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People on HN will generally not agree, but I personally don't think it's a bad way to go. The problem is that you don't have a lot of control on what you do/where you go.
2 of us at FeeFighters worked at BCG immediately before joining FeeFighters full-time. We both did work in the banking/credit card industry there and had an insiders view on how f'd up the industry is, which definitely has helped out - I've even seen former clients at conferences and the like. That being said, there is a lot of luck involved on the types of projects and the types of industries you get to work on.

If you can get a job at a top tier consulting firm out of undergrad, it sounds like it would be good for you. Given your background you can certainly make it happen and leave after a short amount of time with better contacts/perspective on business. For you, it would be like getting paid for business school.
> And they're not going to jail for releasing smoke in a federal crime lab.

No, they merely stand to lose wars.

How long should a soldier expect to live if the enemy catches him in the middle of destroying encryption keys and understands right away that it is what he is doing?

> Name three hidden back doors from the US government. I can only think of one or two, making them pretty rare.

Are you serious?

Who are you trying to fool? This is an insult to the intelligence of every reader of this site.
Gee, that's a funny way to say "we're raising the price of your subscription by $5.99"
I think I'd still prefer the standards compliant client, even if it was a slightly slower. Kicking other users off the network isn't a good thing.
This is a correct observation!
Ugh, Python?! It's so bad...

Just joking, I'm not a troll. ;)

I just wonder where they go with Sync. Closely watching the Mozilla community I know there are (still? Has been a while) big plans, but think Firefox Sync really needs a broader audience, both users and developers. I also have the feeling this could somehow be connected with HTML5/HTTP(P2P) to create something really great. Just have to figure out what it is.
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I wouldn't assume there will be a "general purpose" OS running. I'm betting that the desktop-like manager will be treated like another application in a loosely coupled way, so that the only thing running behind the game is the kernel.

That sorta seems like a no-brainer to me.
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Hands free control is very important in some industries.
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No need to worry on that account. We're dedicated to keeping it the kind of site that we like to use, and crappy ads and in-your-face upsells aren't part of that. :)
I did this all the time when I was 13, 14 years old.
Groupon Wants Your Personal Information: Will You Give It To Them?
Adding DLC doesn't change the problem of connecting to the heat source. There is still an air gap.

A conductive fluid bearing might work better than an air gap. DLC vs copper makes little difference since that's not the problem.

I see you just edited it to say that DLC is very slick - that doesn't help as much as you think. It's a fact of heatsinks that two solid surfaces only touch in three places. The rest is filled with a tiny air gap. You typically fill in this gap with a fluid.
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Anecdotally, my mac is absolutely horrible at connecting to my wifi.

There are certain networks they loathe to connect to and I haven't been able to find a common cause. The 802.1x authentication at college took lots of fiddling around on my mac every time I tried to connect, while all my other devices worked fine.
This and similar answers makes me worried about the type of managers people are working for. Even the most introverted person should have a sufficient rapport with their manager to answer this question when it's honestly asked. It's a question the person should be able to answer, for themselves as much as their manager.
Kevin Rose rocks so I redesigned his site
I hope he get's my tweet & redirects kevinrose.com to this.

http://www.yellowrug.com
Rename "Bitcoins" to "Credits." The term "Credit" would be awfully difficult to trademark, and I think we can all agree that having a universal, decentralized currency called "Credits" would be _awesome_.
> No good deed goes unpunished.

I never understood that to be a form of mockery, more of sympathy. So I looked it up and yes, I was apparently, and unintentionally, mocking Peroni. My apologies.
This article is just plain delusional. I've written up a longer argument here. http://bit.ly/pNTDPA
Yes, waiting for someone's real answer because you care can't be turned on if there isn't a relationship there, but it is the most essential show of respect.
Didn't read the article yet, but the title is true. I just quit a job two weeks ago because I was bored (and they lacked focus, and we were getting no where fast, etc.)
(IANAL)

The lawyer's message doesn't appear to be a DMCA takedown notice at all, but rather a cease & desist, which has nothing like the same weight.

The lawyer's messages don't appear to be claiming that David Slater owns the copyright on the monkey's photos. In fact, they appear to be very carefully worded so as not to claim this.
Huh, interesting. My Asus EeePC 1000 has the slowest network sign-on of any of my devices, but I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on it. I wonder of Arch Linux has better Wi-Fi drivers or something. I the author of the original blog post, and I performed a similar protocol analysis on my EeePC. Surprisingly, the DHCP handshaking was actually pretty fast, it just seems to take a long time to establish the link. I should really upgrade the OS one of these days.
And, of course, there could not be a sense of entitlement either, if your cost of netflix subscription wasn't less than what you used pay.
I disagree strongly.

Now - I'm an Android user. I just bought one of the upper-class dual core phones and went with Android instead of waiting for the Pre3, giving the N9 a try or something similar.

But that's because

* I love Google's services. More or less every single one. I don't extend that love to the company, but I like using their stuff.

* Innovation seems to happen in the realms of popular and therefor attractive markets. If there's a new thing (tm), it won't be available on WebOS (or MeeGo, or maybe even WP7) for a while. It's more or less iOS vs. Android. RIM's dead in my world.

But - am I happy with my choice? Nope.. My choice (Another Android device: Yes/No) was basically accepting defeat and choosing the best compromise, something that worksforme. It's not the Linux dream come true, it's why I installed (among other systems) Windows on my desktop..
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"If you had a patent that you felt others were infringing, would you just sit back and do nothing?"

Actually, much of the industry does just that, or used to. A good example is Cisco, who only uses its patent portfolio for defensive purposes.
The data being synced is completely encrypted end-to-end, and you can provide a personal passphrase aside from your Google credentials as an added level of security if you'd like.

I'm having trouble parsing this comment -- part of any "end-to-end" encryption would be an additional passphrase not known or accessible to Google in any form. Obviously Google knows about your Google credentials, so merely the credentials are not sufficient to get "end-to-end" encryption.

Also last I checked the personal passphrase only encrypted passwords. I haven't used Chrome in a long while, so has that been extended to all your data yet?
It is interesting to see content spam which targets the HN crowd. This article is clearly web spam, between that ratio of 'written text' to 'ads' to the various typos (common on rapidly written and pushed out type articles) to the disjoint connections (we got Linux, Google, Ubuntu, and Android all in one paragraph). Add to this that we've got a 'private' domain registration hosted out of India by ZDNET and well, it pretty much screams content farm.
I'm surprised Github integration isn't on their own roadmap. It would be killer to mark things as completed via commits and see code activity in one application.
It's still true, because the PS4/Xbox720/Whatever run limited hardware specs that basically wouldn't allow enough ram/cpu available for a general purpose OS running at the same time to come even close to replicating the speed of an actual desktop system. On top of that, the processors these game systems use suck for desktop style applications.

Right now, the PS3/360 reserves somewhere between 30-50mb of system ram, and only requires that game processes yield occasionally on one of their multiple processors. That's a far cry from having full desktop power available at the beck and call of the OS.

The price point of consoles will limit the ability for that to happen all by itself. You aren't going to see 4gb of ram in the next consoles, frankly I'll be happy if they even allow 2gb, but I've been hearing it probably won't even be that high.
Sure. That's radically different from "Running Windows 8" however. Simulating a Windows 8-like environment? Sure. Not the same thing though.
via a non-profit like OSI -- or just one person who would agree to license the name to anyone who asked for legit BTC business
I built a similar site in 2009 focusing on Spanish/English exchange only (http://lenguajero.com). I learned a lot of lessons from the whole experience (like it's really hard to get people to pay for language learning on the web). We have around 13,000 members these days, but we're still small potatoes compared to livemocha.com or busuu.com.

I wish the verbling guys lots of luck with their new venture!
What happens when master fails? jganetsk mentioned Paxos, which you could use to reliably elect a new master. If I were evaluating your tech for usage at scale, I'd be pretty interested in failure modes, and pretty skeptical of anything that didn't employ distributed consensus. There may be other distributed consensus algorithms out there (one was apparently discovered in fruit fly cells [1]), but Paxos is the only one I've seen so far with a proof of eventual consistency.

An opensource implementation of Paxos: [2]

[1] http://www.kurzweilai.net/fruit-fly-nervous-system-provides-...

[2] https://github.com/ha/doozer
If anything this post and it's related comments seem to prove email ISN'T working as a support channel, phone is fine though, but it's relatively hidden.
The pricing doesn't seem all that great. Take $7.99 per month for 1 DVD out. That equals to 8 DVDs rented for one of those DVD rental boxes in a grocery store (RedBox, BlockBuster) assuming you return them the next day. In order for you to rent 8 DVDs in 30 day month, you have to be getting new DVDs every 3.75 days.

So basically, in order for it to equal the cost of a comparable product, you have to get the DVD and watch it the same night, then ship it back and hope 2.75 days is enough for Netflix to ship you another one.

Don't know about others here, but I don't really get time to watch DVDs during work days. This leaves the weekend, so for $8 a month, I can rent 2 DVDs per weekend and receive greater amount of entertainment during a more convenient time.

So using your example of 4 DVDs per month, that's $2 per with Netflix or $1 (50% less) per with box rental services. So in terms of actual spending, you are still only saving 4 bucks (not even a cup of coffee), but % wise, you save 50%.

(and yes, I go to the store regularly, so I'm not counting cost of gas in this example)

Now, if they only had the latest stuff in the streaming catalog... that would be entirely different story.
LOIC would be a weapon, I guess. Though the utilities that make it up would not be.
Is this a comparison of wrote memorization vs. pragmatic knowledge? The tech world has seen so much change and new language in the last couple decades it's not surprising function description is more useful than names.

Reminds me of this: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
Does anyone share my opinion that Netflix should have taken this opportunity to clarify as to why these price hikes are inevitable, due to the sky high content licensing costs they themselves have to pay to the content providers to keep streaming possible. I didnt see any mention of this in their entire PR release and I think at least the community would have read that and not perceived this announcement as a "more money grab" and as Netflix doing what it has to, to keep offering the best content available for streaming.

I think it threw away that chance and left the door open to a lot of these "entitlement" type comments that harp about how Netflix used to charge $8 per month and can never ever change that. Ever.

I for one, plan to stay with Netflix and opt for the Streaming option as long as it makes sense. As for DVD/Bluray, I will go to my neighborhood Redbox.

Blockbuster? You, I havent yet gotten over the $4.99 rental fee, so you stay in the shit list for a little while longer.
Not hard to believe Facebook would do such a thing. I see so many times big companies like Facebook do things like this assuming they will receive no flack, and as soon as flack comes their way they pop out with an apology and act like nothing ever happened.

I'm sorry, but this "do first, ask later" mentality annoys the piss out of me.
Won't the new Pandora HTML5 site have this same problem?
Yep, for many people g+ will be the long form twitter. Google should throw some calendar / archive and search in there
You've got that the other way around. In 2010, Fullfillment Expenses cost them 9.4% of their revenue, Cost of Subscription cost them 54% of their revenue.
Redbox + Amazon Prime is now far preferred to Netflix. Starting Sept 1st they'll see my cancellation in the mail.
I believe "pretty tiny" is smaller.
Google require that new users give them a valid phone number, and they phone you up to check you're not cheating.

That's way more intrusive than anything Facebook has ever done. My wife just flat-out refused to countenance the idea - so G+ lasted about 1 hour in my household.
Exactly. This is one of the best copyright disputes I've seen in years.
I have implemented a standing workstation. I've heard that sitting for long hours is detrimental to one's health. Some of the people at my wife's workplace have been standing for some time now and no one who changed to a standing work station has changed back. Many have lost weight, too. Here is a link to an interesting article about building a standing work station: http://gigaom.com/collaboration/how-i-made-a-standing-workst... and the health risks of sitting: http://www.geekosystem.com/sitting-health-dangers/
Just promising not to spam and not to share user information will do a lot; you don't need complicated explanations. If you have a record or reputation with any particular community, it probably wouldn't hurt to reference that.
I'm angry at them because their explanation is purposely dodging the real cause of the price hike.

I want to stream everything but I can't, so I still get DVDs. And since I still get DVDs they need to raise the price on me.

If they just came out and said "Sorry we don't have more digital content available." there wouldn't be an issue. Instead they are acting shocked I'm not satiated with their anemic online offering.

Bonus Fact: Netflix and Groupon have the same operating cost yet Groupon offers no physical or digital products.
Consider the price of The Office Season 1-6 DVD set, $169.99.

Now consider the price of HD streaming The Office Season 1-6 on Netflix, $7.99/mo.

Thank you, Netflix.

http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/the-office-season-1-6-dvd-g...
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What I think is cool are the captchas that make fake words that actually look like they could be real words (as opposed to a random string of text). Makes it easier for a human to read and figure out, but no easier for a bot. I dont know how they do that.
I've used http://www.1and1.com/ for registration ($10/yr normal prices) for some time. The UI is awful, but aren't they all, and I basically never need to use it once it's set up, so it's OK by me.

The commonly named alternatives seem (all for .com):
Namecheap $10
Name.com $10
Moniker ???
DNSimple $14
Gandi 12,00 € (~ $17)
Joker.com $12.80

Name registration is a commodity. I go with the cheapest provider.
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When you're building on someone else's platform, you're subject to their whims, whether you like it or not. Facebook can delete your app for no reason, so can Apple and Google and Microsoft. If you're building a Netflix or Twitter app and they change their API (or terms of service) to disable your app, you don't really have any legal recourse. Yeah it sucks, but it's a pitfall of doing business on someone else's platform, and one that developers should be keenly aware of before they start.
A lot of these services can be gamed and all the songs can be downloaded. You can easily download every song from turntable.fm as well, its not rocket science. Open up the Chrome developer console and look at the network tab...

We are working on securing/masking the url, but at the end of the day, Console.fm is not a true stream, so we cannot securely give the user the song with out the soundcloud .mp3

Please voice any advice you have on this issue or help out, open to suggestions as to we are looking into a proper fix right now.
It definitely is! Congrats Greg and Simon, on a perfectly timed TC article :)
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what suggestions do you have on masking the url, would love to hear your input.
The second. They probably have scammed the client in other ways as well.
Generally you try to run the experiments for as long as possible -- physicists don't consider something settled until the data is vast and the statistical significance incredibly high.

There's also many different groups that need LHC data to perform many different analyses, so the more data the better.
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"This is grossly undemocratic" hahaha

Websites are not democracies. Private property isn't a democracy. Companies aren't democracies.

Get it out of your head that they are and life will go a lot smoother.
They should have just canceled streaming. "Sorry we cannot provide you affordable streaming service at this time. You will continue to receive unlimited DVDs. Please send any comments or concerns to Sony Entertainment."
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Tracking data that isn't useful for serving your customers is a bad idea. Heck, even most of it that -is- useful can make the customer upset.
Another awesome language learning project by Luis von Ahn (inventor of reCaptcha): http://www.duolingo.com

Check out his talk from TEDxCMU: http://tedxcmu.com/videos/luis-von-ahn
If anyone ever wondered what the phrase "cargo cult science" referred to, this is a prime example. They're going through all the motions, but sadly their understanding of the universe is gratuitously flawed.
Adaptive Behavior (http://www.isab.org.uk/ISAB/) finally hits the mainstream; representing!

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Maybe it's just that I use LH daily, and that bug trackers and project management apps have only so many possible options for UX - but to me, these two look more alike than any other combinations I can think of. Not implying it's a rip off - it just struck me as funny.
My personal axiom: Boring/Uninteresing work leads to me working more on my personal/startup projects.

Thus, I should be looking for a job that has nothing but boring work. :)
For total MySQL compatibility, you could only modify the MySQL storage engine via their plugin system.

As the market has shown, this isn't a compelling improvement. For us, every part of MemSQL has been optimized for memory - this gives us a 30x boost, rather than the 4-5x you might see just switching out the storage engine.

The decision to support the MySQL protocol on the wire was made to reduce friction for the application. However, that doesn't mean we will support every quirk or 'misfeature' for MySQL just to say we're "MySQL compatible."

Our value proposition is easy performance at scale. In working with customers, it's been pretty straightforward to explain the MemSQL surface area.
I dislike like long, nonsensical captchas that confuse people, it's totally annoying. A few years ago i used a 5 digit captcha, but in the background i added faded small letters in various angles.
Yeah, I like using 'writing' better as well.

But my nitpick is that in a position where he owns the stock, writing puts would increase his downside, whereas buying puts would protect him.
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Couldn't you essentially call a handler on the Console.fm server which has the key already coded and it makes the request to SoundCloud?

This would avoid the fact that users could see the GET request to the SoundCloud API.
Living in Hartford (home of a distribution center), I find that I am still experiencing some throttling on my unlimited disk plan. I recently went on watching Big Bang Theory and saw a surprising decrease in turn-around-time as I started to return disks at a regular pace again.

I don't know if it is actually due to throttling or not, but Netflix is preceived at least to still be throttling me.
GitHub integration is now very high on our list of ideas (added it to our roadmap as per your suggestion - http://roadma.ps/8d#road-4e1ca10c8927f6eb50000273)!

We've already added support to pull in your commit log to your Overview feed (see: http://cl.ly/2r2K3N052j0G3w2G2i2O - you can enable this via your roadmap's settings page) and we're now looking at pulling in individual commit messages and posting them to roads as update messages, etc (like you suggested).

We're just now trying to decide on the best way to do this :)
(I'd say MeeGo is fine, but)

OpenMoko? How about WebOS?

OpenMoko was a great idea. It's more the HURD of mobile operating systems though.. A failure - it never worked well, was rewritten a thousand times and it sure seems to be dead.

Now, MeeGo could've started something new. But - here we're getting into the 'WTH did Nokia think' discussion. I'll leave this discussion to bergie, I guess.

WebOS is the sexiest option for me. It runs a real linux stack (like MeeGo), has a great UI (haven't used the N9, but before that I'd say it topped MeeGo and probably Android in most cases) and your applications are by and large web apps, written in JS (lately, using node.js).

If I could steer the market with my mind alone, I'd decide this to be the winner/future. Back to my Android now. Need to install another CM release..