guys' shoes, honestly, if I had something that was potentially that big, and that well-developed, I wouldn't be able to walk away from it. I'd at least look up the list of Patent Cooperation Treaty countries (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/pctstate.html) and consider moving to a country that wasn't on it (like Chile), and launching from there.