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I've tried a similar strategy (throwing up a quickie site based on a trending hashtag) in the past by making http://threewordstoliveby.info and http://weedcommandments.com
So far it seems that once the hashtag has stopped trending, the sites don't get much traffic. But I suppose it's possible that a hashtag might trend again in the future so I keep them alive.
One idea I had was making some kind of automated program to grab the trending hashtags, see if a matching domain is available , make a site from the twitter stream, then... profit?
They let YC companies advertise hiring like that.
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This is why we should get rid of the copyright system completely and keep it that way or start from scratch and build a new system (I prefer the former...).

Time to move over to some kind of fully encrypted Internet or something :/
I think that's an understatement. Sourceforge is so bad that for years (well before Github) I have dreaded downloading anything from it or needing to use its navigation in any way.

Also, a fair bit of malware has been hosted there over the years and the site offers no useful search or way of finding what you're looking for.

The initial idea was a good one, but the founder cashed out long ago.
Why doesn't apple secure their equipment?

Because the benefit of letting people do whatever they feel like on the display units in the store - while a good number of them are shopping for said equipment - is worth more than the cost of automatically wiping the machines each night.
Ah, ok. Is this an "official" thing that's been communicated by PG, or just something that is understood because it happens alot?
I think the main differentiator for inverted Y is whether you map the motion of the mouse into the vertical plane (i.e. directing your gaze, non-inverted) or treat it as a flightstick for your neck (i.e. directing forward/backward tilt, inverted Y).
I think this is intended as a "tax" on closed source software. While it's annoying, I pay the extra $10 per month to get a few extras and don't worry about it.

The major downside is that the policy leads people to use git incorrectly by not using submodules where they are appropriate.
Hard to know for sure, but the discrepancy between clicks and referrals is probably because not all of the promoted tweets will be shown on HTTP twitter. DuckDuckGo should know better than anyone that HTTPS to HTTP traffic doesn't leak referrer.
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Right, that's why I counted up the requests of the images.
Hey I work for the company responsible for the visualization behind the president and the content on http://askobama.twitter.com

Let me take this very excellent opportunity to say that we are looking to hire a full time "front end" developer. You'll get to work on badass projects like the Obama Town Hall. Ideally, you'd be located in Austin. Find me on Twitter @efalcao to learn more.
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He made it like that a couple months ago, they used to be regular submissions but with optional comments and then he did something to boost their presence. You'd have to search to find any mention of it but it was official.
I wish you'd start one now. There is a huge population of developers out there who are not only oblivious to usability issues, but even get offended at the notion that unique insights are required to make something usable rather than just useful.

On a related note, I'd to point out that your blog is, for lack of a better term, scary. The huge-ass fixed-position header gets in the way, the line spacing is way too tight and the colors are too garish and uncoordinated. My first reaction when I saw the page was "augh!" which then faded as my brain slowly peeled away all the visual clutter and started noticing the content.
I like the name of "defenestration" for this technique. Particularly with the OED reference to back up the technically non-standard but still precedented usage of the term.
Apply the same logic to using computers in an Apple store to launch a DDOS. You hardly have to change your argument, and yet it reveals how absurd it is.
I agree with one point-- working at any start-up, even a no-shot one, makes corporate rules chafe all the more if you ever go back to that world.
Now I'm confused. Won't the images have the referrer of the requesting page, not Twitter.com? http://d.pr/ZFHF

EDIT: HN won't let me reply directly, but realizing I misunderstood. You're counting total image loads, not image loads with the referral. My bad :)
They do have patents, they just don't use them the same way.
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There are specific laws against launching a DDOS. What law are you suggesting he violated?
We havent seen the warrant. We have only been told one charge the "artist" claims. That to me doesn't paint a holistic picture of reality.

The criminal statute on unauthorized access seems pretty clear so perhaps McDonald 'just' violated that as a standalone matter. If so, ok - next (jail).

To answer your question about the difference between this and your scenario is best summed up by the arrival or lack thereof the Secret Service.

Agree, it is very important for folks to better understand how easy it is (for some) to cross the line into legal trouble. The EFF provides a few solid overviews on these issues. Would avoid these waters in general, but I digress...
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There are two distinct groups of clicks being counted. For clicks to the search engine (from the micro-site) I can use referrer stuff.

For clicks to the micro-site itself, I disregarded referrer stuff (for the reason you said and from previous experience I know Twitter clients often omit them), and looked instead at the requests of the images on the page.

So what would click to the page but not request an image? Either they left immediately (though even then I'd expect the first image to be at least requested) or a lot of people have no images enabled (very unlikely for mainstream Twitter users) or it is some form of click fraud (e.g. bots, miscalculation?) or something else?
I think the point is to remove the links from linuxmag to the bad guys.
It would be an interesting case if Google ends up becoming a legally generic term for search engine. Would the company end up changing it's name? Would there be Microsoft Google (formerly Bing) and Google Google?
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You're not a terrible programmer, just an uninformed and/or slightly Anglocentric one.

Just last week, my co-worker had to waste two days debugging a two-year-old Sphinx setup (the person who implemented it no longer works with us) because a Japanese user of our blogging service wasn't seeing the post he was looking for in our search feature. The problem was that the conduit feeding the Sphinx indexer was handling Unicode incorrectly (to be specific, it was deleting certain bytes wholesale because this guy believed them never to be valid, and this broke multi-byte sequences horribly). Those two days would have been much better spent working on his current project.

Additionally, not handling Unicode correctly can leave you open to certain types of security holes!

The biggest of these is probably that Unicode means _a string is not an array of bytes_, so naïve allocators for languages with byte-array strings (read: C and its brethren) are susceptible to buffer overruns when handed multi-byte Unicode sequences when they're expecting ASCII.

Here's another one: the Unicode character space contains many, many glyphs that look almost (or in some cases exactly) like ASCII characters. RFC 3492 defines a framework for internationalized domain names (IDN) that encodes non-ASCII code points using ASCII characters, and the most common implementations of this transparently go between the two. This means that you could register "bаnkofamerica.com" (actually xn--bnkofamerica-x9j.com) and put a phishing site there, and people would happily click on the identical-looking URL and give you their bank account. This was pointed out several years ago and most modern browsers have mechanisms in place to defend against it, but your custom application might not unless you're careful to check what you're doing.

There are plenty of blog posts and articles out there designed to tell you how to be safe when dealing with Unicode (and you should assume that you will be). I highly suggest you go read one.
The one that does it for me is Cmd-1, -2, -3, etc. jumping to the first, second, third, etc. tab within the current window. Terminal.app's behavior is to jump to the window numbered that way -- often across spaces -- which would always drive me crazy.
In Startups Open Sourced, Tom Preston-Warner is interviewed and says to design every detail of every page of a project before touching any code. While graphic design and technical design are very intertwined, I think in Github's case the graphic design came first, or was at least equally weighted. I don't know how SourceForge came to be, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out the backend was designed before the front end design.
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Neither of us are lawyers; we are not qualified to have a discussion of which laws he violated. I am pointing out that - ignoring the legality of what he did (I suspect the response might involve suspicions of keyloggers present in the his code, because I'm a bit paranoid) - your argument makes no sense.
E.g., wget support was broken for a very long time. So, you had to either a. algorithmically compose a URL or b. navigate to the real download link using the browser, collating all of them together and then wget -i blah.

These days, it feels much better though.
This is why I never remain logged in google. I don't use facebook. I imagine things like this might increase with people remaining logged into g+?
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Fair point. But if you were the regional manager at Apple, would you take that chance? More to the point if you were an executive at apple with the your PR team breathing down your neck would you tell them argue your point to the press? Or would you hire a bunch of high priced consultants to preform tests to authenticate and verify the security of the machines and stores in question? Yup, you would pay for the security PR umbrella without question and without hesitation. Again, well over $5k. Also, can you add "indirect costs" into the equation? If so, we have gone from +5k to near $1m in a matter of paragraphs. NEXT....
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btw, your second screenshot shows a fake vertical split, the vertical split is from vim, not from Terminal.app
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What type of compensation is fair for a technical first hire?

What about subsequent technical hires?

Please give a range.
I'm a sophomore in high school and I completely understand your dilema. I would say just _do_ it. Build the app (or other type of project) you've always wanted to, and complete every part of it. You'll need to hire a designer if you want people to use it, but many professional designers are willing to trade services, so you don't need to spend anything there. What you do after you release your product depends on what it is. If it's a web app, then launch it on a good server, but something that doesn't cost too much. I'd recommend an EC2 server which is relatively low cost and gives you a free trial long enough to see what users will think of it before you make too big of an investment. If it looks like it's going to be successful, then you just succeeded in your goal. If not, you only made a small investment and try not to get discouraged; build something else.

Apart from that, I would recommend you join forrst if you haven't already. If you haven't and need an invite, I can giv you one. Forrst really helped my programming skills go from just a hobby to something that people ask to hire me for without me ever having to search for clients.

Forrst also helped me get my name out there. It's made my posts visible to enough developers that I've had my stuff tweeted about by people with over 20,000 followers.

But above all I'd recommend to just learn as much as you can and get as much experience as possible. If you want to make a career out of it (which seems like a good fit for you), there's no such thing as too much knowledge or experience, it's what can separate you from the crowd. If you can finish college with a degree in another science field _and_ 6 or so years of real life programming experience, you'll be leagues ahead of the competition.

Best of luck!
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I always wonder if FogCreek's insistence on remaining a mostly Windows shop is a helper or a hindrance. On one hand it seems to be missing out on the crazy explosion of tooling innovation happening on *nix. On the other, it is one of the few companies bringing stuff like Mercurial to Windows, which, love it or loathe it, still has a stranglehold even in developer communities.
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A terminal multiplexer is a way to create and access multiple ttys from a single terminal (-emulator). Both of the most widely known (GNU Screen and tmux) are terminal-only apps - They require a terminal or terminal emulator to act as their user interface.

Terminal emulators, as the name suggest, emulate terminals. Since most people don't tend to use dedicated VT100s any more, we use emulators like xterm, rxvt, Terminal.app, etc instead.

A mux without an emulator to access it is pretty useless, whereas an emulator with some mux features can provide benefits not easily achievable with a standalone multiplexer.

One example would be mouse-based text selection. Using vertical splits in tmux, and triple-clicking to select a full line will select the contents of both split regions, whereas a GUI app can limit it to one region. I'm sure there are plenty of other features.
This kind of question tends to be a bit taboo.
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One key point that I think this article missed is the activation energy required to create a new project. On SourceForge, at least when I last used it, it was a very involved, explicit process, where you created a new project and went through several screens of populating license, status, etc., and then you finally had a place where you could stick code.

Whereas github lets you get a repo up and running with just about a single click and a 'git push', and then add on features and information as you grow. So it became the place to stick all of your one-off, throwaway, or experimental code, which got developers in the habit of using it, and it also had the room to grow if once of those things grew into a "real" project.
... and it's not an artist who did it.

Define "artist."

Best I can tell it's "someone who who declares 'I am an artist!'"

I don't have a problem with that, but I am skeptical of people trying to excuse arbitrary behavior by hiding behind "But it's art."
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Hah, quite the optimist. In most commonly used languages deciding the equivalence of two code fragments is undecidable.
This totally depends on the location. Within the US it seems somewhat tied to cost of living, but across the pond in Europe they pay significantly less even when rents are much higher (I'm looking at you London).

Anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 for someone fresh out of school might be normal. For 10 years experience the range could be $50,000 to $250,000.
Although tools like monitter make it easy to sort out streams of tweets - I think your microsite has far better presentation and has the additional movie graphics, etc. I think it adds value to the 'replaceafamousquotewithduck' conversation going on.

After looking at your case study, I took a look at the term stream and I can't see any mention of you in the stream at all.

I realize you were afraid of getting your account banned but I think the way to go is to make a new twitter id, name it DuckQuotes or FamousDuckQuotes or who knows. Then just tweet out messages like you have on the domain right now - every x amount of new quotes tweet a "1011 tweets; this latest one by @MeekaMeyer"

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There may be FUD here, but I don't know if you understood Stonebraker's argument.

The whole point of VoltDB is that it is (supposed to be) dramatically faster than in-memory MySQL. That's not too hard to imagine, considering that MySQL uses one machine and VoltDB uses a cluster.

In fact, the whole point of NewSQL in general is that it is possible to implement SQL and ACID on a cluster and be dramatically faster than MySQL. While NoSQL is high-performance non-ACID non-SQL on a cluster, NewSQL is high-performance ACID SQL on a cluster; they're not the same thing.
The FreeBSD project in the meanwhile gets a little pressure off of their Xen paravirtualization efforts

That's not how it works. It's quite the opposite, actually -- the more people are using a system, the more money is available to fund further work on it.

Eventually Amazon changes something, since this is exploiting a not-officially-supported "feature", and the whole mess stops working.

Amazon is the most incredibly paranoid about not breaking existing systems of any company I've ever seen. (I sometimes wish they were less so, actually -- I've had to work around "this was fixed in Xen years ago but EC2 is running an old version for compatibility reasons" bugs.)

I don't think FreeBSD is big enough to get any sort of special treatment from Amazon, but I'm pretty sure Amazon wouldn't want to set a precedent for "Amazon broke my website".
Let's keep in mind that they could already do this, relatively trivially, with far less technology, except you'd hand them your credit card first, instead of last.
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I really wish all software engineers could have an experience like that because it almost always makes them more empathetic which allows them to make better software.

My experience first came when I was helping my dad get a webcam working and I've gone looking for them since, and I'm sure that has gone a long way toward making me a better engineer and a better product manager.
I think it is hilarious that no one has mentioned how Internet Explorer continues to ruin the web.

It has wasted incalculable hours of time for developers because it is pre-installed and never uninstalled on every little minded client and supporting IT team. I don't know how many times a great web product I have been involved with has been presented to executives who are still using IE7. REALLY IE (in general)!? How can a person make any sort of creative decision when they themselves have the worst internet experience of all?

Ridding the web of that awful browser and allowing technology grow and foster more inspiration is what we need. Without needing to support that god-awful wreck of a browser would allow developers and creatives a better space to work within to bring the web out of this lame web 2.0 era that will lurk around us for even more years.

BAH
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The Google OAuth attack is pretty sneaky indeed. I noticed the popup being created, positioned, and hidden upon the first click but I highly doubt most regular users would. I wish there was an option in Chrome to force new tabs to be opened instead of new windows and to completely disable popups for all sites, always. I can't think of any reason why a site needs popup anymore, especially since IFrames, OAuth, LightBox, JSONP etc. can handle pretty much all the rich-media use cases.
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That's pretty helpful. Didn't know it already existed!
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Ideally the deanonymization attacks would not mean much if it was just that, but that is another mess altogether. Of course, the Google OAuth attack is much more serious.
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> A terminal multiplexer is a way to create and access multiple ttys from a single terminal (-emulator).

Thanks. I know that and use screen, and the post we are discussing mentions tmux, so he knows it as well.

> whereas an emulator with some mux features can provide benefits not easily achievable with a standalone multiplexer.

The op was being snarky but that was the whole point. iterm2 doesn't seem to be giving something which we(in a generic sense; I use linux and have nothing to do with iterm) want and aren't already doing in the current emulator/multiplexer setup.

> One example would be mouse-based text selection. Using vertical splits in tmux, and triple-clicking to select a full line will select the contents of both split regions, whereas a GUI app can limit it to one region. I'm sure there are plenty of other features.

I don't use tmux but that's the behavior in gnu screen vertical split as well.
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1) I don't think you can change the colour, but you can adjust the dimming level with:

defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 SplitPaneDimmingAmount -float 0.25 # [range from 0-1.0, lower is darker]

Maybe add a feature request for a 'inactive panes colour' widget to be added to the Profile colours tab.

NB: Changing the dim amount seems to require a restart of iTerm to take effect.

2) Set a global keybinding (Prefs->Keys-> + button) to 'Select Menu Item...' from the very bottom of the list, and specify 'Next Pane' (no quotes) in the text field.
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Ask HN: Have the non-tech self-employed been abandoned?
My mother in law is self-employed as a Tai Chi instructor. She doesn't have the time or the knowledge it takes to promote herself online. She is losing business because of her aging website, lack of SEO and limited knowledge of online advertising.

I suspect that her situation is shared by many thousands of others.

Does HN know where someone like her could find a trustworthy party who can evaluate her requirements and build the simple online presence she needs, at a cost that is appropriate for a very small business?

If nobody is doing this right now, what is the cause? Although the market is large, I suspect that those knowledgeable in online marketing and SEO can make far more working outside of the price range of people like my mother in law. On the other hand, the things she needs are elementary enough that they would be very little work for someone with the knowledge.

It seems like there should be an alternative for small business owners that beats hiring their neighbour's 14 year old son.