skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly they will still have some way of indicating the domain, at least with SSL. It might actually make users more aware of the domain since it won't be sandwhiched between URL gibberish.
I made a plugin for wordpress based on the twitter API. Sure, there was a time when an abrupt change in 2010 broke my code. I got introduced to JSON when I fixed it, so I guess I'm OK with the experience now that it is behind me. This DM change doesn't affect me.
I only see people downvoting a flawed analogy.
No mention of spaceships? Forget funding a bunch of small internet startups. Build a moon base!

Japan's got plans to do it for half of that $4 billion: http://www.google.ca/search?q=robotic+moon+base+japan
I'm sure they've realized the real benefit here is that people will search Google, rather than typing in a domain, which leads to incremental traffic/searches/ad impressions.
I can see why you might say Yankees don't count, but I think sports teams do count as brands.

There are others--Leica cameras, Rolex, Starbucks, Linux, Vans, Star Trek/Wars.

I don't think it's something you set out to attain, look at the airline Song for an example of how this backfires. I think being a cult brand is a status you attain after reaping several generations of loyal customers.
Cool, I'll toot my own horn a bit here and say that when I was at Network Appliance we designed a deduplication device which did block level de-duplication (patent '603 :-)) and one of the keys of that system was splitting the meta data and the content data for just that reason. (de-duplicating meta data made the file system more fragile)

There was a conference where a Western Digital (drive maker) demonstrated Linux running on the procesor on the drive controller of one of their drives. NetApp (and Google) used to bemoan the fact that there was 2 million lines of source code between the SATA connector and the spinning rust that held the data written by people who worked for a hardware company. You really don't know what is going on behind your back in your disk 'drive'.

From a historical perspective the old DSSI drives that DEC used to sell had a mode where you could 'log in' to the disk and get a shell prompt, then run various drive diagnostic commands right from the drive. That was why they called them "Intelligent Storage Elements" instead of disk drives.

To Dave's point (author of the article), the only reliable flash based archive device would be one which uses a data integrity algorithm across multiple devices apparently. Probably a product idea in there somewhere.
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I can clearly see the difference on my 1080p 23" monitor, 1680x1050 21" and my MBP screen. Not anything real special.
Judging from a lot of the responses on this thread, it seems like there's a sort of unwritten assumption that people who act like jerks are technically proficient, while people who are easy to get along with are only "acting nice" to make up for their lack-luster technical skills.
I've read books on this because I have had to deal with more than one of these people. One of the leading experts on Narcissism says that most therapists won't even deal with these people they are so difficult to treat.
You've created a situation where nobody can refute your premise that "most people are basically all right" without outing himself as part of the cause according to the conclusion derived from that premise. Impressive :P
Yes, I did mean as more than a way of making money. You've stated that you did in fact start Viaweb to get rich. I know a few other founders that also started companies as an attempt to get rich (I am among them) and continue to chase more. But if I were to ask those same people, whether their companies earned them wealth or not if starting their company was one of the best things they ever did I doubt that the money (or lack thereof) would be much of a factor. Realizing other ambitions (b) is a much, much greater factor.

I'm curious now though. The YC application tries to screen for (a) but doesn't test for (b). Or at least, I didn't recognize that to be the case. Why is that? Is it not just as important? I would think so as I think it's realizing those ambitions that seem to keep people going and provide them with the relentless focus on winning. Or am I wrong and you've designed the application to screen for that as well?

Why a founder will continue to push seems as important as the ability to continue to push.
Comments > the article:

So to avoid these ends, let's avoid these beginnings: avoid multi-threading. Use single-threaded programs, which are easier to design, write, and debug than their shared-memory counterparts. Instead, use multiple processes to extract concurrency from the hardware. Choose a communication medium that works just as well on a single machine as it does between machines, and make sure the individual processes comprising the system are blind to the difference. This way, deployment becomes flexible and scaling becomes simpler. Because communication between processes by necessity has to be explicitly designed and specified, modularity almost happens by itself.
I wonder if this explains why lots of websites using fancy new web fonts look absolutely hideous in my Chrome (I have a lot of the experimental acceleration options turned on). I accept responsibility for it, but the results can be shockingly off putting.

Sadly I can't think of an example to post a screenshot of. I'll be on the lookout.
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I agree, a better way to describe it is loyalty beyond reason.
Happy birthday and thanks for the gift!

Edit: I tried to buy it, but Scribd won't allow me to do it because I'm not from US (and neither is my credit card). Is there any other alternative?
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I've worked with lots of these over the years. The really successful young ones were called enfant terribles. Sounds much nicer, non? My tolerance was in proportion to my paycheck, and I never saw management crack down unless they were heading off a discrimination case.

Nowadays I work on a small startup. Hard computer problems are easier than simple people problems!
Any chance you can put this on the Kindle store? Not sure how easy it is, but I'm sure myself and many others would like to buy a Kindle copy :)
How exactly does that count as the disk lying?

ZFS assumes that different block addresses with the same data point to different pieces of backing storage and therefore have certain behavior in case of errors, but does the spec actually state that this is a valid assumption? Or is this just a case of ZFS relying on particular behavior from things that are implementation-defined or undefined?
Not at all. You are very clever in you attempt to deflect your false choice situation by accusing me of it.

In fact, I am suggesting that your notion of 0-tolerance for assholism is an extreme, no better than complete endorsement and rewards for assholism. If you are not suggesting 0-tolerance for assholism, then I appologize, it just seems that way since you respond to call for moderation and some tolerance with a rejection of that principle.
For a long while I ran a tricky firewall chain that would allow you to connect to port 22 only 3 times before it would lock out your IP for 30 minutes. My ssh port was at something like 2022 so I (almost) never got caught in this, but an unsuspecting scan bot would get stuck on it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)#The_origina...).
I have a netbook, and I can tell you that probably the main reason I struggled through beta since Chrome launched, was because of how much space it was saving on the 1024x600 screen compared to the others. It saved like 25-30% space. I'm all for saving even more space as long as you can quickly use the bar in some other way when you need it.
are you on windows? I find this happens on windows more so than mac. I believe its a combination of bad hinting combined with Microsoft's very crisp font smoothing. Windows can really mess with the kerning as well...
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53.2 EBITA so at $100 its like 175x. Sweet action!
I agree, however the post I responded to was in fact rejecting a call for some moderation and tolerance. Rejecting those is a stance of extremism, and the extreme case of "no assholes" is "fake-nice/smarmy".
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Hey good call on the padlock issue I hadn't even thought of that. However, I don't it should be visible only when switching tabs. I think instead it should be added to the tab itself that way it's always visible. However, that means presenting some kind of divider or something on the tab itself so that some one can't fake it with a favicon. Perhaps by coloring the tab and adding the padlock at the right most of the tab. This way it will be less likely to confuse it with the favicon.
The biggest problem would be

a massive source of helium.
Every browser has had this feature since the beginning of time. Just press F11.

It automatically pops up if you press Alt+D to enter url or move the mouse to the top of the screen.
$1,000/month is great beer money. How much work goes into day to day operations?

One of the things to keep in mind that if something 'only' makes $1,000/month but only takes two or three days out of your time a month its "effectively" paying you $15K - $20K/month because you have those other days to do something else. People who set up linkbait pages (I'm looking at you content farms) which bring in 4x their operating cost just replicate the crap out of them.
I made my own kettle bells and love them

http://diystrengthgear.blogspot.com/2011/02/diy-kettlebell-h...
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I interviewed with a startup in LA and was fortunate enough to be able to explore a little that evening. I came across a musician playing her heart out in a jacket to ward off the cooler evening air. She had been out there for some time, with a folding table with her CDs on it.

She was really good, but didn't play my style of music. I bought one of her CDs anyway, because she had that same drive that I saw in the startup founders I've come to know.

As she put my $8 away, she commented to one of her friends that she now had gas money to get home. It kind of reminded me of the bootstrapped startups I've seen (like the recent Octopart article) who just keep driving forward with nearly no revenue and nothing but their talent and ambition to keep them going.
W hotel beds are sweet. When I found out you can buy them I was really excited, but then decided to pass on a $1000(ish) mattress...its a recession. My girlfriend told me ruelala was selling them yesterday for 7-800. I would seriously consider investigating these beds if you are in the market.
250 million programmers in the world? Isn't that kinda too much?

For those interested, here is one link on the subject:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/19720/where-c...
Things are not that clear.

Do you know what the revenue sources are for a lot of the pirate movie websites?

Google AdSense.

And for software...

From what I've seen, Google often displays crack sites on the first search page for software. 1st place result for author, 2nd,3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th result for crack sites.

In my own testing, I've found that at least 30% of buyers search for crack 1st, and when they can't find it, then they buy.

Google does this for two reasons:

1. There is significant revenue involved here.
2. There is significant relevancy involved here. As people gladly want to use pirated stuff to get out of paying, and want to see these results.

Google is not fighting for you. They are fighting for themselves.
Great and insightful comment! However, I think most "assholes" has an justification of their behavior that they find sufficient.

If the person thinks the greatness and contribution of their work is somehow dependent on the antisocial behavior, then it's hard to convinced them to separate behavior from action.

As a side-note I think this kind of asshole behavior is as prevalent in non-technical types as technical types.
I don't understand why people are impressed by translations like these. They're a far cry from 'acceptable' to me and reading them still feels like removing a nasty splinter with the help of a needle, while running a steeple chase.
no no no, that's to warm up my arm and get my accuracy up. Same as why I mash buttons right before starting to play SC2. It's all science no superstitions.
I don't think you can use arbritrary (made up) information in describing the historical state of an event or situation. It's there in the books; either it happened or it did not. And my point is that both in the past and present, the upper levels of air travel as a whole have never declined to a point commensurate with the highest level of comfort and service achieved by lower class levels in the past forty years, which is my personal experience of flying. On a LCC or a short-hop/shuttle codeshare airline maybe there is little difference in classes, but in the legacy carriers even though the standards have adjusted downwards as society has changed it norms along with demand for said standards, there is a clear distinction between flying coach, business and first, from check-in to on-boarding, in the air and deplaning, the overall experience, across the industry, is different and it is still designed that way right from inception. And maybe that's one of the reasons that they've failed to make any real progress aside from surviving, since deregulation.

As a somewhat tall person, I feel your pain.
A musician friend and I recently discussed the similarities in naming a startup and naming a band.
Yeah, good call. They could do something similar to when you hit F11--have a floating transparent box with the information at the top of the screen. It could even (mostly) hide itself after a while and become visible again to warn you when leaving the secure area.
Congratulations to the team. It is always worth celebrating when perseverance triumphs.

I was somewhat critical of Octopart when TechCrunch first wrote about the company years ago. My opinion was that there were already a number of similar sites that boasted the same features but (at the time) had MORE distributor listings. This continues to be the case.

In my opinion, if Octopart is interested in massively increasing usage then they should find a way to market to the enterprise side of things and not just hobbyists. Most all of the buyers I speak to on a daily basis (and the buyers employeed at our semiconductor distribution company) use OEMSTrade or Find Chips dozens (if not hundreds) of times every day. Furthermore, there are still a number of distributors that are not published by these two sites (Samtec, for example) that are increasing their footprint in the CM community. One place for differentiation - and a chance to "win" the sector - can come from adding some of these lesser known yet very important distributors to the network.

Regardless, congratulations on the hard-earned success. Best of luck in the future.
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>But you're still missing my point. It's not an airplane :)

I understand what you're saying, and you're wrong. You're wrong because as far as the FAA is concerned, it is an aircraft, and if you want to fly in their airspace, you're going to have to follow the same exact rules as any other aircraft of the same category. They're not going to let you skimp on their safety and maintenance requirements just because you happen to drive it on the road part of the time.

>In other words, I would expect the work and associated costs (including a fully certified A&P) to be quite different on a hot air balloon, let's say with an added engine driven propeller, than on an airplane. The complexity difference is relevant because there is less to go wrong for safety and repair.

A hot air ballon does have very different maintenance requirements, mainly because it doesn't have an engine (the "P" in "A&P" is for Powerplants). As I keep saying, the main driver of added costs isn't so much things in need of repair, it's periodic maintenance. The FAA has rules that say, "After every n hours of engine time, you have to take your aicraft to an A&P for [inspection or overhaul]." (There are other types of intervals as well, in terms of airframe time or calendar time.) They don't care if those hours were spent flying or driving, either way you have to go pay an A&P to do that stuff. Those costs simply do not exist for cars, where maybe you have to stop in for an annual smog check. The simplicity might save you a few hours of labor costs with the A&P, but your cost structure is still going to be much closer to "airplane" than to "car."

But even when something does need fixing, you're still going to pay a lot more than you would to get a car fixed. The FAA won't let you go to a car mechanic to get the "car parts" fixed, they will insist on having all maintenance performed by an A&P. They are correct to insist on this, because any time you are flying it isn't 50% car or 40% car or 70% car, it's 100% aircraft.

>Maybe Maverick LSA hasn't thought your points through, and their project path is flawed. My belief is that it would be workable as a car.

I think their target customer is a very small niche: people of means trying to get around a country with lousy infrastructure. Odds are pretty good that a country that lacks quality roads also lacks a serious aviation administration, so all the stuff I've said about satisfying FAA safety requirements probably wouldn't apply. That still leaves the very real safety issues of flying around in something that wasn't maintained by someone qualified to work on aircraft, in a place where the nearest repair and medical facilities are potentially days away. A lot of this will probably be resolved by the fact that the kind of person who is going to motor off into the wilderness of a third-world country is probably the kind of self-sufficient person who gets qualified as an A&P before venturing off into the middle of nowhere.
No, I'm in Ubuntu. In Windows I leave the about:flags alone since I use it so rarely.
Again, "one way or the other".
If a writer doesn't have an agent who provides these services well, writers will have to spend their own time and energy on those endeavors, even if only to cultivate and manage direct relationships to other (editing/marketing) professionals. Many writers don't care to do any of that and can be well-served by hiring on someone else to do it.

Surely, some, or even many, agents aren't doing particularly great. But that's no different than any other provider of a service. Most may suck, but that doesn't mean the whole category is of questionable benefit.

It's actually a huge positive sign that they're at least recognizing the deficiency and trying to reposition themselves. It means they'll be eager to become even better at the things that writers most-need in the new landscape.
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People end up writing their own [1]. They rarely open source their custom monitoring infrastructure. Sometimes a private monitoring system gets open sourced, but then you see it has complex dependencies. The complexity of monitoring blocks wide-scale deployment. People stick with 15 year old, simple, dumb, solutions.

I'm working on making a new distributed monitoring/alerting/trending/stats framework/service, but it's slow going. One weekend per month of free time doesn't exactly yield the mindset to get into hardcore systems hacking flows [2].

[1]: http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/rainbird-realtime-analyt...

[2]: Will develop next-gen monitoring for food.
Well-said. The NYTimes piece is the way some folks want people to see the world. The Gawker piece shows how it really is. At least two of the FB talent acquisitions happened because of one rich, well-connected guy. If you take those out of the picture, it looks a lot less like a trend story....so they didn't include that information.
I think you're confusing "complicated" with "complex". The former is to be avoided, while the latter is sometimes unavoidable, and in some cases (as here) desired.

This also is a basic tenet of software design as well. I don't mind complexity, if it's necessary and clearly documented. Complicated code on the other hand is the hallmark of a broken development process or a lack of developer skills.
From the article, "The vast majority of people I’ve met through my work in open source communities are friendly, warm, and funny...Once in a while, though, I’ve run into assholes."

While what you say may be true, in this case, it does not sound like he's convinced he's surrounded by assholes. Rather that during the few times he's encountered them, he simply decided not to put up with their behavior.
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the only thing that is interesting about Skype is that it is cross platform. Having single platform alternatives just does not work.
Any idea where the browser vendor's people came down on this one?
I was going to write up a full article, but I'll just post this here instead.

I was thinking shame might work a little bit. Most people, even lawyers and patent trolls, think of themselves as being good people. Calling them out directly can have quite an affect.

MacroSolve is one of the companies suing iOS developers over forms (http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/05/macrosolve-joins-...).

Dr. Dale Schoenefeld, a CS professor and bureaucrat at University of Tulsa (http://www.utulsa.edu/offices-and-services/information-techn...), is on the board. He probably doesn't care that I think he's a scumbag, but I imagine he might care how he is perceived by students and his colleagues.
Sure, but calling someone who hasn't read the manual a moron takes more effort that shutting the fuck up. So either help the poor illiterate person or shut the fuck up. It's not like this person knows that there were 58 persons before with the very same question and then the next one will come and won't know that you just called this one a moron and ask the same question again, so you're not solving anything. Quick copy-paste of a link with the answer is a much better and easier solution, don't you think?

I used to lead a community and those were my rules - help or keep silent; tolerate others. That's not so difficult, is it?
Wait!

But my point is that Oauth doesn't work for security against malicious apps any--fricken--where. Not on the desktop, not on the web, NOWHERE.

The model of one web page opening another web page "for your convenience" is the model of bank phishing spam attacks. You don't control the browser if another page has opened the browser for you. And unless my research terribly misguided, Oauth absolutely requires the initial app's web page to be the actor which opens the authorization page (Oauth 1.1 requires the whole 'handshake' process to happen fairly quickly for God-knows-what-pseudo-security-reason). What's the user's reaction to entering credentials to twitterauthorizationtimstamp.com? "Sure, that makes sense..."

Oauth is like "electronic checks" signed with Photoshop - its a fig leaf of security. It's not entirely bad but it certainly doesn't deliver what it sort-of seems to be trying to deliver.
Flynn recently found the opposite effect among British teens:

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