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Strangely reminds me of the prediction Steve Yegge, that web-based environment is rising to status of serious competitor to {X,}Emacs.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-...
Security tips for what? Your premises? Your laptop? Your network? Your home? Your servers? Apache? PHP?
Here's hoping he reaches his total. I just donated a good chunk on behalf of Mogotest. I wish I could pick up the whole thing, but we're still an early-stage bootstrapped company. Regardless, I think it's important to support the ecosystem. This is our second donation to community resources (the other was to http://firebreath.org/). I wish more companies would step up and help out in general.
You're not PPK though, I think.

Also, it's a weekly rate for his consulting business, not personal income.
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I think they could have done much more with wave - I would have got far more benefit from it if they linked it to my gmail in some inventive and unintrusive way ... I'd like to see them rework it because I think it's a really great product ...

I also think they could do something more with search by customizing results based on browsing history ... Maybe this +1 button should be contained within the browser and marketed more as something which stores previous results which can be called up by search (as well as sharing with 'friends') - could be a back door into social searching which they so badly need ... They could take up the mantle of delicious, and make it more social ...
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I miss SearchYC mainly for the contextual filters, which also happens to be the single most powerful feature missing from most search engines.
My guess, and IANAL, is that it would hold in many courts, but not in Californian ones. California seems to have little tolerance for contracts that restrict basic freedoms (e.g., non-compete agreements.) In this case the basic freedom is to be compensated according to the tort perpetrated, and not limited to a specified arbitrary amount.
This is the insurance policy that TDD gives you, this is why you make all of those unit tests, functional tests, etc.

TDD was discussed with Greg Wilson on a recent Stackexchange podcast (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/se-podcast-09/) and the (early) evidence seems to be that TDD does not improve quality:

[...] while Test Driven Development is very popular right now, a survey of all of the studies that have been done on TDD have shown that the better the study done, the weaker the signal as to its benefit.
It doesn't solve anything, but it makes certain formulae and relationships more intuitive. Have you read the Tau Manifesto?
While putting an API key like that inside code is pretty silly, and the ban makes sense, I don't understand why our content had to disappear along with the app. All the photos were in normal facebook photo albums. Bad customer service play.
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The social network for sports lovers. Create your sports profile, celebrate your achievements, join Tribes, take Challenges, get motivated to do more in sports.

======

Hi all,

I presented on dogfooding at Tribesports at last week's London Hacker News meetup (http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/dogfooding). We received some really valuable feedback at the event, so we thought a rate-my-startup post might be of interest here; we'd certainly love to hear your thoughts.

About a year ago, we began building a new tool for sports lovers, a place where people can build up their complete sports profile (like Steve's here: http://tribesports.com/users/steve), join Tribes based on their sports interests and take on Challenges to get motivated to do more in sports.

We launched into open beta earlier this month, after about 3 months in private beta. You can sign up using email, Twitter or Facebook - a process we've tried to make as easy as possible.

A few tech details if anyone's interested: we're running Rails 3 on Ruby 1.9.2, with the following core gems: devise/omniauth for authentication, resque for background jobs, sunspot/solr for search, and capistrano for deployment. For development, we use cucumber for acceptance/integration tests, and rspec for unit tests.

Thanks very much for taking a look - and we're happy to answer any questions you might have, be they tech-related or otherwise...
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Nice article. Also possibly worth mentioning that if you're raising tens of millions and hoping to exit for billions, you'll be giving away almost all your stock.

If your valuation is more modest, you'll keep much more control.
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Off-topic: Blogumbus looks interesting, but when I tried to search for "shopping" I got an error saying search has been temporarily disabled. What happened?
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That site barfs with an 'over application quota', whereas the original link works fine. Strange...
Indeed, you're right. For example, "don't reverse engineer" clause doesn't apply in a bunch of countries.
Directory listing was on. Searching google's cache for http://www.sosasta.com/uploaded/ will confirm as much.
Very nice. Your article made me want to read the entire book.
Firefox is not developed in secret. It is possible to see which breaking changes will probably be included before it is actually released. Mozilla is probably also willing to discuss changes with extension developers.

I fail to see why it is offensive to suggest that extension developers use this time.
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You, like me, probably set the sound theme to 'none' to get rid of all these annoying startup/error/whatever noises.

In that case, you are right: No sound is played when you set the volume. Probably (I couldn't be bothered to test it) you usually hear one of the sound theme entries, at the new volume.
But I'd imagine that as long as it's recording, the phone wouldn't go into lock mode unless you specifically told it to.

That's the thing... you want it to. If you're pulled over by the police you want to 1) start recording, 2) start uploading to a server in some other jurisdiction 3) Lock your phone so that police can't see that it's recording/uploading, 4) the power-off button is disabled.

A police officer noticing your phone during an arrest and clicking on "stop recording" is a totally different situation than him asking you for your password.
I'd hazard a guess at saying this was a 20% project and the individual is the engineer who led (or was sole member of) the project.
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At some point in the last 50 years the US has developed a significant subculture of lawyer-worship. It's not unusual to see commercials hourly on TV asking for people who might have suffered in one way or another to contact a law firm for a lawsuit. Lawyers find "little people" who have been wronged, sue in court, pocket millions, then go on to the next case. Effective lawyers make a killing at this business, and don't be mistaken: it is a business.

The little folks, seeing other people make all the bucks, aren't stupid. They look for ways in which they might have been wronged and contact lawyers. For many, "winning the lottery" and "having a big lawsuit" are the same thing -- a way to easy money. The lawyers are all too willing to play along, setting up mills where good cases are sorted from bad ones. They take part of the profits to advertise for more. It becomes a feedback loop, which is sad, because there are a lot of people who have been really wronged and need legal help.

What we need is tort reform, but every time somebody brings it up they're called either an apologist for big evil corporations or a heartless bastard who could care less for the downtrodden. So the cycle continues.
That's because you don't have a clue about running a business. What you get as an employee is not what it costs to employ you, and that's not what it costs to do it from your own company.

I'd rather have him not give a discount. Why not let people pay for what they use? How did we get to a state where everybody expects everything to be handed to them for free?
More intuitive? If you're phased by the odd 2 or 1/2 here or there in maths, it's probably not the right discipline for you.

Far more important step for mathematicians would be to switch from base 10 to something more useful like base 8.
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Nice, but what's up with the random capitalization of words (example: "Developers ARE happier AND MORE productive WHEN USING the tools they ARE most familiar WITH."). I stopped reading after struggling through the first few items.
If it's not broken, don't fix it. I don't see pi broken as it has been used for _centuries_. Why should we change it all of a sudden? To signify that we're into a new era? The Tau era?
I bet you wouldn't.

You might start off that way, but then you'd think "Hmm, if I do an extra few weeks I can buy a nicer car / a fancy new camera / a better computer / go on an expensive holiday / save up more money in case I get too old or too sick to work", and then after a few iterations of that it would be "Hmm, if I work an extra month every year then I can afford a bigger house" a few times. And, since this is consulting income we're talking about, every now and then it would be "Whoa, it was scary not being able to find any work for six months. Just as well I had a little money saved. I'd better work extra hard for a little while to build up my reserves again".

Of course, you might be different. Some people are. But when you have the option of getting a lot more money for a modest amount of extra work, it's really hard not to do it.
Interesting, I just had a course in which they say there's a difference between risk for software company's and other company's.

If Toyota makes an error with their gas pedal, massive lawsuit. Bug in Windows? Nobody even thinks about suing Microsoft although it brings countless businesses in danger.

Ok there's a difference, but generally, people expect bugs in software and they don't expect them in other goods. It's a huge market failure which doesn't do software security any good.

Now for Dropbox, I hope this turns out well, I like Dropbox:-) but I don't think suing for bugs is a bad evolution.
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(SFW-ish; no images, just links to really sleazy websites)
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Other discussions on Benford's law and related material:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100540

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499405

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=699202

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=731176

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Ironically, it looks like hnsearch isn't taking full advantage of the hnsearch api.

It appears to be just doing a text search for "discovery.com"; if there's a way to search by submission domain on hnsearch, I'm not seeing it at a quick glance.

For example: http://shomi.associatedtechs.com/#submissions+from+news.disc...
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I have been programming professionally for about 5 years now. So I would say every (working) day for the past 5 years.
It’s 6 weeks, not 3 months. Still, addons that are hosted on addons.mozilla.org are now automatically tested. Ones that don’t touch code that changed in that release timeframe have their max version automatically increased.
I was once turned down for a job because I was "Too entrepreneurial", it still makes me laugh thinking about it.
The site is awful, no explanation at all on the frontpage - it just asks you to provide them with something you love without any incentive. Then there's the slider thing on the top left of the search results which adds nothing at all.

"Explore your mom in 3D" was pretty amusing though.
...why did they blow up a planet with Vader on it? That's honestly my biggest question.
Idd, being a startup is no excuse, how hard can it be to make a test case which tests if their authentication works?
Am I the only person who's suspicious of a site that purports to be from Google, yet is not on a Google domain, doesn't work without the "www" and whose credibility comes entirely from the fact that there's a Google logo on it?

EDIT: I'm expecting it to be a real thing, but it's just weird that sources like TechCrunch and Fast Company don't have any statement from the company, just a "tipster," and it's not on a Labs domain like most Google Labs products.
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Too bad it's not really Excel. The Adobe Air thing is not working behind my corp proxy..
From the article: "However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids."

I think they considered all these parts when calculating weight savings.
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Indeed. Perhaps the better title would be "what do you care about?", "what are you passionate about?" or "what are you interested in?" Asking what people love doesn't really explain what the site is for.
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"Any code not written by me is bad code, And if i do write bad code i make it sure never to look at it again" ---
This is definitely an "otherwise" - why didn't you put in a clickable link?

Like this: http://tribesports.com
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A ping pong table. I'd like that.

Also, private offices with windows for everyone, and large shared spaces, including a place to have meals together.
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That's the problem with that job. Whenever it's someone's job to do innovation, you're doing it wrong. It should be everyone's job. That's why things like 20% time work better.
That's interesting. I'll look forward to reading about your results.
PRC invented the free to play video game model because they learned early how worthless it was to actually ask their fellow citizens to pay for content. good mainland musical acts Good or not they aren't making money in a way that scales.

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Only if you setup a server and create your own API to talk to Facebook's API.

As far as I know, a lot of iPhone apps are shipped with App key and secret key. (For example, an open source project for sharing requires you to put your app's secret key: http://getsharekit.com/)
Fair enough, but you sure sounded offensive. I apologize for the snarky comment as well. It sucks when tone doesn't get conveyed properly over plain text.

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Most people don't read the terms of service, but they do read the marketing copy. If the marketing copy contradicts the terms of service, the contract should be based on the marketing copy. The terms of service should not be a license to make false or misleading marketing claims.
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It was hot enough to melt her genitals and cause serious disfigurement. If she had spilled it anywhere, she would have been seriously injured...

The coffee was scalding hot. The temperature of the coffee was from a corporate order intended to save a few bucks on having to re-brew coffee. The McDonald's corporation was negligent.

In this case, Dropbox was horribly negligent. Releasing all of the data in my Dropbox folder to everyone is not a 'minor inconvenience'. It is a big fucking deal, particularly if I had no idea it could happen so easily, and I am paying them under the assumption that their service is relatively secure.
There is not much one can say to that. Thanks for your replies, it's been a great conversation, Doc.
> I'd rather have him not give a discount. Why not let people pay for what they use? How did we get to a state where everybody expects everything to be handed to them for free?

Erm... you may want to note that this is a resource which has always been free and a major contribution to PPK's fame, which in turn is why he can quote rates of 5k€/week.
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Unfortunately I don't see any way to successfully implement virtual goods into my apps. That's a great ideas though. Maybe I'll come up with an idea for a social game and make it free.
"Therefore, if you go to the compatibility tables now, you’ll see a tasteful little sponsor bar at the bottom of every page with a well-known logo in it."

I can't see these any more so I think it fair to assume they don't.
> Which leads to my first post again: A culture of fear for being sued, with damages completely out of proportion [1].

There had been more than 700 previous cases, where McDonald had settled with the victims for a total of more than US$ 500.000, but hadn't changed their practice. The wast majority of the damages in this case was not "compensatory damages", intended to compensate the victim for her injury, but "punitive damages", intended to be large enough that McDonald would change their business practice. The punitive damages were set to be equivalent to two days worth of coffee sold at McDonald.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaur...

We can argue whether McDonald should be forced by law to lower the serving temperature. A UK court came to the opposite conclusion in a similar case. However, if we accept that as a premise, the size of damages doesn't seem out of line.
Usually a combination of the Apache index pages, dumb server setups, and being people being lazy, careless and/or forgetful when they dump a database to disk.

Also, sometimes an index.html file is accidentally removed, causing (brain-dead installs) to suddenly reveal the contents of a directory, eg. http://shahinfosoft.com/
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They're auto-generated, and aren't enabled in "ask HN" OPs (as I understand it, at least). I guess this is to prevent people link-spamming...

(Edit - thanks for providing one. I'm another dev at Tribesports, by the way.)
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